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!!!
The Rigid vacs I’ve used were really good. My only beef is the filters which are costly- give them a “Texas Tune-up” with an air hose. All that most shop-vacs need to run forever is to oil the motor bearings occasionally- a drop of 30wt works fine.
Rigid power tools are made about 40 miles south of here (at least some of them) by Rigid. I was one of their “Contractor Beta-testers” for new products and concept tools when I worked closer to their plant. Great plumbing tools, I’m not really impressed with most of the rest.
Phil
It’s complicated. Take a look at these two 24V Li Ion batteries. Except for the color, they look pretty much the same. In fact functionally they are the same.
The orange one on the left is a “Ridgid” and the one on the right is a “Ryobi”
Now compare the 24V Ryobi with an 18V Ridgid.
And how about this, a Homelite hedge trimmer that takes 18V Ryobi batteries. The truth is, for battery operated hand tools, Milwaukee, Ryobi, Ridgid, AEG, Homelite, Hoover US, Dirt Devil and VAX are all made by the same company for those brands. That company is Techtronic Industries Company Limited
Phil, those Ridgid power tools you spoke of as being made near you, were they other than battery operated?
Now an even more extreme example is Who makes Craftsman Hand Tools?
I have 2 trailers. Yes one is a Harbor Freight kind of quality. I got it used, I don’t know where it came from. It is open on each end so that I can throw twigs and limbs that fall off the trees around our property. The sides are 4x8 sheets of pressure treated and the deck is also a 4x8.
That pile of wood is actually a lot larger than it looks in this picture. This trailer never leaves the property.
This trailer is a small landscapers trailer with a loading ramp. The deck on this one is made up of 5/4 pressure treated 8” wide boards, 8 foot long. I recently used it out in Ohio to haul debris from a roof tear off.
Now, a couple of deals in the lumber section of Home Depot
Here is a good deal on a 15 piece Milwaukee Hole Saw Kit.
And this is an 18V Ryobi charger that plugs into a cigarette lighter port. About a year ago I found one of these for $20 open box. Really good to have if always on the go.
Nah… That was a tyspot…
Yep, you can finish with one of those, but I need to stress the “stonemason” concept of forming the steel into the pocket you need… Blacksmith time, but cold. I think the little SchnappenPopper would take too long.
Dchomak, they were battery and air operated tools. The plant is just outside of Anderson, SC in the Homeland Park community. The Mom of one of the guys I was working with was employed there and that’s how I got hooked up with the ‘beta’ stuff. I’m not sure what the name of the company is, it might be Eastland for all I know. Ryobi used to have a corded tool plant 14 mi south of here outside of Easley SC but they’ve been closed down for years. I’m a DeWalt fan, maybe not the very best tools but tough as nails and uber-reliable. I’m too poor for Festool stuff!
And Dimbo, I used a 3-step process with the cast iron; a tiny perpendicular starter hole, and angled one somewhat bigger, then the final diameter. The initial hole was easy (which starts things like a center-punch); it’s the angled operations that get rough. It’s as much the voids in the welds and the hard spots in the metal as anything else. It’s the toughest drilling job I’ve ever run into and I’ve drilled about everything. I’m thinking about getting a welder from Santa this year so I won’t have to go through this again 
Phil
The switch of the RIDGID wet vac feels cheap and lightweight and does not have a very good switching feel; I suppose this would be one of the first things to go bad. Good thing it is easy to replace.
Ironically the terminals are copper plated.
The Husky flashlight 3C & 3AAA set that was $19.99 for Black Friday was reduced to $15. The 3C has the tailcap spring already bypassed. Very rugged construction and pretty sweet hosts @ $7.50 each.
zomg! 
Hopefully they’ll still be around this weekend!
Hey look; in the bottom right corner it says “Side 2 - Use for price change”
Interesting
Also notice that behind the sticker there is an empty space with four corners.
So one side of the board has a price and the other side has a blank space for a custom price.
This store had a brand new display of the old Defiant 5C. CREE XM-L and 625 Lumen.
