Chinese Manufactured Roofing Power Tools

Have any of you purchased and then used some of the Chinese manufactured power tools that are available thru Harbor Freight Tool and other American tool retailers. I often see roofing coil nailers priced at $69.99 and air compressors and/or electric generators priced at between $99.99 to 129.99. Just wondering if anyone has bought them and do you find them to be efficient and made to tough enough standards for working on roofs.>>>

Bought a 3 ton trolley jack from them a while back for fiddy bucks and it works fine.>>>

I have also bought a few things from harbor freight and they have been ok thus far.>>>

don`t go there,one of my early customers is a russian tool mfgr,gave me a set of titanium drill bits ,I still have in great shape 11-12 years later :) and those compressors ingersoll raqnd ,and campbell hausfield(2 names that come to mind from HD)are excellent,I have 2 that have worked for years-1 OF WHICH CAME WITH 3 BRAD NAILERS for only 170$>>>

I have bought some tools from them and for the price I can't complain. Flat bars ,hammers drill bits are all ok. I even bought a 18 volt drill for $29.00 and I could not kill it or the battery. It would last all day on a gutter job. I also got SDS drill bit set 1/4 to 1 for $19.00 that are as good as any I paid full price for>>>

I recently bought a 3' brake from them for $199. I went in to buy it and it was $259. They told me if I printed up the internet posting with the price they would honor it.

It seems to work fine for what it is, but some of the welds are laughable. I would have thought that if you can't weld better than that by the time you're 10 years old, they would have sent you to roofing school. http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/displayitem.taf?Itemnumber=91012>>>

I purchased a small pancake compressor years ago (from Harbor Friehgt) while doing new constuction comp as a lone roofer. purchased for $79.00, lasted 7 months. Cost more than the purchase price to repair, then upgraded to the Tradespro compressor you find in our local schucks auto supply, lasted one year. finially invested 1-Grand in a gas rol-air 6 years ago and still have it today, still operates very well!

As for nail guns, I purchased most of my nailers for cheap at the pawn shops...broken and rebuilt them to peak efficiency

AS THE SAYING GOES....YOU GET WHAT YOU PAID FOR!!!!!>>>

I saw a similar deal at one of the big box stores. All I can say is you get what you pay for. Or, if the deal looks to good to be true then it probably is.

I don't know about the gun but you've got to look and CFM that these compressors deliver.>>>