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ACTUAL Professional ICON tools you can find at HARBOR FREIGHT PART 4
Icon tools locking flex head ratchet and bit set. Look now we all know these companies do their fair share of rebranding with harbor freight being no exception ya see, this set here is nearly identical to something from professional tool company Facom's line up.
Being released all the way back in 2016 the facom r180J31 was the first of it's kind to feature this low profile reversible flex head ratchet all neatly packaged with convenient bits tucked away in it's compact clamshell carrying case. But here we are years later and harbor freight has done it again and partnered directly with the manufacturer to bring us all essentially the same product with more pieces for a sub $50 price tag.
The Facom? Well the lowest price I could find it for is $83 plus shipping but here it's a mere $44.99 DAMN, you just gotta love professional tools at bargain basement prices.
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Just bought this set over the weekend with a 20% coupon came out to $34.99
That's what I got it for it is an awesome tool kit
I got this and the knipex clone this weekend, with 25 percent off. both came out to be 29.99.
My dads basically gay for HF at this point and dont even realize it bro 😂
@@andy34isabor89Harbor Freight identifies as a woman.
It's gonna be $25 next week
I actually like these Harbor freight shorts that you do!!
Harbor freight tools are poo poo
Bruh if you're just starting out or Harry Homeowner icon is definitely fine. But if you're 10 plus years as a tech or tradesmen yeah buy higher quality
@@NOVA__tire_man6910 plus years as a tech here. Still buying harbor freight 👌
@@joshuamorris9050you must be delusional bc their tools have gotten so much better over a few years
@@Carlos_dyno I break their shit all the time. Metal drilling bits went dull after a couple uses so things are good tho
The Facom and Icon sets are made by Hi-Five owned by Bobby Hu, who used to work for GearWrench and designed the ratcheting flex head wrenches.
Wow so many companies
That's dope!
Makes sense
Doesn't Vim tools make those for them.
@@willk485 No sir.
This is the best thing I've ever bought from harbor freight
I've been using bit ratchets for the last 15 years. I've gotten a couple great ratchets over this time. I have a Klutch I got at northern tool 10 years ago that's been my main everyday wrench. This Icon set is outstanding in comparison. It's quickly becoming my main set.
It needing a couple square bits in there is my ONLY complaint. Honestly, it's an insignificant complaint.
The bits are even really friggin good. Used them in a small electric impact drill. I've shattered bits in a day of lesser quality.
I lived in France back in the 70s. Facom is what I bought--by my assessment, basically the equivalent to SnapOn.
Appreciate you investing your own personal time so others can benefit from your work. Thanks neighbor.
I LOVE mine. One of my many hats is 2 stroke engine work/repair and this set is unparallelled when it comes to chainsaws.
Also working on cars, electronics and "consumer products"
I still use a screwdriver handle style spinner a lot but this thing often initiates the job. And it fits where a lot of 1/4 inch drive ratchets just wont. Great for sensors on cars.
I'd buy a dedicated socket ratchet on this chassis with some thin wall sockets if it were HF available. Would nice to have one "socket only" so the socket doesn't pull the little socket adapter out. Bonus points if it has a little extension and a little universal joint.
I have one, it's super handy. Definitely recommend buying one.
Just bought these today because of your video! Thank you. I’m an electrician and this will become super handy. From panels, Tesla Chargers and tight spots my screwdrivers won’t be able to access.
Best money ever spent, very well made tool that I use every single day. The bits are barely showing any wear and tear for the amount I use them. Can’t argue with lifetime warranty either also got it for $40 when it goes on sale.
Lots of brands sell these Taiwanese ratchets. Wera, VIM, Tone and Sonic
As a IT Field tech, this plus my leathermen is practically all i need for 98% of jobs
This is one of my favorite tools I own, it gets used every day
Same. When these first dropped they couldn't keep them in stock. I was finally able to snag one a year or so ago and it has come in clutch so many times since then. Great set.
Ive been doing a lot of trim and interior work, as well as engine compartment work on German cars.
That little kit, has saved my butt several times. Recently used it to get some dash screws out of a Hyudai Niro, and the oil cooler screws on a Tiguan.
It was the only tool I had, that would fit.
I had a set like this at a previous tech job. I looked it up on Amazon the other day and it was over $130. This is an absolute steal!
I always have good luck with metal fabrication tools and rotary tools for cheap at HF
I bought a cheap Amazon one, and in comparison mine didn’t come with a flex head or a set of small sockets, just came with torx bits and screws driver bits, which in a way makes it very limited. A tech at my shop had a similar one to harbor freight and it was very useful on like Euro cars because of the tight spots, highly recommended!
