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Yeah I just bought a bunch of the most common sizes for my truck from bolt depot and am very happy. Easy website to navigate and good pricing. Combine it with a few harbor freight organizers.
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sharkytm posted:Consumer-grade, yes. I wouldn't call it a gold standard. It works OK for what it is. Useless on small stuff and slow on big stuff, but it does work. What he said, but I want to point out: Do Not buy the Harbor Freight version. That thing sucks.
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Jul 3, 2020 05:27
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Seems like I can continue to buy a lot of replacement bits for those costs. All of em.
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Jul 3, 2020 05:43
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StormDrain posted:Seems like I can continue to buy a lot of replacement bits for those costs. All of em. Not so much on mid-size stuff, especially if you're buying top-quality bits (like Norseman or Cle-Line/etc). It's worth sharpening, say, a 3/8" Norseman, or adjusting the point angle for use on AL or SS or whatever. I use my Drill Doctor regularly to split points too. It's tricky to do on a grinder.
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Jul 3, 2020 18:10
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Well it seems HF is attempting to do something I never thought would happen. Past couple ads had no "freebie" item. This month they had the magnetic tray. Instead of free they are charging $0.69 for it. Wonder what MBA came up with that idea.
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Colostomy Bag posted:Well it seems HF is attempting to do something I never thought would happen. Past couple ads had no "freebie" item. This month they had the magnetic tray. Instead of free they are charging $0.69 for it. Wonder what MBA came up with that idea. There’s only 1 thing in the “free” category on HFQPDB. All the usually freebies are “under $1” now. https://www.hfqpdb.com/gallery/under1 Makes sense though. My local store is pretty cleaned out. Lots of empty shelf space.
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Colostomy Bag posted:they are charging $0.69 for it. Hell yeah!! Hopefully bigger, "free" items will be priced at $4.20
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eddiewalker posted:Makes sense though. My local store is pretty cleaned out. Lots of empty shelf space. I work with someone that has a 2nd job at HF, she says they are OOS/low on all kinds of stuff right now. They don't even have the free flashlights available so it doesn't matter if they are free 
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taqueso posted:I work with someone that has a 2nd job at HF, she says they are OOS/low on all kinds of stuff right now. They don't even have the free flashlights available so it doesn't matter if they are free I'm not surprised at all. Think about it: global freight has been a dumpster fire. 80% of air freight or something like that (don't remember exactly) was being done on commercial passenger flights. Those aren't happening so much now, so the rest of the the shipping industry is trying to deal with the lowered capacity. Yeah, of course HF isn't using air freight for free flashlights, but this stuff impacts the global chain, greatly increasing prices so........free/cheap stuff from china can't be free or cheap when everyone is bidding up even the slow boat shipping.
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Best wheel ramps for a slightly slanted driveway? If that matters...or I'm wishing for death? I do have a set of rubber chocks I will use in conjunction. It's maybe a mid-size truck's worth of weight.
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French Canadian posted:Best wheel ramps for a slightly slanted driveway? If that matters...or I'm wishing for death? I do have a set of rubber chocks I will use in conjunction. It's maybe a mid-size truck's worth of weight.
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Harbor Freight has added an additional model to their jack stand recall, and will now offer cash refunds or store credit for any of their jack stands, if you feel unsafe about them. https://www.harborfreight.com/js-de...14,387,685&uid= Here's the text of the email I got: quote:To the Harbor Freight Community:
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French Canadian posted:Best wheel ramps for a slightly slanted driveway? If that matters...or I'm wishing for death? I do have a set of rubber chocks I will use in conjunction. It's maybe a mid-size truck's worth of weight. Rhino ramps. Just make sure they are on solid ground and not straddling a crack/sunken part of the driveway.
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Colostomy Bag posted:Rhino ramps. Just make sure they are on solid ground and not straddling a crack/sunken part of the driveway. I have a set of these and yep they are great for when I just want to do the oil etc.... Race Ramps are good as well but expensive.
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n0tqu1tesane posted:Harbor Freight has added an additional model to their jack stand recall, and will now offer cash refunds or store credit for any of their jack stands, if you feel unsafe about them. I was thinking about getting the store credit for mine but when I checked out a few other options online they all have the same design so I'm suspicious that they are built by the same manufacturer. Is there a best type of jack stand design? I've seen some mention of better ones have a pin in them that you place after setting them up but I'm not sure how much better that is.
