OK, that may be a bit subjective, but I wanted y’all to know that I got my Harbor Freight catalog in the mail.
4 1/2 inch angle grinder, 5 amp motor, 10,000 rpm, comes with an extra set of user replaceable brushes… $19.99!!!
Solar powered auto darkening welding helmet… $129.99!!!
40 pc tap & die set SAE or Metric $12.99 each!!!
HVLP paint guns from $49.99!!!
'Scuse me, I gotta be alone with myself now.
I’ll stick to jerking off to nekkid women, thanks…
Harbor Freight’s all well and good, but in my experience:
Harbor Freight is to tools, as Big Lots is to electronics.
So…
Ain’t never heared of a Big!Lots. Their website sounds like they are part of a group that owns KB*Toys.
Huh?
Big Lots is what used to be Pic’n’Save. Good prices on some things (a 1,134g – 2.5 pound – bag of Famous Amos cookies for three bucks, tuna for $0.49/can), but lots of inferior-quality stuff.
Me? I’ll stick to Craftsman.
Big Lots=close out shopping. stuff that couldn’t get moved by other stores get bought and sold by Big Lots
I’ll go Craftsman for anything that does not have an electric motor. All my wrenches, screwdrivers, pliers, etc. are Craftsman (gotta love their replacement policy.) Years ago they changed makers of their electric motors and I’ve been quite unimpressed with the quality. I believe they buy their motors from the same company B&D/DeWalt does.
More Power!!
Argh, Argh.
Spritle: Got a Craftsman story…
My uncle bought a very stout Craftsman screwdriver many years ago (this was related to me by my father). Somehow he managed to bend it. He was not at all happy. He marched into sears with a scowl on his face, and a salesman saw him coming. Quickly, the salesman grabbed an identical screwdriver from the rack and met my uncle half-way down the aisle. They exchanged screwdrivers, but not words. My uncle turned and left with his new screwdriver and the silent exchange was over. Good timing, and good customer service.
Oh, I got the coolest tools recently. I was in an antique shop and picked up an old Yankee ratchet screwdriver just like dad had. I was in Home Depot and picked up a small Stanley Yankee screwdriver. Works great!
I’ll see your Harbor Freight and raise you a JC Whitney
::ahem:
There is NOTHING better than porn.
Enjoy the catalog.
Nonsense.
There’s the sort of sex that belongs in porn. 
“Ain’t nothin’ like the real thing, bay-bee…”
Mmmmmmmmmmm. Titanium Crowbar.
ahem
I don’t know why, as a blue blooded gal, I clicked on this thread (maybe it was remnants of my post in the Tomboy Thread), but it certainly wasn’t what I was expecting.
And you’re not alone. My SO gets the Harbor Freight stuff in the mail all the time. He flips through it, oohs and ahs, and says “look at all these tools that I need!”
About 20 years ago while working in a tire repair shop I removed a Craftsman 3/8" combination wrench from some poor sucker’s steelbelted radial. He had run over the wrench and managed to get the open end of the wrench through the tire and left the box end sticking out. I tried putting a bar through the box end and pulling mightily but was unable to pull the wrench out. Ended up breaking the wrench in half (not an easy job, either) and removing it in pieces. Noticed it was a Craftsman, so the next time I was at Sears I turned it in and was given a new one, no questions asked. I think I still have that replacement in my toolbox.
I do that when I go to Sears.
<wimpers>
Tools scare me.
But my new dolby 5.1 sound card… mmmmmmmmmmm
FFXI mmmmm
SOF 2 
Maybe it’s just me, but I saw:
and then
and I had to wonder…Inky, what were you planning on doing with that titanium crowbar?
Personally, I prefer a woman who doesn’t need to be pried open, but to each his own!