What are the shittiest tools you have ever used?
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
>>2940847Husky 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).
>>2940847Aldi 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.
>>2940847Black&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.
>>2940862Lol, didn't realize this was a thing. Love aldis though. >>2940892Kinda 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.
Yo dawg, I heard you was looking for some of them single use tools.
>>2940847>craftsman breaks>get new craftsman>millennials don't understand why then craftsman are designed to break (again)
>>2940847Wera screwdrivers
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.
>>2941049It shouldn't take that much to get the springs off when the car is in the air.
>>2941075Lol thats exactly what I thought before I almost took out a limb
>>2940847The free Allen keys that come with ikea funiture Walmart brand called workman’s choice
>>2941056Lol. This faggot is still pissed that he can't fix anything himself.
>>2940959Wera 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.
>>2940959Seconding 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.
>>2940847i 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.
>>2941833Yet torque channel just tested them and only got beaten by pb swiss.
>>2940919My 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.
I don't think I've ever successfully used this tool.
>>2942044Maybe they just have shitty quality control
>>2942077>hes not old enough to remember hand crank windows
>>2942077>>2942081That 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>>2942076PA 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.
>>2940847i don't consider them shit, but most ppl here would, so here's my hoarded total tools collection for your viewing pleasure.
>>2942233Do you eventually plan on using them, or are you strictly a collector?
>>2942269I 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
