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HOT DEALS 2.0: Coupons, Sales, Black Friday, eBay, Amazon, BORG, Zoro, Woodcraft, etc.

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A hot deal is a significant discount (including shipping) on DIY or workshop related tools, machines, clothing, books, lumber, or general interest items. Use your discretion. If you think we would be interested, post it. Please include a link, if online, a description, and the price. The discount amount in % or $$ is appreciated but not required.

Examples:
  • eBay Buy It Now (BIN)
  • Amazon sales, Deal of the Day (DOTD)
  • Amazon Warehouse Deals (AWD)
  • Sales, Coupons, Coupon Codes
  • Lowes/HD closeouts
  • Craigslist finds
  • Black Friday

NOT hot deals:
20% off HF coupon, because they are available all the time.
Cheaply made tools.
eBay auctions, because we don't know the final price until the auction ends.
Your favorite or most useful tool.
Amazon "Just Launched" sellers with very low prices (scammer)
Amazon sellers that ask you to email first (scammer)

Shopping Tools

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  • What is an Amazon Warehouse Deal? It is an item with damaged packaging or the item itself may be damaged. It could have been dropped off a truck, punched with a fork truck, opened for a photograph, or a customer return. They are sold as used and the manufacturer warranty may be void. Most of the AWD I've bought were only damaged packaging but you are taking a risk. Note: just because they are sold as "used" does not mean they are actually used. Some customers scam Amazon by returning junk instead of the real product and Amazon may ship that wrong item to you.

  • Amazon '2 Left' Deals Occasionally there will be a super low price on a new item that says "Only 2 left in stock". Buy one and the last one jumps back to full price or you can buy both at the reduced price. For example you might see a $50 widget for $8, 2 Left. If you buy one, the last one jumps back to $50, or you can buy both for $8 each ($16 total).

  • Once in a great while there will be "1 left" and Amazon decides they want it gone and it will drop in price until someone buys it.


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These are mostly Amazon but also work for a few other sites

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What kind of wrench?

- WayneC
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I'm looking for the Dewalt DCF899B (or some packaged variant thereof). Best I'm finding is $185.
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I'm not seeing anything better at my normal spots. Are there any issues buying on eBay? E.g. Will Dewalt stand by the product if there is an issue.

I'm on the Milwaukee platform. I just got the M12 1/2" wrench. Pretty fun little tool
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I m not seeing anything better at my normal spots. Are there any issues buying on eBay? E.g. Will Dewalt stand by the product if there is an issue.

I m on the Milwaukee platform. I just got the M12 1/2" wrench. Pretty fun little tool

- WayneC
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No problem, just hoping to get it with a 10-15% discount. Ebay's been fine when it comes to purchasing tools - I've only bought new ones from them. If I didn't already have a full DW setup, Milwaukee would've been my first choice. That's a topic for a different thread though.
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Home Depot and Lowe s have military discount. For Home Depot you show your military ID. They don t offer military discounts for online or special order purchases. For Lowe s you need to setup a web account and they have an online verification process. Once verified you give them your phone number in the checkout line and they apply the discount. I ve not tried ordering from Lowe s online but I would assume the discount would work.

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At my local Home Depot, the military discount is for "Service Connected" only, meaning you have a service connected disability and your VA card must state this on the card. For Lowes, once you set up the account, anyone who knows your phone number can use it. Your spouse, children, friends, and even all of the "day laborers" from Home Depot parking lots.

One more thing about Lowes, my local store has set up two parking spaces near the front for veterans.
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WayneC
I'm not seeing any of the service connected limitations here in California. Interesting.
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I m not seeing any of the service connected limitations here in California. Interesting.

