Your Imaginary Tool & Automotive Equipment Store

[Merkava_4]

With the exception of truck brands, the perfect store that you could physically walk into and get touchie-feelie with everything would consist of what inventory?

[davestlouis]

Industrial brands like Proto and Armstrong, plus brands you just don't see anywhere, like Wright.

[Merkava_4]

Ah yes, I see this thread is off to a nice start; no outlandish comments about popcorn and chocolate peanut clusters. :bounce:

[justinmc]

Ah yes, I see this thread is off to a nice start; no comments about popcorn and chocolate peanut clusters. :bounce:

I guess I won't say that I want a touchy feely strip club........ yes.. this ratchet is nice.. but how about those thumb wheel ratchets. Let me check those out. ;) haha...

[chad s]

This:
http://i245.photobucket.com/albums/gg59/cesinc123/auto_store.jpg
Courtesy of shorpy.com

[Stuey]

This:
Courtesy of shorpy.com
It looks like somebody got caught hot-linking! All I'm seeing is a red-x. - Oh, nevermind, the image was just huge and talled my browser. Still, it's not nice to hotlink!

I think that a tiered inventory would be nice. I wouldn't want or need armstrong, craftsman, and SK, just an equivalent sample.

Say, once trunk brand, one medium-tier brand, and one budget brand. Try all three, pick a size-range, and then receive a wrench. That's somewhat how some industrial suppliers do it. The same would go with screwdrivers, pliers, and other tools. I'm very brand-specific sometimes, but that's not really how things should be.

[Danglerb]

I only have so much fantasy space in my brain and I refuse to put tools there.

[tatra]

as long as merk is there running it i'm sure it would meet all of our expectations...........i just anin't shaking his hand, red lube of love and jammies and all............:lol_hitti

[chad s]

Still, it's not nice to hotlink!


Did I make money off of posting that picture? It benefits me in no way. I made sure to post the source as well, which can only help bring traffic to the original source. "hot linking" is done regularly on this site by several members, never once to their personal financial benefit, only to benefit the manufacturer/owner of the image.

[MAD]

This is a great idea. If my imaginary friend worked there, I could get a discount.:)

[speed bump]

If you took my local Napa and Carquest and combined them and they sold lots of old car parts and Proto and Armstrong and Wright and New Britain tools

[Stuey]

Did I make money off of posting that picture? It benefits me in no way. I made sure to post the source as well, which can only help bring traffic to the original source. "hot linking" is done regularly on this site by several members, never once to their personal financial benefit, only to benefit the manufacturer/owner of the image.
Do a lot of people hotlink? Yes. Is it right? No. Notice that Merkava doesn't hotlink - he uses photobucket now - that came about after one or two webmasters started swapping different photos and images for hotlinked images.

I didn't imply that you're making money off of posting the pictures. The reverse is true!! When you hot link, you're using someone's bandwidth and some go so far to call it "stealing bandwidth."

You have a point though - I called you out unfairly when there are many far worse offenders, and for that I apologize. I did notice that you credited shorpys - an example that others should learn to follow.

I've observed a few small sites go down due to image hotlinking and then they couldn't be restored quickly due to bandwidth overage penalties and fees.

[Red Green]

Stuey

Forgive my ignorance. What is Hotlinking? Also a better explanation of why it is bad please.

[tatra]

i'm in the same boat as red there..........if i post a www. address is that the same thing?..........and any sites that may educate us neatherdals would be appreciated........

[Merkava_4]

Do a lot of people hotlink? Yes. Is it right? No. Notice that Merkava doesn't hotlink - he uses photobucket now -

Actually, I must confess, that Image of the Gerber knife I posted in your thread is Hotlinked. I was too lazy to go through the long drawn out rituals of posting it on Photobucket at the time. :D

[Stuey]

Wikipedia entry on hotlinking (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inline_linking)

Stuey

Forgive my ignorance. What is Hotlinking? Also a better explanation of why it is bad please.
Hot linking is when someone finds a photo on the web, copies the URL address, and then posts the image directly on a forum or elsewhere. The owner of the website on which the image is hosted is forced to pay for the bandwidth that the hotlinked image uses up.

I'll spare you my analogy - I started talking about free chicken nuggets and the comparison just didn't work.

Typcially when someone hot links, they were just looking for a photo to use. Essentially, the website where the photo is hosted loses paid bandwidth allotment and receives no new traffic or page views.

This of course affects smaller web sites more than larger ones.

I know I said I wouldn't give an anology, but here's one anyways. Say there's a private restroom in a yogurt shop and a public one across the street. If you enter the shop to buy some yogurt, it's okay to use their restroom, and special permission can be granted to certain non-customers upon request. Hotlinking is like pulling up with a double decker bus full of lactose-intolerant people with the driver directing people to the back door, telling everyone to use the shop's private restroom because the driver either doesn't see the public restroom or does not want to be bothered making a U turn. Meanwhile, the shop owner is forced to pay expenses - water, toilet paper, garbage removal, etc due to the use of their restroom.

shop = website, restroom = the hosting of images, expenses = bandwidth, free bathroom across the street that requires a very slight additional effort that one gets used to after a while = free photo hosts.

Most people hotlink out of innocent naivety, but some are simply too lazy to use a free host.

