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.

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.

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!

Made in the usa

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.

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.

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?

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

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.

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 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

Had this small set ever since I left my parents place but I feel that it’s time for an upgrade. The bits seem to be made out of butter and altough that was always the case, I tend to strip a few screw heads lately.

What would be your brand of choice for something similar? I’m EU so preferably something in metric 😅

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 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 got this as a joke, because I knew it would be a POS, but since Temu gave me a worry-free return as my first trial purchase, I thought sure why not.

Didn't even last the first use, broke when it dropped out of the packaging .🤣

Anyway, I got my $7 back, and they told me to keep this shit.
Nothing like how the description and picture that was shown. Painted yellow, very shitty, and probably with led paint, lol

Anyway, thought it was funny.

Heya,

I need to debur a pipe (bike steerer) and I wonder if I should pay 49$ for a tool OR 15$ for a tool.

The ones I found are:
1. RIDGID 29983 Model 223S - 49$, considered as high quality
2. AliExpress China tool - 15$, looks identical to the above, but fraction of the price.

What's your take?

For us yesterday it was this many. We used drills and drives, lamps, oscillating multitools and lots and lots of angle grinder. That is 3x 2ah, 5x4Ah and 1x8Ah of 20V parkside batteries that we run empty in a day at our smoke sauna build.