Heeeeyyy I picked this up recently and using it whenever I can. You can tell this man is legit by the grease under his fingernails. Great channel.
I edc this icon ratchet with a little victorinox bit bar. Its pretty convenient when you need it and the flow through ratchet allows you to have a t handle for more leverage
Correction HF rebrands all of its tools. They don’t manufacture anything, so everything in HF is a rebrand.
And no question asked wareties unlike any major brand
@@luke8222 what tool company doesn’t honor their warranty? It might not be as easy, I know in my case gear wrench and Williams while a pain and it takes time honors their warranty. All the tool truck brands are just as easy as HF. In fact much easier in my experience on sets, and electronics.
Tekton the easiest for an online retailer but Capri wasn’t an issue in the past for me either. Napas carlisle brand is just as easy as HF. rigid, stanly, dewalt, etc etc etc. if a tool has a warranty I’ve used it before 😂. I’ve only not had a tool replaced twice. Sometimes yes more hoops to jump through.
I will say I’ve had HF not warranty individual wrenches that were bought as a set, this was one of the 2 times. HF outside of this though is rether easy to warranty tools. With the exception of anythjng electric, your SOL when they die, which isn’t the case for some brands selling the exact same tool HF sells.
@@luke8222 as far as warranties and customer service goes, nothing beats the tool truck. They replace individual items that were bought in a set, and even better if they’re out of stock, they will order the part for you. Not the case for HF. Electronics also have a real warranty on the tool trucks. Even stuff bought at Lowe’s and HD is just as easy to get replacement tools as HF in my experience, not that I’ve done it a lot, and it’s been 5 yewrs so maybe this isn’t the case anymore at the box stores?
@@michaelschlarman7835 Bullshit........ HF is the new Craftsman Sears........ Walk in with a broken rachet, walked right out with a new warrantied one no questions asked....... With the Icon line they do warranty single sockets, they pull one from a set in store. You will see discounted loose incomplete socket sets.
@@MiguelGarcia-vj7oo that’s true for most brick and mortar tool stores…craftsman and sears were just big corporations. Local ma and pa hardware store have been doing the same forever 😂 . I’ve warrantied tools at Lowe’s before too.
This all still requires more time and effort then a tool truck or online businesses that require an email for warranties. Tekton, Capri, etc come to mind. There are so many tool companies these days I don’t understand the love for HF. They’re rarely the cheapest for the exact same tool after all. As I stated in my orginal post they don’t make a single thing at HF. It’s Chinese and Taiwanese manufacturers who make 99% of the stuff they sell. The same manufacturers most other inexpensive tool companies uses too…
Wish there was a guy like this for Australia
Could you order the tools from harbour freight and still save money including the postage
@@benrowe4014website only ships to USA addresses, and by the time you pay shipping and tax the copies are more expensive than buying the originals
There is no such thing as a bad tool, and Harbor Freight is full of not bad tools.
No such thing?
I'm HF all the way but man I had a bad run of 1/2" ratchets from them. Literally 6 in a row within 2 weeks, wasn't hard use either. Broke down and bought one off the rape truck that hasn't let me down... sucked paying $200 for it though lol
Always been: Buy harbor freight everything that isn’t a ratchet or about to get hit with a hammer. Buy craftsman for everything else. Replace what gets broke with the primo shit.
Now it’s buy Pittsburg/Quinn everything. Replace what breaks with Icon. Whatever icon stuff you break replace with like tekton or gearwrench cause they’re pretty on par with snap on and matco at this point. Taiwan really is beating out the US in tool manufacturing now.
@@chrisblair3081 rape truck😂
@@ruebenllongoria836gear wrench and tekton are comparable to Matco because Matco rebrands all of their shit. They don’t make any tools. Gear wrench and tekton are good brands with solid tools, but they still are not on par with Snap-on. Not all of Snap-on’s tools are the best in business and paying a serious premium for those tools in some cases isn’t worth it. I own a few brands of ratchets and my Snap-on ones are my favorite to use, but at the end of the day my husky 270 piece mechanic set I got at Home Depot for 100$ works pretty damn well for 90% of the work I do at home
Facom, owned by Black & Decker, made mostly in China. I did have a large 1/2 drive Facom socket set, made in France. They would surrender whenever I pointed a ratchet at them.
But these bit ratchets are made by HI-FIVE in Taiwan.
