New tool day (NTD) aka consoomer thread

Post what you've acquired recently and why little paypiggies

2nd hand set of wood chisels from the scrap store

>>2778280
Gearwrench 84 tooth flex head 4 piece ratchet set and gearwrench auto-bite pliers 4 piece set. Why? After I heard toolbarn was going out of business I browsed their blowout sale and these seemed to be an ok price. $87 for the ratchet set, the only flex head I owned was a long handle Pittsburgh 3/8 so this is a nice expansion for the socket drawer. The plier set was $35 so for roughly $9/pc I plan to just leave them scattered around. One at my work bench, in each glovebox of my two vehicles, one in a kitchen drawer. Can't hurt to have around, they seem nice.

I bought some Crescent adjustable wrenches from a vendor that claimed they were new-old stock made in USA wrenches from a warehouse lot they purchases. Both arrived in packaging that said made in USA but neither have it stamped on the tool anywhere, wondering if there could be shenanigans going on. But either way, I got a 10" for $16 and a 15" for $40 which is about the same price as their current chinese made adjustables so... not like I got hardcore scammed if they're not

Këbin Vann Damm

>>2778280
Awww yeeeaaaa

I ordered me some $38 Knipex and a ball joint puller kit. Got some counterfeits, returned em, got the real ones eventually.

>>2778291
Those are nice. I think the 84T has the smallest heads compared to the 120 and even the 90, and the 120 isn’t even worth it because the 84T are so smooth.

Also my 3/8” GW flex is probably my most used ratchet because the handle is a little longer than normal but not like breaker bar length. It’s the perfect size,

Anonymous

>>2778291
damn thats actually really solid on both of those. I might go see if they still got that shit available and grab a set to upgrade from my hazard freight shit

>>2778332
what in the alibaba temu chinesium fuck is that shit? I've never even fucking heard of twingrip knock offs circulating around until this post, jesus

Bepperoni

>>2778386
Look at the official Twingrip posting on Amazon and click on the 1-star reviews. I’m not the only person. It’s hard to tell if somebody returned the Chinesium or some independent chink vendor snuck in on the Knipex official page and sold that. It may have been the latter if Amazon themselves ran out for a day or two so they Prime same-day’d me the nearest third party seller. In between the time I ordered and the time I received the real one, I watched the Twingrips drop from 4.9 to 4.8 stars, and I guarantee it was because of the fakes.

The jaws of the knockoff were so bad.

>>2778386
Gearwrench goes on sale on Amazon a lot, I’ve seen the 4pc 84T set go on sale around that price from time to time.

Got a couple Icon shits from HF I still need to use too. They send me those random “We miss you! Here’s 20% off!” and I’m a sucker for a coupon so I snagged a larger pipe wrench and those Snap On pistol grip pliers with the screw grabber tip, it looks like it might be good for a retarded clip or plug in an engine bay from time to time.

Also don’t forget to check your local Lowe’s for clearance steals. Those Cobras got disco’d in store awhile back when they got all the Klein so some employee stuck them on the tiny Wiha endcap they have by those Cobra knockoffs with red grips. I brought em to the register and they rang up for $11. And the Demel accessories were like $8-$9 off of $39, and Dremel consumables seem to last longer than the generic kits you can find for cheap. There were some of those Craftsman Overdrive kits for cheap too, that would be a nice kit for the trunk of the car if I needed one.

Anonymous

Pic rel is just what i have on me, my toolbag contains screwdrivers, drill bits (for the drill), paintbrushes, hammer, driver bits, sandpaper, etc

I am trying to get into home DIY, I am not sure how far I'm willing to go, the caulk gun is my newest purchase, I am hoping to get into basic woodworking and joinery though so I will need chisels, a set of wood saws, I'd also like to purchase an oscillating multitool to cut away at wood, metal and other things if they need replacing/fixing

I currently cannot afford expensive powertools and I am aware that without a circular saw, sander, planer, router, mitre saw, I am never going to get any "serious" work done. But the goal is for me to have an extremely compact tool kit which enables me to do 80% of things, and the remaining 20% will be a long journey through the years where I learn and encounter big jobs.

I love

Came in the mail today. Not sure if I will keep it or resell it.

Anonymous

>>2778280
buying a chinkshit grease gun soon. any recommendations?
>wife wants camper trailer
>buys it with her own money
>one more thing i have to maintain
>axles need greased twice a year

Anonymouse

>>2778862
Is there that much of a difference in them? I would assume they’re all really similar except that I bought a cheap Anvil caulk gun and proceeded to wreck if with a tube of silicone that was just a little bit starting to dry.

I got picrel when I saw it on clearance for real cheap at HD. It works I guess.

Anonymous

>>2778934
>Is there that much of a difference in them?

Well, data point of one, but I got the same one you have there online, without the branding. I don't mean similar, I mean...literally I can't see any differences anywhere between mine and yours outside of the lettering.

Looks like the same model is still sold, but it's blue now.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/1665962817<wbr>19

Has worked fine for me for occasional use, can't really say more than that.

Anonymouse

>>2778962
Kek I’m not surprised to see the same shit unbranded as Lucas Oil would never actually make a tool. I don’t remember what the original price was, but I’m pretty sure it was discounted a bunch and was closer to $10 with the clearance tag. The handle and stuff seemed better than the cheapest HF model, but I haven’t tried to pump grease in an Alaskan winter with it yet. Not much consoomer stuff comes with zerk fittings anymore so it doesn’t get a lot of miles.

Anonymous

I love this lil fella like you wouldn't believe, seems like a decent deal at $200<br>Having exact perpendicular lines is so fucking handy, and paired with an adjustable tripod it's very versatile

Këbin Vann Damm

>>2779028
I got the cheaper Bosch one awhile back and got one for the father in-law too when they were like $40 during the holidays. Still want to grab the tripod. It’s nice for hanging these stupid floating shelves that women love

Anonymous

>>2778280
Not new, but got these Kobalt vice grips at a garage sale. Pretty much unused. Never seen these at a store. Are they good, shit, or what?
Neat feature to follow ...

>>2779603
Neat (?) feature: Button on bottom of handle switches the handle function from "squeeze jaws" to "release jaws". Works nicely one-handed instead of the usual release lever inside the handle. But I couldn't find another at the store.

>>2778280
i finally folded and bought a picrel while doing rennovation... and it's become my most useful tool. i'm used to the auto world where the more specific a tool is, the better it is, but this thing is a better scraper than my scraper, better pry bar than my pry bar etc. the other tool getting consistent use is my oscillating multi tool

With proper Bessel point stand of course.

Tired of having mix sets of sockets/wrenches from different brands, different markings, etc. Ordered up a 153-piece Milwaukee set and a Gearwrench 32-piece ratcheting wrench set, about $800 total.

>>2779028
Keep trying to convince myself to get one of these. Will probably do it this summer when I reside the house.

>>2778426
The puller on the right is my favorite.
Well it was till my idiot boomer boss welded the cup to the shaft.
Fucking retard.

Arnold commands me to go into lidl to the non-food section everytime I am close. This time I picked up this for 20 eurobucks. Dont need it REALLY but want to play with it. Remove some bolts from my car like billie Herrington and rub my chest. Use it for some power cool things well see

>>2780561
>tfw you finally want to take the parkside pill, because a class H vac for 250€ is just too tempting but of course it's sold out.
I don't even need an H, but I guess an M makes sense, but fuck, are they expensive, so parkside seemed like the easy way out.
tl;dr:
whats a good, cheap shop vac?

Këbin Vann Damm

>>2780561
Damn, for $20, can’t lose. If you do much wrenching at all or remove wheels on your car more than once a year, it’s worth getting down on a 1/2” rattle gun so you don’t have to deal with breaker bars while the car is on the ground. It’s like a 20+ minute savings every time you need to pull the wheels off a car and reinstall them.

Anonymous

Anyone else addicted to buying shitty little components all the time? Mosfets, solenoids, DC motors, threaded rods... The list is endless. I wish I could be into buying shoes or something like a normie.

Anonymouse

>>2780679
I did that with some resistors and other electronic components and haven’t used any of it, so I haven’t bought that crap in awhile. Haven’t had the time to go balls deep into electronic projects.

I’m a sucker for a hardware assortment or some automotive plastic clips. Sometimes a pack of 5 clips that you need one of is like $8 shipped, but a big assortment is $12, and I’ll always grab the assortment. But it feels good when you need an oddball door trim clip for a Toyota Corolla and it’s buried in a 500pc grab bag you bought on Prime Day 2019 for $7.99.

Anonymous

>>2780651
I was looking into a dry wet vac from parkshite. Their corded ones are supposedly decent but battery powered are crap. I should pick one up soon.

>>2780669
I must have 25+ parkside thingies by now I really love it. Got a bunch of battery powered things like several lights and even a power bank attachment man I love parkside im a parkside boy desu

Yeah I was fiddling with car chairs the other day the bolts cannot be moved but now I can finally do it i think. What you mean I cant remove the tire with the car included tire wrench?

>>2780679

No, but I do almost always overbuy on small stuff when I need it. I think my worst offense so far was needing like...2 or 3 quad comparator chips.

I still have almost all of the entire reel of 2500 that I bought.

