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Quality of Harbor Freight and Chicago Electric tools
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Jim B
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 20, 2005 5:00 am    Post subject: Re: Quality of Harbor Freight and Chicago Electric tools Reply with quote
On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 22:18:38 -0500, tiredofspam <nospam.nospam.com> wrote:

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One thing I did want
that seemed to be of high quality was a Air Hose Reel. They had some
very good ones for some reasonable prices.

I followed (price) this hose reel for sometimes, last year I paid something like
$19, it look and feel exactly like one selling for more than $40 plus elsewhere.
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Lobby Dosser
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PostPosted: Thu Jan 20, 2005 9:00 am    Post subject: Re: Quality of Harbor Freight and Chicago Electric tools Reply with quote
tiredofspam <nospam.nospam.com> wrote:

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I tend to disagree with you about the clamps.
I have bought some good and some bad things from HF, but the clamps
aluminum bar clamps 24" @ 6.99 and 3/4 pipe clamps @ 3.49 were well
worth the price.

I wasn't clear. I buy the clamps off the shelf in the store. Just won't
order anything from them online. ALL my pipe clamps are HF - bought the
3/4" for $2.49 ea.
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bf
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 26, 2005 2:04 am    Post subject: Re: Quality of Harbor Freight and Chicago Electric tools Reply with quote
In my experience, the drill bits were pure crap. The normal bits (like
brad point, but without the brad points), broke with alarming
frequency. The Forstner bits dulled very quickly.

Compared to a name brand, there's no comparison in quality on the drill
bits.

Also had bad luck with their jigsaw blades.. pure crap.

I'm now of the mindset of the other poster.. you lose so much money off
the crap that you buy there, that it's not worth the occasional good
value.

The only item I was ever truly happy with was their heavy duty grinder
stand.
Their pliers/wrenches have poor tolerances..
it's just piss poor. I feel stupid for wasting about $200 there over
the years. for basically a grinder stand and about 1/2 the pipe clamps
held up ok (the other half stick or otherwise perform substandardly to
the Ponys).
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