Harbor Freight Tools that don't suck

[rangerfredbob]

Yes you can use an extension, just use one hand to pull on the handle and the other pushing on the head of the ratchet end to keep it in the same orientation. The limits of a torque wrench are you can't use a "crows foot" since it changes the length of the lever arm (ok, you can in certain orientations but it's still not the same...)

 

[LD48750]

Yes you can use an extension, just use one hand to pull on the handle and the other pushing on the head of the ratchet end to keep it in the same orientation. The limits of a torque wrench are you can't use a "crows foot" since it changes the length of the lever arm (ok, you can in certain orientations but it's still not the same...)

Hummmmm.....
I've always been told the torque on the extension will twist it & give a false reading.

 

[Diggin It]

That's my thinking. But maybe an impact extension would be less prone to do so?

 

[Rock Crawler]

Any extension acts as a torsion spring and reduces the applied torque, but you are correct that an impact extension is much harder and less ductile, therefore it transfers the torque more efficiently.

You can also go the other direction and buy the colored spring steel extensions that tire shops use so that they can blast your wheels on with a 12 billion foot pound nitrous powered impact wrench.

There is ALWAYS some loss of torque in an extension if the tool measuring has sufficient resolution and accuracy to show the loss.

 

[California]

With an impact wrench the extension will flex and reduce the amount of torque applied.

But using a torque wrench by hand would apply the same torque down at the socket as up at the torque wrench, after the nut being driven stops turning.

 

[dragoneggs]

Speaking of extensions... and I cannot remember if I commented on this one. Electric Pole Saw. Works awesome and I think I paid $59 on a sale price or coupon.

9.5 In. 7 Amp Electric Pole Saw

 

[davisgary2]

Speaking of extensions... and I cannot remember if I commented on this one. Electric Pole Saw. Works awesome and I think I paid $59 on a sale price or coupon.

9.5 In. 7 Amp Electric Pole Saw

Second that

 

[ultrarunner]

The bolts go through the bottom of the safe into the built in case work...

NO way to get any wrench attached without getting the safe open.

"Might" be able to buy a long Sawzall blade and get it to fit between the safe bottom exterior and the cabinet bottom shelf... some bolts are hardened which makes sawing difficult to impossible.

Apparently the 4 number combo isn't impossible to crack...

Have not contacted the manufacturer yet... I have all the information except a notarized statement of ownership...

As to the other 2 safes... they are open... so with a little fooling around I should be able to figure the combo looking at the orientation of the discs...

 

[Code54]

Take a look at Utube for opening safes with a magnet. I am guessing it is set up very similar to the other inexpensive makes. You can use a fishing magnet and pull the locking bar over and often get them open without any damage.

 

[mjw357]

Any extension acts as a torsion spring and reduces the applied torque...

Newtons third law of motion says otherwise.

 

[rangerfredbob]

yeah, that's only for impacts. on a torque wrench you are moving along a longer arc to get the same torque reading using an extension because you are twisting the extension but that's it, force is force... on an impact the hammer is trying to rotate the bolt, if it is twisting the socket over it's limited rotation amount per cycle then it cannot put the torque in the bolt...

 

[4570Man]

yeah, that's only for impacts. on a torque wrench you are moving along a longer arc to get the same torque reading using an extension because you are twisting the extension but that's it, force is force... on an impact the hammer is trying to rotate the bolt, if it is twisting the socket over it's limited rotation amount per cycle then it cannot put the torque in the bolt...

That’s my thinking. It seems similar to claiming a longer chain doesn’t pull as hard as a short one. ( excluding the hitch heights and angles because that does make a difference. )

 

[Rock Crawler]

Newtons third law of motion says otherwise.

You're correct. In my mind's eye I was thinking of the impact wrench hammering, not a static applied load.

 

[John_Mc]

The bolts go through the bottom of the safe into the built in case work...

NO way to get any wrench attached without getting the safe open.

"Might" be able to buy a long Sawzall blade and get it to fit between the safe bottom exterior and the cabinet bottom shelf... some bolts are hardened which makes sawing difficult to impossible.

Apparently the 4 number combo isn't impossible to crack...

Have not contacted the manufacturer yet... I have all the information except a notarized statement of ownership...

As to the other 2 safes... they are open... so with a little fooling around I should be able to figure the combo looking at the orientation of the discs...

My parents had a small safe installed in their house when it was being remodeled. Years later, they forgot the combination. They had someone come out (locksmith?) he had it open within about 30 minutes of his arrival.

 

[Oaktree]

Electric Pole Saw. Works awesome and I think I paid $59 on a sale price or coupon.

9.5 In. 7 Amp Electric Pole Saw

Maybe I'm missing something, but this seems to be a tool of rather limited usefulness. I suppose if you have a lot of branches to be trimmed within extension cord radius of an outlet but ISTM that a gas or battery one would be much handier.

On that note, in the 6 mo. or so I've had their Lynx 40V pole saw I can say it definitely doesn't suck.

 

[Diggin It]

Maybe I'm missing something, but this seems to be a tool of rather limited usefulness. I suppose if you have a lot of branches to be trimmed within extension cord radius of an outlet ...

Remember that most urban and suburban and even 'new rural' homes are on lots of less than 100' feet wide.

 

[California]

If you think you have an application for a battery pole saw, by all means buy one! You won't regret it.

I should have done this long ago. It makes projects attainable that would have been too much trouble with a manual pole saw.

 

[Diggin It]

For those things, I prefer the interchangeable tool heads for two strokes. I have a pole saw and hedge trimmer with a 3' extension pole that gets the effective range up to 11' or so for the pole saw and out to about 6' for the hedge trimmer.

 

[Tractor Seabee]

WHen tightenting fasteners, I have several carfully calibrated settings I use.

Tight
Grunt
Loud Grunt
GRRRRRRRRRR
and jump up and down on the breaker bar

Reminds me of an old pipefitter adage: "make it up as tight as you can, then go another round". On malleable fittings that ensures it will leak from stretching the female end.

Ron

 

[dragoneggs]

Maybe I'm missing something, but this seems to be a tool of rather limited usefulness. I suppose if you have a lot of branches to be trimmed within extension cord radius of an outlet but ISTM that a gas or battery one would be much handier.

On that note, in the 6 mo. or so I've had their Lynx 40V pole saw I can say it definitely doesn't suck.

Yes, I originally bought it because I have a fair amount of pruning within 100ft of my house and outlets... but a couple times now I have loaded up my generator in my FEL and went to the far reaches of my property. Mainly to do some limbing of dead branches on a group of fir trees that became an eyesore after doing some significant clearing. Worked great! Not the most convenient, but it is not really worth it to me to invest in a battery pole saw since I already have this 110v pole saw, and a 20v Dewalt system including a reciprocating saw.