Harbor Freight Tools that don't suck

[California]

I bought one of those [welding table] about a year-and-a-half ago. It's still in its box in the garage. Haven't used it yet. :confused3:

You can tell the real HF enthusiast by the shiny new stuff, never used, that's accumulating ...

Gotta admit I haven't yet used the 11 amp angle grinder that was half price, open box, at the Sidewalk Sale. Everybody needs five angle grinders, no?

 

[Rock Crawler]

You can tell the real HF enthusiast by the shiny new stuff, never used, that's accumulating ...

Gotta admit I haven't yet used the 11 amp angle grinder that was half price, open box, at the Sidewalk Sale. Everybody needs five angle grinders, no?

I take exception to that! I've got thousands of dollars worth of Harbor Freight tool boxes and tools in my garage and I beat the living heck out of all of them. me and my friends all build rock crawlers, and my garage since it's huge and heated is the place that they all get built. Harbor Freight has its steak on the claim of many of rock crawler in Western Pennsylvania.

 

[PJSprog]

You can tell the real HF enthusiast by the shiny new stuff, never used, that's accumulating ...

Gotta admit I haven't yet used the 11 amp angle grinder that was half price, open box, at the Sidewalk Sale. Everybody needs five angle grinders, no?

:laughing: I really did intend to use it when I bought it, but then that project got put on indefinite hold.

I have an air die grinder somewhere that's also still in the box. Had it for years. I was actually looking for it last summer for something. Not sure what box it got packed into when I got married and moved (6 years ago).

Hmmm ... maybe I am something of a HF hoarder.

 

[Rock Crawler]

Hey guys, I just wanted to tell you that I broke the stud off in a power steering pump pulley puller, so I needed a left-handed drill bit to get the broken piece of sod out of the shaft of the power steering pump. Since I didn't have a right angle drill for left-handed drill bits, I ran to Harbor Freight the other day and grab their drill extension 90-degree, and a set of their left-handed drill bits. My buddy held the 90-degree drill extender and held it level, I ran the drill up above the radiator, and we were able to run the broken stud out of the center shaft of the power steering pump with ease. the moral of the story is that the Harbor Freight left-handed drill bits as well as the Harbor Freight 90-degree drill extension piece works as you would expect. As usual I'm using text-to-speech so spelling errors do not count!

 

[rangerfredbob]

I've had good luck with their left hand drill bits as well

 

[California]

Hey guys, I just wanted to tell you that I broke the stud off in a power steering pump pulley puller, so I needed a left-handed drill bit to get the broken piece of sod out of the shaft of the power steering pump. Since I didn't have a right angle drill for left-handed drill bits, I ran to Harbor Freight the other day and grab their drill extension 90-degree, and a set of their left-handed drill bits. My buddy held the 90-degree drill extender and held it level, I ran the drill up above the radiator, and we were able to run the broken stud out of the center shaft of the power steering pump with ease. the moral of the story is that the Harbor Freight left-handed drill bits as well as the Harbor Freight 90-degree drill extension piece works as you would exp

You're braver than I am! I went to a pro industrial supply house for a left handed drill bit and ez-out when I discovered a stud into the YM186D's aluminum timing case cover was broken off below flush. And I pulled the radiator to get a straight push with the drill.

After I got the new stud in I calmed down and took a photo. And here's the thread I posted on here describing the project. You can see why I was concerned the project would not go well.

 

[Threepoint]

You can tell the real HF enthusiast by the shiny new stuff, never used, that's accumulating ...

Gotta admit I haven't yet used the 11 amp angle grinder that was half price, open box, at the Sidewalk Sale. Everybody needs five angle grinders, no?

Hah! At least! Plus custom brackets for each, so they're in easy reach. :laughing:

Check out post #1026 and #1028 in Big Barn's Retirement Farm Shop thread: https://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/projects/410767-big-barn-s-retirement-farm-103.html

Terry has so many shop-improvement projects going at one time that I get exhausted just reading about them.

 

[California]

Hah! At least! Plus custom brackets for each, so they're in easy reach. :laughing:

Check out post #1026 and #1028 in Big Barn's Retirement Farm Shop thread.

Terry has so many shop-improvement projects going at one time that I get exhausted just reading about them.

Wow! More stuff I didn't know I need! Those look handy.

I've also seen something like a heavy duty towel bar used similarly.

 

[Fallon]

I got the magnet without the wheels, better for rummaging through grass and gravel driveways than the wheeled ones..

I burned up a couple plywood pallets & other scraps with lots of metal in them in my burn barrel this weekend. A fair bit if ash & screws came out the hole in the bottom to shovel out the ash. I ran my 30" magnet over the area & it picked everything up I think. Any grass clumps would knock stuff off & high center the magnet. You shouldn't get the 30" unless you have a huge warehouse. Get a smaller wheeled one or the one on a stick with no wheels. The wide wheeled one is just to hard to manuver in a shop & doesn't work on grass without a lot of concentration.

 

[hunt4570]

I burned up a couple plywood pallets & other scraps with lots of metal in them in my burn barrel this weekend. A fair bit if ash & screws came out the hole in the bottom to shovel out the ash. I ran my 30" magnet over the area & it picked everything up I think. Any grass clumps would knock stuff off & high center the magnet. You shouldn't get the 30" unless you have a huge warehouse. Get a smaller wheeled one or the one on a stick with no wheels. The wide wheeled one is just to hard to manuver in a shop & doesn't work on grass without a lot of concentration.

Yeah, I think I have 2 out in my shop, both smaller with no wheels.