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Good luck finding anything mechanic tool related@ home depot. They maybe good quality, but the in-store stock is like bigfoot.
 
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Un fricken real. 99$ Be great for duplication, super for gifts for kids. I used to carry something like it, hip roof really and a common Cman metal tool box could put some pliers, Adjustable, hammers and screwdrivers in, simple to set in the trunk, could open the lids and had enough stuff do do most work.
 
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If I had to start over today would really have a hard time getting away from this kind of thing. Would be giving it a shot and seeing what worked. Yes, there are better tools, a guy just isnt out much with this for loss or if it didnt work out. Or if he needs to do work now. You can always buy more but some of ths cost less than sales tax on premium. It would be different if it didnt work. Not even worth insuring something like that. Makes it even cheaper. Those set would list 4, maybe 5 grand from a premium tool truck. Be well worth starting with that, see what stuck and upgrade a few things as needed.
 
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When I looked on Home Depot‘s website it shows to check stores for stock which we all know they don’t have any but almost 5000 available for immediate shipping

By the way I think this is great for a gift or a first set for a kid but there is no way if I were to start over I would start with this set
 
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If I had to start over today would really have a hard time getting away from this kind of thing. Would be giving it a shot and seeing what worked. Yes, there are better tools, a guy just isnt out much with this for loss or if it didnt work out. Or if he needs to do work now. .
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I recently did a fair amount of work using a blow molded case kit from an autoparts store. The case sucked (that's being charitable, it's worse than you can imagine), but the tools were of reasonable quality. Probably better quality than the similarly sized Craftsman kit I got for christmas when I was 19 or 20. Off corner engagement on the sockets, thinner walls on sockets, better looking chrome plating. Don't know or care how it will hold up, it was tools for a particular job, but I wouldn't feel at all bad about a tech starting out with one of these kits. They're not garbage (the cases are, usually), they're just missing stuff.
 
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Thanks for posting this. It's a great deal. Getting a set for my brother (a non tool guy) so he can work on his bicycle more and have a core set that should fulfill most average user needs. He "lost" the last tool box and socket set that I gave him so let's hope this takes! Free shipping makes it so worthwhile as he lives on the other coast. There were a stack of these in my local store today as well. I don't need one, but it's tempting. I suspect it will sell out thus couldn't wait for Xmas.
 
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It's too bad this isn't the 268 piece vs the 270. Don't get me wrong, the 270 is still a good set for the money but when compared to the 268 the devil is in the details. A few of the things I look for with a set like this is the range of deep sockets, in particular 10-14mm 3/8 deep. I also look at the range of wrenches they come with. I figure if you have nothing then 8mm-19mm is really needed and occasionally you will need larger stuff.

The first set had combo wrenches up to 18mm. The sale set had them just up to 15mm. In the sale set the 1/2 stuff is all but redundant since 3/8" is the larger range.

Years back when I got my first Cman starter set I was disappointed that it didn't come with a 14mm (or smaller) deep well in 3/8 drive. I broke the 1/4 drive ratchet twice because I used a cheater pipe. 14mm deep in 1/4 drive was the only option I had to get the bolt... The second time I bought a 14mm 3/8 while I was exchanging the 1/4 drive ratchet.

The sale set has this need covered but really cheeps out on the large sockets. Those aren't going to be used often but they are the ones you need for a crank bolt, suspension bolts etc.

The 268 piece set was enough to make me think you don't need to add a set of wrenches to the mix. The 270 would leave me wanting an additional set of combo wrenches and thus spending money to fill in the gaps. A good set none the less but one I think a budding shade tree would grow out of faster than expected.
 
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BTW, I think this wrench set looks very complete as a starter set
https://www.homedepot.com/p/Husky-SAE-mm-Combination-Wrench-Set-50-Piece-HCW50PCSM/313097242
$60 and includes up to 27mm and 1 1/16".
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I think just the larger wrenches alone are worth the $60. I was actually needing some larger metric ones, LOL.

