Harbor Freight tools thread.

All things of quality build have potential to break. Even toyotas.

 

Boom

 

I have the and I'm completely happy with it. It's a damn beast and might even survive a North Korean nuke.

 

this is the one snap on were trying to sue them for and lost pretty badly. no offense to snap on, but i think it's great. take the wind out of their pockets. the only questions is where do we go when harbor freight turns becomes the new snap on in a few years?

 

very nice set up. i'm jealous

 

Whoa. No idea Snap-On sued HF over this floor jack. What was their basis for filing suit?

 

It’s pretty much identical to the SO jack.

Compare pics.

 

And snap on settled but harbor freight claims that they didn't pay anything. Interesting though that HF claimed that snap on made their products in the same factory as HF but priced at $500+ and snap on claimed that they made the Jacks in the USA. Would have been interesting to see what shook out with those claims had snap on not settled.

https://www.biztimes.com/2017/industries/law/snap-on-harbor-freight-settle-floor-jack-case/

 

Perhaps an indication that discovery would have been significantly more damaging to SnapOn than the possible rewards of their suit.

 

Does anybody have the air grinder?
Any thoughts? provided

 

had mine for a year, dont use it much but no complaints/issues

 

got to use my new vulcan welding helmet yesterday. it's a bit on the heavy side compared to my speedglas, but it actually work much better. 4 sensors and a bigger window. it gave me some trouble when i turned the machine down past 15amps, but anything above that worked great.

 

Don't buy this

 

This one?

 

They bog to much. Have a full set and any real pressure they slow down. We recently got a set of Ingersoll's ones that where around 100 each and are way better. Work great for finishing tools on metal but use a ton of air

 

I bought the aor die grinder once. It wouldn't cut through 1/8" steel, and used a ton of air. I have a 5hp 60 gallon 15 cfm compressor, which should be more than enough. I was so pissed at the thing I threw it in the garbage. I couldn't stand the thought of taking it back for some other poor sucker to buy.

 

I'll give the 4in air grinder a try. I dont plan on cutting with it. If it ends up being garbage I'll just return it. Or exchange it for a welding blanket I've been eyeballing.

 

They need to work on this

 

Who's tried their air hammer kit? I don't need it for anything serious (knocking off alignment cams) but don't want to waste the drive over there if it's a POS.

 

I bought that based on the reviews, but the one I bought never seems to have all that much power. Saw some review about it being able to knock rotors off, and I went back to a sledge. Great for light stuff like getting masonry and tile out.