badgolferman wrote:
Shopdog, 5/23/2006,10:26:54 PM, wrote:


DECENT QUALITY? Guess you haven't bought any combination wrenches yet huh? Well, the quality of those are horrible, some are not even the correct size and when you use them they expand and slip on the nut. Most of the air tools ( at least the ones that I have) are pretty good, they have been holding up for over a year now with no complaints. The welding wire is good, and the sand blasting equipment is decent. I guess some of the stuff is good, but like I said the hand tools are crap.

Searcher


Well, I just ordered a reciprocating saw or $19.99. We'll see how that holds up.
I bought one of their $20 reciprocating saws a couple of
months ago. I needed it to work on the beam that holds
up my back porch roof, and figured it it got through
that then $20 was a pretty good price.

Once I had gotten rid of the blades that came with it,
and the $10 pack of Harbor Freight blades I bought at
the same time it has been working pretty good. I don't
claim it is a great tool, but for my occasional work it
seems to be doing just fine.

So far I have finished the back porch work, cut up some
limbs that fell out of my back yard trees, and cut a
drain pipe that I had to remove. It still seems to be
working just as good as ever. That isn't a whole lot of
work, but I don't expect to do a whole lot of work with
it. And as I say, $20 for the back porch roof was a
reasonable price, so everything else I do with it is so
much gravy.

I do have a number of other Chicago Electric tools from
HF, and am satisfied with them for my occasional use.
If I was a professional I wouldn't even bother with
them, I would go get better tools.

Bill Gill