meh, the h3ll with'em
there's plenty of suppliers for the same tools out there. it's not like they've come up with must have new tool that nobody else offers :)
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meh, the h3ll with'em
there's plenty of suppliers for the same tools out there. it's not like they've come up with must have new tool that nobody else offers :)
I saw the Hilmor gauges at the AHR EXPO in Dallas. They looked cheap to me. I wasn't impressed.
I have heard that Hilmore is sending out a fleet of "sales", trucks to impress the hell out of us. Going to allow us to "trade" up.
Think I will take a pass on that.
If it's credibility they need, maybe they should make some tools that don't look like cheap shiny plastic toys. That would be a real innovation. How long will it be before our tools are so cheaply made that we consider them consumable truck stock items and have to start billing customers for them?
This is the same stuff everyone else makes, just a different color scheme.
Not sure about billing customers for tools.... however IMO more and more tools are designed to last for a couple of years and be replaced.
There are lots of threads suggesting Doug Lochart's DigiCool is not being handled by major chain supply houses because it will last too long. Evidently the big HVACR tool co's (read that YJ) want folks to buy throw away test tools. That way they can sell more and more and more.
i don't agree. No body around here had heard of BluVac either ....and now they can be ordered thru most suppliers here. (suppliers would not even consider that before)And we BluVac owners know how rugged they are.
No, I don't buy that a product won't sell because it is "too good".
Further, most techs on here own more than one brand of digital, so I don't see suppliers losing on sales because most guys will more than one set of digitals.
Fast forward 10 years into the future...
You are standing at the supply house counter, gearing up for an install tomorrow. You say to the counter guy "Give me a 50' roll of 1 1/8" aluminum tubing, a 50' roll of 3/8" aluminum tubing, some elbows and couplings, and a single-use disposable micron gauge."
You are not to far off!
I've no doubt at all that there will be composite layered refrigerant tubing, possibly with aluminum as the metal layer, because it is already being worked on, at least it was a few years ago.
There has already been a single use vacuum indication product in the industry too. :p
I don't think that would be accurate as a bench mark....most tool thread are based on personal opinion rather than objective research.
I have confidence in my quality tools and instruments. I paid half a grand for a Fluke 289 made in USA. You think that is "just selling boxes". I trust my Testo and and FD digitals so much I own two of each. I own four diff micron gauges all top tier.
All my hand tools are Craftsman handed down to me by Uncle Clover. My Robinair five cfm pump is fifteen years old.
I can't agree mfgs want to sell only boxes....not if your dealing with the right manufacturers.
But if you go out of your way to pinch pennies, you are going to get what you deserve.
You and I can agree on this.
What I will suggest you consider: Does a person counterfeiting paper money produce a pink $3 bill... of course not. If one is going to pass a fake paper unit of money... it must appear to be the real thing... that is 'fool' the person receiving it.
Corporate America has been more interested in profits than quality (or for that matter even safety) for longer than any of us have been alive. One should NEVER blindly trust a large corp... rather verify quality.
BTW: Why does one need multiple examples of a test instrument if it is a quality unit... If it is quality... it should not fail; or it should give you a warning. Sounds like you answered your own statement.
As far as objective research... tell me how that would work... Regardless of how 'through' the procedure... there always will be holes in it.
This week Gemair in Orlando started selling their stuff.