Other than the shit just stamped 'China' or 'Taiwan' the worst shit I've used is probably Husky. Stripped out several of their 1/2" ratchets, no hassle getting a replacement tho

>>2940847
Husky pliers. Mine all corroded within a year or two of owning I've bent couple needle noses just pulling cotter pins.

Honorable mention goes to HF's 12 ton press: mine disassembled itself violently when pressing some control arm bushings (although it went back together fine).

>>2940847
Aldi lawn mower

My Harbor Freight/Atlas electric lawnmower works great while it has a charge, my Atlas leaf blower is super convenient, but my Atlas weed whacker is unbalanced, extremely difficult to reload, and the auto feed never works. I hate that thing.

>>2940847
Black&Decker angle grinder. Got it as a gift from my grandma when I was a kid, who got it on discount at the hardware store. Had it lying around for a few years, since I was using my rpm-controlled fein (yep, had one as a kid - saved up for a year, but it was worth it) for everything.
Fast forward a couple years, and I'm cleaning my first car's underfloor of rust. Was cleaning the PVC coating with a wirebrush, then the rust with a csd, so I figured I could just use two grinders so I wouldn't have to shift discs all he time. Put the wirewheel on the B&D.
Lasted a whole 20 min, then it started shaking like crazy. Disassembled it, and found the bearing was worn. Said bearing is pressed into a cast aluminum piece with no way to remove it, you need to change the entire head to fix it. Contacted B&D, they wanted ~120€ for that piece, while getting the same grinder new would've been 140€.
For comparison, on the Fein (where I checked just in case), the bearing is a standard ball bearing, held in place by two screws, with spares costing 15€. Buy cheap, buy twice, I guess.

>>2940862
Lol, didn't realize this was a thing. Love aldis though.

>>2940892
Kinda similar situation for me. I had bought my first house and my grandma was coming to visit so I wanted to get the house to look as good as possible, but didn't have a weed eater. I was cash poor die to the house, but had some Amazon gift cards. I went online and the only weed eater that would've came in time was a black and decker. That thing fucking sucked. It was so weak, it basically just slapped the grass around. The real kicker though? My grandma canceled on me that day cause she wasn't feeling well(she's over 90 years old), so I would've been fine with getting whatever other weedeater that was available. Fuck black and decker.

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Yo dawg, I heard you was looking for some of them single use tools.

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>>2940847
>craftsman breaks
>get new craftsman
>millennials don't understand why then craftsman are designed to break (again)

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>>2940847
Wera screwdrivers

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Off-brand Mercedes (telescoping) spring compressor. I don't have high speed footage, but I swear the "cast" discs and/or the central pinion deformed enough to let go at full compression. Fortunately I wasn't in the way and the car to the side wasn't even damaged, but I'm never removing Mercedes springs again.

>>2941049
It shouldn't take that much to get the springs off when the car is in the air.

>>2941075
Lol thats exactly what I thought before I almost took out a limb

>>2940847
The free Allen keys that come with ikea funiture

Walmart brand called workman’s choice

>>2941056
Lol. This faggot is still pissed that he can't fix anything himself.

>>2940959
Wera is a junk peddler who does a lot of online shilling when people call them out. Saw it on tool forums.

Grizzly 1/4" drive ratchet. Out of the box it didn't work, it would just ratchet in both directions. Left it out in the rain and the rust took up the loose tolerances and made it work.

>>2940959
Seconding this. I twisted the shaft clean out of the handle on their $60 multibit screwdriver and I didn't even have a wrench on it.

Bought a $20 corded impact wrench thinking I could rotate my car tires faster. RATATATATATATAT shit this one is really stuck TATATATAT did that for like 10 minutes before grabbing the breaker bar and it loosened right up like nothing. Put it away, haven't thought about it since until now.

>>2940847
i bought an Ozito electric lawnmower for my brothers one square meter of lawn, the fucking thing stalls on 3cm of grass.
like, i get that tool batteries are 18v and fuck all amps, but holy shit.
my mains voltage weed whacker does some good work, even with a MUCH smaller motor, so i'm guessing its just the battery letting it down, but holy shit, i was hoping it would at least do better than the literal meme push mower i got him for his last birthday.

