It just costs too much when the refurbished iFixit Mako set is so cheap. Heck, I just got a third Mako set from the flea market on Sunday (work, home, and workshop). Do I want the wrap and extra stuff from the Quinn set? Sure, but I’m not going to pay that much for it. Harbor Freight is supposed to be the value king!
…and now that I’ve finished the video, it seems you may not realize that this Quinn set is a clone of the iFixit Pro Tech Toolkit, which is the iFixit Mako set plus the extra tool wrap. I got most of the extra tools from another tool kit (iFixit “Essential Electronics”) but the plastic things are mostly consumables. The Quinn costs nearly twice as much as a refurbished Mako and barely less than a refurbished Pro Tech Toolkit. Yes, iFixit has the JIS bits too. The refurbs have lifetime warranty and they claim that anything less than perfect is replaced with new as part of refurbishing.
@@emmettturner9452, interesting; I'm only vaguely familiar with I-Fixit and I've never hard of their Mako tools before. Of course, Harbor Freight posts online coupons and has periodic special deals for members, which might make one of these kits a more attractive deal for some. As I mentioned in the video, I have several other mini-screwdriver kits that were about one-third the cost of this one, but this one has bits the others lack, and vice versa. My biggest gripe with any kind of supposedly "comprehensive" tool carry kit is that they *NEVER* leave blank space where you can store separately obtained bits to flesh out the kit with the types and sizes they neglected to include! PS, why would there be "refurbished" tool kits consisting of only hand tools and screwdriver bits? Returns that were damaged by the person who bought and returned them? These are manually operated tools, they're no't electrical or electronic ! Anyway, thank you for the detailed comments.
It seems like all of RUclips has been talking about them now that Linus Tech Tips made their own kit directly targeting the iFixit Mako. iFixit was a partner with them and sees it as back stabbing, so bridges were burned and YT drama flowed free. I’m seeing the LTT Precision Driver in my subs from Project Farm, Funk FPV, and others. Strangely, I started getting iFixit toolkit ads on RUclips only after all of this. I think I even got one on your video! That said, the LTT precision driver alone is supposedly sold as an upgrade for iFixit owners and one of my kits could use it (someone else lost the original), but even with the Black Friday sale it was way too much money. It’s literally 50% more than their entire iFixit Mako set I got Sunday… for ONLY the bitdriver (handle)! Since I got a whole other kit I figure I can wait and see if it is any cheaper for Boxing Day (Linus is Canadian) or New Year’s Day.
It just costs too much when the refurbished iFixit Mako set is so cheap. Heck, I just got a third Mako set from the flea market on Sunday (work, home, and workshop). Do I want the wrap and extra stuff from the Quinn set? Sure, but I’m not going to pay that much for it. Harbor Freight is supposed to be the value king!
…and now that I’ve finished the video, it seems you may not realize that this Quinn set is a clone of the iFixit Pro Tech Toolkit, which is the iFixit Mako set plus the extra tool wrap. I got most of the extra tools from another tool kit (iFixit “Essential Electronics”) but the plastic things are mostly consumables. The Quinn costs nearly twice as much as a refurbished Mako and barely less than a refurbished Pro Tech Toolkit. Yes, iFixit has the JIS bits too. The refurbs have lifetime warranty and they claim that anything less than perfect is replaced with new as part of refurbishing.
@@emmettturner9452, interesting; I'm only vaguely familiar with I-Fixit and I've never hard of their Mako tools before. Of course, Harbor Freight posts online coupons and has periodic special deals for members, which might make one of these kits a more attractive deal for some. As I mentioned in the video, I have several other mini-screwdriver kits that were about one-third the cost of this one, but this one has bits the others lack, and vice versa. My biggest gripe with any kind of supposedly "comprehensive" tool carry kit is that they *NEVER* leave blank space where you can store separately obtained bits to flesh out the kit with the types and sizes they neglected to include! PS, why would there be "refurbished" tool kits consisting of only hand tools and screwdriver bits? Returns that were damaged by the person who bought and returned them? These are manually operated tools, they're no't electrical or electronic ! Anyway, thank you for the detailed comments.
It seems like all of RUclips has been talking about them now that Linus Tech Tips made their own kit directly targeting the iFixit Mako. iFixit was a partner with them and sees it as back stabbing, so bridges were burned and YT drama flowed free. I’m seeing the LTT Precision Driver in my subs from Project Farm, Funk FPV, and others.
Strangely, I started getting iFixit toolkit ads on RUclips only after all of this. I think I even got one on your video!
That said, the LTT precision driver alone is supposedly sold as an upgrade for iFixit owners and one of my kits could use it (someone else lost the original), but even with the Black Friday sale it was way too much money. It’s literally 50% more than their entire iFixit Mako set I got Sunday… for ONLY the bitdriver (handle)! Since I got a whole other kit I figure I can wait and see if it is any cheaper for Boxing Day (Linus is Canadian) or New Year’s Day.