Not true at all. A lot of Facom is still made in France they have a huge factory. The rest is mainly made in Taiwan.
@73repa B.S. You can go right on their own website, and they say they have factories in China so STFU.
One of the best deals at hf Same as the vim, Mac and cornwell I have all 4
See are we just out here ignoring the Wadsworth Super Deluxe Mini Ratchet & Screwdriver Set 4? Shit came out easy before 2016. If you're in the semiconductor industry, you know about this beauty
This is a great little set. I have this, the Facom and the Bluepoint set and for sub $50 it's the best off the three
I handle the majority of my stores warranties, even on cheaper tools more often than not broken tools are the result of misuse rather than a defect. When looking at the top lines like ICON and Hercules a warranty being the result of defect or poor quality is 1 in 1,000. I've had people bitch to me about not being able to use a 1/4" to bust off lug nuts or about an air tool rated for 90 PSI no longer working when they admit they don't use any pressure regulator ie. they're using 150-175 PSI. My personal favorite is when they just never bothered to read the manual, trying to load the wrong size staples, connecting a 12 volt charger backward, not using the release lever to change heads on an OMT. At least once a day I'll "fix" a tool for a customer and show them how to use it, they'll get red from a mix of embarrassment and frustration, and then a week later tell me the tool is perfect. I'll help people figure out tools all day, nobody is born knowing everything about tools and I enjoy doing it, but don't tell me I'm part of a Chinese conspiracy to destroy America and that I should be ashamed of the products I sell. It's eye-opening to see how many "professionals" aren't. I try to do most of my work myself now instead of contractors and shops.
I have a Klein set like this and it’s cheaper,but it has a lot of tips that are better.
Bought mine for 1 single job, was intending to return it afterwards. Ended up keeping it hecause it turned out to be so versatile. Buying one for my dad for his birthday
So when you need a tool, you buy it from a place that is good on returns so you can kinda rent them for free?
It will be on sale for 25 bucks in a couple weeks…
Just picked one up with the 25% off coupon on my last trip. Had a hell of a time finding it on the shelf there but stoked to pick one up. Available on the website as well.
Icon also makes insanely good torque wrenches.
It’s Memorial Day weekend. 10-20% discounts. 🙌
I have that bit set and I use it everyday as a heavy duty diesel mechanic
Great kit!
Nah bruh it’s the Facom kit but that’s a shortened ratchet from the VIM set with the pass through extension that turns into a T handle. The ratchet is identical except for the length. This makes it an improvement on the Facom set.
Well technically there are minor cosmetic changes, but there are countless different variants and rebrands of these HI-FIVE bit ratchets.
Some are quite different and some just have a slightly different texture or pattern of grooves...etc in the handle.
Thank you for posting!
Nobody can say this isn’t a working man with those hands. Hope you’re making bank king.
I love having that little set in my box. Comes in handy constantly for those little fasteners you just can’t hit with a screwdriver.
I've only needed to use mine 2 times but it saved my ass both times I love it
I have a ton of tools in the garage but none of them have saved my ass like this cheap glovebox ratchet set has. For simple things like removing a battery or some plastics, it’s honestly my goto over all my expensive tools.
The t handle bit driver is also very similar to the TONE brand Japanese tool bit driver set that’s very nice but The warranty process at HF can’t be beat on smalll sets like theee
Just bought this today for $39.99 with no coupon.
The warranty is a huge part of it too. Broke a bit on my set and just walked in showed them the broken bit and they gave me a new one, no questions asked didn't even ask for my phone number to make sure I had actually bought it.
I have a bluepoint ratcheting bit driver i bought working in a body shop about the size of my thumb but loved it for wheel well screws
I sense harbor freight and icon tools becoming our generation's version of sears and craftsman.
Rachet is from narex frst i see it in school almost 20 years back
Most of the Icon stuff is pretty good for the price really
Got one, very handy. Vega makes a set that's a little more versatile because it has 1/4" sockets with the set and the case is about the same size.
Digging your Shorts my Good Friend! Hope all is well with you and yours. Cheers! Zip~
Wow it's been a while my man!
Good video. I'd like to see more like it.
Most of these can be found with the same parts numbers on Amazon for even less..
I have a set made by black hawk i bought at a swapmeet nearly identical down to the case
I wish they would sell an icon rathcet and socket set with case
Harbor Freight is definitely upping their game in much of its hand tools offering. I still would not purchase any power tools from them however. The electrical/electronics/diagnostics tools, like digital multlmeters, are improving too - but I'm still weary of their quality and manufacturing origin.
