25 Tools Under $15 You Need In Your Tool Box From Harbor Freight. Perfect For Gifts! 

Find the links to all the items I talked about below. www.harborfreight.com/jobsite-offset-scissors-58492.html www.harborfreight.com/6-in-magnetic-parts-holder-57464.html www.harborfreight.com/small-ultra-grip-flexible-parts-tray-58159.html www.harborfreight.com/easy-sorter-funnel-tray-37081.html www.harborfreight.com/pick-and-hook-set-7-piece-69592.html www.harborfreight.com/33-piece-precision-screwdriver-set-93916.html www.harborfreight.com/precision-knife-set-13-piece-62784.html www.harborfreight.com/588-lumen-tactical-led-flashlight-black-63934.html www.harborfreight.com/18-inch-low-voltage-multi-colored-test-leads-66717.html www.harborfreight.com/7-function-digital-multimeter-63759.html www.harborfreight.com/nuisance-dust-masks-10-pack-58693.html www.harborfreight.com/foldable-ear-muffs-58353.html www.harborfreight.com/splash-resistant-safety-goggle-97140.html www.harborfreight.com/yellow-lens-safety-glasses-66823.html www.harborfreight.com/foam-kneeling-pad-56572.html www.harborfreight.com/feeler-gauge-32-piece-63665.html www.harborfreight.com/telescoping-mirror-7361.html www.harborfreight.com/18-inch-telescoping-magnet-37187.html www.harborfreight.com/15-lb-capacity-telescoping-magnetic-pickup-tool-95933.html www.harborfreight.com/fuel-line-and-ac-quick-disconnect-tool-6-piece-63595.html www.harborfreight.com/9-piece-tube-pipe-nylon-brush-set-90631.html www.harborfreight.com/mechanics-stethoscope-63691.html www.harborfreight.com/mechanics-shop-towels-14-in-x-13-in-50-pack-63365.html www.harborfreight.com/40-in-x-50-in-moving-blanket-58328.html www.harborfreight.com/8v-cordless-variable-speed-rotary-tool-kit-40-piece-58162.html www.harborfreight.com/85-gram-super-lube-grease-cartridge-93744.html www.harborfreight.com/5-in-multipurpose-vise-with-anvil-58157.html

A good vice is worth every penny! I bought a similar vice from Costco 25 years for $65. It has never let me down over the thousands of times I used it. I couldn't imagine how much harder my wrenching life would've been without it. GET A GOOD VICE!

I like to get the small plastic tarps at HF. I leave one under my seat in the van. If I ever need to get on the ground or carry plants or something dirty it's there. Personally I like the corded tools. If you are not a daily user you don't have to worry about dead/low batteries.

Love your tool videos, Jared! For someone like me who is just really getting into doing work himself at home, I like that you pick out tools in my price range but then go the extra step and explain *why* they'd be useful to have.

Cleanup brushes? Adding one more to that. Firm bristle tooth brushes! Plastic handles, plastic bristles. The most essential thing I have for cleaning any aluminium part.

I have to defend the Gator socket. I keep one in my drill bag for the occasional need. I agree they’re not for heavy use, but they’ve saved the day many times for me when I didn’t have sockets/wrenches available.

Oh! One other thing that every mechanic needs. Antiseize! I personally swear by Permatex silver. Bolts, paper gaskets and more! Is the most essential thing there is. Is head gasket magic.

It would be great to have links which you could also monetize on, but I understand half these are HF so that's that.I'm really glad you used HF for items like this "smart" shopping and consumables. I've filled my tool boxes with as much HF as possible before expanding my quality tool line up. No shame and I dont need name status if it works. 5" blue vice at HF for around $85 is good for me. The $20 clamp on counterpart baby one is good for small but tough work.

I pulled a Wilton bench vise out of my works scrap iron pile. It was on the back of our maintenance truck for years and the barrel had seized and it didnt move. A little bit of work and it freed right up. Been a nice bench vise for home.

