Thread: Harbor Freight Tool Pass or Fail a tool thread

I buy a lot of engine stands. Cheap n pretty solid.
I get the 750lb capacity ones.

The wheels don't roll for shit but the stand itself aint bad.


My uncle bought and H frame press.
Broke the pressing bar had to weld a new piece on.
Still in action everyday.

have the shop press, i love it. Just hadn't heard much about the bins. We'll give them a shot.

depending on what bins they are they are usually pretty cheap.
I bought some plastic ones from HF and they were useless.

I would get some steel bins.

The thing I don't like about those bins are they are open all the time and collect dust and crap in them. If they are in an enclosed area somehow they would be cool. I am on the look out for library card index drawers as an alternative.

HF red bandsaw gets a pass, aside from needing to adjust it and change the blade they work great. Oh and reenforcing the stand is a good idea too. Lots of mods for these out there too

I use their hand bandsaw just about every day as well and it's awesome. A++. Anyone used any of their metal breaks??

Anybody have this 12 ton hydraulic press? Want to do wheel bearings on the sentra.anything else to buy with it recommended?

12 Ton Shop Press

3-size 3-jaw puller kit sucks ass, very badly. Tried to remove a crank pulley and broke all the jaws on all 3 sizes. Took it back and got another set. Immediately broke again. So I took those back and got a refund. Went a few buildings down and rented a Auto Zone jaw puller. Popped right off on the first try.

Been having ok luck with the 3" bench grinder with flex shaft "dremel" attachment.

I have it and used it several months ago to do my wheel bearings among other tasks. It's a nice unit at a great price. My only word of caution is make sure all 3 boxes you get are the newer Silver model. When I picked mine up, 1 of the 3 boxes was for the older Orange unit and they are not compatible. When I took it back to pick up the correct box, we discovered that all of the boxes the store had were for the old unit - same part/ID number. The local warehouse had screwed up, but the store manager was cool and let me take the floor unit and return the remaining 2 boxes the following weekend. They've probably got this figured out by now, but it was surprising to me as a long time HF customer.

Weird the one I baught came in two boxes .one long one and one compact one

Hmm, maybe it was only 2 then. Did the jack come in it's own box inside the larger of the two boxes? Maybe that's what I'm remembering as the 3rd box... it's been several months now and it wasn't my focus. In my case, the box that the feet/cross supports came in was the older orange type and didn't work with the newer silver unit.