- WayneC
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Not here in VA either. They do make you show proof every time but they give the discount to any active duty or service veterans.
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Remember this?
For those with the Work Sharp 3000, the wide blade attachment was discontinued. I was unaware of this til today. Did some digging. First and only place I could find:
http://www.tool-on-store.com/products/Work-Sharp-Wide-Blade-Attachment-for-Item%23-3353000-%E2%80%94-Model%23-WSSA0002020.html
$21 + tax (my tax was around $1.20). Free 3 week shipping. From India, however. Checkout takes you to paypal for payment.
If this is a true price and is real, fantastic deal since this attachment was over $60 retail at USA stores and is super hard to find since discontinued.
Just ordered mine at 2:30pm PST. Is 5:00 am or so over in India. Will see if they have in stock and fulfill the transaction when they come to work.

-The Carpenter Bee is derived from the Ancient Greek word wood-cutter "xylokopos/ξυλοκὀπος"
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I tried to order it. Payment was through Paypal. The seller never completed the order, and Paypal cancelled the hold. So, no wide blade attachment, but no money was exchanged. I find myself using Paypal whenever it's offered on a site I don't already have an account with. Less chance of bad things happening.
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Paypal or Amex are the best insurance against scams. Amex will shoot first and ask questions later when it comes to refunding your money.
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I m not seeing anything better at my normal spots. Are there any issues buying on eBay? E.g. Will Dewalt stand by the product if there is an issue.

I m on the Milwaukee platform. I just got the M12 1/2" wrench. Pretty fun little tool

- WayneC
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With a lot of manufacturers the seller needs to be an authorized reseller. Not sure on DeWalt in particular. I bought my Steelex jointer off of eBay but made sure they were an authorized Steelex dealer before pulling the trigger.

I also bought a Canon camera off of eBay and there are a TON of unauthorized sellers for cameras. Canon lists all of their dealers on their website so I checked and was good to go.
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Here's a extremely hot deal, well tip, well, hack kind of but totally legit.

This might get longer than you would like to read so the product is the 3M Versaflo TR-300 PAPR setup which isn't for everyone for sure. Skip the rest if you don't need a new respirator.

In the earlier stages of my woodworking hobby, I used mainly hand tools and enjoyed it greatly. In the past few years I have moved to a lot of power tools and seemed to be sick a lot. I'm slow, so it's taken me a long while to figure out my issues but it's the dust. In the past couple of months I have been working really hard at switching to tools that I could collect from a bit better AND actually finding ways to go back to using mostly hand tools to solve my issues. Apparently I'm really sensitive to this stuff.

I won't be able to eliminate everything. I'll still run a chainsaw mill, jointer, planer, lathe and bandsaw on a regular basis. My planer and jointer have great DC now that I have switched those out to different machines. The bandsaw is horrible and the chainsaw mill is even worse. I spin my lathe plenty often enough and I'll also power on a router table here and there but that's it for woodworking. I have a grinder for metal working and the DC on that is bad as well. So without being able to eliminate all of my trouble areas regardless of the DC against the wall, I started researching respirators. The 3M Versaflo is about as good as they get for professionals and hobbyists alike. Right now the Versaflo TR-300 on Amazon is priced north of $1400. Kind of hard to pay $1400 for a respirator right? I agree, half that is still damn expensive, but if you have a need then you have a need, I have a need. The only other option is to quit the hobby.

So I did some research, these things are manufactured in the UK. I also found the power supply for charging the battery runs on 100V-240V and uses a generic computer type plug to go to the wall like many things shipped world wide. The model numbers are a bit different but overall it's a regional thing over an actual different unit. So, I went over to Ebay.uk and found I could get this for about half off shipped. So that's what I did. I ordered the actual pump/battery/filter unit in a separate auction as the helmet, reason for that was I wanted the extended battery and I didn't need a massive hard hat helmet so I got a cheaper helmet that still protects the face and front part of the head and a better base unit. All said I paid $759 shipped. I'm still waiting to receive the helmet but the base came in and I was able to get the battery on the charger and charged so i know it works the way I hoped.

Sorry for the long post but if anyone on here is going through the pain and discomfort I've been dealing with the last few years, it could help.