Here in the UK, we have two general stores (ALDI and LIDL), who, from time to time, have Special Buys, which often includes tools. Some of it is tat, but some of it is pretty good. A couple of items I got that are really good, are a 7 piece screwdriver set, and a 25 piece metric, combination wrench set. I also picked up a table saw, which I wouldn't normally have bought, but it was the last one in the store, and was discounted to less than half price, so was too good to miss. 😎

"take the advice... ' an old vice that is bigger than you think you need will be just enough... really look...

I have several of the items noted. I mostly agree. For the multimeter get something better than the cheapest. 20 bucks should be fine, but 8 will not get it done. Micro screwdriver sets really vary. Make sure they have what you need. Doing a battery on a cell phone? You will need the smallest of screwdrivers. Buy once. Get the better set.

Just make sure to buy a multimeter that has a continuity beep as that's going to be the thing you're using it most for :)

A substitute for the knee pad can be those interlocking floor tiles,made of foam. The ones that they use in elementary schools or daycare and gyms. They works just as well and larger surface area so when you lay down.

I’ve used those knives almost every day for years. Bought multiple sets. That multimeter just doesn’t cut it for me though since it doesn’t have an audible continuity check. Been using the kneeling pad pretty often too. Not sure I would trust their feeler gauges after finding that all of their spark plug gap tools were way off. My Autozone coin-shaped gap tool confirmed the factory pregap while every HF coin was dead wrong. Would’ve exchanged instead of returning if I found a single one that was correct… but I didn’t.

I would add an impact screwdriver. Boy, it has helped me loosen frozen/rusted fasteners.

Another good one that fits in this title is a box of nitrite gloves. I was at a customers house the other day and he had a box sitting next to the project we were working on and said, "here, you're going to need these." They were the blue 7mil gloves from HF and they were actually really good. Idk how many times ive used much more expensive gloves that ripped just putting them on or shortly after. I was really impressed with these gloves for the price.

a nice tip for keeping nuts and bolts organized when tearing something down, the HF glove holder with zip lock bags.

If you are looking to buy a vice make sure it is cast steel and not cast iron. You will need a cast iron vice twice the size of a cast steel vice to do the same job. And, if you can afford it pay the money for a Wilton you won't regret it. A foot long brass bar is also a great thing to have in your box. It allows you to pound on parts because the brass is softer than steel so it doesn't damage the part.

Safety glasses. I bought like 10 pairs,and threw them all around my shop, so there's never an excuse to not wear them when needed.

Thanks for not recommending the $10 rotary tool, I bought one as a kid and it was completely unusable. It didn't have enough power to do even light work, and it vibrated so much I could barely hold it. It did make me appreciate the Dremel I bought later, though

KNEE PADS YES!!! When you get into your 40's, your knees will thank you!

If you're like me and electronics in general are a big part of your life as well as engines and even interior stuff within vehicles, the i fix it kit is absolutely amazing I have the OG pro tech toolkit and I use it for everything!

I'm kinda surprised that you didn't mention different angle grinder disks. Those things turn an angle grinder into an oversized rotary tool.

I got my big bench vise at an estate sale pretty cheap. It's older but pretty heavy duty.

When buying a multi meter I would always buy one that can do voltages for your house and your car :)

I see jared enjoys a good smokewagon uncut unfiltered at the shop

+1 on the "dremel" die grinder and a good vise. Been missing those two from my garage job back then...also a few pen-style lights with that UV light won't hurt, the next step up could be a good soldering iron or even just a can of brake/parts cleaner. And some quality electrical tape!

I am an industrial mechanic, I work in an Ethanol plant. We have several different capacity chain hoists from harbor freight 1/4, 3/4, and a 1 and 1/2 ton these take a lot of abuse in an industrial setting and they hold up.

My picks (aka mini-prybars) are bent, broken, twisted, and in all other ways, abused. I am not sure what I did before I had them. A spare set that's not expensive is a must.

Yes a good vice is worth it's weight in gold. I have one that my grandfather gave me that he got from his father. In fact I have many tools that have been passed along to me that are nearing 100 years old and I plan to hopefully pass them on to my daughter or grand children.

Harbor Freight has a $15 tool creeper which would be a good gift for someone who's just a tinkerer. would a roller seat/ roller seat with drawers as a slightly higher cost but still under $100 be a good gift? also maybe just creepers in general.

