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We all know there's a bunch of Harbor Freight tools that suck, my most recent favorite is their flap disks which seem to explode instantly upon contact with metal. That said, I've had some pretty good buys there that have allowed me to put a lot more useful tools in my garage I otherwise wouldn't be able to afford. A lot of these I wouldn't trust for everyday commercial use but for occasional garage use they've been great.
2 ton engine hoist:
http://m.harborfreight.com/shop-cran...obile_redirect
At $220 this thing has been excellent. I've pulled and installed a few engines with it, picked one ton axles out of a pickup bed, and move heavy items around the shop. Significantly cheaper than "brand" hoists and the cylinder is the only part on it I couldn't fix with the welder and some scrap steel.
Impact sockets
http://m.harborfreight.com/13-piece-...obile_redirect
$23 for a 13 piece set. I've been able to build a nice set of impacts both standard and metric with standard and deep well. I use these frequently with a quality impact wrench and have yet to break one.
Tap and die set
http://m.harborfreight.com/60-piece-...obile_redirect
$40 and a great buy. I've used this tons of times for cleaning out threads on old rusty crap, fixing booger'd threads, tapping new holes, ect. Great to have in the tool box plus all of the taps and dies are available individually for when you break one.
Lots more to list but I figured this would get the thread going. Discuss.