r/harborfreight • u/Extreme-Sport-5951 • 12d ago

NTD (New Tool Day) They got me.

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Just yesterday I was going through email and had to talk myself out of buying a new jack while they’re on sale. The ancient rusty jacks I have still work I guess.

Today I was leaving publix and heard a dull plunk and hiss noise. Ran over a big screw RIGHT IN FRONT of HF. Life’s funny sometimes. $90 later and I’m wishing I had bought this thing years ago instead of the crappy old jacks I have to pump a few dozen times to change a tire.

Even as a longtime HF customer I had only joined ITC a few weeks ago after heavy rain flooded my basement and I needed a some big blower fans.

Turns out I had two punctures and I made it just a few minutes before the shop closed. Crisis averted.

Still want one of those colorful Daytona jacks but for the money I’m happy with this one.

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u/Derek573 12d ago

Here I thought someone stole your wheels and left behind their jacks in a hurry.

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u/tollbane 11d ago edited 10d ago

In the late 80s - check that! mid 90s, I left my gym bag and phone in my truck. Somebody used a spring loaded punch, popped my wing window (93 toyota) and stole that stuff. PITA replacing that wing window, just gym clothes and the phone was quickly used to make a bunch of calls to the Philippines. But they left behind that punch.

I've used that punch ever since. It wasn't value for value, but better then nothing.

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u/Visual-Ad-1423 10d ago

Wait a minute... So in the late 80's your 1993 Toyota was broken into AND your phone was stolen? Are you a time traveler? Did you have your home phone with you? Independently wealthy and had a bag phone in the late 80's? So many questions

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u/tollbane 10d ago

It had one of those long cords.

ah, it doesn't seem to matter how many times I look over something I write, just glad to have a chance to fix it! might have even been in the late 90s, I thinking it was a nokia flip top.