They have the 120 volt AC clock timers for a couple bucks, I use it for my brass tumblers. Works fine. Speaking of that, their vibratory tumbler/polishers are not bad. The small tumbler replacement bowls fit my now-deceased Midway 1292 tumbler and come with free walnut shell media. That said, the Berry's 400 tumbler is the same price and a much better unit from other places.
The knee pads and mechanix gloves are OK and price is right.
I picked up one of the orange-cased micro jewelers' screwdriver sets and as cheap as it is it works fine.
The welding magnets are handy.
I picked up the 3/8", 1/2" and 3/4" impact socket sets and impact socket extensions. I have a toolbox that goes in the truck to the junkyard or for general work while the nice stuff is locked up in the garage. Well, so far I have yet to break any of the sockets. Even the metal rails are decent. And they are cheap enough that if something should happen I am not going to be upset, but honestly, ten years and still going strong. The black coating is worn off the extensions and the most commonly used sockets, some of them got rusty, but so did my Craftsman ones.
The 82 degree carbide countersink is nice, as is the stepper bit sets.
They had a very cheap pocket multimeter that was on sale for like $2 at one time, I bought a handful of them and gave them out as gifts to everyone. Cheap and they worked. Not a Fluke but if you are wiring a trailer hitch or checking for blown fuses in your house they work just fine.
Their air tool coupler sets look OK but they are using steel balls and rings in the female coupler and if you leave your air hoses outside they rust and stick. I will buy only all brass female couplers from now on!
I have used probably 10 of their tire inflator chucks. I usually lose them. When they are 99 cents I buy 2-3 of them to have on hand.
They had the air-filled dolly tires for about $2.50 apiece a few years ago and it turned out they fit my pressure washer perfect so I bought a few. Wound up replacing the 4 wheels on my kids' wagon with them, now it rides much nicer!
The fuel injection system pressure tester worked good. The Diesel compression tester worked good too surprisingly it fit the Mitsubishi glow plugs perfectly.
I picked up a pair of their oval LED trailer sealed lamp units for $10 each I think. They were a direct replacement to the rubber-grommet style trailer lights I had in my tandem axle hauler, and they fit flush instead of sticking out an inch or so like the bulb type ones did (and got broken by my loading ramps because of that). The LED units only have two rows of LEDs whereas I see three rows in the ones at the truck stops but THOSE lamp units cost $30 each. The HF ones plugged right in and are a perfect match, plenty bright enough and flush fit so no more breaking them.
I put one of those 2000 lb winches on my tandem axle hauler. I pulled a couple dozen cars up on there and it works but you really need to cut off about half the cable to get more pulling power- the more wraps on the drum, the less power you have, and you don't need 50' of cable on a car trailer. The free-spool clutch handle eventually broke off inside the drum so I can't free spool anymore, but the winch still works. Needs a roller fairlead, and a pulley for double line to be better. Probably going to do that when I buy another one.
They had a trailer spare tire mounting kit that was not expensive but it turned out that it is not supposed to fit the 4"x4" square bumper on my RV trailer...however some new longer bolts from Tractor Supply and viola it fits perfectly. I wound up using their supplied lug nuts backwards on the stud/bolts as seats, and used some of my own nice stainless lug nuts to actually hold the tire on. Much nicer.
Put one of their Trailer Sway Control units on the RV trailer too, and that worked great. No more drifting on the Macinaw Straits bridge... :lol:
Their allen wrench sets that look like Eklinds but aren't? Soft steel, they wore out/rounded off pretty quickly. Not buying them again for work.
You have to look at Harbor Freight like Odd Lots. Some of their stuff is pretty good for the price, some stuff is OK, some of it is junk, and often a good close look will show what's what. I used to be a professional mechanic and I used a lot of Snap On and Mac and S-K but I also had the majority Craftsman and some HF. For stuff that's not used every single day it's pretty good. How often did I use the 3/4" impact sockets? Not every day or every week. But when I needed them I needed them and to spend Snap-On money for something I used once or twice a year was stupid. I think my axle nut sockets were $30 apiece from Snap-On. I got a whole set of 3/4" metric impact sockets from HF for $30.