Anonymouse

>>2780850
You can remove it with the regular tire wrench if it’s not overtightened, but when you swap wheels with hand tools, you have to crack all 16/20+ lugs loose with the car on the ground and parking brake on, then lift the car in the air and slowly spin them off by hand, and then the reinstall is 20 nuts on by hand and get it fairly tight, then lower the car and go tighten all 20 nuts again.

Compared with the ugga dugga, lift the car in the air, zip off 20 nuts in like 60-90 seconds, and the reverse with a second or two of hammering with the car still in the air and it’s good to go as soon as you drop the jack.

Anonymous

>>2778280
I bought a Barometer so I know what the weather is doing outside while I'm working. Saves me getting grease on my phone

>>2780862
I just crack them with one side of the car lifted, replace wheel, tighten, drop it, then lift the other side, once its all done, retighten on ground
the 5cm drop isn't going to do any damage if it slips anyway

Bought a 7 piece set of these proto antivibe ballpeen. I knew of the mac tools version because I had used one before at my last job, but I wasn't willing to pay $60/hammer for a set. Apparently I've been living under a rock and didn't know they sell the exact same fucking thing rebranded under proto for about half the price on amazon

Soon...

Found the website for some independent brick & mortar store in ohio that had a site wide 10% discount for st patricks day and I grabbed two sets of wright tools wrenches they had already quite competitively priced compared to amazon and ebay. 18 piece metric (7-24) and 14 piece SAE (3/8-1¼). Took them a damn month to ship it, I sent an email inquiring order status last week, but soon they will be mine

Anonymouse

>>2782319
That’s dope, especially for a set up to 24mm. It’s probably close to like the Asian-made Milwaukee-Icon wrenches in price when you consider the sizes, and those Wrighte should be lifetime sets.

Anonymous

>>2778280
5 feet of UHMW and PTFE. Not even sure what I'm gonna do with them yet, but just playing with them gives me so many ideas.

>>2778280
new to me/used ebay pawn shop mini skilsaw. made some 2x6 cross cuts and it seemed plenty powerful enough with the ho battery on it
i hate these new fangled thin kerf blades that flex if you try to "steer" the saw in the cut. it's going to get a 0 rake non ferrous blade put on it for cutting alum and plastic mostly as i'm not a wood butcher primarily

>>2780446
there's a lot of situations where lasers that project a line are more useful
I find that point lasers travel farther and distort less though, which is great for what I use it for (footings, elevations and layout)

>>2780446
You don't need a laser to side. Pop a line then use some spacers that work like "Geco Gauges" and just keep your lines parallel. The "+" lasers are really useful for higher detail interior like tile and cabinets. A 6' level gets most of these just fine. A laser allows me to check the level across the full depth of the cabs and shelves and over most of a room without going back and forth to the lev.

>>2781165
Yes yess they arrived. I also picked up a wilde tools punch & chisel set, little booty blasted the listing pic and description said it came with a tool roll pouch but instead it had this rubber organizer thingy, guess it's not a super big deal. Also my local walmart had these hyper tough 2.5lb short handle sledge on clearance for $5.97 and I thought it might be nice to have a short handled persuader in the future.

Now I don't have to feel dumb hitting everything with a 20oz framing hammer anymore

>>2783360
>the one hammer turned to the other side
u trolling little nig

Anonymouse

>>2783360
My Hyper Tough brethren!

I’m not gonna lie, I normally don’t spend big money on hammers, but that Proto set is nice.

Anonymous

>>2778280
vertical indicator i didn't need, but was priced less than a new chinkshit one

>>2782372
this thing pissed me off today. had to cut some polycarbonate and needed glue straight cuts. clamped a guide bar on and immediately realized the saw would clear the clamps on the ends. bullshit how the motor sticks a mile out past the shoe. fuck you milwaukee, i'm not buying a fucking track saw

>>2783982
shitty mongolian forum rotating my pics because i fonefag

I been kicking the can on buying new socket & ratchet set, been working out of this cheap harbor freight briefcase style set for a few years now, broke the 3/8 ratchet the other day and I've fucking lost one of the 10mm (it has a 1/4" 10 and HAD a 3/8" 10) so I'm planning to see if HF will exchange and give me a whole new set but also I'm going to retire it to trunk/loaner duty and I ordered these as replacements. The view-in-cart price was $149 and I decided that was good enough for me

>>2783982
>>2783983
What is is with retards and not knowing they can cut the other way around? There are 2 sides to your fence, buddy.

Anyway, recently I bought a pair of knipex circlip pliers to take my reel mower apart, they worked great and I didn't want to buy the cheap chink shit and have them shear off or something. And I bought a cheap einhell drill because I fried my last cheap drill by running it too long and too hot on work it was absolutely not designed for. It still "works", but only on one speed and only in forward.

>>2778280
I don't have a home workshop or disposable income to spend on tools yet, but in my imagination I got a Milwaukee M18 FUEL jig saw so I can create some irregularly shaped cabinet doors.

>>2778280
Newest acquired is a 10 pound sledge head that I found a in a shed. Never bought a sledge hammer, but I'm slowly working my way through all the sledge weights by finding them. My 8 pound is the only one I found with a handle, though. The previous owner got in a shoot out with the police and it was the only thing worth keeping when his landlord asked if I could clean out the place.

>>2785542
Wew lad I hadn't checked out tekton in years, it looks like they've completely purged their shitty chinese-rebrand stuff and gone all in on taiwan & US manufacturing. Trying to be a legitimate tool brand instead of digital harbor freight I suppose. Go on then, tell us what you bought

Kevin Van Dam

>>2785787
They should’ve put a zipper for when all the socket holders break after minimal use.

Wait, nvm, Wera doesn’t care about that. 99% of Wera buyers won’t pull the sockets out much at all after the initial unboxing video is edited and posted to Reddit.

This Milwaukee kit has been tempting me for a couple years, perfect to throw in the glove box and the ratchet will probably hold up unlike Wera when I need to kick it to remove a rusty 17mm bolt in a pinch

Anonymous

>>2785762
>Full set of 1/2" impact sockets SAE/memetric regular + deep, $625
>The same as above but 3/8", $222
>Stubby combo wrench set to replace my shitty pittsburgh set, $100
>Long double flex head ratcheting wrenches, $370
>mini pry bar set, $24
The rest was a bunch of socket, wrench, and plier organizers to organize the shit I've already got

>>2778280

This thing is a piece of shit but the ways aren't as bad as I thought they'd be. Either way, having the drill press vise mounted to one of these is dank. No more fucking with clamps in odd positions or just freeballing it and getting the workpiece ripped out of your hand because you KNOW you shouldn't be doing that with a drill that big but you're too lazy to fix it down properly.

Kevin Van Dam

>>2785896
Been tempted to buy those double flex head box wrenches for awhile. They’re expensive even from the mid-range brands, but the cheap Chinesium sets on Amazon all have horrible reviews and you know you’re going to be putting some torque on them. Plus Tekton sells more full sets, not crappy little 4pc skipping half the sizes.

In the meantime, I still love that Gearwrench long handle flexi pass-thru wrench. Plus I snagged the regular flexi combination Gearwrenches back when Advance Auto had them for $35 for a 7pc set, metric or SAE. Then I added a couple Tekton for the 8mm and shit.

>>2785762
They seem to be trying, they do USA made stuff where it makes sense and there’s manufacturers available. I don’t think it’s possible for them to do affordable sockets and regular wrenches in the US that surpass the Taiwan stuff at this point unless they built their own new factory and operated in debt for 20yrs til they paid it off.

Anonymous

>>2785902
According to their website they are already doing 1st party us manufacturing in michigan for some of their products

Anonymouse

>>2785908
Interesting. Didn’t know those were USA made. I know their screwdrivers and pry bars and stuff are USA made because there’s still a few OEs left in the country that can do mid range drivers for a reasonable price. And then the first wrench thing seemed to be the ultra-thin wrenches, but those were stamped.

But what the hell, are those angle wrenches CNC’d? It didn’t say “forged” anywhere in there.

>>2785908
>>2785944
Wow the advertising makes it look like they’re trying to compete with Snap On now. $175 for an 11pc set, not exactly cheap but I’m sure the same set from Snappy is like 3x the price.

Fwiw a Sunex set is about $60 on Amazon.

Anonymous

>>2784411
Hey home depot ships fast, HF DID let me do a full exchange, and also this impact wobble extension set I bought from Amazon showed up. Nice day for new toys.

Finally, das can play with the big boys! <br>(On Reddit)

>>2786177
Hell yeah!
Dubs!
And a sticker I can put on my Tesla!

>>2786177
They do make nice screwdrivers tho I thought about buying that set with the display to put on my bench but decided to make my own display to put my shitty HF screwdrivers in instead. Some day down the line I may replace those drivers with wera

>>2786181
>>2786177
You must be USA. Wera is the shit I get at the cheap aisle at the department store when I happen to walk by.

>>2786231
But I is europ!
Dunno, they’re always in the locked cabinet at the stores I’m at, with the other expensive stuff, never been to a department store that sells tools.

Bepis

>>2786228
I thought about getting a VDE set just to try em and see how they hold up vs the other brands because I’m autistic, but I couldn’t get past the green SQ1 driver in a VDE set. Stupid ass brand. I looked at their stubby sets too but same retarded color schemes.

