Harbor Freight tools thread.

Someone also asked about the grease gun. I've used it to do all of the U-joints on my Taco both old and new. Also filled my buddies ball joints on the Silverado he bought since they were squeaking like crazy. Works great

 

You should splurge on a black hose clamp

 

ive had that on for years and never bothered

 

Anybody have the welders coupons by any chance?

 

The 2 that are on the website are only good until today (and its a little late for a HF run). Once they refresh the page, they should have some for December.

 

I got the book for December and there's none for the vulcan welders

 

Hopefully they are quick to update the website and have more coupons! Even though they only knocked of $50-80, it's still something

 

For the money, you can not beat a Hobart iron man 230. It is basically a Miller without all the bells and whistles. 250 amp machine, has a 5/3/1 warranty. Mine has burned 9 33 lb rolls of .135 wire with never a single hiccup. I have a Miller 252 as well, and have no problem using the Hobart machine for anything. Just an fyi. if you get a Hobart, you save some money over a Miller, Lincoln or Sean machine, and get a machine that will be trouble free.

 

Pretty much the same as miller. Most their parts are interchangeable. And they just recently upgraded their drive rollers n got rid of the cheap plastic crap, n added 1 setting to fine tune amperage n wire speed

 

If the Vulcan 215 doesn't go down to $579 again soon I'm gonna end up buying the Hobart 210mvp

 

I think it's 90 days, not a year. A year applies to hand tools.

 

I'm thinking about pulling the trigger on the hobart 140. My buddy has one and he swears by it. What do you think?

 

You sure your dog hasn't ate a few of those 9 rolls of wire...

 

It is a year, money back for those welders.
Hand tools have lifetime warranty.
Everything else is 90 days exchange.

 

210mvp

 

Picked up a 1000 g compact digital scale today ( )--pretty neat and just $8 with a 20% off coupon:



It is quite accurate as verified against a set of lab calibration weights (100, 200 and 500 grams were dead on), and offers a variety of units.

On issue I did have is that the platen is rubber mounted (no doubt to protect the load cell) and can rotate 5° in each direction until it contacts the scale body, if rotated as such the unit will hang during the POST as it cannot "zero-out" the cell. Just power down and turn the platen to its obvious centered position and all will be well.

I've been playing with the centrifugal weights in my Silver Wing 600 CVT and needed (wanted, but I told SWMBO "needed") this to validate each of the eight sliders' weight.

BTW, Seiko says this watch weighs 4 ounces...

 

Shop dog is 14 years old, and we call it fluffy, not fat.

 

Get the 230, always better to have more amps then Not enough. Get a machine you won't grow out of.

Don't get me wrong, the Miller 252 is a beast, but the Hobart will do 95% of what the miller will do at far lower cost.

 

Nice tube roller.

 

"As far west as you can go"?