>>2941833
Yet torque channel just tested them and only got beaten by pb swiss.

>>2940919
My dad loves this store. Needless to say, his garage is packed full of dogshit half-broken tools with zero resale value.

>>2942067
>My dad loves this store. Needless to say, his garage is packed full of dogshit half-broken tools with zero resale value.
I'm assuming Princess Auto is just like Harbor Freight? I only have experience with HF, but you can get some decent deals on quality stuff there. Some of the stuff they sell is absolute dogshit. You have to use your common sense when looking at and purchasing tools from there. I view a lot of their stuff as a kit that I will have to modify to get how I want it to be, but will get me 90% of the way to a finished product.

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I don't think I've ever successfully used this tool.

>>2942044
Maybe they just have shitty quality control

>>2942077
>hes not old enough to remember hand crank windows

>>2942077
>>2942081

That is not a standard pair of vise grips. Looks like a ductwork crimping tool for shrinking one end of the duct to go inside another...

>>2940919
>>2942076
PA is a bit better than HF but only a bit, and not as cheap even accounting for canadian prices.
You don't go there for quality stuff but most of it is also mostly not "break in one day of normal use" like some of the worst shit you find at HF, they're a little more selective with what they stock, but it's still only like, the better end of cheap stuff HF sells rather than actual quality tools. I think they share a lot of suppliers even, just brand shit differently after it comes out of the chinese factory.
PA being a bit more expensive means it does a worse job competing with mid tier name brand shit on sale at big box stores though, compared to HF, but I hear HF has been cutting sales and raising prices and shit over the last couple years so maybe it's not as different these days.

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>>2940847
i don't consider them shit, but most ppl here would, so here's my hoarded total tools collection for your viewing pleasure.

>>2942233
Do you eventually plan on using them, or are you strictly a collector?

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>>2942269
I have been using them for years. yesterday I installed pic rel.
I just like maintaining tools. I think it's because of inflation now that I can't afford photo equipment, or PC parts, that I've started hoarding home tools as a cheaper alternative that still appeals to the lizard part of my brain

>>2942077
i use these for everything (curved jaw), from removing chair gas cylinder to pulling out gray hairs. they're fun to fiddle with.

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>>2943544
>i use these for everything (curved jaw), from removing chair gas cylinder to pulling out gray hairs.

Based.

>>2943548
oh man not the shiny ones. flaunt your collection anon.

one time i used a sharp rock as a screwdriver, that was pretty bad

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>>2943687
I use my Esee little guys as screwdrivers and pry bars quite often and they’re the best damn pry bar knives I have ever owned.

My boss needed a flathead screwdriver to pry some shit recently, handed him the Esee and he was like “No I need to pry! I don’t want to break your knife!” And I’m like “heckin try to break it brother!”. Only knives I have ever carried for more than a few months without snapping the tip prying.

Best tool to use for it’s non-intended purpose!

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The worst tool I've ever used was this fucking thing here, it's more nerve racking and dangerous than a jeep jack. There's praying it doesn't slide off the post to being scared of a slight mistake bumping the wire while trying to tie it down and it sliding off the clamp somehow is a nightmare. Even taking it off once you tie it down doesn't feel safe, never again and no more wire fence installs.

>>2942077
As the name implies, it is a "vice" "grip". The tool is basically an adjustable quick clamp to hold and clamp things together, not to rotate them like a wrench nor pry the staple/nail or turn the stripped phillips head into a hex bolt.

>>2944138
I fucking love my goldenrod fence stretchers...

All my tools work great i dont like shitty fine screwdrivers for electronics. Its gotta be wiha.. shitty screw drivers and stripped screws can really piss me off but im good at avoiding it.

Shitty digital calipers are another annoying tool. All i own are shitty calipers becuase I dont want to buy a good one.

>>2941049
You fucked that up and did it wrong.. . What did you use your impact on it like a dumbass?

