Mechanic tool set recommendation? - Page 3 - PeachParts Mercedes-Benz Forum

JamesDean · #1 12-13-2013, 10:58 AM

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Originally Posted by winmutt

$200 at harbor freight will buy you all the tools you need with a few exceptions where you really want quality. Their socket drivers are good quality, their torque wrench clicker + digital combo is unbeatable for accuracy at almost any price level. Just go and spend half a day at the store picking out what looks to be the highest quality. Unlike Sears, all of their handtools are unlimited warranty. I have had many of their tools for over 8 years now without issue.

I'll be honest. I've got a number of Harbor Freight tools. I've not had any problems with them. I've not bent any wrenches or broken any sockets. The new air compressor I bought is awesome.

vstech · #2 12-13-2013, 10:58 AM

Danahur is one of my customers. it's really REALLY loud on their build floor... safety glasses and earplugs are a MUST in there... it's really cool seeing the spools of steel being fed into these GIGANTIC press machines hammering out 2million sockets a day...

JamesDean · #3 12-13-2013, 11:02 AM

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Originally Posted by vstech

Danahur is one of my customers. it's really REALLY loud on their build floor... safety glasses and earplugs are a MUST in there... it's really cool seeing the spools of steel being fed into these GIGANTIC press machines hammering out 2million sockets a day...

Manufacturing processes are always amazing and even inspiring to watch.

For a year, I worked in the press/stamping facility at GM Lordstown. You can knock the Chevy Cruze all you want (if you do) but that process of taking a coil of steel and making it into car parts is awesome and the level of quality, reporting, control, data collection, management, is very impressive.

If you or anyone can I highly a tour of a facility like that. A few co-workers, friends and I toured the GM facility near me and I think some of us might have had different career paths if we were exposed to that level of technology/engineering/science at a high school or even early college level.