Harbor freight

[Red Picqua]

I personally never get the replacement plans from HF. I bought a air brad nailer this AM to finish the trim. I'm doing more rooms.

Anyway the nailer was $20. The 2 year replacement plan was $15 I declined.

define trim and what you are using the brad nailer for with the trim. Generally for casing you would use a (15 gauge 2 1/2 finish nailer), brad, and a micro pinner. For base, I only use a finish nailer and ONLY on studs. For shoe I use a brad nailer. For chair rail I only use the finish nailer. Crown molding, I always call my buddy LOL. My point being, I rarely use a brad nailer for "trim".

 

[Bill]

define trim and what you are using the brad nailer for with the trim. Generally for casing you would use a (15 gauge 2 1/2 finish nailer), brad, and a micro pinner. For base, I only use a finish nailer and ONLY on studs. For shoe I use a brad nailer. For chair rail I only use the finish nailer. Crown molding, I always call my buddy LOL. My point being, I rarely use a brad nailer for "trim".

Technically 18 guage nailer 1 1/4" brads. Just tacking 1/2" quarter round to the based board. I know the right way to do the job is remove the base board and install the laminate floor then replace the base board. But this is an apartment not my house. There was carpet so the base board would be lower and I'd have to re paint the walls. Nope, it's an apartment.

 

[Red Picqua]

Technically 18 guage nailer 1 1/4" brads. Just tacking 1/2" quarter round to the based board. I know the right way to do the job is remove the base board and install the laminate floor then replace the base board. But this is an apartment not my house. There was carpet so the base board would be lower and I'd have to re paint the walls. Nope, it's an apartment.

actually.. it's what I would have done. I would have never take off the base for any type of flooring, tile, laminate, LVT, hardwood. NOTHING. I leave the base and just lay the floor and then go back and do the shoe or (quarter round as you call it) LOL did you cope the corners?? LOL I have been coping lately with an angle grinder with a sanding disk way quicker than a coping saw. ONce I saw that trick, I tossed my coping saw ;)

 

[Mortenson]

Haha, I had enough fun with the coping saw just working on my son's pinewood derby car. Made me wish I owned a few more Harbor Freight tools! Definitely gotta be a better way to quarter round than coping corners. As a side, we're making potentially the first pinewood derby antler car. At least according to google image search. It's hard to get a tremendous antler from a piece of wood 1.75" wide. :(

 

[Bill]

actually.. it's what I would have done. I would have never take off the base for any type of flooring, tile, laminate, LVT, hardwood. NOTHING. I leave the base and just lay the floor and then go back and do the shoe or (quarter round as you call it) LOL did you cope the corners?? LOL I have been coping lately with an angle grinder with a sanding disk way quicker than a coping saw. ONce I saw that trick, I tossed my coping saw ;)

I just 45'd the corners, luckily things have been pretty square so far. I like the grinder idea.

 

[Bill]

Haha, I had enough fun with the coping saw just working on my son's pinewood derby car. Made me wish I owned a few more Harbor Freight tools! Definitely gotta be a better way to quarter round than coping corners. As a side, we're making potentially the first pinewood derby antler car. At least according to google image search. It's hard to get a tremendous antler from a piece of wood 1.75" wide. :(

Pine wood aero dynamics are simliar to real world ones. Hint, chuck up the axle nails in a drill press and use 220 sand paper to polish out the stamping mark on the nail. The chuck up the tire and polish off the the mold line on the tire. Drill a hole in the bottom of the car and use solder to get the heaviest weight allowable. Don't want to be under weight when gravity is your engine.

Oh and graphite powder on the wheel axles.

Nothing beats a 69 Dodge Daytona!

