All these home improvement stores SUCK!
 

I went to home depot this afternoon to get a new end for my hose, and it didn't fit the hose end fit after a fashion but the clamp was too small. i managed to bust a couple of knuckles before i went to the parts store and got a regular hose clamp and fixed it in about 2 minutes. Home Depot, Menards, and Wal-Mart all sell cheap chinese made crap at a premium price. i have decided that if I can't get American made products I'm not going to buy any thing. if i have to i will make what ever i can, if i can't I'll just do with out. china and their non standard products Suck!
Maybe people will start demanding American made products. i don't mind paying for quality, and do so when ever possible.

Yeah, dammit.

We have a local little mom and pop hardware store and I always stop there first unless I am getting a toilet or something they don't sell.

Gotta keep places like that in business.

I call that crap, made wrong in Hong Kong.

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They make it as cheaply as possible or they can't sell it to the buyers from Wally world or the hardware chains. Price is everything.
Like the man said, have you ever put back a $4.02 package of chicken when you spot one for $3.97?

Never heard of Menard's, but we have a Walmart and Home Depot, neither of which EVER get my custom.
When I moved to this area (Ukiah, Cal), there were at least ten small, locally owned hardware +/- stores. My, the service you got!
They had slightly different emphases on merchandise and knowledge and you actually looked forward to shopping at them.
There is one locally owned chain (TrueValue) and one truly independent one remaining.
I miss them.

We used to have a hardware store called Homestead (it became Homestead/TrueValue before the end). It was one of those where ya could go in and buy one 9 cent screw. Most of the time when ya got one screw, one nut and one bolt, or five nails, the guy would say 'Just take it.'

Ya won't find that ever again.

I went to home Depot for the part I needed because I figured that Menards or Wal-Mart would have crap. The last time I bought a hose end was about 20 years ago. I figured that they were all the same, boy was I wrong.
We have one Mom and Pop hardware store in the area and it's downtown and hard to find a place to park and I was in a hurry shows me what happens when i get in a hurry.

Take your time and avoid frustration.

I misspoke, it was an Ace Hardware.

Has everything got to be made in china and be total crap? I bought a new blade for my Skil Saw and it worked twice to cut soft wood Douglas Fir, and now it wont cut at all. I cut 6 inches into a piece of cedar and it stopped cutting, it still spins but it wont advance into the wood. No smoke or bad noise just wont go. It's like it's hitting a stop.
I guess when I get paid I'll buy a couple of blades so I can finish my boat. Fuck china and these cheap ass people that run these stores.

Was it a wood blade with big jagged teeth or a metal blade with short uniform teeth? Are the teeth clogged with wood pulp and or sap?

And what kind of saw? SKIL is a brand. Sawzall? Sabre saw? Circular?

The machine itself is a Tool Shop from Harbor Freight and yes it is a wood cutting blade. The blade came from Menards after the blade that came with it lasted about 5 cuts, i tried to get it sharpened like we did back in the old days. but nobody does that anymore. I'm sick of wasting money on junk. Even my 2 year old HP laptop is giving me trouble. i understand the need to save money when you're in business, but what's wrong with quality.

I WILL PAY FOR QUALITY.

The saw is a hand held circular saw. And the blade is the most expensive one that Menards had.

Well there's your problem right there

The machine works perfectly. It's the blades that suck.

Pics of the saw and cedar please

Blade guard stuck?

I use Diablo blades with good results, I think Diablo is a Mexican fighting chicken.

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So's yer mom.

Won't go and no smoke? If the blade is touching the wood there would be smoke. Something else is holding it up. I'm guessing it's a 7 1/4" so I asked google. They showed a dozen and a half blades from Sears to Milwaukee, but none of the high end blades.

I'll go to my shop this morning and take Jim's pic's. And check it out there has got to be something else holding it up. Sometimes I'm a Stupid Fucker.

He said the blade spins, but won't advance. So it must be catching on the sled or something. If it wasn't the right collar, it wouldn't spin. If there were a nail in the wood he'd get sparks.

i don't know what it was today I went to my shop and cut out the transom piece just like it was supposed to yesterday. Sometimes I'm just a stupid fucker.

Catching the sled is what i was thinking too. (Assuming you mean the saw base was hitting a protruding knot or something.) I've run into that sort of thing before, when I am pressing down hard to be super sure to keep control of the saw, and some irregularity on the workpiece surface was grabbing the front edge of the saw's base and resisting the movement.

Glad you got it working, fargon!

Could have been standing on the power cord too

That's actually quite likely. I've probably done that before.

Good Possibility.