Harbor Freight Tube Notcher... Is it WORTH it?

In this video i review and test the Harbor freight (central Machinery) tubing/pipe notcher and let you know if it is worth your hard earned cash. Let me know in the comments what other tools you want me to review. Harbor freight tool review.

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[jackiejoe]

What I don't need to buy the most expensive tool to make my project look good? Thanks for the review, and keep them coming.

[csabin]

I bought one of those and it did everything I needed it to do.

[Kellengravesfab]

I've had mine for years. It works great

[michaelelliott]

The idea behind this video is excellent. I look forward to seeing more of these videos. I would especially be interested in one covering the Titanium 200 welder you use and see how your experience compared to mine.

[CFairNH]

That seems like it works great I'll be purchasing one this weekend LOL. Thanks for reviewing. Always enjoy your videos, keep up the good work

[VictorVectorJKU]

Great short video Kelly! I will probably be looking to get one of these myself soon so I appreciate the review!

[VSKULLS]

Hey there, you probably know this already, but if you put some cutting or reg. Oil on the teeth periodically while cutting. It will be cooler and save your teeth on your hole saws. Just a little food for thought 👍

[MycSailor]

Use cutting oil if you want the hole saw to last.

[messix]

again Kelly you come up with a great video with good unique and informative content. thank you. could you show some helpful methods on configuring choices on tube placement, and do's and don'ts ?

[islandboi]

Dope vid! Thanks for the straight forward information.

[tykesplace]

If I spend $70 on a notcher then I’ll need to spend $700 on a bender. 😂

[Jesselewis]

I would love a review on their tube bender. I don’t need many bends, so thinking about one

[austinjeffreys]

I like the review. Short sweet and to the point..🤙 definitely going to have to get me one of these. I have been looking into a tube binder. Any suggestions on one? I seen you had a halo bent up in the background of the video. Have you used the harbor freight binder? Thoughts on it?

[nateohnemi]

great review! I drill sch. 40, and 10 for work and have found the Lenox hole saws to run smoother and last longer. Curious if you would see the same with notching.

[FlawedOffroad]

I was going to buy one, then a buddy was like, you have an evo saw right? you can make notches with that. I was like really? I tried it and yes you can pretty easily. just have to do a little math and make 2 angled cuts. Still good to know this isnt bad though

[craigmonteforte]

Seams like you do a lot of Tube Fabrication or at least more than the average person i’m a retired Woodworker and right now a fairly new and kind of a hot item is the Wen brand floor standing DrillPress i beleive it’s the least expensive one onAmazon and the reviews are fairly consistent of being a decent product for the money it actually is a adjustable Speed machine that achieves that by a dial to speed up or down the motor and it utilizes a CVT style set of Pulley that self adjust to get the RPms you need on a digital display right on the unit there are definitely sacrifices on this Unit to keeping their price low and of course you can Spend a great deal more money on Higher Quality machines you might need for a shop that Professionally Specializes in Tubing Fabrication but you appear to do one offs and nott a high amount of these chevknitvout i’m a firm beleiver in buying the right tool or tools for the job

[kylancook]

Good deal, curious on the lifetime of the bushing/bearing on it

[mattlong]

Can you do a review on a tubing bender?

[tsmartin]

I bought one of these many years ago and it was a piece of crap. It flexed too much while cutting and the saw and tube clamp was so far off center there was no way it would make a decent notch. I threw it in the corner and bought a JD Squared Notch Master. All good now.

[manny]

Cool video and what welder do you use for the cage?