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Hazard Fraught is moving up the food chain in a number of tool lines. They're definitely filling that void.

The business model appears to be to sell reasonable quality tools and nail consumers with low quality consumables.

I avoid HF if I can but their new line of welders is getting rave reviews at a 1/4 the price of the American brands.

At this point, I would buy HF over Crapsman.

Honestly, I avoided harbor freight for anything unless I knew I was going to destroy whatever it was in short order.

I now have a woodshop full of HF clamps that carry a better warranty than bessey and work just as well. I also have the HF wood lathe that is super cheap for the quality.

At Harbor Freight, every Indian-made tool I've used has been junk (wrenches). Every Chinese-made product has been acceptable to good. Every Taiwanese- and American-made (yes, they have a few!) product has been excellent.

The chrome and stamping on the sockets is every bit as good as my ~2000 era Craftsman sockets, and far better than the last Craftsman tool I bought around '07.

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