The display lists them for $24.98, but they scan for $9.88
They also had an almost full display of the $3.00 drill bits. Lower layer is full, untouched, and the top layer is only missing 6 units.
Those drill bits are gold!
I got 3 drill bit sets, and while I was getting them for the price, I decided to get a driver bit set as well.
These are awesome! Even for the full price of $4.88, they are still a lot better than anywhere else. I searched around and while I found sets that were fairly reasonable, the HDX set was always the best deal. Now even better! Although they break rather easily, they drill very well!
These sets seem to be well thought-out. They were thinking and they put in multiples of the smaller sizes.
Also the cases are really good to, and they look really nice! They have a rubber backing so they don’t slide around.
After you use all the drill bits, you can hack the case and reuse it for other things. :bigsmile:
So for the price of one Ryobi set (which was also a good deal) on sale (as it always seems to be) I got three HDX drill bit sets. And for the price of a Ryobi set at retail price, I got four sets!
^
I picked up a couple sets too and a bunch of other items they have marked down. Thanks for the alert dchomak!
Also, got a really nice door lock (was discounted to about $56 at one point) for a penny. I don't know what the lock originally sold for.
I’m jealous ImA4, I have not found any penny deals lately. I was following those power strips that were actually ringing up at 52 cents even though they were marked $1.04
I KNEW they would go to a penny at any time, and they did. It’s just that I happened to miss it.
The same day I picked up a $3 drill set I got a large can of WD40 for $2
Last year I found a brand new 40V Li-Ion battery in the recycle bin. I posted a tear down of it in Look what I found in the recycle bin
It’s a big one with 20 - 18650’s in it. The battery was in perfect condition and after the tear down I put it aside hoping that some day I could come across the tool and charger that it went with.
Last week I was in Warwick, RI I noticed this deal and took a snapshot of it.
At the time I thought it was for the 18V string trimmer in the picture. While that would have been a great deal, I wasn’t interested as I already have a 24V version that I posted about in this HD thread earlier. To my horror, yesterday while I was in West Springfield, MA I realized I was wrong. The deal was for the 40V version, the version that uses the same battery that I found in the recycle bin last year.
That store had sold out. On the way home I stopped in 2 other HD’s, including my hometown store and they too had sold out! I missed it, right out from under my nose! Oh the depression, but then I found comfort in knowing that actually I didn’t actually NEED it. Looking at it that way, I saved $40. Hey that’s good, right?
Well today I went back to my hometown HD to pay my credit card bill at the service desk. I always look forward to that because by paying the bill in person at the service desk it puts me right next to the battery recycle bin. I reached in and pulled out a brand new 18V Ryobi drill pack. After I paid my bill I took my pack and headed out to the car. Then I remembered the 40V string trimmer deal 
I went from a little euphoria over the free 18V drill pack back to depression. Soooo, I went back in. Even though yesterday I checked the isle and found that they had sold out, I went back to the service desk and asked them to check for stock on that item. The girl said that they had 2, all other stores were out! To make a long story short, I ended up with a complete unit. I got the display unit and the charger and battery was stored in a Rubbermaid tub pushed under one of the shelves in gardening.
Once again I felt euphoric, after over a year, I finally found the tool and second battery and charger that goes with the battery I found in the recycle bin.
A little later I felt sad again, I just spent $40 on something I didn’t really need.
But wait! I can now use that second battery pack as the power supply for a BIG light I am planning on building. And NOW I have the charger for it, YES!
7.5 inch reflector, Cree CXA3590 36V emitter, buck-boost driver, and SK68 for scale.
HAPPY AGAIN, this time to stay!
BTW, for anyone else to have any kind of chance to get this deal you would HAVE to check ASAP. Like tomorrow morning.
wtf, who idiot keeps throwing brand new batteries away? |( what a waste!
Why did you buy something you didn’t need?
Why didn’t you use that 40v battery you had to make your light, and buy a charger or make a charger for it?
This is why 