Worthless Tools Gallery. What Tools do you regret buying?

Those cheap ones were not made of plastic were they? I thought I was seeing things when I saw them. I assumed they were for beginner's.
 
chopsaw for wood was away from home and needed to help mate with job.
went in and got took it back to his place 1st piece of wood we tried cutting snapped end spindle of motor.
was only pine we were cutting.
 
Bill C. said:
Those cheap ones were not made of plastic were they? I thought I was seeing things when I saw them. I assumed they were for beginner's.
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Oh no those plastic calipers were for our mechanical designers at work. After having them weld a few good calipers when they tried to measure the length of fully charged Nicd cells, I gave them the plastic ones.

David
 
I purchased a Rigid brand 14" band saw from Home Depot some years ago, I was working out of town at the time and the saw sat idle in my basement for over a year before I had an opportunity to use it. The blade guides (entire guide assembly) was made from a very inferior cast pot metal, pressure from even the tiny thumb screws used to tighten the guides would break the housings. I thought perhaps I had gotten a bad run and ordered new replacement parts, but the new replacements were just as bad as the original. Short story is, I punish with my dollars (or lack thereof) I will never buy a Rigid product again and I also purchase very little from Home Depot as a result.
I don't mind buying something that requires a tune up as long as the purchase price rewards my efforts, but this saw was pure JUNK.
Thanks
Chuck
 
Erwin step drill, the thing has become dull and useless after drilling only a few holes in sheet metal.
 
Chuck Torman said:
Short story is, I punish with my dollars (or lack thereof) I will never buy a Rigid product again and I also purchase very little from Home Depot as a result.
I don't mind buying something that requires a tune up as long as the purchase price rewards my efforts, but this saw was pure JUNK.
Thanks
Chuck
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Say it ain't so, Chuck! I used to think a lot of Ridgid!!!
Durn ... sounds like a large number of what used to be great names keeps falling down the sewer. Who can you go to now? :apologize:
 
hman said:
Say it ain't so, Chuck! I used to think a lot of Ridgid!!!
Durn ... sounds like a large number of what used to be great names keeps falling down the sewer. Who can you go to now? :apologize:
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Sorry to say it John, but yes a lot of previously respectable U. S. companies have gone to China to drink from the profit well. Some probably had to in order to survive, others simply in order to temporarily boost their bottom line. I am afraid as consumers we are just as guilty. No easy answer "buyer beware". (Oh, sorry for the misspelling "Ridgid not Rigid")
 
I purchased a Rigid brand 14" band saw from Home Depot some years ago,
The blade guides (entire guide assembly) was made from a very inferior cast pot metal,
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Funny - I bought an admittedly 'small cheap' Chinese band saw - but it has 6 ball races for the blade guide. The folded metal support frame was wonky and I had to fix that, but the engineered bits are OK.

Ah - but I no longer buy cheap bandsaw blades from our local equivalent of HD. I buy good bi-metal blades from a specialist. Boy, do they last a long time in comparison.

Cheers
Roger
 
Don't think I've ever had "tool regret".

Even the cheap ones that often break usually get repurposed or reworked into something useful for me.

Wait, maybe the " Wagner power painter". Never have gotten that to work properly....
 
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