Home Depot Deal Alerts & Discussion Thread

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”.

Good luck finding good lumber. The last time I tried was 4x4s for a railing. The whole pile was wet and the ‘good’ ones I picked cracked within six months.

i can’t believe i never thought of that before

how unimaginative :bigsmile:

Once and awhile my local HD will have a “special buy” on certain types of lumber.
For instance in the past year they had a number of 1” by 5” by 4 foot long pine boards for 50 cents each. I was able to select out 30 pieces that were in effect #1 pine. The ones that weren’t were nice too.
They once had some pieces of oak, 1/2” thick for a very low price. I actually had to force myself not to pick up some and the next day it was gone. I kicked myself on that one.
In my mind, generally the lumber at Lowes is of better quality. Recently I needed a 4 by 8 foot sheet of pressure treated plywood for the bed of a trailer. The stuff at HD looked just awful, already falling apart and VERY unattractive. The stuff at Lowes was of MUCH better quality. Then I remembered that a couple of years ago, I noticed the same difference.

And usually the lumber at the few independent lumber yards left is better than either. And they have types of lumber you just can’t get at HD.

I see, I recently saw a video in which a few prices were shown. I was rather amazed, crap quality lumber here is expensive, and I don’t even think you can get the good/reasonable quality stuff. Thanks for the info guys!!!

Harbor Freight trailer? :smiley:



^ This is a nice design. The motor is completely separated from the path of the air.




^Metal propellor. Notice the flap of plastic from manufacturing. I think that may have been rubbing the propellor.







^This seems like a nice design. The brushes sit in cartridges or something like that that you can unclip and slide out to change the brush inside. The brushes are pushed by an interesting spring; it consists of a thin springy metal that is coiled on both sides.


^The spring slides right in there making it easy to put back together. Just make sure to put the spring in the right orientation.


I found out why this wet vac is so cheap. The motor uses aluminum wire!!

(well that is probably not the entire reason why it is so cheap… copper wouldn’t make such a huge difference)

I think the stator uses copper wire though.

Overall I think this is a well designed vacuum cleaner and it is very serviceable. Except for the bearings… :~


This vac would be a good replacement for the old burnt out craftsman vac of equivalent capacity that we found in someone’s garbage.
Turns out the old vac uses the same type of spring.

These are what’s left of the brushes.

Stator and electromagnet do not look happy.