>>2940847
>buy chineseum measuring tape
>open package
>rubber ass smell overwhelms me
>hands become greasy just touching the rubber
>peel off the rubber but the smell is stuck to the plastic
For $2 what can I expect.

-can openers
-battery weed wacker
-old bandsaws
-whirlpool washing machines
-the oil filter wrench with chain and the chevy metal housing wrapping 75% around the oil filter
-the straw for expanding foam after one use
-spanner and blade wrenches I can only find when I don't need them
-chicago electric trim router, angle grinder, everything tbqh

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>>2940847
One of those vibrator things.
The 6 gorillion in 1 oscillating tools.

Supposed to be great at everything, only good at making cuts without drilling a hole first (if you don't have space for a circular saw) yet you'll see dozens of attachments for them, the only one of which works (and only for shallow cuts) is the saw.

>>2944297
>only one of which works (and only for shallow cuts) is the saw
still does it better than anything else

>>2944297
buy better blades

>>2944297
>>2944325
>3 pack of blades
>$40

>>2944297
Well yeah it you are expecting it to replace every tool in your arsenal you are going to be sorely disappointed. They are excellent for plunge cuts as you stated and cutting up flush against other obstacles and into corners. For those few tasks alone they are worth having.

>>2940847
I bought a very cheap spare welding helmet. It had a nice glass on it, but the helmet's mechanism for tilting was bad out of the factory, you couldn't possibly set it to a normal angle. After drilling extra adjustment holes, I could set it to a normal angle, but it would either constantly flop down, or never flop down. I threw it out after 5 minutes of use, it was unsalvageable.

>>2940847
Borrow a tool from a Hispanic person, angle grinder with a cracked housing that flexes as you use it is the best condition shit they’ll own

10mm socket so worn that it just looks round

>>2940847
silverline.
all their tools are made of chinese butter.

>>2940959
>>2941833
>>2941991
actually flabbergasted, i rate wera very highly, they make a few different grades of quality but their real good quality stuff is excellent.

>>2942077
back when i was a kid my dad had no tools, but we had like 10 pairs of these for some reason and i'd pretty much build a whole bike with them. ol reliable

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Cheap consumables are the worst. Recently, it wasn’t this brand but maybe they’re from the same shitty Chinese factory, work decided to save some money on wire wheels. I got hours out of the last DeWalt wire wheel, and then stuck the generic ass one on there and within 15min of grinding off paint, every single wire was stuck in my gloves and pants.

On the parts/tools reorder list: “4.5in wire wheels for angle grinder. Name brand please. They are 5x the cost but last 10x as long and are not grenades”

Cheap sawblades are fucking terrible every time too. Even if you get real carbide teeth on a circ saw blade, it’s real fun when they’re not brazed properly and fly off at thousands of RPM.

And drill bits, save yourself the trouble and stock up on DeWalt like 15pc sets when they’re on sale for $10 at Lowes and Home Depot.

>>2942077
because that is for clamping (pinching) hoses

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Craftsman 3/8 ratchet.
I bent the teeth on it because I put too much force on it breaking a bolt loose on my old motorcycle.
>Use a breaker bar dumbass
There's no reason a tool should break, when I'm using it one handed with no cheater bar on the end of it.

>>2944891
That’s kind of surprising. Quick release ratchets almost always snap at the square before you fuck the internals.

I snapped the square on a DeWalt 3/8” ratchet a couple weeks ago, but that may or may not have had a cheater on it after my size 13 boot was on it…

>>2944891
The quality has gone that bad ?
i've used the same harbor freight 3/8 ratchet I bought for 9.88$ equally as a hammer and a ratchet since I got it in 2016. what the hell kinda shit are you guys doing to tools?

Oh and my choice is O'Reilly's No name brand brake flaring tool, that inverted flare die is made out of sliver colored cheese, no matter what size, had to return at least 3 kits to fix one rusty car.

harbor freight knockoff bosch rotary hammer/chipping gun
absolute garbage
used it for the day i needed it, doing sidewalk, returned it the next day. it barely survived

It's not the shittiest ever but I've found the quality control on milwaukee portable bandsaw blades to be terrible. Some of them last forever, some of them immediately strip teeth off. I had one that snapped on me and I then proceeded to break it into little pieces with minimal effort. The thing was about as brittle as dried pasta. I tried this with the next blade from the same box after it broke and it was much more difficult to break. I like the portable bandsaw, but finding a blade that isn't a dud has proven very difficult.