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Jul 7, 2020 20:11
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It looks like this is the failure point. So I guess avoid this design, which is basically every inexpensive jack stand. I have some ones from ~2007 and honestly I might just weld a plate over that weld and call it done.
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Jul 8, 2020 03:39
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FatCow posted:It looks like this is the failure point. So I guess avoid this design, which is basically every inexpensive jack stand. I’d just take them back for store credit... unless you’re a professional welder, I’d be reticent to risk my life on end user modifications
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I mean, I drive cars I welded the suspension together on. I'll probably just weld mine up too.
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Jul 8, 2020 04:56
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The replacements aren't any better. Are the replacement's replacements going to be any better? I don't know if I would do it but bending it back into shape and welding a big plate over it will probably still be an improvement over a new one even if the welds aren't great.
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Jul 8, 2020 05:33
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I thought I read somewhere the safety issue was due to the way some manufacturing tooling wore over time, leading to a creep in some dimension that lead to a reduction in strength? They're doing the recall because those were the parts made in the window of time that used that tooling, it's not the design that's bad (arguably).
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kastein posted:I mean, I drive cars I welded the suspension together on. I'll probably just weld mine up too. That’s fair, I forget the target audience here. I wouldn’t do it personally as I’d be afraid of overheating spots or changing the grain structure so it’s weak in a new direction and causing an unintended deficiency, but I also suck at welding. So if the stands split along the middle like that, I’m assuming that would knock the pawl cattywampus and the load would drop. Would a locking pin guard against that failure mode? E: Looking at it again I guess not, it’d probably just be a sudden load shift, though that could knock other poo poo loose I mean, obviously the real solution is a garage lift system, but until then... Catatron Prime fucked around with this message at 15:15 on Jul 8, 2020 |
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If y'all have welders, why not jack up the car, then weld a support structure underneath it to hold it up? Make sure to buy a plasma cutter so you can disassemble it easier to lower the car when you are done.
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boxen posted:I thought I read somewhere the safety issue was due to the way some manufacturing tooling wore over time, leading to a creep in some dimension that lead to a reduction in strength? They're doing the recall because those were the parts made in the window of time that used that tooling, it's not the design that's bad (arguably). That was last week. Now there's weld defects on the replacements, an expanded recall, and a voluntary "if you don't feel safe, bring back any of our jack stands" 
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FatCow posted:It looks like this is the failure point. So I guess avoid this design, which is basically every inexpensive jack stand. I thought most inexpensive jack stands were four legs made of angle iron connected at the bottom with some flat plate barely welded into place.
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Uthor posted:If y'all have welders, why not jack up the car, then weld a support structure underneath it to hold it up? Make sure to buy a plasma cutter so you can disassemble it easier to lower the car when you are done. I mean, if you have a welder and a drill you could fab up some tube-and-pin Jack stands with a ridiculous safety margin for pretty cheap
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Jul 8, 2020 19:37
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It just say gently caress it and weld in full rally pin stands into your car.
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Jul 8, 2020 19:48
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Hydraulic jacks that extend from the bottom of the car like the Mach 5 / GT cars.
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Safety Dance posted:Hydraulic jacks that extend from the bottom of the car like the Mach 5 / GT cars. Pneumatic!
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Imagine being on the pit crew sponsored by Harbor Freight.
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Colostomy Bag posted:Imagine being on the pit crew sponsored by Harbor Freight. Do you have to run to the store and replace your broken sockets between tire changes?
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Hey now they have only sold me two sets of stands that can kill me, I have not yet broke. A socket even using an Earthquake XT air ratchet rated at 1700ft/lbs Took the stands back today and got myself a gift card 
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It's okay, I hear that Home Depot is selling replacements.
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That is a disturbing set of implements
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Well a F350 is a light vehicle.
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meatpimp posted:It's okay, I hear that Home Depot is selling replacements. UMMMMMMMMM I HAVE SOME CONCERNS.
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Jul 9, 2020 01:30
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kastein posted:UMMMMMMMMM This should take care of them!
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Elviscat posted:This should take care of them! I feel like the front of an f350 that's probably a diesel and is even on the side with the diff housing is probably more than 550lbs though
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That Homer Bucket's gotta have what, a 200-300% engineered safety margin on it right? I think it's full of concrete
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I think it actually has a jackstand behind it and it's only there to hold up the caliper and caliper bracket, actually.
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kastein posted:I think it actually has a jackstand behind it and it's only there to hold up the caliper and caliper bracket, actually. spoilsport good eye
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