| Harbor Freight's "house brand" is Central Pneumatic, not Chicago Pneumatic, and they are very inexpensive, very low quality air tools. Chicago Pneumatic is a medium quality, name brand tool, which Harbor Freight also carries. I just looked at Harbor Freight's web site, and they currently have an Ingersoll-Rand 231C 1/2" impact on sale for $105.99, which is a GREAT price for that tool - a lot of professional mechanics use that gun. Parts for it are very available, and any air tool repair shop can repair and rebuild them.
I'd be very leery of 1/2" impact guns on eBay. Pros use and abuse that particular tool all day every day, and don't usually replace them until they're pretty well worn out. Pawn shops can be a good source, but I'd shy away from anything that looks like it's been heavily used, and I wouldn't buy anything unless they had some kind of return policy in case it didn't work properly. Good luck! |