>>2944297
These things are great for remodeling and light duty demolition work. I don't use mine very often, but every once in a while I have to use it to cut out trim or drywall and it makes short work of things that would otherwise have been a pain to do. It's by far the easiest way to cut something flush to another surface. I think these are very good tools when thy're used in that way, they've just been oversold as a solution to other things for which there is a much better tool.

>>2940847
Rectal thermometer

>>2945389
>Rectal thermometer

Shoulder length palpation gloves.

>>2944173
I have Mitutoyo 505 with a dude's name engraved on them and a shop's sticker saying they were last calibrated in '99 and they're great. Think I payed £50 15 years ago, worth every penny.

>>2944297
These things saved my life when I was having to cut out tongue and grove floorboards to lift them. 2 days of hate.

>>2944297
I got one in a combo kit when I switched to DW. Probably wouldn't have bought it on its own but it's nice to have, sometimes it's really the only thing that works. I've come to think of it as an angle grinder for wood. I also don't really see the point in a corded one for 99% of people, I know a lot of /diy/ is stuck in the '90s but IMO it's an ideal tool for cordless, you almost always use it in weird places and end up running it for less time than it'd take to set up and then put away a corded one. The blades are ridiculous though, and there's a definite difference between cheap and expensive ones.

>>2944173
>>2947334
I've been getting by with a Pittsburgh I just started a machining class so I'm gonna have to break down and finally buy a decent one. Instructor specifically said the HF ones won't cut it and the official recommendation is a $135ish Mitutoyo so I guess I'll just get that, I'd love to have something Starrett instead but their cheapest ones are like $100 more and apparently worse.

>>2947334
>payed
i thought it was only yanks that fucked up basic spelling like that
that's depressing

>>2940847
>What are the shittiest tools you have ever used?
>ryobi anything
>bosch routers (x3)
>metabo drill (not the HPT the made in germany one)
>bosch batteries and their impact driver
>stanley fatmax chisels
>dewalt finish sander
tools i have broken/had fail on me over the years

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>>2947344
the mits calipers are the goat. no comparison. ive cut bearings fits for years with them and they always match the micrometer better than a half thou without the potential mike fuck up of missing a 25 thou line on the barrel
i even occasionally play concrete floor basketball with mine which doesnt kill them unless it bends the tips
i only buy them from the msc sales flyer as i dont trust anywhere else to not send counterfeit shit that floods the market
https://www (d0t) mscdirect (d0tcom)/FlyerView?contentPath=/sales-catalogs/mitutoyo
they usually have free freight on fridays for $99+

>>2947354
Well I was edyumacated abroad, in a shithole (more of a shithole than England). But yeah I'm pretty dumb and don't care much about spelling anyway. You understood what I was saying.

If you're going to point out my retardation you could at least bother your ass(or arse) to capitalise and punctuate. It's more depressing to write like a zoomer phonefaggot.

>>2947358
Oh nice, that's the best price I've seen from a trustworthy seller too. Apparently Travers has some kind of student discount but it seems like it has to be done through an instructor so I'll have to talk to mine on Tuesday.

>>2940847
Anyone can break a Crescent-style wrench but that's one case where old Snap-on versions are glorious. Mine is so well plated and machined it works smoothly without lubricant (though I use motorcycle chain wax for such things).

>>2947358
I have one as does my machineshopownerbro (or did, he just retired wealthy). Their mics and indicators are sweet too.

>>2947389
>machineshopowner
>retired wealthy
Man, that's the dream right there. I'm hoping I can find some boomer who needs a protege to pass his shop down to when he retires.

is this a special kind of steel with this patina? my 250lb friend used a 6ft cheater bar on the wrench and it cracked.

i have no clue where i got this wrench (prob side of the road) but it had like no play in it, very nice tool. where can i find an affordable replacement? flea market?

