Reviews & Features – Page 12 – The Garage Journal

I tackled a small welding project for a friend this weekend and along with his parts, he brought over some MagHold V-Pads from Strong Hand Tools. I had seen these online before, but this was my first time to mess with any in person… And wow. These things are almost as good as they appear to be in the video above. They are light duty, obviously, but the have great holding power when clean and are infinitely adjustable for situations such as welding round stock to flat plate, etc… In any case, I don’t have a ton of experience with …

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Intriguing idea for a discussion from Adam. What’s your least used, but most important tool? Mine is an obvious one. I don’t use a torque wrench all that often, but when I truly need it, it’s for something damned important. See Comments on the forum.

So I was blindly sent one of these tape measures – I guess for review? But I’ve reviewed a tape measure before and to be honest, there isn’t a whole lot to say on the matter. The FastCaps are great because there is some innovation there and I guess you could say the same about these new Lufkin offerings for three main reasons: It’s built like a brick shit house and weighs about the same. It has a 14’stand-out. Seriously. The end hook has some kind of diamond abrasive applied to it which gives it pretty decent sticking power. In …

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I seem to fall down YouTube rabbit holes on a regular basis… Most recently, I stumbled upon some guy that finds, repairs, and I guess sells old buses of all things. At first glance, this doesn’t seem all that interesting but if you let it play in the background while you work away on the computer, you’ll quickly get hooked. There’s just something about the adventure of traveling hundreds of miles to pick up, repair, and drive home a big ass buss that hasn’t been on the road in decades. See Comments on the forum.