/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>1604972

>>1065794

>>1027598
Anything not made specifically for Harbor Freight. They carry stuff like Liquid Wrench, WD-40, Evaporust, etc. My local one also has cleaning products like Simple Green.

>but I want tools

Read the reviews on their website. If it has 3 stars or less its garbage.

Things specifically to avoid:
Anything electrical (it will be underpowered or die on you {their grinders are decent though})
Anything sharp (it wont stay that way)
Anything you hit or hit stuff with (hammers, anvils, bench vices; they shatter)
Clamps (all of them are terrible)
Anything that could kill you if it fails (grinding wheels, jacks, engine hoists, etc)
Anything that has to hold up to the elements (tarps, greenhouses, storage lockers and sheds, etc)
Anything pneumatic (tools, compressors, inflatable tires, etc)
Any kind of wrench with a movable jaw (adjustable wrench, pipe wrench, 'Channellocks', etc)

Things that might be decent under light use:
Sockets (their ratchets are shit though)
Combo wrenches
Screwdrivers/Allen keys/etc

>>965154
Harbor Freight customer detected.

>>961483
We had a little HF compressor. It still worked when we chucked it. The pressure gage broke after a week (one of the pipes cracked), the spring inside the air blower attachment broke so we had to replace it (trigger would depress but not return so the air would leak out), the hose kinked if you looked at it funny, it made as much noise as jet engine, took forever to build up any pressure and it leaked like a sieve, but it did still work. Boss bought it for us and had us use it for 6 months, all the while us complaining what a turd it was. Finally the fucker had to use it himself for a week when we had some staff take vacation at the same time. When we came back it was replaced. Funny that.

Other experience I have with HF stuff:
Free screwdrivers: handles broke off the shafts.
Free multimeter: fuse blew first time when trying to check the voltage of an outlet.
Free LED flashlight: rolled off kitchen counter and dropped 3 feet up onto wood floor, plastic shell exploded, found pieces on top of my refrigerator weeks later.
Opened ended wrench set: 3 of 9 have had jaws break off under normal load.
Plastic clamp, +2 warranty replacements: all flexed to shit under normal load, all broke within a week of daily use. Didn't bother returning the third one.
Wire wheels: Last about half as long as 'quality' wire wheels doing the same tasks but still a good deal.
Dremel knock off: loud as fuck, gets hot as fuck, accessories garbage. Still have it but replaced it with a used Dremel 100 I got for $3 at a thrift store that is x100 times better and I don't need earplugs to operate.
Plastic tarp: Placed it over bicycle in moderate winds, came out 3 hours later and it had torn itself apart.
Adjustable wrench: truly the worst tool I have ever seen. The inherent sloppiness of an adjustable wrench plus the terrible quality control made it unusable.

eurofag here, so no really any experience with harbor freight,

I giggled heartedly to these pics once so why not post them?

>>848394

>>777990
IMO Harbor Freight is better than Northern Tool in every way, since they both sell really cheap chinese tools, except HF doesn't slap a higher price and big logo on it. Most of the tools I actually rely on are the typical husky/kobalt ones that have lifetime warranties. I can just go to the store a couple miles away and get a replacement for free in about 30 minutes.