Recent Reviews:
Review by Bigplanz on September 2nd, 2010
See ItemNot something I use often, but comes in handy when GM thoughtfully puts some nut of bolt in just the right place where you can't get a socket or wrench on it. I last used one of these sockets on a starter mounting bolt that I couldn't get ANYTHING on...except this.
Review by hank1 on September 2nd, 2010
See ItemWow! The turbo boost on this thing isn't needed as it will shoot a blue flame about a foot without it. A great buy but watch your feet. It'll burn anything.
Review by justme on September 1st, 2010
See ItemNote: My review is about the 94567 wire storehouse, virtually identical to this one only it's 250 ft. versus 400 ft. The 250 ft. product is SO bad I just had to post my review for this 400 ft. product too so anyone considering buying it knows exactly what they're getting into before they're into it.
I'm not a frequent reviewer, but this thing ticked me off so bad I had to go here and let others know. Also, know that I've got lots of Harbor Freight items that I'm relatively happy with, and lots of inexpensive "budget" tools and things in my garage, so I understand that when you pay a little you almost always have to give something up.
Value for the money... Not too bad maybe. You be the judge. I don't think so.
But be prepared for waaaaay (waaaay) more headache than it's worth for the little bit of money you might save.
1. Took over 90 minutes just to set the thing up
2. Was missing one of the three cross bars so had to make my own
3. All of the labels on the front of the rack were out of order; there was 20 ga wire on the top row, in the middle row, and on the bottom row...and not one above the other either--just scattered around randomly. Really, really lame. And you can't peel the existing labels off easily to move them around--most of them tear, so your only option is to put your own labels on over the existing ones.
4. None of the spools were labeled. They come randomly placed, and you can't tell the difference between the 18 ga, 20 ga, and 22 ga. And you can't just measure the insulation diameter (because insulation thicknesses vary, even on the same guage wire). So you have to strip all the ends, pull out your caliper, micrometer, or whatever and measure the bare conducters themselves. And of course that doesn't work well because it's stranded and you can't get a good diameter reading because the strands squash and move.
5. Get ready for a lot of BROWN. Half the spools in my set were brown. Great.
6. The insulation on all the wires is cheap. Just for one example, you can't start a split in the speaker wire and pull the halves apart--one side will tear open and the conductor will come out.
7. Due to the nature of the cheap plasticky insulation, as soon as you pull the tape off the outer layer of each spool, the wire starts unwinding itself. So once you remove the tape and install the spools in the case, it will never, ever look like it does in the picture (all neat and tidy and such). The wires uncoil, flop around, fall all over and around the adjacent spools, and they get tangled in each other.
POOR, POOR, POOR, POOR, POOR wire storehouse. I finished setting it up and mounting it on my wall ONLY out of shear spite and determination. Mostly I wanted to throw the SOB in the garbage, and almost did several times.
Please, don't bother buying this. Looks pretty straightforward, but it's a real turd.
Review by justme on September 1st, 2010
See ItemI'm not a frequent reviewer, but this thing ticked me off so bad I had to go here and let others know. Also, know that I've got lots of Harbor Freight items that I'm relatively happy with, and lots of inexpensive "budget" tools and things in my garage, so I understand that when you pay a little you almost always have to give something up.
Value for the money... Not too bad maybe. You be the judge. I don't think so.
But be prepared for waaaaay (waaaay) more headache than it's worth for the little bit of money you might save.
1. Took over 90 minutes just to set the thing up
2. Was missing one of the three cross bars so had to make my own
3. All of the labels on the front of the rack were out of order; there was 20 ga wire on the top row, in the middle row, and on the bottom row...and not one above the other either--just scattered around randomly. Really, really lame. And you can't peel the existing labels off easily to move them around--most of them tear, so your only option is to put your own labels on over the existing ones.
4. None of the spools were labeled. They come randomly placed, and you can't tell the difference between the 18 ga, 20 ga, and 22 ga. And you can't just measure the insulation diameter (because insulation thicknesses vary, even on the same guage wire). So you have to strip all the ends, pull out your caliper, micrometer, or whatever and measure the bare conducters themselves. And of course that doesn't work well because it's stranded and you can't get a good diameter reading because the strands squash and move.
5. Get ready for a lot of BROWN. Half the spools in my set were brown. Great.
6. The insulation on all the wires is cheap. Just for one example, you can't start a split in the speaker wire and pull the halves apart--one side will tear open and the conductor will come out.
7. Due to the nature of the cheap plasticky insulation, as soon as you pull the tape off the outer layer of each spool, the wire starts unwinding itself. So once you remove the tape and install the spools in the case, it will never, ever look like it does in the picture (all neat and tidy and such). The wires uncoil, flop around, fall all over and around the adjacent spools, and they get tangled in each other.
POOR, POOR, POOR, POOR, POOR wire storehouse. I finished setting it up and mounting it on my wall ONLY out of shear spite and determination. Mostly I wanted to throw the SOB in the garbage, and almost did several times.
Please, don't bother buying this. Looks pretty straightforward, but it's a real turd.
Review by austin neuschafer on August 30th, 2010
See Itemhave used this to move engiens and transmisions and occasional appliances.
the pneumatic tires make heavy objects that much easier to move vs solid tires. the tires need air occasionally, if this thing gets bump around the wheels/axle assemble will get bent and your wheels will wobble which is what happened ewth mine