Projects

Vintage Tire Pressure Gauge Calibration

I’ve been collecting and using vintage tire pressure gauges since I can remember really… Mostly because I just really appreciate their aesthetic and the way they feel in my hand. Age brings a tactile feel and a personality that the newer offerings just can’t match. Recently, I’ve been asked quite a few times about their accuracy. When you find them, they are hardly ever broken but it’s rare to find one that is accurate. Thankfully, however, most of these 1950’s to 1980’s gauges feature a very similar mechanism and calibrating them is dead easy. So, I decided to make a …

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Sailing Magic Carpet

I have a real fetish for watching craftsmen follow their passions from within their work shops. I actually spend far too much time doing this rather than following my own in my shop. But every now and then, I find someone that does things in such a way that I get inspired to turn off the computer and get to it. Recently, I stumbled upon a sailing couple that builds old boats and then farts around in them until it’s time to build another. So when Maya and Aladino sold their most recent boat not long ago, I got excited …

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Reviews & Features

Milwaukee M18 Chainsaw – Any Good?

Hey fellas, I hate to admit this to myself as I don’t much care for yard work… BUT, I need a light duty chainsaw. I’d rather not do gas powered as I don’t particularly want to maintain one if I’m only gonna be using it a couple times a year. And if I’m gonna do battery powered, I figure I might as well go with the ecosystem I already own batteries for – Milwaukee. So, anyone have one of these 16″ M18 chainsaws? Are they any good at all for light duty work? I’d love some recommendations.
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Reviews & Features

Noco Genius 10

I tend to drive my cars every chance I get, so the alternator/generator has always sort of been my defacto battery tender. A few years back, however, I started spending quite a bit of time away from home and as a result, my cars sat for longer periods of time. Initially, I used a Deltran Battery Tender and had nothing but issues. Of the three I bought four years ago, two no longer work at all and I simply don’t trust the other. So, what’s next? Around the same time my first tender gave up the ghost, I was helping …

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Wera Tool-Check Plus

Between the Snap-On “hand-me-downs” my dad left me when he passed and my own Allen brand tools he bought me as a teen, I have a pretty complete collection of hand tools. So much so, that it has been many years since I’ve really had to buy any at all. Given this limited experience in the modern market, I wouldn’t be surprised at all if this review is old news to most of you… But, a year or so ago I bought a Wera Tool-Check Plus to serve in a road-side tool kit for an old Porsche. Fortunately, the German …

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