I bought this on a sale last year for like 25-30 dollars
Good kit, but the Wera tool check is the best kit like this that exists
Nearly identical, but cheep metal. 20% restocking fee . What you save in price you pay in gas and time returning it 3 times
I recently got me one and I love the little guy.
I was at harbors freights literally the other day looking for this exact set and they had no idea what I was talking about 😂
My local harbor freight were sold out of them for like 2 years
Ive got the set, only had it for 2 months but used it a few times, love them worth the money
Their warranty return is super easy as well.
I have, it nice❤
Also the Quin low profile impact sockets is the shiznits
I own and approve this set.
The Tone kit is better for the same price or cheaper on Amazon
Its going to be 24.99 on August 2024 parking lot sale
Harbor Freight is probably the most steppin-it-up hardware store of the past 2 generations. Not since Home Depot came along and (regrettably) knocked all the old mom n pop shops out of the market, have we seen such a buyer/price friendly revolution. And that Home Depot era was 40 years ago! But Harbor Freight is definitely creeping up the price scale too. Paid $70 for two 5 socket indexes last month. Roughly $7 per socket
Don’t forget the lifetime warranty. Can’t beat that
I have one from VIM. It’s the exact same.
Icon isn't even closer to Facom quality...France make really a superior quality Tools...🌟👍
Sorry they no longer make tools like this in France
Enjoy your Chinese and Taiwan tools. Only buy from Japan, Germany and US. That is if you want tools to pass on
I’ve been looking for this exact tool set at my local harbor frieight for years now 😂
I wish i hadthis doing the starter on my car
I have this and love it.
I picked up this icon set a while back and absolutely love it!
I like this dude better than the Subaru dude you know he’s dying to end one of his videos talking about you know who rising again or something with a hard R
Epauto makes ICON $35 on Amazon
This would be my favorite kit if it came with some metric sockets, like my cornwell kit
Looks very similar to the wera mini ratchet
Harbor freights great till it’s not bought ramps for somewhere around $150 and first time loading my bike they bent trashed but generally otherwise good
Looks Vim Tools.. I bought that mini ratchet back in 2010
No the VIM RBF400K is longer, and wasn't offered until about 2 years ago.
The non flex head HI-FIVE bit ratchet has been around significantly longer though , that would be the one you bought in 2010.
I’ve had that for like three months now it’s come in clutch more times than I can even think of
Those are a nice little set!!!!
The icon semi deep sockets they released a few months ago are made by kabo who does cornwell blue line. Total steal at the price they are offering
They are 25 dollars now during garage sale.
Facom=Stanley Black&Decker...☝️
It’s all made in China now anyway
This is made by HI-FIVE.
It's also made for USAG, was made for Blackhawk, and MAC offers the ratchet all by itself for $60.
Beyond S-B&D owned brands it's offered by TOPTUL, a longer version is offered by VIM, by WURTH, KS TOOL, and by a brand called RUJOI.
They also make the WERA, GM POWERTORQUE, 711L, and loads of bicycle tool brands offer variants or different bit ratchets with the mechanism.
Huh, funny, i have that labled as Sidchrome in AUS. Sidchrome has mostly been an aussie reputable tool brand, their old stuff is tough as.
Yep that's another Stanley black and decker company
It’s so funny that you can use the word professional and harbor freight in the same sentence 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
They are not the same. They changed manufacturing plants since the good old days
Not made in usa still
I picked up this same set for $35
Thanks for the information I need one of those
Are there no Taiwan clones online for even less at the same quality? Also what’s your thoughts on those socket starter sets people buy every Christmas. How is there not something with none of the extra crap for a solid price all sockets and wrenches etc no fluff or Allen keys give be hex sockets instead
I wouldn’t buy any clone. Buy the icon. I use the set daily. And about after 6 months, the pass through head wears out and bits slide through. You buy the icon for the warranty. No questions asked I’m on my second one, getting a 3rd soon.
@@madjackgamingandfitness498 I was like wtf is is point until you made the warranty comment. They actually makes sense. This is a rare case where the warranty may well be worth any premium it costs over a from a hypothetical identical $50 set from tekton
I have this set and I love it.
Just wait for v.2 of this thats coming with mini sockets
Prestacycle has a way better mini ratchet for about the same price as icon
I want just the ratchet no cheap bits
Home Depot has had these for years my dad bought me one as a young guy for like twenty bucks so I could have tools, took all the covers off the outlets 😂
where’s mr. subaru at now?
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