Been awhile since I've sampled the aroma of the local Harbor Freight, but I've got a wood project rebuilding our 30 year old bed with 12 drawers in a base.
HF offers 3 different staplers, manual, heavy duty, and electric, plus the pneumatic which I already own, but don't want to drag a hose up to the bedroom and fire up the compressor. I bought the electric $16, to make some of the one handed tacking I need to do a bit easier. Seems to work fine, 18" AC cord, so extension cord is a must.
21 pc tapered drills, 7 bits, stops, and cutters for chamfering. I wasn't sure this was what I needed, so instead of $10 for a made in China set at HF, I bought one Vermont American bit for $4.50 at the local Ace Hardware where the guy told me its the right thing for drilling wood screw pilot holes.
None of the boxes of screws looked appealing to me, so bought them as well at Ace. Not so much a quality issue as that I needed 24 #8 1 1/4" long, and the numbers didn't work out well in odd sizes.
Portable folding platform on sale at HF for $25, picked up the box, but saw a display unit as I was carrying it out, looked it over some and put back the box. Looked gimmicky, did not inspire confidence to stand on, and I opted not to take up the space storing it between uses.
Nothing else seemed too tempting.
HF offers 3 different staplers, manual, heavy duty, and electric, plus the pneumatic which I already own, but don't want to drag a hose up to the bedroom and fire up the compressor. I bought the electric $16, to make some of the one handed tacking I need to do a bit easier. Seems to work fine, 18" AC cord, so extension cord is a must.
21 pc tapered drills, 7 bits, stops, and cutters for chamfering. I wasn't sure this was what I needed, so instead of $10 for a made in China set at HF, I bought one Vermont American bit for $4.50 at the local Ace Hardware where the guy told me its the right thing for drilling wood screw pilot holes.
None of the boxes of screws looked appealing to me, so bought them as well at Ace. Not so much a quality issue as that I needed 24 #8 1 1/4" long, and the numbers didn't work out well in odd sizes.
Portable folding platform on sale at HF for $25, picked up the box, but saw a display unit as I was carrying it out, looked it over some and put back the box. Looked gimmicky, did not inspire confidence to stand on, and I opted not to take up the space storing it between uses.
Nothing else seemed too tempting.