I would seriously consider another Felo set if I had a good excuse to get more drivers.

>>2786181
How many upvotes have you gotten on Reddit so far? Or are you waiting til you’re done editing the unboxing video?

Anonymous

>>2786005
>impact wobble extensions
This makes me wonder, is there any reason you can't use impact extensions with chromes? They seem to be about the same width, so why wouldn't I just buy a set of impact extensions and use them as my primary extensions?

Bepis

>>2786322
They’re supposed to be made of different metals. Chrome sockets and extensions are supposed to be quite hard, but that means they could possibly shatter under the force of the impacts.

Also there’s probably something to be said for the anvil on the impact getting worn out with the harder chrome sockets and extensions while impact sockets will get worn with the abuse instead of damaging the tool.

Anonymous

>>2786322
>is there any reason you can't use impact extensions with chromes?
I can't think of any. Just don't actually use an impact driver. Use the impact extensions as you would a chrome extension.

Bepis

>>2786332
>>2786322
Oh and the other way around, I fucking sheared off the square under real mild torque with a ratchet on a HF 1/2” impact wobble extension. It was one of the things that made me realize HF’s return policy is bullshit when they wanted me to return the whole 4pc set, and I would rather spend the $12 or whatever on a new set than drive home and search for the other 3 extensions.

Anyway, it could be HF’s dogshit tools, but it could also be that those impact extensions really don’t like the torque of hand tools, they’re soft and the square peeled off right at the thin point of the wobble surprisingly easily.

Anonymous

harbor freight got them 18" magnetic tool rail things, which are only magnetic on one side and you're supposed to screw them to the wall right? they got them for sale for $1.90 right now, regularly $4.99, I bought 10 of the fuckers and just zip tied them back to back to stick em to my tool boxes

i just broke in my new Husqvarna 460 Rancher yesterday. Only PPE I got to go with it was a pack of ear plugs, a pair of those cheap ass leather work gloves, and the same fucking sunglasses i've been wearing for the past year. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't slightly intimidated by it. as a side question, does anyone know if Craftsman bars/chains are interchangeable with husqvarna chainsaws? I've got a smaller, crappier electric craftsman saw, but the bar and chain is more than enough for light work like limbing

>>2785896
Oh shit, not good
I severely overestimated my tool carts capacity/underestimated the foot print of all the sockets I ordered. I managed to get everything in but my box is pretty much full now. It's one of those harbor freight 5 drawer mechanic carts. I'm starting to wonder if I should upgrade to a proper cabinet style toolbox and try to sell the cart, fuck me bud the slope was slippery indeed

>>2784785
idk if i don't know how to use the angle setting on mine, or if it just sucks. Thing works great for straight cuts but make sure you're ok with the angle function before you buy.

How big is the chance that pic related still works AND that the battery won’t be totally fucked? Looks like a (heavily (ab)used) brushless one, so it can’t be too old. I kinda wanna try an impact drill and getting one cheap at an auction would be neat. Currently it’s at 15€ with 4 days left and zero bids, so maybe I have a chance to snag it cheaply. But should I?

>>2788911
Same thing with this thing here, though that already has two bids. Yay or nay?

Beppu

>>2788914
>>2788911
The corded grinder is probably a better bet. If it was used a ton, maybe it needs new brushes which cost a couple bucks.

For 15€, I guess it’s worth a bet on the cordless drill. Even if the drill is dead, the 5.0 battery plus the charger are worth it. There’s an M12 battery in there too for some reason.

They don’t list descriptions like “parts only” on broken shit? 30-day guarantee or something?

Also you can find decent hammer drills without going M18 Fuel. I know that shit is real expensive for Yuros.

Anonymous

>>2787883
Post pics of cart + drawers so we can mock your organization skills and suggest improvements
>>2788614
Watch a youtube review you dunce they always go over the functions and how to use them
>>2788911
>>2788914
I'm not a gambler so I would pass. They've clearly been heavily used on a near daily basis and even if they still work there's no telling how much life they've got left in them.

>>2788914
Brushed angle grinder covered in brick dust, I’d pass. I bought two in a similar state before and once the dust gets in there with the brushes they die pretty quickly in my experience

>>2788911
This I would get if you don’t have Milwaukee stuff yet and want to. A working used charger alone is $30, if you can get any life from the drill or either of the batteries that’s all bonus. Also even a bad battery is useful if you don’t have enough to cover charging time.

Beppu

>>2788973
>>2787883
Protip is to get yourself a real tool box and keep the cart for the main shit you would use on automotive jobs.

Tool carts aren’t that much storage before they overflow, especially with the random household stuff. I got my cart and filled it up quick. Now I need to get down on a 44” box or some shit.

Anonymous

>>2785944
i have an SAE set of those Tekton made in USA angle head wrenches. I'm gonna say they're definitely not forged and that's why their price is very reasonable. They look and feel very perfectly machined. they're very nice and good enough for my use without having to pay snap-on prices

>>2785858
I ordered one of these Wera textile sets that goes up to 3/4" and the socket holder for 3/4" socket arrived broken at the plastic retaining nub. The drilled hole on the Wera socket is so sharp, combined with the heavy weight of the 3/4" socket, it sheared off the plastic retaining nub during shipping. I have no idea why manufacturers drill a single hole on the side of sockets. It's absolutely stupid and unnecessary. The sockets already have interior indentations for socket retention. I returned that shit, of course.

Apart from this incident, I find the twist-lock mechanism to be superior to all others. Not just wera, but also Ernst make them too. I keep my 3/8" drive sets on Ernst twist-lock socket rails. All my 1/4" drive stuff is on Wera's twist-lock rails and textile cases. The cases especially are really fucking awesome. I buy empty Wera cases and just put my Koken and Stahlwille stuff in them. Pic related my socket go-kit for line maintenance.

>>2788973
I don't have pic of the drawers but I snapped a pic after I got all the sockets laid in

>>2788972
>For 15€, I guess it’s worth a bet on the cordless drill. Even if the drill is dead, the 5.0 battery plus the charger are worth it. There’s an M12 battery in there too for some reason.
Well, seems like it isn't going as hard as some other stuff (there's a box of new looking SDS drills that's attracting bids like crazy, and some retards are bidding on an Einhell multitool (new(?) in box, but still…) that's now at the price you'd simply get it off amazon) but now it's already at 40€. Guess I'll risk it for 50€, good catch on the M12 battery, I need more of them and buying a 2Ah new is retarded when the 5Ah is just like 10€ more, but I really like the 2Ah batts for their lightness and I want a 2nd charger.
Guess I'll also bid on some random 10€ boxes of junk (though that knipex in there is easily worth more than 10€). If I'm lucky, I won't the the milwaukee but 10 x 10€ worth of crap. If that happens, I certainly shall post my "haul" here.

Beppu

>>2789113
When I got mine, it was the short window they had the 1-drawer model. Was about the same price as the 4-drawer with coupon but I wanted the 2nd shelf for blow molded cases, and the deeper top compartment thinking I would be able to leave an impact in there or something. Big mistake.

You have to remember that’s pretty much like buying a 26” bottom cabinet but removing the deepest bottom drawer, it’s not really any larger. They’re supposed to be supplemental with those tools you use a lot. I don’t even keep all the drive sizes in the cart, 3/8” is only deep, and I’ll grab a shallow, 1/2” or 1/4” drive if I’m too lazy to go to the main box. I could probably leave all of the SAE stuff out of the main box too.

Also I like the cheap metal socket rails because they’re so easy to cut to length. Some of those plastic rails in your pic have a ton of wasted space. The only downside is they don’t stand up great, sometimes I’m tempted to stick some sheet metal screws in there.

>>2789441
Stuff like this, if you see a couple brand name tools, maybe the guy had good taste and some other stuff is pretty good quality as well.

Anonymous

>>2789450
>maybe the guy had good taste
It's a liquidation of a company, so it's not about taste, it's about write-off and making money off the tools, but of course there's also bound to be some crap and some stuff that's way beyond the write-off time.

Beppu

>>2789113
Also good job on the mag strips, but that’s a shit ton of weight on the lid. The lid on that box probably won’t close very straight after some use, it is Harbor Freight after all so those boxes are some thin folder chinese sheet metal. I had more weight on the lid of mine before and it got annoying.

You also have to be mindful of what you put on the magnets because those tools are going to get magnetized. I have some flush cutters on a mag strip and it’s quite a pain if I’m cutting ferrous stuff sometimes.

Anonymous

My little old Ryobi pressure washer died over the winter so I needed a new one and this was $100 off at Lowe's. Gonna try it in a bit. I'm a bit mystified about how the soap tank works though, there's no manual shutoff - I think it somehow pulls from the tank when the soap nozzle is installed but not with the other ones but I'll have to test with car soap (don't want to put more aggressive stuff in until I'm sure, since I use it for cars as well as house stuff) when I wash my truck later.

Beppu

>>2789455
My Ryobi pressure washer has the same thing with the tank. It seems to be what you said, it only really pulls from the tank when the low pressure soap nozzle is on there. It seems like it sprays out some slightly soapy water for a bit though when you switch back to a regular nozzle. I use the foam blaster attachment more though, it wasn’t much from Amazon and is more consistent.

