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Old 05-07-2011, 02:57 PM   #85
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Re: The Good, The Bad and Ugly from Harbor Freight

I admit, I avoided HF like the plague.
Then I landed this new job, over half the guys use a fair amount of HF stuff. After witnessing, borrowing and trying it out for myself, a few things are not bad.

Air tools:
1/4" die grinders-straight and 90*
1/4" cut-off tool
-just add oil and they last a long time

I bought mine for 9.99, can't beat that. In fact, one of the guys killed an IR 1/4" before he killed his HF grinder, go figure.(treated equally) Same guy has one grinder he refuses to oil, 9 years and still going. We use these daily too, I would have NEVER bet they would hold up as well as an IR unit until actually witnessing it.


Sockets:
3/8" and 1/2" sockets
deep impact sockets
impact extensions
allen head sockets
breaker bars
They all work great. I bought a newer Crapsman set that rounded a socket recently, I couldn't believe it. So I replaced it with HF stuff, no problems yet.
I prefer my SK set, but if one goes missing the company replaces it with stanley/Proto, so my SK stays at home.


car dollies
I have the car dollies too. As I've said before, grease them liberally and they perform fine. A set of 4 was ? $70-$80 when I got them, can't remeber exactly, they were on super sale.
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