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Harbor Freight’s Icon screwdriver set drops to $24.99 and its 14-piece wrench set to $64.99

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Harbor Freight’s 7 Days of Super Deals runs through Thursday, November 12. Two of the member coupons cut into the Icon hand tool line, the store’s professional brand. The Professional Mechanics Screwdriver Set, 8-Piece goes to $24.99. The Anti-Slip Grip Professional Combination Wrench Set, 14-Piece goes to $64.99.

Both prices belong to Inside Track Club members. The coupon applies at the register or online. Without the membership, the same sets ring up at $54.99 and $134.99.

Super Deals is the club’s big November event. A week of member coupons runs across the store, in the aisles and online at the same time. Most of the flyer chases storage, jacks and power tool accessories.

These two coupons sit in the hand tool aisle. That is the quiet corner of the sale, and it holds the deepest cuts in the building. The Icon coupons are live now. They hold at these prices while the event runs, in the store and on the site alike, and the flyer resets when the week closes.

The screwdriver set: eight pieces in a fitted tray

Price: $24.99 (Inside Track Club member price)
Regular Price: $54.99
You Save: $30.00 (55%)
Inside Track Club: Members only, with the Super Deals coupon
Where to buy: Harbor Freight

Icon 8-piece screwdriver set in its storage tray
All eight drivers sit in the fitted tray, slotted sizes on one side and Phillips on the other.

Eight drivers split evenly between slotted and Phillips. Slotted runs 3/16 x 3 in., 1/4 x 4 in. and 5/16 x 6 in. A stubby 1/4 x 1-1/2 in. takes the fourth slot. Phillips covers #1 x 3 in., #2 x 4 in. and #3 x 6 in. A stubby #2 matches the short slotted. The short pair reaches screws a full-length handle crowds out. The run covers the fasteners that hold most of a car together.

The steel is a special alloy under a high-polished finish. The set is the ACSD-8 in Harbor Freight’s model numbering. The finish shrugs off corrosion and wipes clean after a greasy job. Phillips tips carry anti-cam-out ribs. The ribs keep the driver seated in the screw head instead of climbing out and chewing it up.

A hex bolster sits at the top of each shank. Put a wrench on it when a fastener needs more torque than a hand gives. Seized screws come out with the wrench turning.

Drive type is printed on the crown of each handle. A minus sign marks slotted, a cross marks Phillips. The right driver comes out of the tray without a squint. The print sits on top where a thumb lands. It reads at arm’s length in a dim engine bay, with gloves on or off. Handles are chemical-resistant with an ergonomic grip shape. The hex profile stays put on a bench instead of rolling toward the edge.

The storage tray is heavy-duty molded, not a blister-pack afterthought. It drops into a tool chest drawer as it sits. Each slot is shaped for one driver. A missing tool shows at a glance. The full set weighs four pounds in the tray.

Red is the standard set. A lime green version sells under a second item number at the same shelf price. Same sizes, same tray, same steel. Color is the only difference.

Owners rate the set 4.8 stars across 337 reviews on Harbor Freight’s page. Ninety-seven percent would recommend it.

The warranty is a lifetime guarantee against defects in material and workmanship. Harbor Freight prints it right on the product page, with the limitations in the manual. Icon tools are built to be exchanged, not babied. A driver that fails in normal use goes back over the counter. The promise is printed in plain language, and it covers every piece in the tray.

The wrench set: 14 pieces, SAE or metric

Price: $64.99 (Inside Track Club member price)
Regular Price: $134.99
You Save: $70.00 (52%)
Inside Track Club: Members only, Super Deals coupon
Where to buy: Harbor Freight

Icon 14-piece combination wrench set in its storage tray
Fourteen wrenches fan across the tray in size order, open ends up front and 12-point box ends behind.

Fourteen wrenches run 1/4 in. through 1 in. in the SAE set. No size is skipped. The metric set covers 6 mm through 19 mm with the same no-skip run. Each set carries the same coupon price. Each size is stamped on its wrench. The tray keeps them in that order.

Grooves machined into the open end bite the flat of a fastener. They skip the corners. Corners are where cheaper wrenches round hardware off. The box end runs 12 points. It seats at twice the angles of a 6-point in tight quarters. A 12-point also turns 6-point hardware, so one wrench covers both. The bite holds under load, pull after pull.

Most cars built in the last three decades run metric hardware. Older American iron runs SAE. A home garage usually needs one scale and borrows the other twice a year. Buy the scale your vehicles use.

The steel is chrome vanadium under a polished chrome finish. It resists corrosion and wipes clean. A wipedown after a greasy job takes seconds, and nothing in the set asks for upkeep beyond that. Each wrench sits in a molded tray slot stamped with its size. The metric set weighs 4.35 pounds. Ratings on the maker’s page run 4.9 stars for each scale. The lifetime guarantee covers the wrenches the same as the drivers.

Taken together, the pair runs $89.98 at the member price. Shelf price for the same two sets is $189.98. The coupon math puts $100 flat back in the pocket. The screwdriver coupon alone hands back $30. The wrench coupon hands back $70. Few drawers get cheaper to fill than that.

Verdict

Icon is Harbor Freight’s swing at the tool-truck brands. These two sets cover the core of a hand tool drawer. Drivers and wrenches, in full size runs, guaranteed for life. At shelf price they compete. At the member price they undercut everything comparable by a wide margin. Nothing else at the price offers both runs in full. That is the whole pitch, and the flyer makes it plainly. The right tool lands in the hand without a hunt.

Harbor Freight stocks replacement parts for both sets. A damaged driver does not orphan the tray. The lifetime warranty covers defects in material and workmanship for the life of the tool. Without the card, the card is part of the price.

The catch is the membership. Carry the card and this is the week’s easiest tool buy.



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