Harbor Freight Tools that don't suck

[Rock Crawler]

Umm, valid argument?

It will make many of us jealous. Then we will go buy a 72", our spouses will get angry, divorces will ensue and the economy will collapse.

That guy that approached me at the local store and telling me that they start to rust within a year caught me off guard. I googled the heck out of that one and found nothing. I do have a heated and cooled garage, I keep it at 45 degrees all winter unless I am going to be in there working, and I do not cool it in the summer unless I am going to be working... But it never gets below 45°F, and the garage is not wet or **** aside from melting snow from the F350 that is not used daily.

Once I get confirmation Thursday that one of the 2 Craftsman stacks is going away, I'll likely get moving on this and get the boxes ordered. I'm currently working 6 x 12 hour shifts at the scheduled maintenance outage of our nuke plant, so I may wait until after Nov 17th to get the boxes on my trailer. But I will take some photos of the setup if and when it materializes.

Some guys I know are saying to go spend 3 times the money on Extreme Tools boxes or similar, but for a home user I am not seeing ANY reason at all for me to drop $5,000 - $6,000 on a very similar build and size toolbox from a more "professional" name brand. Heck, I may go 2 weeks at a time without needing to even open a drawer. I highly doubt that I will wear out a HF US General box/slides in my house working on my vehicles and equipment. Maybe an 8 hour a day mechanic would see some real value in dropping $5000+, but I have a hard time believing even that. I don't think Extreme Tools or Snap On make magical tool boxes... but they do make 30" depth drawers instead of the 22".... But at the cost, I'll make do with the cute little 72"base, 56" top, and 2 side units. I should be just fine as long as they don't rust!

What I am selling:
Craftsman 26" Quiet Glide 3 section Stack tool box set. - tools - by owner - sale

 

[Code54]

Someone mentioned that class action settlement - did it actually ever settle and the gift cards get sent out. Seems like it dropped off the radar and that just made me think out it.

 

[Wasmeneh]

I got mine

 

[Diggin It]

The checks (Class A Claims) and some of the Gift Cards (Class C Claims) were sent out in April. I don't know what the delay was on the Class B claims, but they're supposed to be going out on a rolling basis between now and the end of November.

 

[Threepoint]

[snip]
Some guys I know are saying to go spend 3 times the money on Extreme Tools boxes or similar, but for a home user I am not seeing ANY reason at all for me to drop $5,000 - $6,000 on a very similar build and size toolbox from a more "professional" name brand. [snip]

I'm not seeing any reason for a professional mechanic to do it either. Smart, to me, would be using that extra $3 to $4K to buy tools. Or the family something nice.

 

[California]

I'm not seeing any reason for a professional mechanic to do it either. Smart, to me, would be using that extra $3 to $4K to buy tools. Or the family something nice.

Or bank it. And years later, retire a couple of years earlier to go do something fun.

 

[tjkubota93]

Or bank it. And years later, retire a couple of years earlier to go do something fun.

He would buy snap on because it's a status thing. And you can make payments without a credit check most times.

 

[newbury]

This maybe should be a separate thread BUT
For those of you that have both the Lynxx chainsaw AND polesaw does it look like you could put the 14" chainsaw blade on the polesaw?
I've a few limbs that I could REALLY use the extra 4".

Also - for Lynxx users here's a good video teardown of the chainsaw

[video]http://www.etotheipiplusone.net/?p=4187[/video]

 

[Threepoint]

This maybe should be a separate thread BUT
For those of you that have both the Lynxx chainsaw AND polesaw does it look like you could put the 14" chainsaw blade on the polesaw?
I've a few limbs that I could REALLY use the extra 4".

Also - for Lynxx users here's a good video teardown of the chainsaw

[video]http://www.etotheipiplusone.net/?p=4187[/video]

Interesting idea. I haven't tried it, but let us know if it works. My concern would be that the extra 4" might bog the saw down and get hung up in a large limb 10' overhead!

 

[Rock Crawler]

This maybe should be a separate thread BUT
For those of you that have both the Lynxx chainsaw AND polesaw does it look like you could put the 14" chainsaw blade on the polesaw?
I've a few limbs that I could REALLY use the extra 4".

Also - for Lynxx users here's a good video teardown of the chainsaw

[video]http://www.etotheipiplusone.net/?p=4187[/video]

I have both, but I've never honestly paid enough attention to note if the bar attaching points are the same or not. If I wasn't working stupid 12 hour shifts, I'd offer to run home and take a gander... But I'm crushed for the next few weeks.