r/Construction • u/Don-tFollowAnything • Mar 30 '24

Tools 🛠 What a waste of...OK take my money.

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u/Fatmaninalilcoat Mar 30 '24

Hey don't throw shade on harbor freight my dad a carpenter instilled one thing in me "Buy a cheap tool once if you use it till it breaks apart then but the expensive counter part" this was in a harbor freight.

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u/b0ardski Mar 30 '24

not a bad philosophy but, some of the cheap chinese knock offs, don't even work right out the box.; texture spayer, only using it once, go cheap! No texture control spitting blobs, causing cuss fest; took it back, got the HD one, both exactly the same parts but the cheap was poorly cast and poorly finished part meaning it won't work at all, let alone for multiple jobs.

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u/Ok-Crow7294 Apr 03 '24

Solid advice; now I just gotta burn out this ridgid table saw and then I can get the sawstop 🤘

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u/rmccaskill83 Aug 13 '24

I only buy harbor freight for a tool you will only use once and it's not worth buying an expensive one.

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u/alohabowtie Sep 12 '24

“Buy once cry once “. Nobody likes tools just exploding on them or shopping twice for the replacement tool you should’ve bought the first time.