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Gene363 Offline
#1 Posted: Sat, Jun 12 2021, 3:35 PM EST
Joined: 01-24-2003
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I love having good tools, especially from the USA, Germany, Japan and even Taiwan.

Wiha, Wega, Tank, Felo, Bondus and others. Specialized tools for wiring, gunsmithing etc. I grew up using what I had and making do but now I am lucky enough to donate some of those old tools* to Habitat for Humanity and replace them with better tools.

* Many I had inherited along with bad juju and memories I'm happy to be without.

Anyway, the point is I've found an excellent small company in Georgia that sells a lot of great tools for great prices.

Crawford Tool: https://crawfordtool.com
JadeRose Offline
#2 Posted: Sat, Jun 12 2021, 3:50 PM EST
Joined: 05-15-2008
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I'd say you're already in one of the biggest sources of major tools in the world. Look around!
HockeyDad Offline
#3 Posted: Sat, Jun 12 2021, 4:30 PM EST
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I always look to TeeDubbya.
ZRX1200 Offline
#4 Posted: Sat, Jun 12 2021, 4:40 PM EST
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I only shop at Harbor Freight.
Dg west deptford Offline
#5 Posted: Sat, Jun 12 2021, 4:54 PM EST
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Festool is my crack
MACS Offline
#6 Posted: Sat, Jun 12 2021, 4:58 PM EST
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ZRX1200 wrote:
I only shop at Harbor Freight.


Some of their stuff is a steaming pile of crap, but some of it is actually decent.
ZRX1200 Offline
#7 Posted: Sat, Jun 12 2021, 5:06 PM EST
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Yup. Their stuff for gunsmithing isn’t terrible and the wench they offer is actually really good.
Plowboy221 Offline
#8 Posted: Sat, Jun 12 2021, 5:57 PM EST
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HockeyDad wrote:
I always look to TeeDubbya.



This is the comment I came here for….
Plowboy221 Offline
#9 Posted: Sat, Jun 12 2021, 5:59 PM EST
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ZRX1200 wrote:
I only shop at Harbor Freight.



I used to knock harbor freight, but damn they nice for cheap crap tools that you don’t necessarily care if they get forgotten somewhere or if they get stolen….. put together a tool box for my semi for around 100 bucks.
bgz Offline
#10 Posted: Sat, Jun 12 2021, 6:15 PM EST
Joined: 07-29-2014
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Just buy em from China... let's be real, you know they're just going to sit there collecting dust anyway.
HockeyDad Offline
#11 Posted: Sat, Jun 12 2021, 8:15 PM EST
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Plowboy221 wrote:
I used to knock harbor freight, but damn they nice for cheap crap tools that you don’t necessarily care if they get forgotten somewhere or if they get stolen….. put together a tool box for my semi for around 100 bucks.


^this!
Speyside Offline
#12 Posted: Sat, Jun 12 2021, 8:34 PM EST
Joined: 03-16-2015
Posts: 13,106
I always buy Binford.
rfenst Offline
#13 Posted: Sun, Jun 13 2021, 10:17 AM EST
Joined: 06-23-2007
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MACS wrote:
Some of their stuff is a steaming pile of crap, but some of it is actually decent.

My cordless drill from Harbor Freight works great. YMMV.
Mr. Jones Offline
#14 Posted: Sun, Jun 13 2021, 10:27 AM EST
Joined: 06-12-2005
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Gene363

Go to several of your local metal recycling yards...
Make friends with them by recycling free metal you find on trash day or in local construction dumpsters or house cleanout dumpsters ..scope out what other people throw away on the piles when you dump off your metal ..

After a few months of that ..
Ask them if you could BUY STUFF OFF THE PILE FROM THEM....and agree NOT TO CLIMB ON THE PILE...

YOU WILL BE AMAZED AND ALL THE WORKING POWER TOOLS GHAT GET THROWN AWAY...ALL THE VINTANGE HAND TOOLS AND POWER TOOLS THAT get thrown away...
You will get hooked on scrapping and super cheap tool buying from the scrap yard...

Mark my words...

I've been doing it for over 10 yrs now. .
I have made $ thousands of dollars from metal scrapping and tool reselling at my garage sales and flea markets.
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