Harbor Freight tools thread.

Haha yeah it was my fiance's old car. That pictures almost a year old I think. She traded it in for a grey jeep renegade and it's now much harder to find in the parking lot and we now have a lot less room in the garage. It was a chevy spark and absolutely tiny.

 

I think you all are right, Since the flyer stopped coming out in the mail. You don't get to see all the new things they have added they could be of interest. I have stopped going into my local store. I get the emails from them but it's not quite the same.

 

This weekend I bought a stack of the HF masks. 10 masks for $2 a pack, I bought 6 packs. I figured 1 a day and toss it, I have a 2 month supply. They for sure aren’t N95’s or medical grade, but they do the job.

I’m getting myself one of the 56” US General tool boxes for Christmas. Im currently using an old beat up craftsman that is overflowing. Just have to figure out how to get it to my house!

Anyone that has a bigger tool box, did you have to get a lift gate truck for it?

 

Bring a strong friend. They helped load my 44 at the store but getting it out was on me. Really unloaded easy with 2 guys.

Unbox it at the store and check for damage before you load it and leave.

 

they’ll put it on the trailer with a fork lift, it’s up to you to figure out how to unload once you leave.

 

Shift to reverse, heavy on the gas, heavy on the brakes, YEET!

 

Tie it to something first, drive off.

 

My 44 was long enough on the pallet to slide off the tailgate and walk it down to the ground. Then held the pallet up on the tailgate side while the truck pulled forward, then just set that side down.

Unloading really is pretty easy, but one extra person if not two is definitely recommended. One to move the truck, the other to help support the end of the box. It’s a long lever and the weight ends up on one side when it’s tilted against the tailgate so you’re not supporting the entire weight of the box.

 

I unloaded my 44 by myself as I was not patient enough to wait for help. I built a makeshift ramp out of 2x4s, wedged the bottom into a groove on the ground so it wouldn't slip, then eased it down out of the truck. It worked, but in retrospect I should have just waited. It was fairly heavy and I'm lucky something didn't go wrong.

 

Another use for the free tool holding magnet bars.

 

Is that a plasma table turned into a soldering table?

 

Anyone have any experience with these? Thinking maybe the HF drill press could handle a little aluminum milling maybe.

 

I have the single axis version. It's pretty crappy.

No experience with that one.

 

I just want to pocket mill my own cigar ashtray.

Can't use the mills at work for personal projects....

 

It’s a little loose but made a few of my tasks easier

 

doesn't need to be super accurate or anything, but if its got a lot of slop maybe I'll keep looking.

 

25% off this weekend.

 

Then I’d say it’s acceptable. I thought ya can tighten it up by the screw/slide pads.

 

My Hitachi brad nailer crapped out so I decided to take advantage of the 25% off and got this one. Pretty good deal for a tool I'll only use occasionally.