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is this a special kind of steel with this patina? my 250lb friend used a 6ft cheater bar on the wrench and it cracked.

i have no clue where i got this wrench (prob side of the road) but it had like no play in it, very nice tool. where can i find an affordable replacement? flea market?

abcd

>>2947401
I think it's just a regular Crescent wrench from back when stuff was made well in America instead of outsourced to China or wherever. AFAIK Bahco is the gold standard for new production adjustables but I'll say that I have some Korean-made Kleins that I like quite a bit and you can get those reasonably cheaply at Lowe's.

I once had a small hammer, I would call it a little old lady hammer only good for hanging up pictures with a gentle tap. The head came off the hollow aluminum shaft the very first time I tried to pry a nail with its claw.

Also, the dewalt cordless 20v drills actually have pretty good batteries and motor force but the handle is only held on by a couple of tiny rivets pressed into plastic. If you need torque from them, they snap in half in your hands.

>>2944650
This is funny

>>2947401
>brand and model in plain sight on handle in raised lettering for emphasis
>hurr what is this durr
Why are you like this.

>>2944891
Considering that stanley owns them, MAC/Dewalt/Proto ect. I am suprised to say that is the worst in the lineup for everything including power tools. I rather use my beater harbor freight mechanics tools/power tools over anything even remotely branded Craftsman. They even source from the same factories as HF but still cut corners on materials it is absurd how much worse it is than even Husky or Cobalt by comparison.

>>2947334
Around 2020 my dumpster diving co-worker found an old wooden case with a clean 12" Mitutoyo dial caliper in it. He knows I'm into tools and thought I would be interested.

> where did you get this
> dude you know how expensive this is
> gonna be honest, you could sell this for decent $$$

He said nah, nah, you can have it, really

Cleaned and restored the case, cleaned up every sq. mm of the tool, still 100% in calibration, now lives in my treasure drawer when not in use

Around the same time my boss's father-in-law had a really old 48" metal ruler that she thought I could use, leans it up against my workroom table
> cool thanks I'll check it out
> graduated in 64ths all the way
> engraved "L.S. STARRETT"
> anxiously check the corners that were on the floor, they are not dinged up
> check website for current price, they're like $700
> hang it up in a safe place now

jeez nobody appreciates precision tools anymore

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>>2940919
Not too bad when looking for a $150 (Tax included) 7.5HP Chinese Honda with electric start because you know an employee so you can build a generator so you can use winches all the time on the ATV to pull lumber. On a side note, I would love a chain capstan for that.

>>2944297
The cordless DW version is one of the best versions of that tool. Far better than the TTI (Milwaukee) version. Fantastic for cutting drywall, flooring, trim work, etc. The EZ Arc blades on Amazon are fairly decent for how cheap they are.

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I dont even know if this thing is shit compared to other plate compactors but I fucking hate this thing.

>>2948031
Craftsman combination wrenches did fairly well in a comparison video by Torque Test Channel 3 years ago. Performance was right in line with Tekton. I primarily use Wright brand wrenches and sockets but for the average DIY guy, they could do a lot worse than Craftsman. Particularly in a world flooded with Amazon junk that are guaranteed to break knuckles.

>>2948255
I have a Wen drill press. The variable sheave was fucked from day one. I'm probably going to upgrade the motor and put a VFD on it. I should have just held out for an old US-made drill press. Wen stuff is usually disposable junk with a few exceptions.

>>2948418
I don't want to believe that clock illustration is real.

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It remains to be seen, but things aren't looking the best for this so far. School bought and installed four of them over the summer, yesterday was the first time students ever used them, and one is already broken down. (I was on the next machine over and saw that the guy using it didn't do anything retarded either.)

Also maybe it's just because they're new but man some of the controls are insanely stiff.

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super poorfag friend bought some no-name impact socket set from aliexpress for like $5. was a huge set. The sizes we used all did fine for ~5 uses then deformed and started slipping and rounding bolts on his pickup. He was pretty disappointed, we had to drive to my place and grab my tekton set to finish the job. He decided it was worth spending a little more for a harbor freight set, lol.