Anonymous

>>2789457
I have a nice foam blaster and a shorty gun to use it with, and I'm gonna keep using them for car washing. What I'm hoping is that I can use the machine's tank for the stronger stuff that you use for patios etc., don't want to put that in my car blaster, but it it gets through even when using other nozzles or contaminates the blaster's spray it's no good either.

>>2789455
I never trusted wall gas pressure washers. Adjusted the valves and changed the oil in my subaru washer this last weekend and put another five hours on it. Float still sticks but I can't be bothered enough to fix it since just shutting off the fuel and letting it run out of gas before putting it away fixes that issue.

>>2789469
Foam cannon is great. I tried the soap dispenser in my gas one once and it was way too much soap for way to long. My truck looked like it got bukake'd multiple times before it ran out.

Beppu

>>2789515
>way too much soap
I noticed that a bit too, it will drink half a gallon of concentrate real fast, so I was diluting it in the tank like 3:1.

Anonymous

>>2789113
You wasted a lot of money and are currently wasting a lot of fucking box space on those SAE sockets unless you've got a good reason for buying an entire damned master set of them

>>2789575
fuck off eurocuck
sae is still everywhere here in freedom land. if you go to the hardware store on a saturday to get a could generic bolts for something, they'll be 1/4, 5/16, or 3/8 and your metric nutrounders won't fit

>>2778280
Empire True Blue 120mm Hi-Vis Mini Laser Etched Rafter Square so I can cut straight lines on lengths of timber.

>>2778280
I just ordered a black Milwaukee case for my green Milwaukee tools

>>2789588
I'm american you dunce and yes that's why I bought a set of cheapo SAE chromes and impact nut setters from home depot to handle the COMMON stuff, what the FUCK is that guy putting a 1-7/16" deep impact socket on????

>>2786005
I bought these sockets last year, they're breddy gud. my biggest gripe about them is the toolbox which holds the sockets don't fit into a packout very easily which is fucking insane that they wouldn't make it fit their own toolbox system

additionally I bought one of these today to pull up floorboards, for the job it's a huge piece of shit. the teeth are way too thick to actually get under any boards and you can't even hit it with a hammer without destroying it. which is fucking dumb because prybars and hammers go hand in hand. I don't know what more i expected from
>crescent

>>2789514
Yeah in an ideal world I'd run a gas washer as well, but I live in a hillside house, which I'm currently prepping for sale, and need to be able to carry the thing up and down stairs, so the much lighter electric is really the only option.

>>2789515
I'm just hoping it'll work OK for doing my patio and walls so I don't have to buy another blaster (really don't want to use the same one I use for cars).

>>2779660
Dang!
>>2785863
I throw those away when I’m done, that way I know I’m never going to find it and I should just get a new one.

>>2788985
Ok I decided to follow this advice. Found a guy on faceberg getting rid of this box for $275, had two of them bolted together but said he was moving and didn't have space for both of them at the new place, also had a funny story about faceberg jews lowballing him on it for the last month when he first listed it at $350, then $300, and $275 was his final price before he just abandoned the box in the house out of spite

>>2789575
>>2789603
Pic also rel

>>2789113
Nice. I gotta finish setting up my tool cart. Worked on this socket holder a while back, then got sidetracked with a damn laundry list of farm shit that had to be done right fucking now...

>>2790005
>>2790008

Your tractor is the wrong color...

>>2790005
I mean the black version of that box is only $348 at home depot RIGHT NOW so it's not exactly unreasonable people would expect the used market to be cheaper... $275 is a decent pick up, but not out of this world for it either. Still a nice pick up anon. Having read through the thread and kind of figured out you've made multiple posts acquiring a lot of things, I have questions about how someone with such a large shop and tractors and shit has apparently zero fucking tools or tool boxes but I'm sure you have your own situation going on.

>>2790032
He said he thought $350 was fair because "you wouldn't have to pay sales tax buying from me" lol

Regarding the other bit: 3rd generation farmer, bought 40 acre property less than a 10 minute drive down the road from family and built my own shop/house. Been working through some financial stuff the past few years so the shop was a glorified storage unit until I got some things cleared up and now I'm looking at furnishing the place out so I can stop taking all my projects back to grandpa's workshop

Beppu

>>2790008
>>2790039
Have fun. It will fill up quick if you try to stock up on any sort of automotive tools plus some random homeowner shit. But for <$300 and brand new, that’s straight. The 28” combos like that are often going closer to $500 unless you get that super cheap Craftsman 1000 series where the bottom is like one large cabinet and the top is only a couple drawers.

Anonymous

>>2778280
Chop saw at work for making new window screen frames

>>2790263
Also this thing because it looked neat

>>2789634
>I know I’m never going to find it and I should just get a new one

This basically applies to every small tool I have that didn't come with a storage case.

>>2790265
>>2790268
I feel like this is either the worst PoS in existence, or a mind-blowing, life altering amazing tool. There is no possibility between those two extremes.

>>2790263
you ever think the reason you need so many heating elements is because you store them by hanging on a nail by the element itself?

>>2790268
I really don't understand the point of a compact silicone gun. It's going to be bulky either way, because of the massive tube of silicone. I guess it's a storage thing?

Beppu

>>2790306
You can trim off any part of the tube behind the trigger since it’s already empty.

Also there’s no biy ass plunger metal rod thing in the back. With a regular gun, when you first start a tube, that thing is like 24” long because of the metal rod.

Anonymous

>>2790274
>I feel like this is either the worst PoS in existence, or a mind-blowing, life altering amazing tool. There is no possibility between those two extremes.
Is ok
Compact size is cool, wish it were metal though. Seems like it could break
Really light weight and the weight balance as you go through the tube is neat

>>2790281
Those have been there since I started

>>2788911
Oh, wow. Now it’s at 80€. If it were only slightly dirty and that’s it, that would be a good price, but knowing how stuff gets handled at the construction site, that’s a bit risky 4 me. At that price, I can almost buy a new M12 impact driver (without batteries).
But that huge hammer drill still doesn’t have any bids at 110€. Maybe I’ll risk it with that beast.

>>2790666
welcome to the retarded world of auctions. junk shit will go for 125% of new retail prices

>>2790726
Yup. Getting close to 100€ now. But at least my knipex and gedore containing boxes of junk are still cheap. Let's see what I get.

>>2790755
>Let's see what I get.
Kek. Everyone bid (bade?) like crazy, so I just gave up on most things I wanted way before their end price. However I got two boxes of what I hope isn't total junk for 70€. I'd say I've got a 50/50 chance that it pays off. I shall post my haul next week when I get it.
Also, I could buy a 2Ah M12 battery new from a decent shop for 20€. That's very tempting, because I really like those tiny, light batteries, but I already overspent on tools this month.

Sieg heil

Snap-on FLF80A

Kinda converting everything from soft soi-handle to the chrome handle in the box.

Tool box is nothing but Matco, snap-on, bahco , and caterpillar now

Very very little icon, I got the gold plated one to use as a beater

>>2786322
Impact sockets tend to be phosphate coated, I’m a machinist so everything I have gets soaked in coolant.

So I prefer chrome everything to get the coolant off of it.

Nepros stuff is my go to, snap-on is my second tier

But other than that yeah I’d just go impact for everything and avoid buying chrome if you aren’t dealing with machine coolant constantly

My toolbox always has my mitutoyo calipers on top, then the little pocket I stick the nepros ratchet + Allen socket

I hate t- handles

>>2786177
There is a craftsman box with a fuck ton of these stripped Torx, and broken inserts in every machine shop in America…

Wera and wiha are both Garbo

>>2783857
I’m the same way with indicators, “I might need that one day”

I got a brand new starrett 196 and a once used bestest big dial in my box I rarely if ever reach for

>>2778291
4 crappy ratchets = more shit you have to store and rarely used . Sure $80 is cheap but now you have to move these every time you open your overpacked drawer to get to your good ratchets

I know you can put Matco 88 mecha in them but these aren’t super great

Anonymous

I got one of those chinese hydraulic hand crimpers after borrowing the boss's 3 or 4 times. Turns out it can also crimp ferrules for wire rope and I found a need for those for the first time less than a week after purchasing it.

Also got a vintage ottonawa hollow punch set on order.

Kevin Van Dam

>>2791421
Except those Gearwrench 84T ratchets are actually really good for the money.

Sieg heil

>>2791471
It’s actually just an apex ratchet so Kobalt, husky, Gearwrench, are all he same

Also sold as Quinn by harbor freight

Anonymous

>>2791421
Brother I don't spend money on expensive ratchets. I don't make money with my tools, I save money with them, so when my $10 HF chinkslop ratchet gets the job done for years despite all the abuse I give it, I don't see much of a reason to blow 20x that amount on a "good" ratchet. The long handle flex head has been a real soldier too, $25 with a coupon and I've been trying to break it for years without any luck. The gearwrench set was a conveniently priced expansion to my ratchet drawer so I have a larger variety of handle lengths now, I wouldn't have bothered if they weren't heavily discounted

Beppu

>>2791565
Those Pitt flex head ratchets aren’t too bad. They may have gotten worse over the years because that’s what HF does, especially as they released the Quinn and Icon, but the only downside I ever saw on the Pitts was the plastic selector switch.

Also what should I impulse buy on Amazon? I’m thinking about those USA made square screw extractors, Mayhew has a set, but that’s only like $25.

