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Harbor Freight is awesome. Of course you need to know something about tools to pick the good from bad. But I bought an air chisle for $5. I don't care if it works for 2 weeks, I pay more for drill bits. A D/A for $15. I have had the $125 national detriot and other high end sanders. They all fail under heavy use and then you need to go spend an other hundred bucks to get a new one.

Buy 2 cheap ones for $30 total, and if one fails you have a back up. Then go buy 2 more for back ups. You can but 8 for the price of one. But my experience has been they last just as long and at that price they are as disposable as the sandpaper. Good d/a paper is $50 to $100 a roll and you throw it out. at $15 just throw out the d/a when your done.

For some reason, guys cannot throw away tools and would rather pay more for what they think is quaility rather than thowing TOOLS in the trash. Belive me, harbor freight makes sense.

Don't get me wrong, some of the crap they sell is not worth 2 cents. But much of what they have is decent for the price. Well, about half of the stuff they sell is junk. So, be careful what you buy.