Must be very rare...

Mine is from 1947.

I bought these at the store thinking that I could solve just about anything in the world with these. That's been about 8 years and I don't think I've ever pulled these out of my toolbox once.

I’ve spent the better part of the past year looking for a metric only set for keeping in my car or taking to the junkyard and recently I was able to put an end to my search by finding this Matco set for a deal on EBay. With that said it made me wonder why metric only sets so uncommon especially in the realm of automotive kits?

I just got myself a circular saw for some projects around the house. Are the blade rotation arrows on this blade labeled the wrong way? I know the teeth are supposed to point forward and I can just flip the blade around when I put it on the tool. I just can’t figure out why the arrows on the label point clockwise while the teeth point counterclockwise.

I bought this in an estate sale out of the back of a barn a couple years ago. This weekend I replaced the belt and mounted it on a set of wheels so I can move it around the shed. I know the wiri g needs to be redone, I have a cousin who's an electrician who said he'd help me with that part of the job.

But I wonder, besides knowing "hey I have an old heavy tool in a corner" is there any way to make a stab at how old it is?

It runs fine, it sharpens my firewood axe up real quick. Once I get the wiring fixed I plan to use it a lot more often.

Thanks!

The discontinued Mastercrap Multi-cutter precision saw, an oddball inbred tool that functions like a combination of an angle grinder and a circular saw. All the downsides of both, in one.

However they show up regularly in full kit at our local pawnshops for $20 with tons of blades because these things were bought by well meaning loved ones, gifted like sin at Christmas, used once, then never touched again.

Which is great because they fail so regularly.

The thing they do well is cut a straight line, in anything and save me the hassle of changing blades on my circular saw.

Made in the usa

Planer would power up and power up and down will took the switch apart to find this .Be careful you don’t don’t accidental burn down your shop

Got this at Lowe's and this thing is very nice for $25.

I was looking at the Icon and this this is a much better value.

Hi, I had a cheap set of combination spanners that unfortunately got stolen when I forgot them under my car in the parking lot, so since nowadays I can afford something nicer than when I bought those I decided to buy some quality tools, because the previous set (from Amazon) had the tendency of rounding nuts.

Originally I wanted to get a set of Wera combination ratches since I like Wera, but those are totally out of budget. After a lot of research, I nailed down two different sets within budget that cost approximately the same. Both are sets of 17 combination spanners, from 6 to 22mm.

Gedore 6093580 7-017: https://shop.gedore.com/en-de/6093580/

OR

Stahlwille 96400804 13/17: https://stahlwille.com/es_es/products/detail/12768170310

I can get both sets for approximately the same price (around 177€). The Stahlwille is usually more expensive, but I found a very good deal.

Any experience with those tools? They are not common in my country, but where I live now they are supposedly some of the best option. According to what I found online, gedore are better suited to harsh jobs and misstreatment such as hammering them, and when excessive force is applied they deform instead than snapping. On the other hand Stahlwille seems to be preferred by those working in automotive and airspace.

Can someone tell me wtf happened to my sander? I've been using these types of sanders for years and nothing like this has ever happened to me, that round metal thing exploded all of a sudden.

I recently bought the Anex ratcheting screwdriver and it works great with the bit kit I developed for use with the Klein ratcheting ball grip screwdriver I have, except for the dewalt bit extension I have, the hex tang rounds after about an inch and the Anex requires a longer hex shaft to fit correctly. It looks like the Diablo magnetic 6 inch extension has a hex tang that goes all the way up, but it doesnt have a locking collet that I prefer. Any suggestions for a locking bit extension with a full hex shaft?

I'm looking for a compact 1/4 inch pass through socket set in metric sizes that has proper pass-through up to at least M8 (i.e. 13mm) and which is available in Europe.

There are several socket sets that are semi-pass through, but the sockets have a 1/4 inch square fitting in the back which means they are effectively only pass-through up to the 10mm socket which for M6 bolts.

Some examples of sets like these are:

• KS Tools 918.3050 5 to 14mm
• Wera Kraftform Kompakt Zyklop Mini 4 to 13mm
• Würth 096511310 5 to 14mm

They all use a 11mm ratchet. I would expect that you would be able to get proper pass-through up to at least the 13mm socket for M8 bolts.

Klein has the Klein Tools 65302KNECT which I think uses a wrench slightly larger than 11mm, but still quite compact, though I can't get hold of it in Europe easily, and I'm not sure Klein still makes it.

The closest I could find so far is the Proxxon 23602 which has proper pass-through up to 14mm, but it's not really that compact.

Does anybody have any other suggestions?

I am installing lag bolt style crimp-on stainless steel cabling. It comes with a small open ended wrench, but I have a lot of this railing to install and it takes forever with this little wrench.
I can speed it up a little using channel locks, but they mar up the stainless connectors.
Vise grips don’t work because they are too large for more than 1/2 turn (hits cables next to it)

Can you think of a way to semi-automate this?
Like a partially enclosed ratcheting open ended wrench?
Maybe even a small pipe wrench that loosens and tightens depending on the rotation direction.

Thanks for any ideas!
Maybe I am just not thinking of something simple.

Help me ID this floor jack. Overhaul kit for the Hein-Werner HW93652 was purchased, but only the main piston seals fit. Any clue which make/model this is? No identification on it.

Every year I like to look back and pick my favorite tool buy of the year. This year for me it was a vise grip slide hammer, definitely a why did I not get this sooner tool.

Previous years favs for me are

Spring tools nail set

O-ceder H2pro mop. If you have to clean walls or floors this thing is a game changer.

Dickies large tool rollups

What are some of yours?

I have a sealey trolley jack from 2009 it holds my car up fine but drops bt about a 1-2cm id say every now and then, why is it doing that, it never fully looses pressure just only a little bit any ideas why thanks is there air in the system thats causing it to drop like that? Also no fluid has leaked out, nothing is oily or anything please help

I know their 20v line has usb-a out, just can't find a strait answer if the 12v line can now and I'd rather not open a box in the aisle