I did the buy the 200 piece Husky socket last year, and a lot of them looked like they were rejects or something. Some have barely legible markings on them, but for the $80 or so, I can't complain. Basically gave me a second socket of each that I have, and then some!
 
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I think just the larger wrenches alone are worth the $60. I was actually needing some larger metric ones, LOL.

I did the buy the 200 piece Husky socket last year, and a lot of them looked like they were rejects or something. Some have barely legible markings on them, but for the $80 or so, I can't complain. Basically gave me a second socket of each that I have, and then some!
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I have the 200 piece socket set. I think it was $60 when I finally picked one up. Like that wrench set, I have trouble resisting a deal yet, anymore, such a set fills in very few significant gaps in my wrench/socket collections.

If I were starting off that socket set and that wrench set (and a tool box) would be a great starting point.
 
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It's easier to resist husky deals. Husky sockets are often cosmetically imperfect. Don't know about their average ratchets. The 144 position ones are pretty nice.

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If you have an Ace Hardware close by they are running a similiar craftsman set in the versa stack box for $99.

Kits like that always amaze me. So many tools for so little money and usually of pretty fair quality. Makes a great jumping off point for a second set of tools or setting up a work truck.
 
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It is even cheaper today than it was in 1990. I watched a show about tech marvels today, was really tech, the computer and digital were big as was the internet but to me one of the unsung heros is really common hand tools and clones or copies or similar.
Here is what is missed among the smoke. The amount of dollars has dropped, not went up with inflation but deflated dramatically and finally stabalized on equipment like welding. A 300$ Everlast at retail is working along a 1000$ max and in hand tools a dollar is working along 20 to do a lot of the worlds work. Do to choices available back in the day, vending it was 25 cents on the dollar but it went way down and quality went way up especially with some critical shopping.
We now got ruff service on wrenches we paid 1.50 for and they are still that today. A Sears wrench was 5 back then and a snap 20. The secret or money is made in marketing and not mfg where they got to be competitive and the cost of material and quality went up from new steel mills on the line in other countries, not worth it to save 20 a ton on wrenches when we can shove them all basically down the same line, brand many or most of them in different boxes and make 200 or more a ton, maybe 2000.
There is a generic deal most of them made to, the Western Forge concept, some of the raw stock so cheap to get quality on there is not market for the ****. Who wants to track all the screwdriver bits in the world, so much cheaper to get 1 box and shove them in the different handles than it is to get and stock 2 levels, control all of it.
They make an adjustable so well finished but blank, so good the user could never ever tell it from near the best made.
 
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Its got so competitive,,, even the poor can afford working tools and we talking so cheap here that a guy doesnt have to save the way Dad did for Sears in the 60's, 70's, 80's and even 90's and now even more complex tools have really hit the stride.
I havnt owned a cheap battery drill in quite some time, prior to 90, a BD that cost near 40$ and would be a screwdriver today at sub 20$, a Makita 9.6 was 150$. If you would have told me in 2000 I would be using a 50$ drill better than that in 2020 I would have said ********. I punch 15 holes with a 7/8 unibit in heavy siding steel, drove a couple dozen 3 inch deck screws, used this the whole afternoon on a single charge I would have said no fricken way.
Its better than the 12V DeWalt I followed the 9.6 with and so far as good as the red 14.4 after that at 1/3 the cost. Its almost as good as my 28, almost but its half the weight.
 
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If you said in 2006 a 300$ import will match up to the I paid 800 for with all the features in 2020 I would have said no, never would have thought of the deflation some of it has had,,, hard line tools along with electronics. Same thing, 20$ walkie talkie do what a 100$ one couldnt on 10% of the batteries in 1980.
Microwaves were expensive and we fix the first generation of those and vcr, took a while to figure out as the cost wend down it was cheaper to toss and we got free new features along for the ride. Fiddled and repaired and finally broke down and got a 150$ Walmart TV with new remote, new features, ran every day for 10+ years, buy another one now for 250 that is super feature loaded, 2x as big and bought a unit for my office, 75$, not even going to consider scrounging something used.
 
