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I was looking at the Titan, then found the thread with the comparisons, and am now going to be buying my first Icon tool, despite my opinion that they're overpriced. Reviews suggest that the Pittsburgh Pro 1/4" roto-head is nice, but the handle shape is annoying -- and that the Icon handle and...

This assumes you can get to autozone when you need it :lol_hitti I'd buy the lineup zkdiesel suggested, so you have them on hand for the next time you need them for a job.

I have the HF full polish wrenches... 120% not worth it, and they were ~$7 IIRC. I bought them for a junkyard bag, and I think I'm going to buy a second set of the Tekton wrenches, because they're that much better. For the money, you're not going to get anything brilliant out of the listed...

I buy a lot of car parts, so RockAuto is a given. But I kindly asked CorkSport (Mazda things) for a sticker, they sent a ton of swag along with the parts I ordered. There's also Clusters by Litke (VW/Audi cluster mods, very active guy in the community) who sends gummy bears with orders -- that's...

I would say that many tools are a pretty personal choice, and I tend to spend a decent amount of time trying to find something that'll meet all of my little odd requirements before buying. Your husband may be the same way. One thing that was on our wedding registry that I would've never...

In some cases, I'm all for cheap, sketchy nonsense. But electricity (and by extension batteries) are by far something I don't want to mess around with. OEM should have protections in place to prevent fires, and the extra couple bucks for confidence to leave a battery in a charger for an hour or...

I didn't know HF was a thing for a long time. I borrowed tools out of my dad's toolbox, and combined with my Kobalt ratchet and socket set I accomplished quite a bit on my own. Once I started making friends with other car people, I got bitten by the HF bug and bought my first jack and...

Exactly this all day. More and more of my tooling is becoming Tekton, because it's noticably higher quality in many situations than the equivalent Harbor Freight, and at a similar (enough to be competitive) price point. Tekton's warranty alone is miles ahead of most of the similarly-priced...

I rarely ever use SAE, most everything I do is metric. To that effect, I've started trying to use metric fasteners whenever the situation allows, fractional measurement is rarely a thought in my mind so I do what I can to make it easier on myself. With that said, I primarily do automotive as a...

So what's left? :lol_hitti Really though, I think that there's some gems in HF, though there's also some things I wouldn't buy again. One "gem" that comes to mind is the corded OMT, I bought it to get through just one job and figured when it died I'd have an excuse to buy the 20v Dewalt. Skip...

I bought a set of the Dewalt ones, and they're not awful. I don't have Knipex to compare them to, but I did see the Irwin ones and wasn't overly excited about them.

I've got the OEM ones and I'm a fan, I try to avoid putting a ton of load on the ratcheting end but they've been good to me. For a while OEM was also offering the passthrough sockets for a freebie with purchase, they're handy to have as well. I've dealt with the non-reversible ratcheting...

If we consider for a moment that (at least to my knowledge) none of us are experts, and all of us are here purely as a hobby (unless someone's being paid by GJ?), I feel like we're retreading the same ground that leads to these to begin with. I feel like we're running into an issue where a fair...

With everyone who's saying Proto, I've gotta ask -- are those the same as the Blackhawk ones? I'm a big fan of my Blackhawk line wrenches, one of the few tools I've been willing to spend extra for a brand name over a house brand, and they've been fantastic.

All of this sounds like a case of trying to resolve an issue, while trying to avoid driving businesses elsewhere. Problem: Air quality declining. Cause: Emissions from fossil fuel-burning. One of the biggest causes is large engines (looking at you, diesel big rigs). The thing is, if you...

How did you feel the noise level was, in general and compared to the noise level of similar compressors? I'm looking for something small I can use with an air gun to blow out electronics (primarily computers) and it's annoying to run out of canned air at inopportune times, not to mention having...

I screwed PVC pipe sections to the underside of a shelf, and cut notches for the handles of my drills/drivers with an OMT. Not my idea, but it worked out superbly for my needs. I'm planning to add a battery charger board/rack as well in the future. Otherwise semi-large pegboard hooks for my...

Scary stuff, good thing no one was injured! I put two Uvex face shields (one for myself and one for my wife) on our wedding registry, and for as much as I yell at her about PPE and safety, I should really wear mine as well. It can look a little goofy, but it looks a lot goofier to be permanently...

We bought a HF one for ~$20 to do some trim in the house, it did the job without complaint. I can't say that I know what a "good" brad nailer is like, but our experience was that it paid for itself in one job -- and since, it's been used for all kinds of other weird projects where I didn't...

Komelon has been big for me, I got tired of getting bitten by cheap tape measures retracting unexpectedly and picked one up at the hardware store because they weren't expensive. Now our house has three or four of them, and they're great. The one I use most commonly also has a bunch of...