has some great deals on socket and ratchet/socket sets. Tekton was about half the price and much leaner. The Husky brand had a big head and was $30 something. However, she gave me a receipt for the new one, which I scanned at home and put the original in my Tool Warranty file.Ī few months back, I was looking at flex head ratchets. One went to a manager who "made an exception this time for you." I was pissed. Two cashiers argued with me about some novel store policy that it has to be returned to Husky and were impervious to my proof. I showed them the box and website about in store, no receipt, no questions asked. This past Thursday, I brought the new Husky to my Home Depot Pro shop. They did NOT give me a receipt, telling me the packaging suffices to warranty it. I have a Husky torque wrench without receipt (vintage early 2000s) that Home Depot replaced last month after my printing their current torque wrench policy: warranty in store, no receipt or questions asked. Apex makes Husky and GearWrench, though I don't know about the quality level of each. I leave it at school and it has light use in my auto class, but I have no complaints about it. I have a Home Depot Husky 111 piece mechanics tool set I paid about $45 for last year. I lubricate all Harbor Freight ratchets upon purchase, which makes most of the ratchet less loudly. I exchanged both (screw extractor had 90 day warranty) without any problems. I've bought some Harbor Freight tools and had problems with torque wrenches and a screw extractor set. And scan your receipts, because some fade (though giving them your phone number on purchase and warrantying bypasses the need for warranty exchanges, though I always like paper documentation in hand). FYI, their customer service phone line takes the better part of an hour to contact. Flat rate, 3-5 business day shipping is $7, which is cheaper than gas/bridge toll for me, so I use that to avoid having to make a special trip just to shop Harbor Freight. There are free items, now flashlights, tarps, and tape measures for any purchase and 20% off coupons all the time for most items. And sign up for their e-mail/text alerts about sales. Just in case, try to buy only lifetime warranty stuff there, which isn't hard to do. There's a sale now for a basic tool set, 3/8" 6-15mm for $4 with lifetime warranty. GarageJournal wisely warned me to avoid anything electric or electronic at Harbor Freight, although the free LED lights work okay (so far). That said, I've only broken one chrome socket, a no-brand name about 10-13mm made in Taiwan in the mid 2000's, but can't recall the circumstances. I never use impact tools on non-impact, chrome sockets. Honestly, if Kobalt works well for you, continue on buying it. Nothing wrong with it, but the bar isn't super high. IMO Kobalt, husky, etc are just store brand stuff. USA williams are something I've been buying more lately - very high quality stuff. For home use, I can't imagine much out there would not meet your needs. Most everything I've used works as expected. IMO there aren't any major losers out there. Low $40s for that set via toolsdelivered. The "all numbers" part number williams are good stuff too. I'd consider other brands but the USA williams is so cheap and I have had spotty tool-truck service in the past. 8-19 via tools-delivered was in the low $60s. I replaced them with USA williams to treat myself, and compare. It's like $15 out the door for a 10-19mm set. IIRC, the color can be washed off with brake clean if you so desire. 4 maybe? I'm a mechanic, so I wear out basically anything and everything. Pittsburgh pro sockets are of good quality, I used the goofy multi colored ones daily for several years before I wore a few of them out.
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