Another side effect of hotlinking - a website owner can switch URLS. Say that an image is named "garagejournal.com/image1, and is a picture of a house. Once the website owner finds out that their content has been hotlinked, they could switch images such that image1 becomes image2, and they rename a picture of an apple as image1. I have seen this happen many times. On woot.com's forums (woot is a "deal of the day" site), I witnessed - on several occasions, the replacement of random images with extremely vulgar ones. Imagine that you link to a picture of a tape measure, or old Snap-On logo only to find out several hours later that the image is now one of an extremely disturbing and grotesque sexual nature.

i'm in the same boat as red there..........if i post a www. address is that the same thing?..........and any sites that may educate us neatherdals would be appreciated........
Posting a URL to a site does not count as hotlinking. Hotlinking is when media (images, video, etc) is linked to directly out of the context of a web page by a 3rd party.

Actually, I must confess, that Image of the Gerber knife I posted in your thread is Hotlinked. I was too lazy to go through the long drawn out rituals of posting it on Photobucket at the time. :D
I've checked your images from time to time and haven't caught you hotlinking. The Gerber one must have slid past me.

I used to save images and then upload them via photobucket, but now I realized photobucket can upload directly from URLs with a few exceptions, such as Sears.com that have funky images that need to be downloaded first.

There are many free photo hosts, such as imageshack.us, photobucket, and flickr that can be used as alternatives to hotlinking. You can tell where a photo is hosted by right clicking and looking at its properties. Another alternative is to download an image and upload it to garagejournal, but many forums prevent "lurkers" (non-registered viewers) from seeing attached images.

[bchee]

Stuey

Forgive my ignorance. What is Hotlinking? Also a better explanation of why it is bad please.

i'm in the same boat as red there..........if i post a www. address is that the same thing?..........and any sites that may educate us neatherdals would be appreciated........

I'm like you guys. I learned something new today.

[Merkava_4]

That does it, I freakin' give up on trying to start a thread about imaginary tool stores, real tool stores, or otherwise. :D

[Stuey]

That does it, I freakin' give up on trying to start a thread about imaginary tool stores, real tool stores, or otherwise. :D
At first I didn't know if you wanted to know about the fictional stores with us as owners or customers, so I answered from a joint POV. Plus, you posted at 11:30pm EST - you're bound to get odd responses at that time. Well, odd responses and Stuey - hotlink police.

[Fedwrench]

It's hard to imagine a more perfect tool store (except for better looking staff) than a tool truck. I think stores have to sell more which means catering to the masses, which gives you Sears. However, I was in Boise several years ago and stopped by a place that was real close to a mechanic's utopia. They didn't carry truck brands but, they had everything else, KD, Lisle, OTC, SK, IR, CP, and Wright. It was like they were an ISN store. I can't remember the name of the place but, they had a good selection, could special order stuff for you, and had people working there that knew what tool you were asking for and where it was in the store. I think great tool stores are out there but, they're few and far between. :thumbup:

[nordstar]

It would have to have some of these:

http://www.nordstar.org/images/boards/displays/01.jpg

http://www.nordstar.org/images/boards/displays/02.jpg

http://www.nordstar.org/images/boards/displays/03.jpg

http://www.nordstar.org/images/boards/displays/04.jpg







Check out this Rees Jack (http://cgi.ebay.com/ANTIQUE-REES-CAR-AUTO-JACK-FORD-MODEL-T-A-VINTAGE-TOOL_W0QQitemZ320325788427QQihZ011QQcategoryZ4122Q QssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem), its the same jack from the shorpy photo store. Ebay is the new ultimate tool store if your in to vintage tools, so much in one place and it is easy to search.

[Uncle Buck]

Did I make money off of posting that picture? It benefits me in no way. I made sure to post the source as well, which can only help bring traffic to the original source. "hot linking" is done regularly on this site by several members, never once to their personal financial benefit, only to benefit the manufacturer/owner of the image.

How in the heck did you find a site like that? I love it, I immediately stuffed it in my favorites!

[Uncle Buck]

Stuey

Forgive my ignorance. What is Hotlinking? Also a better explanation of why it is bad please.

i'm in the same boat as red there..........if i post a www. address is that the same thing?..........and any sites that may educate us neatherdals would be appreciated........

I will claim the #3 slot as a knuckle dragger. I would do it, and not even know I had done something wrong! :wtf:

[Uncle Buck]

Clark tool in the greater KCMO metro is about as close as you will come in this day and age.

My tool topia would have domestic brands primarily and would cover a good many brands of mechanic hand tools, additionally these product/tool lines would be covered. body shop, service equip such as jacks, stands pickers etc, precision tools such as mics etc. They would also mix auto paint and offer many specialty items like Eastwood offers. They would have a great line of compressors, air tools, parts cleaning tanks, bead blast cabinets, and on one side of the building offer a great selection of toolroom lathes and tooling, smaller mills up to the size of a Bridgy, and of course all the proper machine shop companions of a more modest size for most home shop guys. Items such as metal band saws, grinders, drill presses, arbor presses etc. You get the idea. while we are at it lets not forget a great selection of several brands of welders, including different types as well such as tig, plasma machines, torches etc. We would also like to see several brands of car lifts offered for the lucky guys that can afford one. Last but not least, lets give this place the convenience of an old time hdw store with a full selection of fasteners you can buy one at a time.

I don't think I am asking for to much under one roof, do you guys? :spit:

Well, that about covers my one stop tool topia