WooHoo...a new HF is in my area

   

shameless dude wrote: what was wrong with the impact wrench Les?

 

nders but cant find them anymore. I have a Bosch that I bought at a junk store in the late 90's. its getting slow and weak but still going. I leave a wire brush on it. I keep one of the Skills in my work truck. it cuts brick rock rebar concrete metal and has skinned several huge metal buildings.

one of the skills recently let the smoke out. I havent looked in to fixing it yet. I'd like to buy a couple more 4.5's for the shop. I have a 4' and the old Bosch in the shop only. I keep a wire wheel on one cut off wheels on one a grinder disk on one and a flap disk.

which ever one gets put on wire brush detail may spend days running constantly stripping rust and paint. it needs to be a good one.

when I worked the Joplin tornado I bought a HF 1/2" drill to finish one job. Its still going strong and has had a very rough life mixing thin set , grout and all sorts of flooring epoxies at work. It has also served as an electric starter for a couple of my welder projects.

its blue and says Chicago.

 Yeah,,10-4 for CHIT on thet dang metal ring,,A fellar traded me an almost new 1/2" NAPA impact that is a freaking horse,,,you best be ready when you pull the trigger or it gonna try to break your wrist,,,,,finally got tired of beating the sockets off it so,,I took my grinder and cut the friggin ring off,,,like ole Hubert says,if you ever put the socket on with the pin aligned on the socket hole ,,,Good Luck getting the socket off,,!! I don't have that problem any more,,,

A person cant hardly get out of sight of a HF around here. 3 in Columbus, one in every town that has more than 10-15 stop lights. I agree that  quality has made leaps over the last few years.  

Their coupon policy is really starting to tick me off! You get a LOOK WOW!!!!!! 20% off coupon in the mail and and it isn't good for anything that costs any money to begin with.  I was in the Marion OH store in the spring and had a $200 item among a cart full of other items.  I made sure the big item was not on the not good list in the fine print.  Total cart was close to $500 but Cashier denied the coupon "because it is a large item"and thus no good. I asked where it said it could not be used on a large item and she said store policy. I said call the manager and would not get out of line while he got unbusy. Manager said didn't matter what the coupon said, they would not accept it.  I told them that was their choice and my choice is to leave with nothing,, and I  did.

Not saying your wrong,but did you have your cheaters on. Because HF has had 10,000 brands all meant to confuse you into thinking it is the BIG NAME BRAND.

Craftsmen  ...........................  Craftmaster and the9,9999 more.

And my off topic rant against Craftsmen

I have broke 3/8 drive ratchet they looked the same for 30 years. Now every halfa$$ hardware store selling Craftsman tools, NOBODY has one that looks like what I have will not order in a replacement. The closest Sears store is now 2 hours away. Sears as of last year will not deal with warranty by internet, bring it to the store. So a HF ratchet probably get you as far as what us to be a OK brand.  So they got you,unless you forget the dollars and cents and go after them.

 

 Naw,,,,I'm kinda ole Tom with all them nubile young,,,,,,ladies,,,I spend a lot of time chewin on my palms,,,but,,,,but,,, I try to not let em see me doin that,,,,