Made in India wrenches now at HFT!!

[TorKe]

I walked in to HFT in need of some wrenches to add to my collection. I was in desperate need of ratcheting wrenches so I went to the store to pick some up. Something caught my eye.


The most cheap looking wrenches I have ever seen. These are a matte silver - not shiny at all and the way the metal clinks when you hit another of the same COO is just so...just imagine pulling out a velcro wallet at a bar. Just so out of place.


Anyway, there's my rant. They sound cheap as heck, China ones were okay but Taiwan were the ones i picked up ultimately.

 

[bczygan]

Hey! I have a Velcro wallet!

 

[Ole Slewfoot]

I have India HFT wrenches from 1993

 

[timothylockhart]

Apparently harbor freight is getting huge stock changes. Lots of new tool boxes. Special order us general box colors.

New tools I'll post some pictures I saw later

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[lakeroadster]

Poor quality at Harbor Freight? What you talkin' 'bought Willis!

 

[Local]

You laugh now but years ago Japan tools were nothing to brag about. Same with China but slowly they have been getting better. Soon production will move to Africa to keep profits up.

 

[anndel]

Soon there will be no place with cheap labor.

 

[Gmonkee]

AZ has those same cheap wrenches in a plastic pouch at some low price for them.
Good enough to toss in the car trunk for sure but not regular use.

Go the next step up to RP and they are very usable if still short on the bling.

 

[Hephaestus29]

Hit the flea markets,garage sales, estate sales etc. and buy used American made stuff.

 

[timothylockhart]

Here's a few

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[ADSR]

India learned their trade under British rule. I'm sure they can handle making a few tools on their own now.

 

[SCscoutguy]

They have had made in India wrenches for 20+ years...

 

[visedog]

I have made in India wrenches. They look cheap and clinky, but none has broken yet despite heavy use. They are better for HF cost wise as it can make more profits with such tools (it is a matter of survival folks).

Wish I had the option of buying made in USA or made in Germany at prices even in the same room as made in India!

 

[ADSR]

https://www.google.ca/search?q=gedo..._f_TAhUF1mMKHRmoAgAQ_AUICigB&biw=1680&bih=941

 

[PugetDude]

I had a set of Gedore DOE Metric wrenches I bought in college to work on a Volvo...my first metric tools. They were still in great shape when I gave them away 35 years later- to a down-on-his-luck neighbor who needed them to work on his ricer.

 

[TorKe]

Here's a few

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Hey those are from my 1 star rating thread!!

 

[PugetDude]

Hey those are from my 1 star rating thread!!

Which one?

 

[TorKe]

Which one?

http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=361074

 

[CD1]

Before Harbor Freight had tool stores they were mail order. The tools they sold were sourced from China and India. The wrenches they sold were **** with very bad broaching.

I was a mail order customer in the late 80's and bought some of those crappy tools. Anyone want to buy them, because I won't use them and ruin a fastener?

 

[d.mcfarland]

The India made wrenches really aren't that bad. Just my opinion. They certainly aren't any worse than China.

 

[oldtools]

India sent a probe to Mars, build fighter plane, tank, and aircraft carrier, so they are capable of making high quality tools if people are willing to pay for them.

 

[bpjr]

HF has had India offset box ends in a bubble pack for years. They look better now than a few years ago but are still crude and not up to the quality of their Pro wrenches.

 

[TorKe]

I didn't see Pro wrenches, at all from any coo at hf.

 

[anurag1990]

India learned their trade under British rule. I'm sure they can handle making a few tools on their own now.

I hope people like you should keep their crappy thoughts out of this forum. My country did trade long before anyone else, and its your country who benefited most by colonizing India.

 

[Little_Cyborg]

India wrenches equals lead molded.


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[Kev442]

Akar polished wrenches are found just about everywhere, HF, Rural King, Menards etc. They are fine for what they are. They also make a rp knockoff that is trash though.

 

[chris142]

Before Harbor Freight had tool stores they were mail order. The tools they sold were sourced from China and India. The wrenches they sold were **** with very bad broaching.

I was a mail order customer in the late 80's and bought some of those crappy tools. Anyone want to buy them, because I won't use them and ruin a fastener?

they had a store here since the 80's im guessing. Our store is #6 I believe. They used to sell SK tools in a glass case that the registers sat on.

 

[timothylockhart]

Hey those are from my 1 star rating thread!!

Actually they are from Reddit, where I'm assuming you grabbed yours.

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[ADSR]

I hope people like you should keep their crappy thoughts out of this forum. My country did trade long before anyone else, and its your country who benefited most by colonizing India.

Hey friend. I never said it was right, or do I condone their actions. I didn't mean to offend anyone.

 

[bpjr]

I didn't see Pro wrenches, at all from any coo at hf.

Search the HF website for Pittsburg Pro wrenches...there are tons of them.

 

[7th Kahuna]

they had a store here since the 80's im guessing. Our store is #6 I believe. They used to sell SK tools in a glass case that the registers sat on.

Yeah, we had one of those original stores in my neighborhood too. I remember as a kid buying Stanley, Channel Lock, and other main stream brands which now I assume were being 'closed out' to Harbor Freight. That's how I originally thought of HFT, not as a source of cheap foreign imports.

As long as HFT maintains a serviceable entry level line and a quality 'pro' line, I think they will do well. Where those tools are made isn't really the point. Unreliable tools however, will only get them in trouble. Do they still sell those Indian pliers at Dollar Store? I think those were actually Christmas ornaments.