Harbor Freight Tools that don't suck

[Pixguy]

My wife bought me the HF LED bendable trouble light 'Braun Magnetic Slim Bar Folding Rechargeable LED light' about a year ago and I use it constantly. Great tool to have around and so far has worked perfectly.

It recharges via a USB cable so I plug it into my laptop to recharge. I recommend it. Very bright on high. has 2 settings, high and low and a flashlight beam on the front. Great for working in confined places.

She also bought the 'Braun Rechargeable Spot light' for herself and it works very well too. Back end unscrews and there is a stored USB cable for charging it inside.

So far, so good.

I agree that it's a super bright light and loved it while it worked. Not so much now.

 

[5030]

I agree that it's a super bright light and loved it while it worked. Not so much now.

Must be like my LED shop lights then.............

 

[crazyal]

I've found that HF flashlights are good but the batteries are junk. Something about the low quality battery's ends stop making good contact. I have had several that I was about to throw away (since they are cheaper than quality replacement batteries) that I had a change of heart and bought brand name batteries for and they worked just fine. The last time I had to replace some of the Thunderbolt batteries from a Quantum flashlight that had plenty of energy but it seamed like the slightest touch and they stopped working. I put in some of the Eveready ultimate batteries and it's worked great since.

 

[reb]

My experience with HF flashlights (at least the free ones) is that the switches go bad rather quickly.

 

[LD48750]

My experience with HF flashlights (at least the free ones) is that the switches go bad rather quickly.

Seems like a lot of HF switches go bad rather quickly.

 

[5030]

Seems like a lot of HF switches go bad rather quickly.

10-4. BTW, the Li-Ion battery in the Slim Bar LED light is a Sanyo which is a high quality battery.

 

[cdaigle430]

Just bought a 1,000 puond hydraulic cart. I dont know why I did, but I own it now. Man is that sucker heavy, pretty near tore my fingers off unloading it from the Jeep. Now what in the world am I going to use it for?

 

[Ford850]

Just bought a 1,000 puond hydraulic cart. I dont know why I did, but I own it now. Man is that sucker heavy, pretty near tore my fingers off unloading it from the Jeep. Now what in the world am I going to use it for?

That will come in handy for unloading heavy things from your Jeep!

 

[dragoneggs]

That will come in handy for unloading heavy things from your Jeep!

Yeah, like 1000lb hydraulic carts!

 

[Frankenkubota]

HF has a 25% off sale and I need a table saw so.

They have the Chicago for about $150 and their hercules about $325.

I'm leaning toward the hercules.

Anybody have input?

thx