[AT] Critique of TSC was Antique tractors anyone?

Sat Oct 19 20:14:31 PDT 2019

I got one of their refurbished 220V, 80A wire welders a few years back to do general welding on various things around the house/garage. Paid $80 for it. It kept me from driving over to my brother’s house every time I needed something welded.

I don’t profess to be a top notch welder but it’s worked perfectly and I haven’t had a bit of trouble with it all this time, about 15 years. I’ve done some serious welding with it and the welds have held up great. 

The only thing that I don’t buy from them for welding is their wire. It seems to create a lot of splatter and I didn’t like the penetration. I buy my wire at Tractor Supply and it works perfectly with the HFT welder with no splatter and good penetration.

Since then they’ve come out with a better (???) line of welders, but I can’t provide any comments on how much better.

----- Original Message -----
From: Dennis Johnson <moscowengnr at outlook.com>
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Sent: Sat, 19 Oct 2019 19:09:25 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Re: [AT] Critique of TSC was Antique tractors anyone?

I like Harbor Freight tools. Most of the spare set of tools in my cabin is from there. Some specialty tools in my main shop are from there also. Also a few tools I keep in my wife’s car are from there. I like there impacts, and plan to get the 1” one soon.
They have a new ICON brand that is supposed to be tool truck quality -my son just got one of these ratchets to carry in his pickup.
Have not tried there welders yet, but some look to be good.
Got a sliding mitre saw there for my son and he was not impressed with it.

Dennis

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> On Oct 19, 2019, at 3:46 PM, "szabelski at wildblue.net" <szabelski at wildblue.net> wrote:
> 
> I’ve had pretty good luck with HFT tools and their warranties. I usually read all the reviews beforeI buy anything, and sometimes you can see that tool failures are due to user error or abuse. Not swearing by anything, or defending them in everything. They do have some items that are not worth using more than once, but that’s usually all I need it for. You do get what you pay for in some instances. If I were buying for the purpose of going into business for myself,  I would definitely go big name and high price.
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Cecil Bearden <crbearden at copper.net>
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> Sent: Sat, 19 Oct 2019 16:00:39 -0400 (EDT)
> Subject: Re: [AT] Critique of TSC was Antique tractors anyone?
> 
> Don't pick on Harbor Freight!  They have got me out of a bind many times 
> when I needed a large wrench or when my Ingersoll 1in drive impact got 
> water inside and rusted.  Harbor Freight's Earthquake 1in drive impact 
> had twice the torque the old Ingersoll had and was $100 less than the 
> parts to fix the Ingersoll.   I have had their impact sockets and 
> wrenches for several years now, and have no problem with them.  Their 
> impact wrenches give good service for a lot less .
> Cecil
> 
>> On 10/19/2019 9:17 AM, James Peck wrote:
>> 
>> Sort of a tractor oriented version of Harbor Freight.
>> 
>> [Dean VP] <snip>  I’m actually surprised that TSC sells and uses such 
>> good paint. Maybe they are putting lipstick on a pig. IMHO, the small 
>> trailers TSC sells are pieces of junk. Maybe that isn’t Valspar paint. 
>> Might be electrostatic. Really poorly built trailers with cheap 
>> materials. I’ve noticed some other products at TSC that are not worth 
>> writing home about either.  My limited experience with TSC products is 
>> they are higher priced and lower quality.  <snip>
>> 
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