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Sept. 7, 2011 2:12 p.m. Schmidlap HalfDork

I hope this kind of thing is allowed, if I'm stepping on any advertiser's toes, please delete it. It's not a canoe either, I'm a real person.

I just got home from Lowes and they are having a big sale on their Kobalt sockets and ratchets, as well as air tools. They are advertising 40% of the sockets in store, but the prices were actually 60% off. Air tools had varying discounts. I got a 1/2" impact wrench for $11, and there was an air chisel kit for dirt cheap but my store was sold out. They were also sold out of impact sockets, but had a good selection. Other air tools were not discounted quite as much but were still on sale.

The store I went to was in Windsor, ON. I don't know if it's just this store, just Canadian stores, or stores in the US too, but I wanted to let everyone know in case you needed some tools or Christmas presents or something.

Bob
Sept. 7, 2011 2:47 p.m. ppddppdd Reader

They had a two-pack of Bosch 4.5 inch angle grinders for $80. I was so. berkeleying. tempted. I dunno why I'd need another two when my Makita has held out for a decade, but it seemed like a nice deal.
Sept. 7, 2011 4:00 p.m. madmallard Reader

i found one 74pc tag on sale from 80$ to $14. but they were already cleared out.

none of my area had sockets on sale.
Sept. 7, 2011 4:56 p.m. 16vCorey SuperDork

Years ago when they were changing suppliers on the Kobalt hand tools they had a HUGE clearance sale. The old tools were made by Williams (parent company to Snap-On) and the new supplier was Danaher tools. I bought just about everything they had. The wrenches were exactly the same as my Snap-On stuff except for the name on it, for $.75 - $2.00 a piece depending on size.
Sept. 7, 2011 5:36 p.m. GrantMLS Reader

most of them already cleared out couple monthes ago.. i loved the old tools made by williams..
Sept. 7, 2011 6:00 p.m. JThw8 SuperDork

ppddppdd wrote:

They had a two-pack of Bosch 4.5 inch angle grinders for $80. I was so. berkeleying. tempted. I dunno why I'd need another two when my Makita has held out for a decade, but it seemed like a nice deal.

Saw that a few months ago and was tempted but didnt have the money at the time. If I see it again Im going for it. When Im doing alot of fab work it would be great not to have to switch between a flap disk and a cutting disk and just have one dedicated grinder for each.

My name is Jim and Im a tool whore....
Sept. 8, 2011 8:59 a.m. mad_machine SuperDork

I think I have to stop my lowes. I need to assemble a new tool bag now that I have two running cars