Harbor Freight Tools that don't suck

[buck12]

The delta has extendable arms on both sides, about 4 1/2 feet on either side of the saw!

The Hercules arms did not seem to bend as much.

 

[5030]

I don't care if I'm tracked. I have nothing to hide and lead a pretty dull life anyway.

Speaking of HF, they have American Flags (made in America) with embroidered stars for $5.99 each 3 foot x 5 foot or Inside track at $3.99 each, limit 5. Nice flags, bought them previously.

 

[5030]

42" bolts cutters
42 in. Bolt Cutters

Bought them to cut rebar for my garage addition. Works fine. Cheap with 20% off coupon.

I have the ones with the yellow fiberglass handles and the cable cutters. Had them for years, work good. They cut wire rope, battery cables, welding cable and bolts too.

 

[hunt4570]

The Hercules arms did not seem to bend as much.

Could be. If I'm cutting very long or very pieces I'll sometimes use a portable stand as well.

132 lb. Capacity Roller Stand

 

[Alan W.]

42" bolts cutters
42 in. Bolt Cutters

Bought them to cut rebar for my garage addition. Works fine. Cheap with 20% off coupon.

Ive had a set for about 20 years, been good.
I prefer to use the HF cutoff wheels in my Porter Cable grinder on the rebar. Cuts fast

 

[stuckmotor]

Large Drain Cleaning Bladder
If have good metro water pressure and beat on the sewer pipe where I thought the clog resided. After a while there the water was draining again.

 

[rbstern]

Needed to cut some 2" / 10ga square tube, so I bought the Chicago Electric 14" cutoff saw. Mounted a new Diablo 14" metal cutting wheel. Felt like lots of wobble in the blade; it seemed to cut straight enough, but it didn't feel right. Thoughts?

Follow up on this: The chop saw has gotten worse as I've cut more steel with it. The wobble is getting more pronounced and the saw is now starting to have trouble cutting. Motor is bogging down more easily, like it's losing power. I've made less than a dozen cuts.

I've already boxed it up and it's going back.

Now I have to decide if I'll just go with a better chop saw, maybe from Dewalt, take a chance on the HF horizontal bandsaw, or really belly up to the bar and buy something like the Makita LC1230, which is a 12" carbide blade saw that everyone raves about. Expensive, but appears to deliver.

 

[Oaktree]

Follow up on this: The chop saw has gotten worse as I've cut more steel with it. The wobble is getting more pronounced and the saw is now starting to have trouble cutting. Motor is bogging down more easily, like it's losing power. I've made less than a dozen cuts.

You get what you pay for. I've always thought of the CE stuff as one step above junk.

 

[Diggin It]

I see two coupons for the click type torque wrenches, one for 9.99, the other for 11.99

Why?

They also say 'reversible' which I believe someone was asking about for left handed threads.

 

[Tractor Seabee]

Follow up on this: The chop saw has gotten worse as I've cut more steel with it. The wobble is getting more pronounced and the saw is now starting to have trouble cutting. Motor is bogging down more easily, like it's losing power. I've made less than a dozen cuts.

I've already boxed it up and it's going back.

Now I have to decide if I'll just go with a better chop saw, maybe from Dewalt, take a chance on the HF horizontal bandsaw, or really belly up to the bar and buy something like the Makita LC1230, which is a 12" carbide blade saw that everyone raves about. Expensive, but appears to deliver.

I have had good results with the lower cost HF horizontal band saw. It cuts up to 6" wide. Takes a little to get it all adjusted first especially the vertical setting. Even their lowest cost band saw blades last pretty well . Break more than going dull. Gets away from all the hot pieces of metal from a chop saw which I also had, hated it so got rid of it.

Ron