Harbor Freight Tools that don't suck

[CompactTractorFan]

bought there porta power today - used it to do some work on a brush hog tonight and it worked GReat for the price.
Also bought their metal cutting circular saw last week and it works excellent. Cut 5/16th plate like a regular saw through wood. Very impressive!

I have the 4-ton set. It has worked great so far except for: one of the the spreader jaws broke and after a while the fluid got so low it did not work anymore...Replaced the fluid (a big mess :confused2 and now it is as good as new. :thumbsup:

 

[Ductape]

Two questions for the HF shoppers:


1) Last weekend I bought one of their ceramic kitchen knives. Awesome...... slices roast beef so thin my inlaws will never come back ! When these dull, are they a throw away? Or are these sharpened like any other knife?

2) Anyone own one of the HF gasoline generators, say 5000 watt and up? Looks like one of their Lifan Honda clone engines. Just wondering if anyone has some hours on one and can give a good or bad review...........
With a 20% off coupon, looks like they might be a decent deal.

 

[Markcuda]

Last weekend I bought one of their ceramic kitchen knives. Awesome

Do we all remember the Ginsu:licking:

 

[sixdogs]

Two questions for the HF shoppers:


1) Last weekend I bought one of their ceramic kitchen knives. Awesome...... slices roast beef so thin my inlaws will never come back ! When these dull, are they a throw away? Or are these sharpened like any other knife?

Can't sharpen it without factory means. They don't dull, but the blade can and will chip if you aren't careful. We use one to cut pinapples, which are notoriously hard on knives. Still sharp after maybe 30 pineapples.

 

[Ductape]

Do we all remember the Ginsu:licking:

Apparently, I remember those commercials.............:confused2:

 

[CompactTractorFan]

Got a bunch of stuff at HF yesterday...:confused2:

 

[SPYDERLK]

Two questions for the HF shoppers:


1) Last weekend I bought one of their ceramic kitchen knives. Awesome...... slices roast beef so thin my inlaws will never come back ! When these dull, are they a throw away? Or are these sharpened like any other knife?

You can sharpen with a diamond matrix "stone" if they get dull enuf to need it.
larry

 

[sixdogs]

You can sharpen with a diamond matrix "stone" if they get dull enuf to need it.
larry

I was not aware of this. How hard was it to sharpen and what grit of "stones" did you use?
Were you able to get the nicks out of the blade?

 

[Travelover]

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2) Anyone own one of the HF gasoline generators, say 5000 watt and up? Looks like one of their Lifan Honda clone engines. Just wondering if anyone has some hours on one and can give a good or bad review...........
With a 20% off coupon, looks like they might be a decent deal.

From reading their on-line reviews at the HF site, they seem variable. Some people love 'em and some report going through 3 before getting a good one. In my area there are always used low hour American made generators for sale on Craigslist for about the same price as a new HF.

Not sure if you can use the 20% coupon on generators anymore.

 

[SPYDERLK]

I was not aware of this. How hard was it to sharpen and what grit of "stones" did you use?
Were you able to get the nicks out of the blade?

Sorry, I dont have one of those knives, but have experience cutting ceramic with diamond ... no problem. Im guessing 240 for nicks and around 400 to put the fine edge on. Try googling diamond laps, stones, files, etc
larry