So, how do you separate the wheat from the chaff amidst your shopping? I recommend using a shopping assistant browser extension such as Honey or Camel Camel Camel. Some sellers employ devious practices to make their deals look better than they are, like raising the price of a product a few weeks before the event, then “slashing” it back to a small discount, making a 10-percent discount look like 30-percent off. Not every product on sale over Prime Deal Days is actually a good deal. Over the years, I’ve hand-tested and reviewed dozens of different tools, ranging from socket sets to cordless drills to angle grinders, from various top tool brands. News and World Report, Switchful, and Futurism.
The Expert: I’m a freelance writer who has written about landscaping, home improvement, gardening, and home security for publications like Popular Mechanics, Bob Vila, Popular Science, U.S. We'll keep this list updated daily to keep the discounted items at the forefront. To help you find exactly what you need, we’ve culled the pretenders from the real savings, so you can get some great gear that's worth your money. But someone who is serious about starting their career as a mechanic? That’s a whole different story, and there’s little point in such a person starting out with cheapos.Play icon The triangle icon that indicates to play I would never recommend a set of Snap-On wrenches to the average Joe who may have no idea if he needs good or cheapo tools.
But that advice assumes that the buyer may not know what they need, and that isn’t necessarily true. On the one hand it can make sense: there’s little point in buying expensive tools if you don’t need them. That was more or less what I did with some tools I bought a lot of Craftsman back then, and over the years I’ve replaced everything but the sockets and nutdrivers with better versions.
I remember hearing specifically in regards to mechanic’s tools, the advice I was given was to buy a cheap but broad tool set and then replace things with premium brands as they fail. I’m not sure where that saying came from, but I remember discussing that advice when I was a teenager in the 1990’s so it clearly predates Adam Savage by a very long time. Once you’ve found the limits of the cheap stuff, you’ll not only appreciate the good stuff, you’ll also know what you want having never used one before, after using a HF corded circular saw for a day, you’ll likely know whether you want left-hand or right-hand configuration, and you’ll know whether your work style would benefit from moving to cordless, or a lighter tool (despite a smaller blade), or whether you should prioritize compatibility with a track over either of those.Īlso, unrelated: “touch cutting” should be “tough cutting” in the article’s final postscript. OMT blades are a great application for that approach, because the assortment has shapes and sizes that I’d never spend $10 on, and the high-end blades I bought probably weren’t the sizes I would have run through first from my assortment. I don’t know who said it first, but there’s a saying popularized by Adam Savage: buy cheap, and when it breaks, buy something better. The quality is fantastic, and they all still look brand-new. They performed admirably, and more importantly, I didn’t feel even a moment’s hesitation to toss them when they began to dull or if I chipped or damaged one through overuse or abuse.Īt the same time, I bought three $10 DeWalt Ti-coated blades. I bought an absurdly large assortment of cheap blades-I think it might have been almost 100 pieces-for a recent project.
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