Anonymous

>>2791196
> I shall post my haul next week when I get it.
Not great, not terrible. I wanted some bolt cutters anyways and now I’ve got some rusty, huge ass ones and I needed a crowbar. The rest is kinda meh. Already threw away the tube of leaking Hilti can’t-even-read-anymore-what-it-is stuff with lots of warning labels.

>>2793375
The tool chest was better. Some new gedore pliers I wanted, a bunch of solido (never heard of em but seems ok) wrenches and the drills seem ok, though mostly metal (I’d need some for wood). But hey, 3x 6.5, 7 and 8 mm new really long würth drills which I don’t need but could probably resell.

>>2793379
And more sheet iron cutters than I’ll ever need. Stubai and Bessey so I guess they’re not too bad and the saw looks ok too.
So 7/10, would probably try again.

>>2791874
>Also what should I impulse buy on Amazon?

5 packs of drill bits you use often because being one deep is inconvenient. Other consumables best bought in smol quantities. Mixed hardware packs are often dirt cheap for the same fasteners you get raped for individually.

First drill. Went with Hercules. Not going to be doing anything too serious so the 5 year warranty where I just throw it on the counter and tell them to get me a new one drew me in. <br>Waiting until the next parking lot sale to get another tool and battery for a discount.

Probably gonna offer a dude $40 for a corded Sawzall on marketplace. Wish me luck.

>>2793570
I'm ashamed to admit how much I like Hobo Freight. I try to buy nicer power tools but I have so many of their sockets and single-use oddballs.

>>2793837
I generally try to avoid their Pittsburg line but I've always liked their Quinn/Doyle and ICON stuff.
It's what got me to consider the Hercules. It's pretty close to price to Dealt but the battery price and warranty won me over.

Kevin Van Dam

>>2793387
I got picrel so far. Plus some Mobil 1 and an oil filter for the wife’s car. She wanted a new rolling pin because the old wooden one is trash and the other one I got her is “too pretty to use” so I bought her a french style and a fancy nu-stainless one.

>>2793570
Gross. You could’ve gotten a brushless DeWalt for about the same money if you looked around for sales I bet.

>>2793864
Anything from HF that’s “better” than their dirt cheap stuff is about the same cost as buying the name brand.

>>2793387
I got a larger pipe cutter yesterday too, was doing a little plumbing job for a lady and we’ll just say that was included in the parts cost because I didn’t want to drive back home for a PVC cutter. I went over there to bring her a milkshake because she’s doing radiation therapy for some lymph node bullshit, and I got stuck under her leaky sink for a little bit.

As for the drill bits, I’m straight I think. I have like 3 of those DeWalt bit sets laying around that are pretty much new becsuse I snagged em when they were real cheap. Same with the consumables, I already got the $5 metric nut and bolt assortments and o-rings and all that bullshit in the past because that’s less money than the gas I would use to go buy 2 bolts when I need them. Harbor Freight is actually decent for some of those things, especially when they had the 20% off coupons constantly and they don’t apply to any of the tools you want or need so you use it on some $8.99 assortment

Anonymous

>>2793920
>Gross. You could’ve gotten a brushless DeWalt for about the same money if you looked around for sales I bet.
Why would I want to do that, DeWalt isn't as good. Has a worse warranty and a godawful warranty process.

>>2793931
>worrying about the warranty
do hf niggas really

>>2793920
>Anything from HF that’s “better” than their dirt cheap stuff is about the same cost as buying the name brand.
agreed and Pittsburgh is good enough for most jobs. the only thing i've fucked up is some bits i chewed up with my impact.

Kevin Van Dam

>>2793931
>dewalt isn’t as good as Harbor Freight
>dewalt isn’t as good as the budget knockoff version that copied dewalt’s tools so closely that the budget batteries will slide into dewalt tools if you clip off a tiny part of a tab
Ok. Hopefully they don’t Lynx ya before the end of that warranty!

Anonymous

>>2793938
Glad you're discovering your favorite brands are made in Chinese factories.

Kevin Van Dam

>>2793935
Cheap bits and blades are always awful. I bought Hyper Tough sawzall blades once… then I went right to Diablo. They’re so horrible and will make a decent saw perform like garbage.

I think the one buy that’s ok is when the titanium costed Warrior 29pc sets go on sale for $9.99 assuming you’re going to abuse them anyway and never put them in anything harder than wood.

>>2793939
Yup, which is why considering they cost about the same assuming you shop DeWalt sales when you can, I would rather buy the name brand who cares about the reputation of their brand on the jobsite. Not the company that Lynx’d people and is constantly stealing IP and sending it to the cheapest possible factory somewhere in China and constantly changing suppliers between batches because somebody will make it for 0.3¢ less.

I’ve bought too much stuff at Harbor Freight over the years to start trusting them to do the right thing. It’s amazing when you start to look at the same product produced over a few years and you see how they cut corners a little bit more every time. HF is known for quite shitty QC, which is why they were finally forced to offer a real warranty on that stuff, and their warranty process is often annoying as well and very much up to the discretion of the manager working that day.

>>2793943
>>2793939
Oh yea, a lot of people got Earthquake’d too. Especially the fellas who got Earthquake 12V’d. Them and the Lynx owners better learn how to rebuild battery packs! Or go buy fuckin Ryobi like they should’ve done the first time

Anonymous

>>2793944
I saw Earthquake in Harbor Freight yesterday, anon.
Still holding onto fake info?

Kevin Van Dam

>>2793945
Yea don’t worry Harbor Freight can’t convince people to get rid of standard size compressor fittings. But if you bought any Earthquake cordless tools? Good luck.

>tfw people try to argue and justify their bad purchases
What’s HF’s return policy when you realize their price comparison graphics are totally bullshit in the real world? Didn’t they lose a big lawsuit over that some years ago?

Anonymous

I probably should have asked here first but has anyone looked at the klein modbox shit? I want rolling drawers because my car is at the bottom at a small hill.

>>2793940
Diablo Auto Dismantling blades are so good my local pullapart issue them to their staff for special jobs (otherwise they get the cheap blades). I buy mine by the box.

I've cut the nose off a Silverado including severing the frame tubes to harvest LS engine and trans with one blade and had plenty of cutting life left.

Kevin Van Dam

>>2793956
Those look pretty nice. The problem is, they’re all fairly expensive and like every single brand has started to sell them but they get pulled from shelves within a year.

If you’re doing a one time buy, go Toughbuilt or Klein or Flex or whoever has the best prices on the setup you like. The Klein might be around for years, but it’s brand new and so many of the brands sort of flopped and disappeared from stores. Ryobi came and went, Flex was like a seasonal display, I think Skil has em on Amazon.

Milwaukee seems to be the one that is going to stick around. The Ridgid boxes have been around for awhile too, but more limited options. And DeWalt’s has been around for some years as well but not as popular, plus I think some Craftsman boxes might fit the DeWalt stacks.

If it were about the same price between Klein and Milwaukee Packout, or even if the Packout was like $50 more overall for the whole set, I would take Milwaukee.

There’s reviews comparing them online from a few dudebros.

Anonymous

>>2793966
I looked at several videos and articles and it looks like toughbuilt and klein are the best build and have the best features. I already bought one triple drawer box klein box and I am waiting for the drawer version of the rolling bottom end.

Kevin Van Dam

>>2793979
Well shit if you’re already into Klein, keep goin. They have some neat new tool kits, their pass thru ratchet sets are intriguing but it was all SAE sockets for the most part.

Speaking of Klein, pic rel is pretty cool. Was gonna get the little $30 cube until I saw this feature.

Anonymous

>>2794013
Their laser distance measurer was on sale and I almost bought it. Reviews were saying it sucks and sunlight at the right angle can cause it to error code. First time I've heard anything bad about Klein stuff and I have quite a few things of theirs.

>find a M18 Milwaukee battery in parking lot
>"hmm I don't have any Milwaukee tools but I'll keep it for the future"
>months pass
>find cheap used charger on Marketplace
>put battery on charge
>charges flawlessly
Fuck yes bros. I'm stoked to have the flexibility to buy multiple brands of cordless tools without paying out the ass for batteries

>>2794297
>paying out the ass for batteries
You soon realize with cordless tools, the batteries are really what you're paying for.

Kevin Van Dam

>>2794041
I got the cheaper Bosch laser tape when it was on sale, no complaints but I haven’t measured to 1/8” over 30ft because most of it’s use is shit >10ft where +/-1” won’t kill me.

There’s so many random China brands for those things, but it sketches me out a little bit, especially if you find out it’s not accurate at all halfway into a project after you purchased materials based on faulty measurements.

>>2794334
And even then, if you shop smart and stock up on batteries when there are sales, the price isn’t bad for 5+ years of use.

Sieg heil

>>2794297
I just took bepis’ autistic advice and bought ridgid.

$99 bought me 2 2ah batteries, and 2 brushed tools (impact driver and a drill with a metal jacobs chuck something Milwaukee and dewalt didn’t have on their entry level line) and a charger

$179 bought me a 6ah and 4ah high output batteries and a brushless 7 1/4” saw with a carbide blade and a charger

$89 bought me 2x 2ah batteries a charger and an inverter to run a airbrush to do warhammer on the move.