 

[Mortenson]

1st place, that's great! I'll be honest, I would get a thrill from my eldest son winning a trophy of some sort. We are sacrificing some aerodynamics by making an antler, that's for sure. But hoping to gain speed elsewhere. The rules make it pretty clear that tires can't be tampered with other than a light sanding. The axles will get some TLC. I purchased micromesh all the way up to 12,000 for polishing. The front of the antler is light, so weight-wise we're about to the point where we can place a 1 inch tungsten round near the rear and let gravity take care of business. We learned that tungsten is 1.7 times more dense than lead. Pretty neat.

 

[Red Picqua]

I just 45'd the corners, luckily things have been pretty square so far. I like the grinder idea.

just take a spring clamp and affix it to a table. Turn the unit on and hit the ON button so it stays on. take your "quarter round" LOL or shoe and just cope the back side of the shoe. I would never ever cope without one.

 

[Red Picqua]

1st place, that's great! I'll be honest, I would get a thrill from my eldest son winning a trophy of some sort. We are sacrificing some aerodynamics by making an antler, that's for sure. But hoping to gain speed elsewhere. The rules make it pretty clear that tires can't be tampered with other than a light sanding. The axles will get some TLC. I purchased micromesh all the way up to 12,000 for polishing. The front of the antler is light, so weight-wise we're about to the point where we can place a 1 inch tungsten round near the rear and let gravity take care of business. We learned that tungsten is 1.7 times more dense than lead. Pretty neat.

that is absolutely sweet!! Nice job. Love that grin on that boy! Like he just said.. "yea my stuff is way better than your stuff and I KNOW IT!"

 

[DPx2]

I have a story too. I bought a hign impact Pittsburg socket set from HF probably 20 years ago. Recently while working on my wife's 4runner, I split the 19mm socket down the side. There's lifetime warranty on them so I got online and HF said I had to get a RMA number from them to return an item and gave a number to call. Well about 5 weeks ago I called that number multiple times and always got a recording to leave your information and someone would call you back, so I did, and I'm still waiting for that callback.
But not being one to wait, after about 2 weeks of waiting for that callback, I took the socket set into the store, and they ooowed and awwwed over this vintage set of tools, calling people around them to look at this, haven't ever seen a set in a metal case like this, looking for a date on it. Apparently it was quite the attraction to them, and a big waste of my time, but I digress...
The gal asks me what's wrong, I tell her I split the 19mm socket, she says, our policy is we replace just the broken socket. Fine by me, she says go pick a set out that matches. I find a 13pc set that has 19mm in the same length that's high impact and bring it to the counter. She shuffles me to another worker, he pulls the 1 socket of the set and then puts the split socket back on the new set. I was under the impression that they were going to put that new set back on the shelf with that broken socket. I might have come to a wrong assumption, but that's sure looked to me what was going to happen.. Anyone ever buy something like that from them? I hope not.

 

[4wanderingeyes]

I was in need, and needed a tool that day, (hub tamer) to do a wheel bearing on the side of the road, so I had stopped at Harbor Freight and bought one, I think about $90, the main big bolt stripped out before the hub was removed, I ended up just using a hammer, and a few other tools I had with me to finish the job. On my way back home, I stopped at Harbor Freight, thinking they would either give me my money back, or exchange it for a new one. They told me, the bolt isnt covered under the warranty, and they couldnt refund me, because the bolt was stripped. Not sure how that falls out of their 30 day satisfaction guarantee?? So I asked them how I can get a new bolt for it, they told me it isnt available without purchasing the entire kit, that it isnt sold separately.

Not sure why I bothered. There are a few things I will buy from them, but nothing that would break easy.

 

[Mtyhunter]

ya, like j-bird said, i consider it the one and done store, too. bought an electric pole saw trimmer recently, half the price of the big box stores, and its working perfectly. luckily, the cust service is pretty decent at the one I go to. (all cashiers are pretty good looking women!) One of the only places i go to and have to walk every aisle, cause they do have some cheap ass one-off tools (dental pick set) or hardware (box of hose clamps for $3) that I didn't know i needed until i saw it!