Thread: Sears sure has changed, for the worse!

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Originally Posted by Dave Severson

Hmmmm. I heard they had to throw in DC and the US Senate to get them to buy Wisconsin!!!!

YEP it was a wine and cheese deal the D.C deal there going to give it a fast paint job and flip it on E BAY.they were going to make it in to a theme park with a zoo but there was to much crap from the monkeys for them to clean up. you know all the years of it just piling up and no more green back paper to wipe there butts with.... so there going to paint over it all. some air freshener and try to make a buck.... buy stock in the pine tree air fresheners i hear there stock... is going to go up soon what and white wash

Originally Posted by pat mccarthy

YEP it was a wine and cheese deal the D.C deal there going to give it a fast paint job and flip it on E BAY.they were going to make it in to a theme park with a zoo but there was to much crap from the monkeys for them to clean up. you know all the years of it just piling up and no more green back paper to wipe there butts with.... so there going to paint over it all. some air freshener and try to make a buck.... buy stock in the pine tree air fresheners i hear there stock... is going to go up soon what and white wash

Thanks for the tip, Pat!!!!! Gonna do some investing in air fresheners, hip boots, and white wash firstest thing Monday!!!!!

Originally Posted by Dave Severson

Thanks for the tip, Pat!!!!! Gonna do some investing in air fresheners, hip boots, and white wash firstest thing Monday!!!!!

the hip boot stock is hard to get in on and turn a nice buck... for.. so many years . many.. have jump at that deal. you know i like to pass.. The hot stock deals to friends we will get in on the ground floor and watch it go to the moon

I have a '98 model year Craftsmen 16hp/42" cut hydrostatic drive lawn tractor. maintained good.. last few years it's really been breaking down bad, and finally it has carb issues that. I'm just not going to deal with.. all 4 tires also leak, and 1 year ago, I put in a new front axle, front wheels were done 2 years ago because the bushings wore out.. could buy a new machine with what is going wrong

Last year I saw an old garden tractor on the side of the road so I stopped and looked at it.. and it was a 1968 Sears Suburban 12 for $250, had a 42" deck and it said runs good. and upon checking the oil and hearing it run ( started within 3 cranks ), bought it pretty much on the spot... sharpened the blades, cut it one mowing, and a spindle bearing became loose and threw the belt.. I got the original manuals with the tractor, and the sears p/n on the bearings don't cross to anything so I would have to remove the bearing to get the numbers and match it up.. just for giggles, I called sears parts direct.. gave them the P/N, and they actually listed them.. so I got 1 ( $20 ), and then matched it up with 2 more ( $5/ each from Napa ) for the other 2 blade spindles... tires are original Sears branded ( not weather checked ), and probably the original 1968 air because they do not leak

Matt those old craftsman tractors have quite a following! People collect them out here.

They do around here too.. people stop and want to buy it when I'm mowing.... somthing that never happened with the '98 craftsmen.. actually my neighbors asked me 1 day when I was going to put a new muffler on it ( rusted out/ $150 for a new 1 ), and to be nice, I did weld a 1/2" elbow onto the remaining head pipe, and threadded on 2 8hp mufflers with a Tee fiting cost $20 plus time.... the Suburban 12 muffler is about $12 to replace, but currently doesn't need it

Don I just got a Harbor Freight email with a low profile jack on sale and they have another one on the web for sale Thursday only, here are the links:
http://www.harborfreight.com/2-ton-l...ack-67022.html
http://www.harborfreight.com/automot...ack-92782.html
the second one has a coupon offer for 129.99 good thru 2/19/11 if you need the coupon I can forward the email to you, just PM me. (not bad for a 4ton aluminum low profile!)
even better here is the ad!
http://widgets.harborfreight.com/wsw...5&keycode=0000

Don, bite the bullet, buy ANOTHER identical jack from Sears. Take the broken jack, swap it in the box, then use that new receipt to return the broken one. You don't get your money back, but at least you get a working jack out of the ordeal. But...who knows how long the new one will work for.

Originally Posted by Gusaroo

Don, bite the bullet, buy ANOTHER identical jack from Sears. Take the broken jack, swap it in the box, then use that new receipt to return the broken one. You don't get your money back, but at least you get a working jack out of the ordeal. But...who knows how long the new one will work for.

Ahhhhhhh, I like your thinking. I could take it back with the receipt and say I just didn't like it and I want my money back. If I pay in cash and have the receipt I would get cash back immediately.

More than one way to skin a cat!

Don

Originally Posted by Itoldyouso

Ahhhhhhh, I like your thinking. I could take it back with the receipt and say I just didn't like it and I want my money back. If I pay in cash and have the receipt I would get cash back immediately.

More than one way to skin a cat!

Don

As long as "they" don't recognize you as trying to return one earlier!

I went into Sears last week while I was at our local mall. I wanted to pick up an inexpensive welding helmet. I looked all over their tool department finding nothing. I finally found an employee and he claimed they stopped carrying any and all welding supplies a while ago.

I also recently took back a 1/4 inch rachet that stripped internally for replacement. They reached under the counter and had a whole box of "reconditioned" rachets. You don't even get a new rachet when yours breaks??

How about a tool so crappy you have to keep a whole box of them under the counter?? I think I will be shopping at Lowes and purchasing Kobalt tools from here on out.

Don Jr.

Originally Posted by Mr Blue

I also recently took back a 1/4 inch rachet that stripped internally for replacement. They reached under the counter and had a whole box of "reconditioned" rachets. You don't even get a new rachet when yours breaks??.

Same thing happened to me... That's the end of my business with Sears! Not that I did a lot with them but I was a loyal customer for a few decades!

Back on the Farm we used there cataloque for toilet paper

Originally Posted by jerry clayton

Back on the Farm we used there cataloque for toilet paper

My grandmother would have shot you, besides that thing was too heavy to carry to the outhouse.

I also recently took back a 1/4 inch rachet that stripped internally for replacement. They reached under the counter and had a whole box of "reconditioned" rachets. You don't even get a new rachet when yours breaks??:

Don Jr.[/QUOTE] well snap on will not give you a new rachet .you can get one with a R stamp on it if the chrome falls off is the only way . but for the price of a snapy you could buy 7 sears rachets they work fine you just can not use that cheater bar on them you have did you pick that up from your dad them small rachets they will puke there guts out any bolt past 5/16 less in body metal you use a 3/8.but i had mac s. snap ons . sears and i busted them all on rusty body bolts/nuts and knew i was pushing it . i was snaping off the ends of snap on screw driver at the boat yard putting in Pachanga windsheilds.warranty. you know the two pc windshields as the one pc could blow up in your face i did 3 windsheilds a day .i ask snap on guy .. if his screw drivers were good? well.. they are the best.. drive tips yes no way you are going to snap the end off .. Oh really handed 3 with no ends on them.. what hell are you doing with them ?driving screws in by hand no way in hell ... then i said watch this busted the end off the one i was usings and handed one more to fix