Home Depot Deal Alerts & Discussion Thread

Was at HD today and was looking at the Black Friday stuff while walking by, and then I found this:
A RIDGID 16 gallon wet vac! Price… $39! :open_mouth:

A while ago I was searching for 16 gallon wet vacs and the cheapest I could find was $100 for the Sears Craftsman wet vac. The cheapest for a 16 gal wet vac at Home Depot I saw was around $160 for a RIDGID vac. All of a sudden I see this and it is $40! :open_mouth: Huge difference!

It is lightweight and feels cheap and basic but not poorly made.

http://www.homedepot.com/p/16-Gal-5-Peak-HP-Wet-Dry-Vacuum/204351678

A friend and I hit HD on BF as they opened at 6 AM. I was there for the free coffee and donuts. He went straight for that vacuum.

If anyone is interested, some HD’s have a fair number of the older 5C Defiants for 10 bucks. I just picked up 3 at a local HD and some stores list over 30 in stock It’s pretty much a fence post with an led at the end but I really like these. Much more powerful then the BF 3c.

http://www.homedepot.com/p/Defiant-5C-500-Lumen-Alkaline-Flashlight-809-3751-D/203838454?keyword=5c+defiant

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The 5C's and brethren seemed to be the end of high quality large Defiants.

poiihy,

Thanks for the Shop Vac alert. I picked one up. Seems like a great deal. My small anemic shop vac has been on it's last leg for years now. You the man!

Meant to post this earlier. I had to do some tricky free-hand drilling on the job (ironwork railing going through welds on an angle) and managed to break >$20 worth of my cobalt and TN bits so grabbed the new HDX set. The sharpness was impressive but they snapped at the slightest provocation. Nice having plenty of them as that let me get the job finished. This is the toughest field drilling job I’ve ever come across as low-grade iron comes with hard spots and the welds are always full of voids, plus drilling on an angle puts all the stress on one side of the bit till it’s fully engaged. I often break a bit doing this because of all that even using the best bits made.

tl,dr: Great for wood and softer metals, or ran gently in a drill press but don’t push them hard or they will snap. Still well worth $5 for the set

Phil

Next time you’re in Home Despot, pick a pack of punches.

When I worked as a welder, I found that if I use a punch (or three) as a stonemason would, to create a little pocket or dimple for the pilot bit, so it would engage the steel as fully as possible, that helped a lot. The finish bit would eat out the dimple.

OTOH, all the bits I broke made me very good at resharpening bits!!! That reminds me, if you do choose to resharpen your bits, almost no one has a Dressing Tool, which you’ll need for precise grinding.

HTH…
(EDIT: I don’t know if this needs to be said, but when cutting steel, rock, brick, whatever, anything even resembling Cutting Fluid — even plain water — is vastly better than trying to cut it dry…)

Yeah I’ve noticed this too. They drill very well but they break easily.

I found at Walmark a set of Black & Decker drill bits without a case that you can use to refill your case. But it was about $5, a little more than the Home Depot set, but the Hole Depot set had far more bits than this Black & Decker set, and a case.

Don’t you mean “Home Cheapo” or perhaps “Cheapo Depot” :slight_smile:

I was in Home Depot today and already some of the flashlights that were brought out for the holidays have been reduced. Original price and new lower price should be visible in each shot.






Also of interest (to me) is this clearance item. The clearance sticker is $1.04 but they ring up for 52 cents. Any day now, if they are still around they will ring for a penny.



These 2 gallon buckets are always handy, now they are a dollar. Nice quality.

This ia bucket of 50 bungee cords for $7.00 Some are very small, none very large

Wow! :open_mouth: Where can I find those multiway extension leads? I want!!

Also, for the bungee cords, what’s with the cardboard back saying $7.88 and the sticker saying the original price is $19?
I saw those bungee cords but wasn’t interested in bungee cords so didn’t consider getting them.

If they haven’t sold out they should still be there
They are $7.00, not $7.88

I’m talking about the price on the cardboard that the sticker is covering. It looks like it is $7.88. But on the sticker it says the original price was $19… What’s up with that?
Was $19 the original price, then it was for sale for $7.88 for Black Friday, and now it’s discounted to $7.00?

I know where the bungee cords are but where are those 3 way power strips located?

Oh, now I see what you mean. HD, they are liars!

Those power strips were in the back of the store with lighting and the floor of a section with clearance items. The price guy often misses the stuff there. In fact the old price guy just got a promotion and there is a new guy doing it. It seems to take awhile to get the hang of it, he is missing stuff :slight_smile:
The guy that got the promotion was very diligent and didn’t miss much.
Things are looking up at HD :wink:

My family calls it Home De Pot. 8)

Bort likes these names, worthy of joke thread :wink:

I don’t.
They’re lame.

Perhaps its all the wine i consumed this evening.

Wait a moment, i don’t drink.

Do stuff like lumber and other materials get good discounts???

Hardly any sales on their lumber, it’s already as cheap as any other source overall. The bad part is their wood QC sucks; the good part is that when you pick your own you can grab only the good ones.

And we call it the “Homey-Dee-Pott” or “the orange box” (Lowes is “the blue box”)

Phil

We call it “Home Depot”.