E-mail Harbor Freight to re-stock cool tools they have discontinued

wolframore

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Please e-mail harbor freight customer service to ask for cool tools that they are no longer selliing. It's too expensive for hobbyists to set up all the tooling without some of the Harbor Freight tools they have discontinued.

Here's a few:
Carbide tool grinder
Universal Tool Grinder
they have discontinued a bunch of their lathes and mills
mill and lathe accessories
chucks
clamps
cross slide vices

Not sure if you've noticed but if you do a search on their site it's very sparse now!

Please send e-mail(s) to:
cs@harborfreight.com
 
Great idea. If enough members do this, maybe we will get their attention. Mind if I post theis request to other forums?
I for one, was saving up to get the tool grinder. I was actually in my local HF when the last 3 went on clearance. I hadn't yet saved up enough to buy one, and they wouldn't let me use a 20% cupon with the clearance price. I asked at the time if it was being discontinued and was told no! And dummy me, I believed them!

I sent the following in an e-mail to cs@harborfreight.com, signed with my name and location.

"Please bring back the tools you have discontinued. Retired folks like me count on Harbor Freight for affordable tools to support our hobbies.


Tools like these:


Carbide tool grinder
Universal Tool Grinder
SEIG lathes and mills
mill and lathe accessories
chucks
clamps
cross slide vices"


Chuck
 
PLEASE POST TO AS MANY FORUMS AS POSSIBLE!!! WE NEED TO GET THE HOME MACHINISTS TOGETHER TO GET A RESPONSE.

This is what I wrote... if they see that we're willing to spend money they may respond...
Hello,

I'm a relatively new customer. I've been shopping with you for about two years. I have never heard of you until I travelled to California... when I got back I have been frequenting your store and ordering online:

Things I've bought that I can recall at this time...
- 3 angle grinders and accessories
MIG welder
2HP 8gal air compresser
hammer drill
4x6 bandsaw
safety equipment
stocked all kinds of hardware in plastic cases
Punch set
Drill sets
lathe cutters 1/2"
2 vernier calipers
parallel sets
axes
hammers
Automotive tools - brake beeders, compression test, bearing pullers...
Tool Cart
Welder Cart
Air tools: spray guns, impact, lines, connectors, die grinder, cut off...
Flexible grinder
1400 watt power inverter
much much more than i can list I do a Harbor Freight run monthly and sometimes once a week.

All in all I've spent a lot of money at your store and love to shop there

recently I purcharsed a 3 in 1 Mill/Drill/Lathe... might have bought it from you but you don't stock it any more
I have been tooling up and can't find much from your website... you're missing sales!!!

I'm currently in the market for:
Decent Cross slide vice
Measurement equipment
Carbide Tool Grinder
Clamping equipment
4 Jaw chuck
drill chuck (MT3)
R8 to ER collet sets
milling heads
boring bars
Quick change tool post
Rotary table
Height Gauge
Scribing tools
Deburring tools
etc...


PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE re-stock on the Universal Tool Grinder you used to selll as well as the Carbide Tool Grinder... I promised to buy them! DO NOT REDUCE YOUR STOCKING ITEMS AND INVENTORY... I can't buy them if you don't stock it... I can order some of these things online through other stores but I like to be able to visit stores and feel the items being purchased!

Thank you,
Your Customer,
Charlie
 
Charlie, you may have started something... The reply from HF to my formentioned e-mail:

"Thank you for contacting Harbor Freight Customer Service

Currently we are experiencing a higher than normal volume of emails. Please allow 24-48 business hours Monday-Friday for us to respond to your email.

We appreciate your patience and business with us.

Please do not reply to this email. This message came from an automated mailbox"

Chuck
 
Nice! Let's get this fire started... please please please contact them and ask for all the cool stuff they are no longer selling!!!
 
If you are looking for discontinued Harbor Freight items there is a liquidator on FleaBay selling HF's returns, open box close outs and damaged items. I saw one of their nicer drill presses go for less than $100 because the pulley cover was dented.

Glad you started this thread. Harbor Freight can be a great source for inexpensive tools but you have to be careful what you buy and how you buy it. I visit the store once a month to get the free item they advertise and I never buy anything without a coupon. I recently bought one of their glass bead cabinets. Great cabinet and with a few mods works just as good as the $2,000 Empire one I had. It was on sale and I used my 20% coupon making it less than $150. It seems to me that the system will let you get multiple discounts but Its kind of up to the cashier to enforce it. I bought a air compressor for my dad and not knowing I grabbed one of the paper tags out of the plastic sleeve to take up front that wasn't marked clearance. She gave me the clearance price plus my 20% off coupon. HF digital calipers are great. I bought one for $10 to use for things like scribing lines so I wouldn't mess up my nice ones. I checked it against my Mitutoyo and Starrett standards and its dead on. I went and bought 10 more of them for Christmas presents last year.
 
Tripletap,

I need to get on your Christmas list.. Actually, I went to our local area store this evening, all I could find for the mill that is coming were some center drills.

Doc
 
Hey Doc,

I was in the Marine Corps... you corpsman are awesome. Yeah, I really really want them to stock stuff I can grab on the weekends when the other shops are closed. Please send the e-mail they're going the wrong way losing the machinist customers.
 
Although I have most of the stuff there getting rid of I still send the email I hope it helps. There is still a few things I pick up when I go there.

Paul

I have to watch SWMBO she buys more than I do.
 
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