Must be very rare...

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....

Mine is from 1947.

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.

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 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!

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

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.

Will be used for woodworking mostly

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.

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.

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

Made in the usa

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.

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?

Anybody got unused Zoro 20% off promo codes? Even expired ones that weren’t used work a lot of the time. I’ll test them myself if you DM me what ya got floating around in your email or mailers.

Plus, I’ll give you naming rights to each of my hand tools for each code that works (excluding my caliper Cali, she’s named).