Other cheap tools to keep around are those plastic clip release pliers and pry tools, a hood strut clamp, and the big set of safety bits from HF. If you want to spend a little more dough I would suggest a Sunnex magnetic deep socket set. The magnets are not as strong as the Snap on sockets, but the entire set is $110 whereas a single 10mm Snap-On magnetic socket is $48.

You couldn’t have knocked $4 off the price for the memes???

“Buy stuff to show you things” with Jared! Haha love it

Couple things I didnt see, I buy and put those $0.59 razor knives at the checkout everywhere. Same with the cheap orange picks they sell, I buy them and toss them about everywhere, also see them in alot of peoples toolboxes. Wire Brushes are another good thing to pick up there. The 4 way screwdrivers when they are $2 are good too

I bought my dad one of those yellow easy fill trays for his birthday. Turned out he uses it as his rolling tray. He loves it for that lol

I bought an extremely heavy vise and anvil from a family cleaning out dads garage for $55 for both. The anvil was 450lbs i believe and sold for a bunch and i still have the vise its nothing like what you can purchase today. Been offered a lot for it bit would never dream of selling

I do not comment enough... I have always enjoyed what you bring to the table. Much appreciated.

Gator sockets work great on hook and eyes that screw in wall and such.

i bought a little 3" vice from harbor freight for like $30 maybe less for my gunsmith classes and it works great

moving blankets work great as a makeshift shooting mat

subscribed, liked, commenting because it is owed to the hard work I've seen you put in with the CarTrek team over the years. Jared is The Man.

The moving blankets are actually a good buy, I have several and use them more than I'd ever thought. The vices not so much so, they're just "kinda" useable for light up to "very" light medium work. It breaks/strips/skips you go get a new one. Still, I'd rather have a vice that I could just crank the F down on and my other tool break before the vice. Good luck with that though, a vice that strong is like $800+ dollars. The vice thing depends on whether the aggravation of expenditure outweighs the aggravation of failure and multiple replacement. Harbor Freight usually has pretty good "average to slightly above average" stuff. I know people that brag about their tool kits even though those kits get used about as much as the Harleys they trailer everywhere. Harbor Freight would serve them just fine for many years, it just wouldn't look as impressive as a huge rolling chest of snap on (that never get used).

Their 100 pc security bit set is great when you're facing those tamper-proof bolts and screws.

The kneeling pad is also good for if you need to sit on the ground to do something like breaks it works good for not just sitting on the hard ground

Harbor freight has tool rental. I needed a large set of sockets a breaker bar and a torque wrench. It was around 150-200 for all. I did my wheel bearings, cleaned up the tools and took them back.

Still undecided on a good vice. Fireball tools channel has a great vice comparison/stress test if you’re interested

That "buy once cry once" only applies if you're making a living from them; if you're a hobbyist you maybe don't need that $48,000 socket set to change the oil on the wives SUV once a year.

18:28 this is the best advice you could tell any novice. Don't just go for the "brand" name tools. Would you rather be $400 deep on tools you use. Or $2000 in tools.

That Doyle Vise is a goal of mine with a sale. I need that in my garage. The sorter and the rubber tray is a good one too.

Everything you said was 100% spot on

I like these videos! As a beginning shade tree mechanic, I appreciate your point of view and experience.

Steer clear of harbor freight moving blankets. After a year or so they start falling apart shedding tiny abrasive fiber everywhere. I had some just in case, and it happened first time i used them.

Very valuable information. Thanks Jared!

Totally agree the gator socket is a terrible gift. Love your content ❤️

A good go bag. big enough to hold some tools for those rescue missions.

It's a 2 1/2 inch drive 14 piece socket set that goes from 5 1/8 inches to 6 5/8 inches for the low price of $48,921. Those are some damn big bolts and nuts for nothing smaller than bridge construction, but at least you can get a 2 1/2" Ingersol Rand 2 man impact to run them on sale for $25,520, an $11,000 savings.

