Right now, at Home Depot and Ohio Power Tool, you can get this crazy-low-priced Milwaukee mechanics tool set bundle for $149.
This special buy, 2463-21RS, comes with a Milwaukee M12 3/8″ impact wrench kit, cordless inflator, and 3/8″ compact ratchet and socket set.
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Looking pricing for the separate components: The impact wrench is $109 by itself or $169 in a 2-battery kit. The cordless inflator is available as a special-buy kit with battery and charger for $99. The Milwaukee swivel ratchet and socket set with accessories and case is priced at $69 via Home Depot and other dealers.
So, to buy everything you see here, even with the inflator being part of a special buy kit right now, it would cost you $277.
Somehow, Milwaukee has managed to arrange for this to be a Black Friday 2020 tool bundle at $149. That’s so incredibly low, and I cannot seem to find a catch – can you?
Price: $149
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JonF1
The Catch: A bagged cordless inflator, impact gun and socket set combo would imply a roadside emergency tire-change kit. However, the gun isn’t the FUEL model and is only 100 peak ft/lbs. That’s going to be challenging to bust old frozen lugs with so little grunt. The socket set is also only 3/8 and while its metric, is neither impact rated nor large enough for typical lug nuts. Its an OK deal for an eclectic mix of product, but they’re somewhat mismatched as a focused set. No one is saving money paying extra for tools that you may not get much use from. PASS.
Stuart
No, this probably isn’t the best roadside emergency kit. For that purpose, you could always toss the inflator in the car, along with a breaker bar and lug nut socket (or use the socket wrench that’s stored with the spare tire or donut, and use the impact wrench and hand ratchet with socket set on anything/everything else.
Component prices are $109, $99, $69. It’s a good deal if you can use 2/3 of those items, fantastic deal if you could use all of them.
Julian Tracy
Silly summation of this deal… Who gives a crap the reasoning behind the grouping. Fact remains, anyone in the M12 system will find a lot of utility with the inflator or the impact; Fuel tools are overated to the point of folks like you poopooing them as lacking. And the small Milwaukee ratchet set is a great little set to throw in the car or truck and sells for between $40-65 on it’s own.
fred
These sorts of kits are usually formulated as “eye-candy” with an attractive price – rather than 100% fit for purpose functionality.
If you wanted to assemble your own kit – maybe it would be the inflator and 2 batteries , a 2710-20 charger (plugs into car outlet) a 2555-20 impact wrench and an impact socket selected for your car. Better kit – but a lot more expensive.
Stuart
But that’s the thing – if it were priced at say $179 or $199, I could see reason to hesitate if you couldn’t put everything to use.
At $149, if I thought I could use any combination of at least 2 of the items, I’d buy it and figure out what to do with that 3rd item later.
It’s like cordless power tool combo kits – how many buyers actually plan on using the flashlights they come with? Will anyone turn down a very good deal just because it comes with a flashlight or worklight?
Everyone is entitled to their opinions. I thought I was being as objective as possible when commenting that this is a good buy for anyone who can use 2 of the components and great buy if they could use all of it.
JR3 Home Performance
Basically what I just did for my smaller work truck. I got a different inflator deal, the 250ft/impact and a car charger just to keep everything mostly on 1 platform.
Greg
I have to disagree. This is a good price for useful tools. The socket set is nice to have around. The inflator is already established as awesome. The impact wrench isn’t the newest and best. I still have mine from when it originally came out. It’s barely recognizable cosmetically and I’ve had to replace the brushes twice now but it’s still kicking. The 120 ft lbs is perfect for things you don’t want to mess up like you would with a stronger impact. Don’t get me wrong more usually is better (I’ve got the fuel stubbies, the 1″ drive fuel, and most of the other impacts for different usage cases) but it’s nice to have something of less too.
Jared
That price was so good I tried ordering it to Canada. Just FYI for Canadians who are tempted to try, you can get through the account set up and shipping options on Ohio’s website, but the order will fail at the final step due to a Milwaukee exemption to shipping outside the USA.
fred
It seems that Blains, ToolNut and others have it listed as out of stock. I don’t know if that means it sold out – or has yet to come into stock
hon cho
I bought the inflator kit last Christmas season for $99 and it included the M12 USB Charger instead of the 110V charger. The inflator is my single most used M12 tool, but it works better with a 4ah battery than the included 2ah unit. The USB charger also turns M12 batteries into a USB power pack for charging devices or powering Milwaukee heated gear.
Tom D
That USB charger is amazing – and it also works with the heated jackets. All around wonderful and I’m still a bit jealous that my friend got it (all my M12 power packs are the older output only ones).
PJB
I have all of these items and purchased them in two separate kits last year. This is a great deal. Probably at a minimum of $40-50 savings. I have found so many ways to take advantage of these tools. Stuart, I appreciate you and your team for keeping a pulse on all things deals. My go to resource. Everyone have a great Thanksgiving.
King duck
If I hadn’t bought the impact 2 years ago on a Christmas kit I would be all over this. The little impact is nice and I use it for running down lug nuts all the time so I can get the final torque with a torque wrench. It isn’t the smallest or most powerful but it is still damn handy.
Jeff
I always break lug nuts loose with the included tire iron and then have an adapter for my regular 1/4 impact driver just to speed things up. Can anyone confirm that this impact wrench would be good for this use and save me from having to dig out an impact gun from my carpentry tools whenever I get around to rotating my tires or going from summer to winter tires?
PJB
Yes Jeff. I think this would be an ideal tool for that purpose or anything else like that. I do a lot of DIY wood working and it does quick service of large wood lag bolts. And the inflator, so useful!
Chris
Has Home Depot ‘s website been painfully slow for anyone else? This has been the case for a little over a week now. I haven’t noticed any other sites slowing, so don’t believe it is on my end.
Stuart
Does it affect different devices?
Many websites are going to be slower during high traffic periods.
Chris
Only HD, and on all devices. I chalked it up a blip the first couple days, but it has been over a week. I click the link in the article to the HD site, and it never fully loads. I paste the link directly in a browser, same thing.
Weird
Chris
The Ohio Power Tool page loads instantly through the link
Stuart
I see that too – white page until everything loads.
Might be extra scripts on that page or Home Depot in general as it checks something?
Is it just the links here, or when you try to go to HD’s website separately?
*shrug?*
I’ve experienced some weird slow-downs and issues on occasion, and signing out, clearing cookies, and/or clearing my browser cache usually fixed things. But that wouldn’t affect multiple devices.
Sometimes extra processing is required if a website thinks you could be a bot or other type of malicious traffic. That has happened to me before, and there was this one time when ToolGuyd’s server firewall perma-banned the IP of an entire floor/department at Ryobi’s USA HQ.
Chris
How I access the HD site makes no difference. I just wanted to know if anyone else was having the issue. I can get it thru OPT or CPO Outlet.
More on topic, this is a very good deal on two tools you will use more often than you think. The compressor is fantastic, and I have turned several friends onto them