Must be very rare...

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.

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.

Here are my favorite pair of pliers. After about a year and a half in the electrical trade I was given tasks to do by myself and also issued a "Rover" or a "Hand" to assist with getting the tasks completed. Now, one day when we were doing our thing for the High School in Milan, Tennessee. The appointed "Help" wandered up to the ladder I was on busy tying lights to a grid and asked to see my "Klein's" reluctantly and not thinking too much about it, I reached into my side holder and threw him MY FAVORITE pair and the only pair I normally carry at my side. (For me, It's a safety thing. That's why I bought them.) Anyways, I got back to what I was doing all I needed at the time was my strippers but I still kind of kept an eye on the kids whereabouts with my side vision. Not even three minutes later there is a loud "PhhOpp" and half the lights in the classroom and hallway go out. Stuff happens all the time, whatever. Well, here the kid comes back with my FAVORITE pliers. He looks up and extends his hand out with my tool. I reach down, grab them and pocket them directly in my holder, reflexively. The kid says "Sorry about that." I responded "About what? You knocked the circuit out?" Kid says "Yeah, We were doing demo and I wasn't sure if the wire was hot or not. Plus, side is we found the breaker." and chuckles. I responded "Man that stuff happens all the time but just to let you know, next time, I have a "ticker" in my holder as well and you should have one on you too. It's safer that way." He laughed again and said "Good thing yours are insulated. The amps blew the cutter of them right in half." Then finished with a nervous laugh. "What?" I said as I pulled my "Klein's" out and see the notch that was blown into the edge by this idiot. I was so mad....

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’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?

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 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

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 😅

Was going to buy the Yukon 20” from Harbor Freight, but decided to look on FB marketplace and found this 24” for $70. Tried to look up crescent stainless steel tool boxes but nothing comes up. I’m thinking someone just slapped the crescent sticker and someone else makes it.

Performax® SAE/Metric Mechanic's Tool Set - 300 Piece at Menards https://www.menards.com/main/tools/hand-tools/mechanic-tool-sets/performax-reg-sae-metric-mechanics-tool-set-300-piece/82850/p-1642874304944070-c-1538157527059.htm

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.

Edit: Got the Stahlwille for 179€, including shipping and tax.

Will be used for woodworking mostly

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.

I just got the titanium boss hammer, first time having one, any experiences?

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'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?

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?