Everything has a lifetime warranty and all of it was cheaper than the ryobi one+ line that’s marketed towards homeowners

Anonymous

How'd I do bros? I can't resist the online auctions. Almost bought another loader this morning. Bid it up to 9700 and it brought 9800. If it wasn't smack dab in the middle of Longmont I might have bid higher. Fuck that place. Also drug home my farmpro chinese tractor that I bought a couple weeks ago. It said low compression won't start. Fucker fired up though and ran, but it runs like ass and has a shitload of blowby. Will probably be looking at an engine rebuild. At least I got to drive it some and verify that the transmission stuff all works as well as the hydraulics.

>>2794536
I bought the circ saw mainly for the toolbox. Same with the M12 drill. Probably overpaid for the gear puller, but I like to have lots of options for those.

Sieg heil

>>2794537
Scrap the ladder and make money on it

Anonymous

>>2794540
I can never have too many nice aluminum extension ladders around...

>>2794536
nice grab.
i wonder if the little tractor got run without an air filter? might just be able to hit the holes with a rigid hone, ring slap it, and run it another 1k hrs

Kevin Van Dam

>>2794513
Just make sure you register all the stuff within 90 days.

The brushed drill and impact driver are basically Ryobi, that’s a new entry level Ridgid, but whatever, I’m sure they work if you’re not expecting DeWalt Flexvolt levels of power. The 7-1/4” saw probably has some balls though. I snagged the 6-1/2” brushless and it has a magnesium show and everything, not bad at all for $99 and it will be nice to rip plywood and stuff with no cord dragging behind.

Anonymous

>>2794513
I would have bought Rigid for my first cordless tool if it wasn't like $20 more for a comparable Milwaukee or Makita. People shit on Ryobi but at least it's cheap as hell compared to the big boy brands
>>2794334
I bought a Makita drill and a Makita impact driver that bot came with batteries, and now I have a working Milwaukee battery since I bought that second-hand charger. I'd like to think I won't have to buy another battery for a very long time.

Kevin Van Dam

>>2794772
I regretted getting the Ridgid 12V because of the M12 sales a couple weeks later. But Ridgid has some real good sales from time to time. That’s whay sucked me into them. Before Ryobi even had the brushless tools, with holiday sales, it was like half the price to go with the higher end Ridgid starter setup than the M18 Fuel with fairly close specs. And the “free tool” sales, Milwaukee is always offering an older brushed model for free while Ridgid will give you the current brushless flagship models.

Anonymous

>>2793375
>>2793379
Update: damn, even though they’re quite beat up, the two sola carpenter levels I got are really nice. The bubble is way more precise than on the no-name one I have too and they’ve got some amazing glow-in-the-dark coloring in it.

Kevin Van Dam

>>2793382
>>2794792
Those Bahco hacksaws are nice too, and that one looks brand new.

Sieg heil

>>2794772
I think people buy ryobi because they hear it’s cheap , but during Black Friday it was actually cheaper to buy Milwaukee and ridgid.

You could buy brushed Milwaukee non-high output batteries cheaper than ryobi on Black Friday but people kept buying ryobi

And ryobi does stupid shit like throw in free cordless lights or cordless fans that just drain the battery and do a lesser job than a purpose driven tool

>>2793382
FYI bahco saws are snap-on they’re just a cheaper brand of snap-on marketed towards European home owners

Anonymous

>>2794870
Honestly I'd take brushless Ryobi over Brushed Milwaukee/Makita/DeWalt

Not a new tool yet, but I’m looking for something new:
Are battery powered lawnmowers any good? Price wise, they’re all over the place, from less than 200 to close to 2000. Most stuff seems to be in the 400 to 600 bracket, with some mower + batteries deals, but what can I really expect from a 4 Ah battery?
With my 12V drill, that’s two weekends of hobbies use, but my oscillator multitool eats my 4 Ah battery in less than 15 minutes.
But If I gotta swap batteries once to do my 400 square meters lawn and get a cheap entry into an 18V system (makita seems tempting, they got everything under the sun…) to supplement my Milwaukee M12 stuff for jobs where I don’t mind the added wheight, that would be ok.
But if said 400 square meters means buying 10 extra batteries and/or I have to mow weekly, lest the grass gets to high, I’d rather not.

Kevin Van Dam

>>2795192
I don’t think I would go with an 18V mower unless you had a very small yard. Any that run off a single 18V pack like the cheapest Ryobi isn’t going to be great for much more than like the small yard off your patio in a condo. My 18V weed wacker runs through 2 bars on a 4.0Ah battery trimming along the fence and trees on a smaller yard, and that’s probably only like 10min or actual runtime.

The 18V x 2 battery mowers might make more sense, especially if you have some 6.0-8,0+ packs that you use with other power tools. Also sometimes there are deals like Makita’s 18V x 2 mower kit comes with 2x 5.0 packs plus a promo for a free 2pk of 5.0 packs, and it’s cheaper than buying the 4 batteries alone, and that would be a great buy if you were using other Makita 18V tools.

If you only have a 12V drill and won’t be getting down on any of the 18V tools, I would look at something like Ryobi 40V or Ego 56V that is similar in power to a gas mower and can do the average suburban lawn on one charge from a medium sized battery. You can also get trimmers and blowers that use the batteries, and watch for sales with free battery promos.

Or go gas. I have gotten rid of all my smaller 2-stroke stuff because the 18V edger and trimmer and blower work fine, but I’m not quite ready to run an electric mower yet, the $200+ higher voltage batteries are a deal breaker when even cheaper 4-stroke gas mowers require minimal maintenance and run fine for a decade easily.

Anonymous

>>2795192
I bought a 36V mower and it's pretty good. Batteries were like 80 bucks for a pair of 4Ahs, I'm happy enough to pay that again in 5-10 years when the batteries die from light use once every couple of weeks in summer.

>>2795212
>40V
Don’t really see any use in that, besides a mower and for really big stuff, that’s still too small, but the 2x18 V is what I was thinking too. Probably gotta look into that a tad more. If that works for US suburban lawns, it should fit for my euro lawn just fine.

Sieg heil

Bought a snap-on tool box restoration project for $40

It’s an old KRA series top box

Anonymous

>>2795337
those were good boxes except for the welded dividers in the drawers

>>2795337
I alsp bought the first and only snapon thing I can afford. Pic related

I picked up a m12 heated hoodie. came with a battery and charger for 100$ compared to 200$ to buy a new one. I've always had v18 and m18 milwaukee tools, but this was a cheap entry to the m12 platform. good, because I want the fucking m12 ratchet

I got a 90 adapter because I'd never seen this style before. It's fun to play with but I don't know how useful it'll ever be.<br>In action: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIt<wbr>e5al8_AY

Kevin Van Dam

>>2794872
Snap On parent company owns Bahco, and the Bahco facilities in Sweden seem to be the ones making the saws for Snap On. It’s not like the Bahco is the cheaper consumer version always, they sell the same exact saws for some models with different paint jobs and the Snap On models cost way more because you’re buying them off the truck.

This Craftsman was made in Sweden by Bahco, it’s exactly the same as the Snap On which is also made in Sweden alongside the Bahco version but the Snappy is painted red and the Bahco is silver and orange I believe.

Anonymous

>>2789455
>>2789457
Forgot to reply about this, tried it and it does indeed spray soap when the correct nozzle is installed. Not a great spray but better than nothing.

>>2778280
Ordered a gearwrench bit socket set and chang just slapped a shipping label on the thin cardboard box around the blowmold and sent it. Hinges were damaged in shipping, case came open, absolute fucking mess.

Sieg heil

>>2795821
Lol , nah I got a ton of snap-on tools I had them since I was a mechanic, bought off coworkers or bought through SEP back in the day.

I just wanted to restore something

Anonymous

>>2795952
I was just kidding around. I found a vintage snap-on toolbox for sale a couple weeks ago but they want 1200 for it. I'll pass!

>>2795950
Shame, looks like a nice set though. The medium-long socket bits look really handy I just might and try to get some, would you recommend

>>2795924
>>2794872
I’m a European home owner have lots of bahco stuff but they are nothing like the snap on stuff I have. I have Bahco Proficut and Prizecut saws and they are way worse than the €6 Irwin saw I go. Bahco products are hit and miss in my experience, the tape measure and level are really good tools, their files chisels and saws are terrible. Their adjustable wrenches are a lot worse than Snap-ons which is weird because they invented the adjustable wrench

>>2795986
Haven't had a chance to use them yet but they seem fine. Only issue with this gearwrench set is the hinges being plastic joints that seem prone to fail easier

Should I buy a Makita Brushless or a Milwaukee M18 Fuel jigsaw for woodworking? They're the same price and I have both batteries. Leaning toward the Makita, I've heard they're better tools for woodworking.

Kevin Van Dam

>>2795991
That’s why I said Bahco isn’t always the cheaper consumer stuff. If you buy cheap Bahco tools made in Asia, those will be more like Blue Point, which is on par with most Taiwan tier mid grade tools. A lot of the Bahco stuff made in the USA or Yurop is going to be the same thing Snappy sells. Snap On isn’t going to put its name on the cheaper Asian Bahco.

In both cases, the Bahco is going to be more affordable than the Snap On or Blue Point off the truck.