For me personally, a few of the super dirt cheap tools at harbor freight stand out in memory. I needed a basic screwdriver set and some pliers to leave in the dump truck we use to haul water around the farm. Tried the el cheapo pittsburgh shit at harbor freight and jesus christ I knew I was buying bottom of the barrel but I didn't realize how deep that barrel went. the pliers have teeth as soft as butter, the screwdriver tips turned into fine metal shavings after less than 10 uses. I read the "doyle" demolition screwdrivers at HF were some tough shit and upgraded to those, and they've held stout for several years now, just grabbed some channellock pliers the next time I went by atwoods (think regional tractor supply variant) which have been fine

>>2948553
>hauling water for cattle
God I'm glad that's not me.

>>2948553
the tractor supply jobsmart shit rocks for the price. ive beat the impact allen sockets like they owe me money and they havent rounded yet. same with the $13 walmart impact sets

>>2948539
Damn, and I thought the ones we had at my school were cheap. You couldn't even set the height on the tailstock, which was not even centered on that axis. But at least the speed control wasn't like these.

>>2948576
Yeah, there's some definite, obvious cost cutting going on with these things. It'll be interesting to see how they work out through the semester, I was excited about being the first person to use a brand new lathe but after seeing the one fail (some kind of electrical issue as far as we could tell) and feeling how stiff some of the controls on mine are (the auto feed lever in particular basically has to be punched to pop in and out) I'm a lot more apprehensive now. Hopefully it wears in with some use and at least smooths out.

At least when we get over to the mill side there's a very nicely maintained and recently scraped '50s Bridgeport that I've already put a claim on, alongside the less impressive import machines.

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>>2940847
pic rel broke after like 4 uses

>>2948599
Nu-Craftsman is a fucking abomination. It's weird to me since SBD is perfectly capable of making good reliable tools (DeWalt etc.) and could make Craftsman into a Ryobi competitor - something the market is really lacking - if they just put a little more effort in.

>>2948625
Maybe they're competing against themselves, in some weird 4D chess business move.

>>2948553
>super poorfag friend bought some no-name impact socket set from aliexpress for like $5. was a huge set.
My dad has been buying random cheap shit from aliexpress just because its cheap for a while now and it frustrates me to no end because he knows its shit and he's basically just spending money to see how shit it is before realizing that its cluttering his whole damn house and trying to hawk it off on me.
>Hey Anon, want 7 slotted spoons/a set of electrical screwdrivers/an air fryer/a smartphone

>>2948646
My grandad is terrible about buying random shit he sees advertised on facebook. Recently and slightly more /diy/ related, he bought some SK socket sets, which aren't really bad, but he thought SK was still a USA brand and thought ~$250 for the complete 1/4" and 3/8" sets was a total steal! I'm debating on if I should tell him SK was acquired by a chinese company a few years ago and everything he bought was made in china

>>2948585
>Hopefully it wears in with some use and at least smooths out.
It will.

>>2942067
Be nice to your dad

>>2948656
Good to know. I guess it's kinda cool knowing that this lathe and I are gonna lose our machining virginities together, probably not very many people get to buck break a brand new machine tool. (At least not decent size ones.)

>>2948646
But did any of it break?

936 soldering iron hot air combo. Shit is so underpowered its sad even. Hot air part is fine, but soldering iron is just pathetic.

>>2942233
yeah love buying total/incgo, stanley, yato etc stuff they are alright
the real shitty tools are no name crap that some guys sells from a bench in a pile half of them are rusted and falling apart

>>2940847
>2004
>Shitty contractor I was working for was paying $10/hr and expected us to buy our own tools
>Bought $10 Chinese framing hammer
>Take first swing at masonry nail and a chunk of steel chipped off of the hammer head and hit me in the face
>Couple more swings to drive it home
>Probably 4-5th swing of the hammer and the wooden handle sheared clean off near the head

Also, Harbor Freight abrasive wafer blades for cutoff saws circa 2010 would grind down in pieces to the size of a grinder blade before cutting through a piece of 3/4 rebar.

Dangerous tools and I don't know how they get away with selling this shit without lawsuits from people getting hurt.

