Favorite Harbor Freight tools

[70jimmy]

I have only bouught 2 things there.
Pittsburgh deep impact sockets and 1/2 inch drive impact.

both work fine. Impact could use a little more power but great for the stuff I do and sockets have been fine. I have put maximum torque on with big snap on impact guns and no probelm with socket holding up. I need to go and get me an angle grinder!!

 

[rdn2blazer]

whats that roll of blue stuff on the stand?

hehe, you should see the adjustables we use in marina's for bigger prop work, 5' handle with about a 5" opening....

the blue roll is industrial grade shop rags. these are the best rags I have ever used. there from Kimberly Clark. there 49 bucks a roll, you buy 2 you get a stand for free from our local tool supplier that sells there brand. there are 475 rags per roll. they are very lint free and durable as hell for a paper based rag and yet still pretty soft. I have like 7 extra stands. I buy so many rags for work we have too many stands here. so I have been taking stands home. there even powdercoated not just painted.

 

[jarheadk5]

$20 pneumatic gasket scraper. I used this multiple times daily, for 3 months, when I was working at the truck tranny shop to scrape all the gaskets off tranny parts. Only thing i ever did maintenance-wise was a few drops of oil a day, and hit the blade with a file a couple times a week. Helluva lot better than giving myself carpal-tunnel with a razor-blade scraper...

Got a 2-ton engine hoist earlier this year, but I haven't used it yet. Some of the bracketry isn't welded very straight or parallel, but I'll live with it.

Got 3 pair of leather welding gloves for $7 - can't beat that with a stick.

 

[gauder]

$99 bead roller. With some re-inforcements it is every bit as good as the high dollar jobs.

 

[steve_kibbe]

12 ton jack stands

Heat shrink tubes.

 

[ProJunkRacing]

the harbor frieght winch is basically a mile marker , there was a magazine wriet up not to long ago about that and it rated them the same same sive motor etc for comparable units i dont want a mm tho friend had one and it was junk now it lays on shop floor

 

[AZ79K5Project]

Originally Posted by Triaged
I love the venturi vacuum pump (runs off your shop compressor). I used it to evacuate my AC system (what it was designed to do) before charging it with r134a...but I use it most as a $14 power bleeder. Add some tubing, fittings, and an old glass jar and you are ready to go. I use it to suck from the bleeder side and it goes very quick.

http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/Displayitem.taf?itemnumber=3952

I'm getting one if it works.

 

[jekbrown]

gettin' one of these for my tow-rigs flatbed. Next time I have to lift a ff14b... D60... or 454 up into the bed, it'll be np.

j

 

[kyser_soze]

has anyone had good luck with the presses? i been thinking about pickin one up but I want it to actually work. Hey one other thing thats awesome there is those little seats with rollers and the tray underneath. There great for rollin around on while doing brake jobs and other stuff.

I have one of their 20-ton's and it works well.

 

[85burbanator]

man i love harbor freight. they just put one in by my house and i always go there. so far ive got:

2ton folding engine hoist
engine stand
pitsburg ratchet kit w/ 1/2,1/4,3/8 ratchets and sockets
rubber mallet
tons of cutoff wheels and grinding disks
blue nitrile gloves
14" chop saw (its ok for what i do but sometimes i dont trust it)
6,12 ton jack stands (use every day)

saving up for the 20 ton press, trans jack and one of the sand blasting set ups

never had a prob with any of it except some of the cuting wheels for the grinder come apart pretty easy. made me step up from just safety glasses to a face sheild and glasses.

 

[OrangeCrushK10]

the bad:
i bought a $4.99 air hammer with chisels...... yeah, it makes nice little dents in things, but its not powerful enough to do anything useful.

That's odd, I got the super cheapo air hammer w/ chisels and it will cut through 1/8" steel. I've used it at one point or another to destroy anything from exhaust work to a bumper.

The bad part about mine is that it's either full on or full off. There's no barely squeezing the trigger to do softer work like on a craftsman or something.

 

[ryoken]

 

[OrangeCrushK10]

Excellent idea!

 

[ryoken]

I run em on every air tool I own.... So much easier to adjust than any "on" tool regulator. I just leave any the tool may have at full blast and regulate with those..

 

[camiswelding]

DONT FORGET TO SIGN UP WITH HARBOR FREIGHT ONLINE

so fat they have sent me at least one discount coupon per week... the smallest was 5 bucks.. the largest was a 20 percent off one item coupon///

I ended up buying a 459 dollar 20 inch drill press on sale for 299- 20 percent... ended up at 259...

now that was a good deal

cam

 

[bigjbear]

In a pinch Vise-Grips will work, too. Just clamp them onto the hose and use the knob for adjustment. Needle nose are the best, just don't get into the wire cutter part.