CPTKILLER
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Prices have been coming up for some time approaching Home Depot and Lowe’s.
Harbor Freight Tools that don't suck
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I can still buy things at HF lots cheaper than HD and Lowes because HF has sales with big discounts continuously.
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It's the sales that ALWAYS gets me. I constantly am buying things there because they're on sale. LOL
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The aspect to always remember with HF and that is they carry 3 distinct lines of tools. The cheapo Pittsburg one use maybe stuff and the the Homeowner grade Bauer and then the 'professional grade' whatever that means, Icon tools.
The 'Chief' air tools are high quality as well.
I have a pile of Bauer 20 volt hand tools and I will say that they aren't for a professional shop enviroment, they work just fine for me.
What I found interesting is, I have an IR air powered 4.5" angle grinder that cost over 250 clams retail and I also have a Chief 4.5" air powered angle grinder that set me back under a hundred bucks (on sale in the ITC flyer) and the Chief and the IR are mirror images of each other except for the badging on the handle. We use air tools in the shop constantly btw and I'm sure my employees don't care for them as well as I do...lol
Same applies to welders and plasma cutters. Sold my Lincoln Invertig with water cooler as well as my Hypertherm 60 amp plasma cutter and replaced them with the HF Pro-Tig 205 TIG welder and added a Everlast water cooler and a CK worldwide Series 20 flex head torch and a pair of Titanium plasma cutters (40 and 60 amp) plus the HF roll around compartmented welding cart and still had money left over from the sale of the Lincoln and the Hypertherm and the Pro-Tig as well as the plasma cutters are superior machines compared to the ones I sold. They all get used everyday btw.
The IGBT driven machines are far superior to the Invertig and the Hypertherm cutters and the consumables that are required for the plasma cutters are substantially less than the HT consumables. We go through a lot of consumables with the plasma cutters, especially with the CBC plasma table.
For me, it's all about cost versus parameters of operation.
The 'Chief' air tools are high quality as well.
I have a pile of Bauer 20 volt hand tools and I will say that they aren't for a professional shop enviroment, they work just fine for me.
What I found interesting is, I have an IR air powered 4.5" angle grinder that cost over 250 clams retail and I also have a Chief 4.5" air powered angle grinder that set me back under a hundred bucks (on sale in the ITC flyer) and the Chief and the IR are mirror images of each other except for the badging on the handle. We use air tools in the shop constantly btw and I'm sure my employees don't care for them as well as I do...lol
Same applies to welders and plasma cutters. Sold my Lincoln Invertig with water cooler as well as my Hypertherm 60 amp plasma cutter and replaced them with the HF Pro-Tig 205 TIG welder and added a Everlast water cooler and a CK worldwide Series 20 flex head torch and a pair of Titanium plasma cutters (40 and 60 amp) plus the HF roll around compartmented welding cart and still had money left over from the sale of the Lincoln and the Hypertherm and the Pro-Tig as well as the plasma cutters are superior machines compared to the ones I sold. They all get used everyday btw.
The IGBT driven machines are far superior to the Invertig and the Hypertherm cutters and the consumables that are required for the plasma cutters are substantially less than the HT consumables. We go through a lot of consumables with the plasma cutters, especially with the CBC plasma table.
For me, it's all about cost versus parameters of operation.