>>2942206
i got their low profile long reach car jack for 210, not a bad price

does anyone buy tools from Ross tool isle?
I bought knee pads for super cheap like 10 bucks.
also got a set of no name screwdrivers on clearance for 7 bucks. just gonna keep them outside i think for hitting shit with, they even have a little metal nub on the bag designed to be hit like a chisel, like they knew you didn't really want a nice screwdriver, just a cheap ghetto chisel/pick/pry bar

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>>2948811
>got a set of no name screwdrivers on clearance for 7 bucks. just gonna keep them outside i think for hitting shit with, they even have a little metal nub on the bag designed to be hit like a chisel
So lemme get this straight... you're gonna keep the screwdrivers outside for hitting shit with, likely flinging them at target(s) or using the grips like hammers, and the bag has a little metal nub on it, because the bag itself is designed to be hit like a chisel?

Idk what kind of tools you bought, but they sound pretty based

>>2948828
it was a typo, i meant the back of the screwdriver, like the bottom of it has a metal nub that looks like it's meant to be struck

>>2944297
it's 100% the blades. Thought mine was shit for like 2 years, got a cheap diamond blade for it and it cut like a hot knife through butter for weeks.

But it's not the "one size fits all" cutting tool they market it as.

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>>2940847
Growing up all we had for screwdrivers were these

My white collar dad would buy the cheapest tools for one job then just keep them forever and attempt to cheap out on the next job

We moved and didn’t have a harbor freight for about 10 years

So every Phillips screw I’ve ever attempted from age 7-16 was automatically stripped unless I managed to use my friends screw driver set for the job

That was over 25 years ago and I still automatically drill out and extract every Phillips from the jump

>>2947401
There's always vintage tools listed on Mercari.

I found this exact wrench on there for 22$

>>2948933
Sounds like user error. I've not had much issue with HF screwdrivers really... Push hard like a man while you're turning it and it'll bite. They do wear out faster than a good screwdriver, but just grab another of the HF freebie screwdrivers and start using it instead. Turn the old worn out one into an awl, or pick, or prybar...

>All bi hex sockets I use strip
>Any no name socket extenders
>No name hex nuts that come with hardware
with cheap, or unknown, grade tools I feel anxious if I don't have multiples

>>2949100
>No name hex nuts that come with hardware
Can't say I've ever seen any names on nuts and bots, aside from hardness ratings.

>>2949146
true, I wouldn't know how to identify them either but they came with some cheap auto parts online and they smeared when I tightened them a bit

>>2949147
Must've been made of Silly Putty...

>>2944642
>t. Wera-shill

>>2949146
>Can't say I've ever seen any names on nuts and bots, aside from hardness ratings.
Some bolts are branded. Rockford is one I've seen a lot and Caterpillar bolts usually are stamped.

I had two different duralast two ton scissor jacks collapse on me as soon as I got the wheels off the ground.
Which is whatever, I bought a harbor fright floor jack instead, but one of them collapsed while people were underneath the shitbox too which was a bit more danger than I care for. Always throw the a rim under the car when you jack it.

>>2944891
>Craftsman 3/8 ratchet.
I still have a set of those I use, having lifetime warranty-ed like 5 of the fuckers in quarter inch and 3/8ths over a decade. The ones I have left have survivorship bias etched in them, and haven't broken in going on 20 years now.
Any place still honor the lifetime guarantee? I think the last Sears & Roebuck closed a little bit ago.

i use ryobi at work. i've had my current grinder and impact for like 4 years, lol. the sawzalls do suck ass, though. i go through at least 1 a year. i get a lot of shit for it, but i'm also not in debt to the company on a payment plan for $1,200 in milwaukee shit like a goddamned retard. plus you can get them used on marketplace for dirt cheap and they're not burnt to shit garbage some mexican pawned for meth, like pawnshop milwaukees or dewalts, since they're used by homeowners who did that one project that one time.

