HF is OK for simple, stationary, single-casting items that can be readily inspected for defects, i.e. tool rests, anvils, etc. Maybe I'd go out on a limb and buy a vise. Anything that rotates at high RPM, watch out! Ditto anything that needs a dielectric. (Call UL and ask them if the product really is Listed.) I've seen far too many pumps and gennies that even the display models were busted.
Oh yeah, and this ad copy on the package of a drill pump:
Do not use to pompe the essence, acide, or other liquides dangerouses!
A reputable manufacturer will hire a French speaker to write French copy, and an English speaker to write English copy; not a marginal quasi-wannabe-polyglot to do both. I might be biased, since I married a technical writer, but this stuff is important to me.
