{"id":151,"date":"2013-09-15T16:50:10","date_gmt":"2013-09-15T21:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/makecoolthings.com\/?p=151"},"modified":"2013-09-20T07:56:59","modified_gmt":"2013-09-20T12:56:59","slug":"week-37-2013-harbor-freight-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/makecoolthings.com\/?p=151","title":{"rendered":"Week 37, 2013 – Harbor Freight Sale"},"content":{"rendered":"

So, I made an order at Harbor Freight to get in on the Labor Day sale, and I used the main sale coupon to get 20% off the already absurd price on their Chinese knock-off ‘Porta-Band’<\/a> (Portable Band Saw)<\/em>, getting it for a mere $65. \u00a0I was<\/em> going to get their horizontal band saw<\/a>, but that would’ve been all my money, plus I found out that it wasn’t even on sale. \u00a0Then I saw the Porta-Band. \u00a0At any rate, I needed one or the other to cut stock into manageable pieces. \u00a0Especially cutting down round rod for the lathe.<\/p>\n

I’ve only made a few test cuts with it, I’m ordering some more suitable bi-metal anti-vibration variable pitch blades from McMaster, and then I’ll probably be able to really review it next week or the week after.<\/p>\n

I also bought their 1500-watt dual-temp heat gun<\/a>, because I was really getting tired of having to lug around my SMD reflow soldering hot-air workstation just to shrink-tube something! It was 30% off at $10.<\/p>\n

I ordered an air compressor<\/a>, something I’ve desperately needed for YEARS, and it was 20% off, bringing it down to just $104… \u00a0But for some reason, they dropped it from my order and refunded the money. \u00a0It wasn’t out of stock or anything. \u00a0So now I have a compressor accessory set, an air filter, an airbrush hose…and no goddamned compressor!<\/i>\u00a0 What’s more, if I were to re-order it, I wouldn’t get the $25 off… I’m going to have words with them about that, but for the time being, I said screw it and decided that the $100 could be put into materials for projects in the meantime.<\/p>\n

I found these great ear plugs<\/a> at Amazon. \u00a0I’ll review them after they get a bit of use!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So, I made an order at Harbor Freight to get in on the Labor Day sale, and I used the main sale coupon to get 20% off the already absurd price on their Chinese knock-off ‘Porta-Band’ (Portable Band Saw), getting it for a mere $65. \u00a0I was going to get their horizontal band saw, but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[28],"tags":[29,21],"wf_post_folders":[79],"class_list":["post-151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-status-report","tag-acquisitions","tag-harbor-freight"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6NlLW-2r","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/makecoolthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/makecoolthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/makecoolthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makecoolthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makecoolthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/makecoolthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152,"href":"https:\/\/makecoolthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions\/152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/makecoolthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makecoolthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makecoolthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=151"},{"taxonomy":"wf_post_folders","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/makecoolthings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fwf_post_folders&post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}