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Harbor Freight

Literally anything else

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Buy harbor freight; if you use it enough (properly) to break it then buy a higher quality version.
- Exactly. I’m not going to wait until I can afford Snap-On tools to fix my AC belt.
  
  I broke this while replacing brake pads today.
  
  Fuck Harbor Freight. At least I have 5 other extensions, all other brands that aren't made of frozen peanut butter.
- Aviation mech, my rule is harbor freight for everything you don't put a lot of force on or trust your life to. (Breaker bars, extensions, sockets, lanyards, jacks, etc) Also Snapon is no longer worth it, it's all Chinese rebranded shit nowadays, I've seen them bend/break as much as any harbor freight tool.
  
  I live about 2 miles from the Snap On factory where they make most of their tools and I'm not in China. I don't know where the materials come from though.
- You don't just up and buy a higher quality version when you're stuck on the side of the road, you count your blessings that you have like 5 other extensions, all better brands than HF.
  
  It's almost a nice convenient road kit, but yeah when you can literally twist-break an extension just using your hands and arms, the metal is shit tempered and can't handle torsion forces.
  
  Which is exactly what ratchets and extensions are meant to handle, torsion forces, AKA twisty forces.
  
  Oh for emergency in the car tools totally get the good stuff. But when you are trying to outfit your garage cheaply to get stuff done, it's a good enough starting point.
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/harbor-freight-spoof-ad-images-71231
- Some of these look like Omega Mart products lol
- Thank you for this
- Pneumatic slide whistle?
  
  ...
  
  Someone make that real.
- The 12 horse noxious fume generator got me.
  
  I'm in these pictures and I accept it.
  
  The muppet grade gloves with various numbers of fingers got me :)
  
  We all are :)
- Hahaha!
  
  I actually got one of those key shaped folding mini machete things, only cost me like $1.06, counting tax.
  
  Nifty little letter opener, at least that hasn't failed and didn't cost much.
- Those Bono safety glasses are hilarious though
- Hey my 50' garden hose extension cord does a job nothing else can do.
I love harbor freight. People that shit on Harbor Freight are just gate keeping.
- You don't mechanic much do ya?
  
  I broke this while replacing brake pads today, it couldn't handle a 17mm bolt. Thank goodness I have 5 other extensions, all other brands that aren't made of frozen peanut butter.
  
  I actually do, stop being such an elitist. Yeah I've moved on to better tools, but the young and much more broke engineer that I was depended on HF for a lot of things.
  
  Sorry you don't know how to "mechanic" other than with brute force. Try learning a little.
That’s basically what my Wera tools from amazon look like! Some asshole was like “Hey China, can I get a full set of impact rated tools with something vaguely germanic stamped on the outside?”

China: “Do you want us to put ‘impact rated’ on the box?”

Asshole: “Nah… that’s going to fuck our profit margin up.”
- Impact rated? Who said anything about an impact wrench, I broke this with a ratchet and my bare hands.
HF is making condoms now?
If she’s that good, it’s worth the pain.
one was shipped on a boat, and the other was made out batteries

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