Did you sprinkle holy water on it before the first cut or something? Honestly that thing should've folded like a cheap lawn chair after a week of hot cuts. Harbor Freight tools usually die just looking at real work, so this one might be the chosen one. Six months is wild though, at this point you gotta keep using it just to see how long it lasts out of spite. If it ever does quit on you, frame it on the wall, that's a legend right there.