The Harbor Freight Tool Support/Hate Thread!

[M-technik-3]

pawn shops and used tool shops

I use this place on occasion.

http://www.used-tools.com/

That being said now that craftsman has gone the way of china, not many decent lower priced tools out there anymore.

[SmokeE30]

ive been eyeballing HF tools quite a bit lately as im about to get back into wrenching and need to gather a few tools that im soon to leave in my home garage. at the moment ive been looking at impact socket sets but im not so sure I want to rock the HF impacts, not that I think they will brek just concerned with damaging bolts, ive been looking at the Ingersol Rand impact sockets as they are pretty cheap but still seem like they would be another quality product from IR.

[UpstateMike]

When did craftsman go china? That sucks. Sell outs. First tools I ever bought were craftsman.

[Larzzz]

The grinders are great, first one broke and im on my second right now

[vertvertvert]

hey smoke30 i've got a set of HF impact sockets, and they work great...
I also lost about half of them, but who care they were something like $15 for a set from 10mm-32mm.
However, my HF impact gun is a POS

in my opinion harbor freight is the bee's for a mechanic on a budget that favors parts to tools.

[M-technik-3]

When did craftsman go china? That sucks. Sell outs. First tools I ever bought were craftsman.

Deal was inked out roughly two years ago. Tools started showing up about a year ago. Professional Line is still made here in US and Taiwan which is still China but not mainland. The level of quality was/is considered better.

[UpstateMike]

The Chinese stuff is better?