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>>2949731
the hammer drill kinda sucks too, but it hasn't died yet, and i've installed a million and one hosebibs

>>2949727
>scissor jacks
there is a reason those are called widowmakers

>>2949737
nta but i aint getting under a car without two jacklifts, the jack i used to jack the fucker up with, and a tire laid beneath. that tard crawling under them with scissor jacks and a tire. no thank you.

>>2949738
jackstands*

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>>2948261
>I should have just held out for an old US-made drill press.
That's the way to go, added this one to my drill press fleet recently.

>>2949737
So are bumper jacks.

>>2949733
>hosebibs
So that's what we're calling spigots now?

>>2949752
it's pronounced spicket

>>2949746
shes a beaut bud
put a drum switch on the left side so you can plug reverse it to power tap

>>2949755
Not where I'm from.

Also,
>spicket
>noun
>1. An obsolete form of spigot.

lol

>>2949752
well, they're winged boiler drains actually, i dont know why i said hosebibs, but yeah, i call hosebibs hosebibs because they're called hosebibs

>>2949774
This is literally the first time in my life that I've ever heard "hosebibs".

>>2949846
I suppose it's a regional slang. Hosebib, wall hydrant, spigot, whatever... All the same thing.

>>2949849
It's a certain type of spigot. Code and prints call for various different types depending on the application

>>2949861
What are the differences?

>>2940959
Holy shit
I haven't seen one of your posts in years

Good job delicately smearing some clean goop on your brand new screwdrivers

>>2949990
Not him, but our hiatuses must've been the same length. I never realized he left.

>>2944297
these are awesome for grout removal

he's been here literally the whole time retards

>>2950347
I guess that explains why I never realized he left.

>>2940920
>pay $13 for $2 screwdriver set
>$0.21 screwdriver breaks
>go to the store to get a replacement
>wow their warranty is so great
>let me just buy this $6 socket set for $29 while I'm at it

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>>2950319
I been busy not-/diy/ing

Upgraded to pro status and too busy talking to IRL people and buying a pickup truck.

>>2950391
>talking to IRL people
Sounds awful.

>>2942206
their propoint line are decent tools. their regular powerfist line is does fill an important low price niche that wasn't around before. they have a good selection of cheap hydraulics that no one carried before amazon and the like appeared.

>>2950408
This weekend a lady was showing me pics of her daughter like “Look! She’s going to a wedding today! Doesn’t she look good! She’s not married!” ;^)

95% sure she was trying to hook me up. And the daughter was pretty hot but do you tell somebody’s mom that you think her daughter is hot? Or do you compliment the genetics and try to get a 55 year old blowjob?

Oh and then the whole thing about me being married could be an issue.

>>2950555
>pretty hot but do you tell somebody’s mom that you think her daughter is hot? Or do you compliment the genetics and try to get a 55 year old blowjob?
why not both?

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>>2940847
>What are the shittiest tools you have ever used?
none. I buy tools for a purpose. sometimes I buy the cheapest shittiest tool because I need to modify it for a specific job. The funny thing is that those tools still work after decades.

even the cheap harbor freight air tools I bout in the late 80's are still going strong. Their $9 grinders rock on.

ironically it's the expensive ones that often break from "abuse" like knipex flush cut flush cutters that you accidentally try to cut something that is hardened. Or the Aven flush cutters that people raved about, that arrived misaligned.

No tool is shit if it gets the job done. OP's pic is not a shitty tool, it's the wrong tool for whatever someone ugga dugga'd on.

The only tools I have ever broke were because I used them in a way they were never designed for.

>>2940859
>Mine all corroded
don't leave your tools exposed to moisture, and the instant you see rust treat it. your tools rusted because you don't use them.

>>2940920
>get new craftsman
I have 2 craftsman screw drivers that need replacing, I cannot exchange them anywhere because they will only accept an exchange if they have the EXACT same tool. can't honor a warranty if you no longer make the tool wink wink.

pic related is a tool invented by my grandfather in the early 50's. he died before he could do anything with it (4 packs a day). I may one day make a better version of it.

if I had to pick a crappy tool it would be the ratchet sets harbor freight sold in the early 80's. total garbage. if the sockets didn't break the palls in the ratchet would after a single ugga dugga.