Same thing with Williams, which is Snap On Inc’s industrial hand tool side. The Asian stuff is like Blue Point and cheaper, and the USA stuff is made right along side the Snap On stuff and it’s nice. The USA stuff aint cheap, but it’s not sodomy pricing like Snap On.

>>2796038
When was the Makita version released? If it’s like a 7 year old Makita model and a Gen2 Milwaukee that was released last year, think about taking a more in depth look at the Fuel.

I’m sure they’re both straight. And a jigsaw isn’t going to be something Makita’s limped batteries won’t handle. Do both of them have barrel grip models too if you like that better?

>>2796090
Does it use standard sawzall blades?

Anonymous

The thing works like new, of course I cleaned re greased it. The cord is like new. I have 8 yr old saws the cords are toast. Planned obsolescence what a load of …

Kevin Van Dam

>>2796099
That cord comes in at a retarded angle, but they built in some nice strain relief.

That cord confounds me though. Don’t get tangled up

Anonymous

>>2796102
I dont use it I have all new 20v brushess Dewalt.
I collect old stuff

Kevin Van Dam

>>2793916
Spent the rest of muh gift card

Anonymous

>>2789590
Kango 3mm Masonry Chisel with Hand Protector so I can use it to help break plate glass windows at protests.

>>2789590
What are these things, how do I use them and why are they so expensive? What's the benefit over pic related?

>>2796395
I waited too long to get a pick set. Mine are a cheap set from autozone but still, they're so useful.

Kevin Van Dam

>>2796397
Those are the O-ring picks

If you want decent mini picks that are better than the cheap orange HF ones but don’t have some retarded big handle, check out the Mayhew Catspaw. Mayhew is like the go-to brand for pry bars, punches, picks, and the Catspaw is their Taiwan line that’s still nice but only like $15 for the 4pk.

I was going to get the catspaw o-ring picks too but I’m not going to abuse those as much as the regular picks and it was long ass shipping time.

>>2796394
The rafter squares aren’t that expensive. The plastic ones and the metal ones from cheap brands are cheap if you’re willing to take that risk on QC. They do a bunch of things besides finding a 90deg angle, it’s super easy and quick to make marks at common angles and all sorts of tricks to be done with them if you find a video on youtube.

>>2796397
Also if you’re one of those anons who was like me a few years back, going from oil changes and the rare brake job to attempting to fix whatever a friend pulls into your driveway, there’s a a few tools I’m like “How did I survive without that?” just like the picks when I finally stopped mangling screwdrivers.

Charge your cousin $200 for doing his brakes which would be $1000 at the shop, and get down on a few of these tools to make life easier in the future.

Flex head 3/8” ratchet with a little bit longer handle is a good start. Learning to use a multimeter is a gamechanger too. And being able to pull apart the top of engines in 1/3 the time with an impact driver is quite nice.

Anonymous

>>2796446
where can I learn how to use my multimeter. the manual that came with mine is ass

>>2796404
you aint ever needed to use a speed square in a professional capacity in your life you damn weekend warrior fagget

>>2794536
Got these the other day and cleaned stuff up.last night. Overall extremely pleased with my purchases. The ladder is meh, but I'll find a dedicated use for it. Black and decker sawcat 8" builders saw is like brand new. Probably only used a handful of times... Snakentainer box cleaned up nice and will be good to put something in. The jack is stupid simple and reliable and will go well with my railroad jacks and cable spool jacks. The combo squares are PEC brand (new are over $100 each) and cleaned up nicely. Starett dial caliper is like new, milwaukee drill works, box is nice and sturdy. Going to try and convert it to the newer lithium m12 batteries and see how she holds up. Ridgid internal pipe wrench cleaned up nice (new ones on ebay are $100-125) monkey wrenches are like new, and the gear puller is good and stout and american made has a brand cast into it but cant remember off the top of my head what it was now... Only thing I threw out was that crappy 90 degree clamp and some of the screws and other oddities that were in the drill box.

Kevin Van Dam

>>2796586
Poke around on automotive stuff. 12VDC is easy enough, you won’t shock the shit out of yourself, don’t go messing with the ECU or PCM and you will be all good (although that’s mostly people with power probes throwing 12V into spots that don’t want 12V, so not really a multimeter issue). Worst case scenario is you blow the fuse in the meter if you accidentally try to measure current the wrong way.

I mean mainly you’re going to be measuring voltage, and see what voltage drop is (measuring at the battery as the starter is cranked to check battery health), continuity on switches and fuses and relays. And if your meter has a 10A fused port for current, you can check parasitic draw and such.

>>2796588
Yup, but it’s made me some money on the weekends and my point is still totally valid.

Anonymous

>>2796446
Cool story’s bro…larpfag
Those are Daddies tools and there isnt a spot of grease or dirt on them. You’re cringey son…Rigid is junk btw….go back downstairs until dinner

>>2796722
Rigid is solid. My issue with them is they aren't particularly cheap. Ryobi and Hercules are way cheaper than the big three but Rigid isn't. iirc when I bought my Makita drill and impact driver the Rigid was only like $20 cheaper. I would much rather spend the extra $20 on a Makita or Milwaukee just for the versatility of the batteries.

>>2796729
>has never used “ good “ tools

Son ive used every tool made since 1980
Rigid suck…now go away you bother me son

It’s a bit underwhelming desu. Works well but I didn’t realise you can’t replace the leads, and the leather sheath thing kinda sucks

>>2796747
I don't own a single Rigid tool but have fun shadowboxing

Kevin Van Dam

>>2796753
>MMP3 Player
Dope

>>2796722
Yeaaa buddy! LARP so hard that sometimes it spills into LA and I actually repair something.

>>2796754
>>2796747
I don’t own any Rigid tools either. Nor any Milwakey. I’d have to double check on the Klenn.

>>2796722
Check it, I added another bleeder wrench so I don’t have to LARP a stripped bleeder screw! Good ol’ Amazon sales sucking me in.

There’s a 3/8” x 1/4” too or some shit to complete the collection. Which, I think last time I was bleeding something, it was 1/4” on a Wilwood clutch slave cylinder. I cracked that bitch with a 6pt socket, but the bleeder wrenches are nice.

>>2796767
I got $70 for bLowes. What to buy? Lots of Knipex on their website. If I don’t waste it on Klein or Knipex soon, I’ll spend it on boring old man shit like grass seed and PVC fittings

>>2797632

Anonymous

>>2794334
I just bought a brand new m12 2.5 HO for $30 on ebay. Not bad batteries last a long time at least for me as a homegamer

Kevin Van Dam

>>2797810
Just wait til you try some 18V tools

>>2797637
Now I’m thinking about picrel. I have a full size router, but I want to get down on a palm guy. Wondering if I pull the trigger on this or wait on it and get the cordless Ridgid or Ryobi.

Anonymous

>>2797856
Shiiiit negro, who are you telling. Every 6 years or so I'll grab 1 or 2 new batteries its not that bad. The tools themselves are hard to kill at least the brushless ones.

I bought some metal storage cabinets. Pics looked good, vendor had a "flash sale" and I picked up two 6' cabinets for $110 and $120. Would only let me purchase one of each color or I might've grabbed a few more. Was impressed by how well packaged it was, and clear english assembly instructions despite being cheap chinkslop. Theyre back up to ~$300 now though.

>>2797998
Had some galvanized sheet metal wrapped around it to protect the sides and corners, with a sheet of MDF on both sides to protect the flat sides. Quite good.

Kevin Van Dam

>>2797998
That reminds me, the local Ace Hardware was resetting all their small fastener stuff a week or two ago while I was there. They has the big organizers for sale, one was like 8’L by 4’H of those deeper grey bins for $100 or some shit and it was tempting.

Then they had the section with all the slide out boxes that open up, but it didn’t include all of the boxes so it was pretty much a bunch of thin slots like a mail room.

Anonymous

>>2797856
HD has this on sale for $90 now

almost went corded but decided cordless at the last minute because of something i want to sand in my yard. it definitely chews through batteries but not as bad as i was worried about. also sands better than my corded Hyper Shit i gave $20 for several years ago.

Kevin Van Dam

>>2798078
It’s the same at Lowe’s. I’m tempted but I think it would be nicer to have the 18V version because cords are lame

Anonymous

Well hazard freight sent out them dang ol' 20% off coupons so I went and got me a 3/8" split beam torque wrench. Wasn't willing to pay full price but I'm going to need one for a project I got planned this summer so its perfect timing on the coupons

Sieg heil

>>2798597
Harbor freight got me this weekend too:

Icon pistol grip pliers

Icon pocket knife

Might pick up the icon pliers wrench and the icon twin grip knock offs

Stuff is so cheap with the coupons

Anonymous

>>2798602
I might go back for one of them pipe wrenches. I currently have the long-nose pistol grips and the raptor knock-offs, i forget what icon calls them, but both were bought when they were the solution to a problem in real time, I usually don't pre-emptively buy things, but I'm sure eventually that fucking pipe wrench is going to be the solution I need and I'll be mad I didn't pick it up when I had a 20% coupon

Kevin Van Dam

>>2798602
I got the pistol grips because it’s an oddball tool that I would never pay full price for.