The silicone parts mats are great. I have one at my office desk, another for EDC stuff, and a couple for the actual shop. Those gator sockets can be decent for screwing in small eyelets or hooks. Super terrible for bolts though

I used to buy rags, but since I wear cotton socks, once they are no longer serviceable, I cut them down the bottom to make them mostly flat and simply toss them when dirty.

I agree about bench vises. I found a used rusty full size 4" Yost with a swivel base in the mid 1970's at a farm sale that was older than dirt then. I cleaned it up with a sand blaster, painted it, lubed the huge Acme screw and I've been using it for the last 50 years. I've never seen a vise I'd trade it for. The thing is a wonderful tool.

1:30 Oh, com'on! Get on with it.

You should do a video about consumables from HF also.

Great video! Some of these items I've already got sitting around (some I forgot I had) and some have been added to my want list from the Fat Man this Christmas!

Jus caught you. Nice vid. Real pro. Had everything on your list. Kool Hope you're still in business and good health.

Might add some spools of wire. Various sizes and colors.

honestly incredible you spent that much at harbor freight

Talking about tools: cars nowadays have lots of computers and electronics. What kind of computers and/or software do you use as tools? What kind of interface boxes/modules are needed to connect a laptop to a car or electronic module? Are these software tools only available to professionals and/or shops?

Thanks for the information and keep up the great work

I'd add a rechargeable soldering iron. You can get one for around $30.

You could go to Fireball Tools for a great vice!

Your tools videos are always awesome! What do you think is the best air compressor setup for diy garage?

I have all that, in fact when I buy things I buy in threes. Always believe in backup. Side note that is not what a doctor uses just like a stethoscope.

Dingleberry Kool-aid, my favorite flavor

You can never have enough magnet parts trays

Great info. Love the content. Thank you

Wow, what a great video. Where's Earl and the Lexus?!

I am going to send my wife a link to this video.

Really enjoyed it .

swap the scissors for EMT shears! There are no packets they wont open, along with cutting rubber matting, sound deadening etc

I'm surprised a set of exhaust hanger pliers wasn't on this list

$48921.00 for a 14 piece Snap-on impact socket set ... IN 2.5" DRIVE!! If you have an impact tool that uses 2 and a half inch drive, you've probably spent 3 times that much already. Part number 714IM. And it's on backorder.

dude my starret 925 is a beast i love it 120 lbs

"...if you're doing RC..." I look over at my completely disassembled Talion I'm converting to a Kraton, surrounded by MIP tools.

I just saw their eletric pencil rotary tool a ment to look into it but didn't

I love these videos!!

I love Harbor Freight

14 pc 2-1/2" Drive 6-Point SAE Flank Drive® Shallow Impact Socket Set (5-1/8-6-5/8") Item no :714IM SHARE Backordered (Est. in stock 10/28/2022) $48,921.00 thats so specific I wouldn't count it as actual tools... I personally know nobody that has a 2 1/2 inch impact wrench

I like that ladder by the sink, can I have it?

Nice tools 🔧 😮😊😊 Do U got a vice grip

Good advice thank you

15:23..and it works great!.. awesome stuff Super Lube is...☝️ 16:07... I have this vise and I love it... I fabricate my own stainless turbocharger piping and exhaust piping so this is the ticket right here...🏁 $200 is cheap for this vice you are getting a lot of vice for your money here

I’ll be dipped and subscribed

4:42 Hell yeah! I can look at that thing and tell it aint worth a sh*t!! It's like them two wrenches I bought YEARS ago (when I didn't know any better) that was supposed to fit evah!! nut evah!! made. It was actually designed to ROUND OFF evah!! nut evah!! made. I finally gave it to my 6 year old grandson and told him to practice with on his Daddy's car.

Great video

A harbor freight Home Depot aNs lowes under 20 or 25 dollars lost would be cool to see

Pick & Hoot Set ??

my 15 year old 18$ harbor freight corded rotary tool has out lasted my much newer Dremel. Just sayin'

Holy crap! I can’t believe Snap-on is that expensive. Does anyone know what makes the $48,000 socket set so expensive?

U all laugh at the gator socket...it has saved my bacon in a few emergencies