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Wouldnt buy any repair parts for a microwave today unless it was easy and only 10$. I still fix stuff, mostly I need and the fix is fast and or free, the acquisition cost hi or the time and usually got to work along new. I however forget 1.50 wrenches have a lifetime warranty, **** I gonna look for that HF breaker bar my guy broke with a 6 ft cheater.
 
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The real value in utility anymore is more step off the bottom. Its not the 9.99 HF grinder but the 30$ one, there is an oscillating tool, 28$ at Menards,,, not the same as the 40$ one which is the same as the 100$ one. There are cheaper end wrenches, some India and maybe some China and they are getting harder to find cause the next one up, a common Stanley or generic competitor, the WF of China makes a wrench so good for so little more there is not much call for the junk.
I bought better tools way back in the day, some along Cman, a few snaps but today if I was buying new,,, wouldnt for better items, would shop used and in new for common utility tools would be looking at that Stanley, MIT, Olympia class priced so low not worth worrying about cost, damage or loss over and work so well that if a guy couldnt read the name wouldnt know the difference.
 
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I have had a set like that in my truck for a few years. I'm ashamed to say I've done more work with it than my good home set. Hard working with a bag over your head.
 
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It isnt that quality isnt nice, or that its not a good thing, its just wouldnt bother so much today about all the what iffffff, would see if it actually skinned a knuckle or stripped a nut first, be a revelation to find out it didnt matter so much.
We had the discussion about the fancier car,, and its the same for tools, which one a guy wants is up to him but the hi options are nice, doesnt make it work fundamentally better and comes with way more higher cost of purchace and in maintenance. Some places may need the features. Makes them worth it.
I got no problem with better tools and even stay out of the threads about lots of upgrades when its a want. A guy wants some nicer wrenches, I get that but tell someone there is more value in it for turning bolts for most people and even most trade types and I say its not really or always so. A 24 yr old has been making a living in a junkyard with 2 sets of Husky he paid 22$ for 5 yrs ago isnt gonna get a promotion no matter what he buys and not gonna impress anyone with how serious he is.
 
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Aint gonna be nothing but 4 or 500$ liability. Its fine for those who can afford it, it may even be good it it is the motivation, just like jewlery or other hobby and to some extent there is a professional aspect and in many cases that cost is rather irrelevent in the grand scheme. But I watching the TV for some tractor pullers, top teams, Sears tools. A few Snaps,,, and maybe they got them but they wouldnt be a speed bump in that budget.
One of the best flat raters I know, retird from it, said,,, I never bought all that ****, he said, he would hop on the truck once in a while for some special gadget but used th3e same set of Cman 1/2 sockets hje started with and bought a few snaps in smaller sets as some guy simply couldnt afford thm and leaving town. His 3/8 were Snap, said he paid 30$ for one set and 50 for another. This was a pro done it all.
Another bud mine the same way, finally treated himself to a couple sets SK and they got what they needed but were not tool whores. Got another visit his first HF a while ago, spent 35 years having the truck stop, he cant believe how good the **** is and how cheap. Last box he bought back in the day 6500$ ad thought he got a deal, recently bought 650$ general and cant believe it, still giggling and feels like he stole it.
 
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Yesterday I was working on a lapidary saw at the club. The wife is the rockhound. "My, this wrench is a little thin."
 
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Wouldnt buy any repair parts for a microwave today unless it was easy and only 10$. I still fix stuff, mostly I need and the fix is fast and or free, the acquisition cost hi or the time and usually got to work along new. I however forget 1.50 wrenches have a lifetime warranty, **** I gonna look for that HF breaker bar my guy broke with a 6 ft cheater.
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I had a $800 convection over the oven microwave was 5 years old and the one before was 12 years old. I don't think we ever used the convection in either. Bought them so it was always there as a option.The 5 year old blew the fuse inside, i picked up about 50.00 in parts and wound up throwing it all away. Damn thing after 5 years is a grease trap and a fire waiting to happen anyway. I searched on line and picked up a Samsung non convection, I think it may have been right at 200.00. cheapest i could find in the size range and hung it up. If it makes it two years from now,I'll throw it away again.
 
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