With the twingrips, pretty sure the knipex is only like $10 more than the Icons, maybe $15 more with the coupon. And I did a little playing around between the Twingrips, the knockoffs (which I’m sure are worse than Icon), and then good stuff like Fujiya and Engineer, and the Knipex would grab shit the other pliers wouldn’t. If you’re going to use that a lot like your main pocket slip joint pliers, get the Knipex because that’s a tool where the final finish and proper heat treatment is going to make life much easier.

As for the pliers wrench, why not go the cheap one. I can’t remember the price, but I’ve used my 8” Irwin version a lot and other than a bit better handle shape on the Knipex, they work bretty gud.

>>2798606
Still kinda glad I didn’t pay full price for the Knipex raptors. It’s a cool idea but doesn’t come out much at all.

Sieg heil

>>2795991
The snap-on saws and the snap-on adjustable is literally just a red bahco tool marked up 5x off the truck not blue point, not willams branded

Snap-on branded bahco products at tool truck prices those two tools are both bahco

Bahco also has cheap shit mixed in, but they have really high tier ratchets too

Anonymous

Helping my parents clear out and prep their property for sale, kept wishing I had a beater fixed blade for yard work, cutting up old boxes, etc. so I ordered this Mora from Amazon and got it today. Seems pretty great for $32 so far.

Also grabbed a big DeWalt impact bit kit on sale at Lowe's yesterday, been using my impact a lot doing this stuff too and my little Milwaukee set had lost a lot of its stuff over the years.

I'm also thinking about picking up a recip saw since I don't have one and there's a bunch of stuff I could use it for but not sure if I can drop the $200 on a brushless one right now.

>>2795950
the knot in the wood looks like a monkey who messed up your set ;)))

new pick set. 10$ and lifetime warranty. probably not as nice as my mechanics' snap on set, but it'll do for me

Sick of vacuums from retail stores that barely last 2 years and got one of these on the advice of a friend, don't let the goofy face fool you it's a powerful vac.

>>2799856
I lived in various hotels across Canada for 2 years. these are what the housekeepers use everywhere. but as for me ? I use a rigid vac.

There's an auger that's in my battery family on sale and I want it on the off chance I might want to make a bunch of post holes in my yard in the coming years

>>2789455
>>2789457
it called the venturi effect, it how carbs work.
i was thinking getting one those 99 dollar shit box one without wheel, i use it like every week for 2 hours, they last me a year or two, and i change the fucking oil, not sure if it's worth gettingone the bigger motor ones...

>>2799863
Makes sense as they're pretty barebones, I almost bought a commercial one that came with 13 metres of cord instead of 10 but glad I didn't, I can still do my entire house/car outside from one socket it's great.

>>2789590
more of a swanson man myself, i like indetions over laser marks.

>>2790274
>>2790306
this how i feel about those 50+ taijima or cox caulk guns are they really worth it? I mean atleast with ryobi I aint cocking the plunger to move.

>>2793382
>>2794802
i was looking for new hack saw my undestanding is that bahco is good, but they got a higher version, but then I saw klien released a new hackasaw and that seems better buy. I fucking hate klien.

>>2793570
you got scammed on the bit set. like really scammed.

>>2799887
sandvik bahco #225. time tested and proven no gimmick bullshit that gets the blades guitar string tight

Kevin Van Dam

>>2799836
When you get bored of em, go with the Catspaws

>>2799888
Trips confirms. I didn’t notice how expensive that was. I got those Hercules 3” power security bits with a coupon because I refused to pay full price, and they don’t seem shitty, on par with DeWalt and such. But that $25 set anon got with his drill, those kits are on sale for ~$10 all day on some random endcap at Home Depot or Lowe’s from any of the good brands. You can find the 100pc DeWalt sets with 4 boxes like picrel for about the same money

Anonymous

>>2799933
where I'm from, catspaw refers to nail puller. I thought you were trolling me for a moment. good plan!

Kevin Van Dam

>>2799988
It’s Mayhew’s affordable line of stuff not made in the USA. Mayhew is pretty much the go-to for pry bars and punches and all that shit for mechanical stuff.

Anonymous

>>2799933
I picked this kit up for $35 at Lowe's the other day. Maybe a bit more than some alternatives like the one you posted but I like the case setup a lot more, worth an extra $10 or whatever to have everything laid out neatly instead of having to dig through 4 different small cases in my toolbag to find the right one.

Kevin Van Dam

>>2800068
Those long driver bits are nice too

>>2797637
Spent it. Got me a Kobalt palm router for $59. The big router and table has been ok for me so far. The $90 was tempting too, but I’m not woodworking enough and the Kobalt was on clearance from $99 to $59, plus came with an edge guide and stuff.

Sieg

>>2800102
I have an idea on how to get a LSA router with Lifetjme warranty bits but let me try it out first before I saw anything

Picked these up today

They’re both 3/8” drive

The smaller one uses snap-ons 1/4” body for max clearance

I’m going to use the 3/8” low pro with those Astro low profiles harbor sells as quinn

Anonymous

Another week another auction... The old Milwaukee vacuum was what I really wanted. I was actually looking into getting one earlier in the year, but they were anywhere from 530-650 dollars and most places that sold them actually claimed they are discontinued. Couldn't pass this one up for $27! Swivel sockets because why not... $4 file cabinet? Hell I'll find a place to put it... Couple more empty metal boxes to put stuff in? Hell yes! My wife wanted the stools and table for the front porch. And I've never seen a Rigid monkey wrench in that style with the flat jaws. It's made for putting on hex nuts and fittings...

Also bought another set of 3 Knipex cobras, a set of 3 Channelocks, and a set of magnetic trays and paper towel holder for my service cart off of Scamazon. Had a $100 gift card for there from my birthday I wanted to use up before I lost the damn thing... And just ordered another cordless Milwaukee Fuel sawzall off e-bay. I keep wanting another one up at my shop because my main one stays at home (actually it's been staying in my pickup here recently... Handy for chopping downed trees off of fence lines)

Last week I got a Dewalt battery powered backpack sprayer. I'm a Milwaukee guy, but the reviews on their backpack sprayer were not great and I didn't need the switch tank capability, and wanted something as light as possible because I don't want to have to pack around any more weight than necessary when spraying weeds...

I bought some bi-metal blades for my hacksaw and lag bolts this morning. The dog was happy to come along for the ride. I hope anons have a great day in your projects.

>>2800450
That sounds chill anon.
I shit myself by accident today. Trying to work through the shame with some joinery.

>>2798079
For me, it was metabo, the best sander.
Went for a metabo SXE 3150. Corded and cheap, but supposedly very good. So far, I went through 30 square meters of floor thrice and it just works. Also it really sucks up dust by itself, so I can leave my vacuum on low.
Now I just need some good discs for it. My local home depot equivalent just has chink shit.
Really tempted by finnish autism mirka abranet, but apparently, you need an interface pad for those, and they don't explicitly state that it's compatible with anything, but the holes on the pad saver look comaptible enough. But on the big set with all kinds of nets, the holes look anything but metabo compatible. but most of the chink pads have the same holes that are compatible with about 50 brands, so it ought to kinda work, but I'd hate to spend a lot of money on expensive pads only to see that they're mirka exclusive.

picked up a 3.0 m12 from the pawn shop. got excited when I saw a red ratchet in store, but, alas it was snap on. fuck!!

Dewalt Atomic 20v compact recip saw, on sale for $129 at HD.
Doing some light demo at my parents' house, hacking up half-rotten fencing and old furniture (including a metal-framed sofa bed that won't fit through the door without being cut up) in prep for the house going on the market in a few weeks.

It was either this one or a brushed full-size one and I felt like brushless was a good idea since I only have 2AH batteries, plus it's just easier to handle and store. Seems to work pretty well, ripped through the 2x4 stringers like butter and still showed 3/3 bars on the battery after 20 cuts or so, I can tell the included blade is gonna need replacement pretty quick though.

These were on sale today at woot, the 150 foot versions are like $70

picked this set up today for 40 canadian. my ps4 controller wasn't working very nicely so I risked it and took it apart. thankfully didn't break anything (and I have 0 experience). this kit costs half as much as a new controller so yeehaw.

Kevin Van Dam

>>2801642
Dope. Using good drivers on those tiny screws is a good idea. I’ve had shitty experiences with a lot of cheaper precision drivers. When you start getting to those small bits, it only takes a fraction of a millimeter off machining to ruin the screws on whatever you’re taking apart. Also the cheap driver handles, if you put any torque on them, the shaft bends and turns.

Anonymous

>>2801642
>3.5mm bits

What the fuck were they thinking?

>>2801797
what are you referring to ? the ps4 controller screws were #00
>>2801791
such a good point. these are incredible compared to the full size milwaukee screwdriver set I have. those ones strip more and more each use

>>2801642
>>2801791
>>2801875
Klein makes the best screwdrivers. I've never broken one, even when punching out electric box cutouts/chiseling with them. Idk how they harden the tips, but they're invulnerable even to the most stubborn Rabbi.

>>2801875
Their newer microbits are a non-standard 3.5mm hex shank instead of the 4mm standard that a lot of other precision screwdrivers use. There's pretty much no bit comparability outside of these newly released Klein drivers.

>>2801983
interesting but not a big deal to me
>>2801945
lmao, that's great. yeah this felt awesome to use. loved that spinning piece on the very back. nice and easy