[MR] RE: *WH* Harbor Freight Throatless Shears? Any Good?

[C. Brian Towey]

If there is a number one Frequently Asked Question in armoring, this has got
to be it.  I have a Harbor Freight shear, and I like it.  Out on the Armour
Archive (armourarchive.org), it seems like half the folks on the list use
them.

There is a very widely circulated report from some guy who thought the blade
angles were not right, and he describes how to re-grind them.  Opinions vary
as to whether that is worth doing.  Personally, I wouldn't bother, unless I
were breaking a lot of blades.

By the way, a Beverly-type shear is the only thing in the known universe
that will easily cut up a steel-belted tire.  I recycled some old truck
treads that way to face my pell.

Your Servant,

Charles Fleming