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 
The guy that got the promotion was very diligent and didn’t miss much.
Things are looking up at HD 
My family calls it Home De Pot. 8)
Bort likes these names, worthy of joke thread
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? 
^ 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.
For taking the wet vac apart I used the Harbor Freight screwdrivers I got for free. They work well! I had no problems. I don’t know what that guy-at-the-BLF-deal-alerts-thread’s problem was but these screwdrivers are just fine. Really good for free!
Home Cheapo
I don’t think Home Depot sells enough cheap stuff to be called a cheapo store. Many/most of their stuff is high quality and quite pricy. I consider Harbor Freight, Dollar Tree, and parts of Walmart to be considered cheapo stores. They sell low quality stuff for low prices.
That Ridgid wet dry vac is probably made by Emerson Electric. Emerson Electric owns Ridgid.
I think of all the Ridgid tools now available only the plumbing tools are actually made by Ridgid, all other tools are made by someone else. The original Ridgid branded plumbing tools are of excellent quality, everything else not so much.
I have one of those vacuums, sometimes I think I have one of every tool there is
Well I don’t, the other day I had to rent an electric jack hammer.
Looks like a prety skookum vac for the price!!!