HF tools that suck

[Ken Cunningham]

Ditto: Dont waste your money on the sawzall blades. The do carry millwakee blades by the way.

 

[Bedlam]

And their Milwaukee ones are as good as we would get anywhere else?

 

[clemsonfor]

Last time there i bought some cutoff wheels in a 10 pk for my 4" angle grinder against better judgement. I am suprised though they seem to be just as good as the 5 pk i bought at carquest last time. So the 10 pack of cutoff wheels for the 4'' grinder are a very good deal.

 

[tulenutn2o]

Here's my take on a lot of purchases: If I compare 2 products, seperated by price, same features, both made in china.......I opt for the lower price. Less money going to the commies.... from my pocket. This is made up for my sheer volume...Think Trade Deficit. Biggest farce going right now is appliances and the prices of those and "name brands". Lots of parts sourced from china. Lots of crap. My fav. is energy star rating. "will save you up to $500 over life of machine.....trouble is, the life of the machine is shorter(planned obsolescence). Thank computers and stress analysis for this. I cringe every time I hear the word"engineered". Spells under built and overstressed in my world. Point being, companies only build a product to last so long, so you will have to replace it. Where is the "GREEN" in the equation when you have to replace rather than repair? How many vintage 2010 autos,appliances, etc., do you think you'll see in 30-40 years----that still work? I'm ranting, better grab me a cup of coffee..

 

[Ken Cunningham]

And their Milwaukee ones are as good as we would get anywhere else?

They are the same ones, they sell them just like any other store would.

 

[Bedlam]

Thank you.

 

[Grateful11]

Ditto: Dont waste your money on the sawzall blades. The do carry millwakee blades by the way.

OT: My late Dad owned a HVAC company for 30 some years and had several Millwakee Sawzalls and never used anything but Millwakee blades because we would use them to rough in jobs and they would cut right through nails and wood and keep asking for more. Their Bi-Metal blades are the only ones I buy IMO.

 

[kidr]

my 2 cents


The Strap Wrenches 0/5
absolute garbage, used one to hold a crankshaft, snapped one before we even put any real weight on it tried with the smaller one snapped too
weve done this before with strap wrenches without a problem so its a HF issue
5$ on sale

Stud Puller -1/5
it will function....kinda, always jams on the studs you remove, have to hammer them with a punch totally useless, use vice grips instead, even sheared a bolt, and when i returned the 1st one, took forever to the manager
5$ ( not worth it at all)

3 lb hand sledge 2/5
its worth it for the head, good steel
broke the wood handle on a wedge i was driving into a cut; replacing it with steel
5$

Pipe Bender 2/5
This thing didnt work for me, its got plenty of power used it to bend out smashed 2" pipe with 1/4" walls but likes to mash what your working on shouldve used a sand mandrel(How to Bend Steel Tubing | eHow.com) and woulda worked better, will try again and use angle finders to get it right
89$ with coupon

Air body Saw 1/5
My friend bought one to cut out holes in his body panels, didn't work for love nor money, maybe with a bigger compressor but it wouldnt cut with the course or fine blade
10$ with coupon

plier set rollup
crap and poorly machined pliers and broke a few, ok for small stuff, the long nose ones were pretty use full
7 $ 2/5

Socket set (1/4 and 3/8)
they had a real stinker broke every one in the kit and ended up using the ratchet as a spare hammer; and that was after only 1 use
5$ 0/5

Impact Swivels 2/5
really not so useful took a lot of the punch out of the impact gun(read 3/4), then when you try to use it at an angle it caught and slammed my hand into the leaf springs(removing rear shocks), now i just use alot of 1/2 " extensions use them as normal universals now
10$

Cheapo rotary tool 2/5
pretty terrible, the acc with it were complete garbage and replaced it with dremel bits and it worked for a while but no umph or hours of usage pretty junky but told me i didnt use a rotary tool enough to buy a decent one
5$

trying out the 2lb roll of wire and tips from there, so far messy but not terrible welds

picky picky picky:laughing:

 

[tulenutn2o]

OT: My late Dad owned a HVAC company for 30 some years and had several Millwakee Sawzalls and never used anything but Millwakee blades because we would use them to rough in jobs and they would cut right through nails and wood and keep asking for more. Their Bi-Metal blades are the only ones I buy IMO.

I 2nd that. What some fail to realize to what extent that products from china are knock offs made to look like the original. It is well documented that it takes less than a week for factories in china to produce a knock-off of most anything, once it hits their shore.

 

[Bedlam]

Ok I guess the "new'"improved' website is a tool.
I don't like it. consider this searched air compressor spelled with a OR at the end got this
Search results for: 'air compressor'
Then i search spelled with a ER instead or the OR and get
Search results for: 'air compresser'
And in the second search they spell it with an OR not ER.
I am not the best speller but even in bedlamese this is splat wrong.
I searched a few other items and don't really like the site as well as the older one
What do the rest of you think of the new site?
Harbor Freight Tools

OH GEEZE I just received this catalog yesterday, and I went to order 10 or the 15 items all said no longer aval at this price. GRRR