If you have any questions let me know, this is not a respirator/DC discussion so let's not get into a big thing on this thread. Any questions on the deal itself I'm happy to field those.
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Free plan from Woodsmith, might have to to go through IG.

https://www.woodsmithplans.com/p/new-free-plan

Shelf Property Furniture Bookcase Product

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I got an email to create a new woodsmith account and got a credit for any free plan. Can't decide which one I want to get now.
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Dave, did your research compare the Versaflow to the Trend Airshield Pro? It is on sale right now at Rockler for $370. $355 with free shipping on Amazon.
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SainSmart x Creality Ender-3 3D Printer on woot.com $179. I bought one of these before Christmas for printing things for the shop and it I am pretty please with it. So far, I have printed a cyclone separator and a Loc-Line style flexible vacuum hose attachment for less than $20 worth of filament.
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Dave, did your research compare the Versaflow to the Trend Airshield Pro? It is on sale right now at Rockler for $370. $355 with free shipping on Amazon.

- Lazyman
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Absolutely I did Nathan. In fact I probably would have ended up with that one due to price. The versaflo is far superior. The battery lasts longer and it's lithium not nicad. Trend wants $250 for a spare battery which you would need because you can't just throw the battery on the charger after each use it will get a memory and never last long. Also the versaflo has a hose which takes all the weight off your head for long turning sessions or whatever. Plus, there are several filter choices for the versaflo for different applications. So it is well rounded. There's definitely many reasons why one retails around $450 and the other $1000 higher.

The trend unit isn't bad but you have to be mindful of the battery. Sealed units like this require the battery to work or the filter doesn't.
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I bought one of these before Christmas for printing things for the shop and it I am pretty please with it.
- Lazyman
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I have a Mini Delta and hate it, the thing constantly stops working for no apparent reason. How fussy is the Ender?
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I've had it for about 2 months now and so far so good. The only problem I have had is with the build plate but nothing serious, though I am thinking about getting a glass one. The most complex thing that I have printed so far, mostly just to see if I could, is a cyclone for the shop vac. I printed it in 2 parts to get a little extra height (13"). It literally took 2 full days to print. I am running mine using the mini SD card (that came with it) rather than using the PC to feed the gcode. I had a power outage in the middle of printing the cyclone and it was able to resume right where it left off.

EDIT: one of these days I am either going to create a blog about it or start a forum topic related to 3D-printing for the workshop to see what others are doing with them.
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...create a blog about it or start a forum topic related to 3D-printing for the workshop to see what others are doing with them.

- Lazyman
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Please do.
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I ve had it for about 2 months now and so far so good. The only problem I have had is with the build plate but nothing serious, though I am thinking about getting a glass one. The most complex thing that I have printed so far, mostly just to see if I could, is a cyclone for the shop vac. I printed it in 2 parts to get a little extra height (13"). It literally took 2 full days to print. I am running mine using the mini SD card (that came with it) rather than using the PC to feed the gcode. I had a power outage in the middle of printing the cyclone and it was able to resume right where it left off.

EDIT: one of these days I am either going to create a blog about it or start a forum topic related to 3D-printing for the workshop to see what others are doing with them.

- Lazyman
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...create a blog about it or start a forum topic related to 3D-printing for the workshop to see what others are doing with them.

- Lazyman

Please do.

- Woodknack
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I've made a couple jigs, clamps, etc. as well. Have a running list of woodworking things to 3DP. If you're worried about bed issues, I'd recommend a PEI sheet over glass - eliminates the need to put down any glue, tape, secret sauce, etc.
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Cousineau Wood Products (Spectraply and Dymalux)
48-HOUR FLASH SALE
2 DAYS - 50% OFF
discount code: FLASH50
GOING ON NOW
50% OFF YOUR ENTIRE ORDER AT CWP-USA.COM
HURRY, SALE ENDS IN 48 HOURS
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