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[Alas Babylon!]

Yeah! I do love going there. It’s like a Christmas/Candy store to every dude’s little boy inside!

[Paladin2]

Hay, I see what you are tryin’ to do here. (or there)

[wally_bert]

HF has many tempting treats.

I have a 30 dollar reciprocating saw that’s 5 years old and works great.

Mostly I buy moving blankets.

[wally_bert]

I have some of handheld impact set from Northern Tool left over from the first half of jeep windshield frame removal.

That set, some propane, and a HF 13mm wrench did the job.

[NorthMountain]

Inexpensive, for sure. Some is cheap crap, some is surprisingly decent. Most is not for long term use by a professional mechanic or machinist.

Not all is from PRC. Many of the hand tools are from Taiwan; the ROC stuff seems a lot better than most of the PRC stuff.

[Paladin2]

Iron Oxide has low high temp strength...

[Paladin2]

Moving blankets improved in the last ~2 years...

[wally_bert]

I like Kroil myself. It’s done some wonders.

Any new parts going on get anti-seize where applicable. If something has to come back off, I look to keep the grief to a minimum.

[wally_bert]

I’m in the process of moving now.

Mostly I buy them since I hate creepers and can’t take the concrete for too long.

A few of them on the floor and I can function well.

[dsrtsage]

Democrats outraged

[N. Theknow]

It’s too bad they didn’t buy up the craftsman line from Sears. Danaher (USA) made the tools and could have continued.

Danaher has no clue how to run a company.

They buy companies with name recognition and immediately go into harvest mode of the name and the companies eventually cease to be nothing more than a memory after they have bled the name dry.

[OldSmaj]

As with most anything these days, you do get what you pay for.

I use HF for disposables and throwaways.

I get maybe half the use out of their cut-off wheels as I do the Dewalt or Snap-on, but the price is about half, too.

I bought a set of chrome plated metrics, kept one of each size for anything on my Kubota tractor, threw the rest away and now have a custom tool set for field use that cost me about one-sixth of what Craftsman or Snap-on costs...and I ain't afraid to lose one in the pasture.

Except for when I bush hog, then I usually find everything...or the pieces.

[Does so]

HF stuff seems to be getting slightly better.

...and more expensive...

Way back, I bought about a dozen ratchet sets in steel cases. They were made in India, US and metric, ½-inch and ¼-inch, six point, eight point, with adapter, speeder and ratchet wrench. Not bad for what it was. Sometimes, I used a socket as a spacer.

$3 each set!

[libertylover]

With HF tools, sometimes you win, sometimes lose.

[wally_bert]

I treat HF as a roll of the dice.

[wally_bert]

Just about everything is just high.

Tires and batteries especially.

I buy vintage Craftsman tools off Ebay sometimes.

[wally_bert]

At times I am almost brave enough to get a generator from them.

[editor-surveyor]

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I have a generator from them, and it is excellent.

I have several generators up at the ranch since it is off-grid, and when one needs to run wells and power tools the solar just isn't the way.

That Predator generator is the easiest starting one I have ever owned.
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[editor-surveyor]

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Don’t buy end wrench sets from HF; they are always missing the 15, 16, and 18 mm wrenches.
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[catnipman]

“Not for everything but try buying tools now , they are way over priced. Nothing wrong with HF.”

and sadly enough the great majority of all hand tools are made in china anyway, regardless of the brand name that’s pasted onto the tool.