New Harbor Freight multifunction tool

 

Those of you who said you needed a variable speed multi tool now won't
have to go to the big $$ brands for what you need. The variable speed
HF tool  is on sale for $59.99, #67537. The speed range is listed at
10K to 20K RPM (or wiggles per minute, WPM?) but I have no idea
whether sub 10K is useful or not or even available in other tools. At
20% of the price of Fein this is an even better way to try out the
system. BTW, my $39.95 model is still doing nicely. Plan to do some
home made blade mods next week after unexpected nail encounters.

Joe

 


This is one of the few HF tools I would recommend.  I have the old non-
variable speed one and it is great.

Post back on your blade mods.

I will soon have the need to cut the nails on my outlet boxes and
can't think of a better tool to use.

 


Have they improved the blade mounting system?
Blades coming loose seemed to be the only common complaint of the
non-variable HF multifunction tool....

$59.95 does sound like a good deal relative to the Fein.
I don't see how Fein can get away with selling their multitools at
prices in the $400-800+ range. In fact, I just saw on Amazon that the
Fein FSC 2.0 (which includes maybe a dozen blades) has a list price of
$1,022 and a retail price of $817.

Can it really be worth 10-20x the price of the Harbor Freight tool?
We are not talking about a 500 pound cabinet saw or other large
precision power tool. It really is just a vibrating motor on a
stick.

Can even a pro carpenter justify spending that much for what is still
essentially a non-precision rough-carpentry tool? At that price, it
would be one of the most expensive tools on any jobsite for something
that is not used nearly as much as other staples like a skill saw,
drill/driver, contractor saw etc. Plus at that size and price, who would
want to take the risk of it "walking off the job site" or otherwise
getting lost?

I just don't see how that type of price differential can be justified
except in perhaps a couple of niche situations where money is no object.

 

blueman wrote:

Because they can?

Saw an expose recently where a high-end audio company (Lexicon) was
purchasing BlueRay drives (retail $500), replacing the case, and charging --  
wait for it now -- $3,500.00. The engineers disassembled both models and
found them to be identical.

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/01/blu-ray-maker-re-boxes-500-player-charges-3500/

This is an even bigger rip-off than Monster Cables.

 


Where do you see it on sale?
I just see it for the "list" price of $79.99