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shakenfake
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I've got a "yard cart" that needs tires. Guess I should look at this route.
Beerhippie
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Hmm... makes Knipex seem really affordable.
Beerhippie
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It seemed that every time I wanted to use one of the carts, I had to air up the tires--and hope they held for the length of the job. Problem fixed.
PS: Don't go to Les Schwab for utility tires. $30 each when Grainger wants $10?
Gotcha. BTW, I used the cardboard beer trays (Dad drank Bud cans for ages, LOL) for the longest time, until I "upgraded" to using plastic / Rubbermaid.
Mike
If you HAVE to use a pneumatic tire / tube, the HF mini tire changers work well, but there's definitely a learning curve to the right setup for each tire size and operation (mount vs. dismount).
If at all possible, upgrade to a flat-free replacement and never look back.
Mike
Hopefully works as good as it looks..
I can confirm that it does work as good as it looks ... even better. Was well worth the money.
Now now, that's not a fair comparison. There's financing, too!
Beerhippie
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I think I've had the two HM50s since they came out--five years ago. Never had a failure of any kind. One is for the rig and camping, one for the shop. The one above is the shop light, as you can probably tell. I use it damned near every day.
Not sure where to put the new HM65.
Unicorns? Not even close. 16340 cells are what you are looking for.
Plenty of options, but I'd suggest sticking with protected KeepPower, Nitecore, Fenix, Surefire RCR123, Olight).
Just buy a bunch of these and be done:
WWheeler
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New-to-me Snap-on CP3A Cotter Pin Puller and Snap-on 7ASAA Straight Awl
New-to-me Snap-on CP3A Cotter Pin Puller and Snap-on 7ASAA Straight Awl
Starting a lobotomy business?
(Seriously, the tools they used were really no more sophisticated than that.)
ronkz650
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I went and checked, and Harry J. Epstein's has 10 inch Cobras for $38.33 -- before shipping.
They may be "last year's model" before some tiny detail or style changes. They're still the gateway drug!
I bought some FACOM wrenches. 440.JP14PB, $107.20, Amazon USA. (I just realized I didn't check Amazon UK or Fronce.)
7-24mm, skipping 9, 20, 21, 23. (Does anybody ever use a 23mm?!)
Oh good, I need more confort.
More money than the similar Craftsman V-series wrench set/organizer, except two more, bigger wrenches and priced accordingly. My initial reaction: very comfy, round edges wherever you handle a wrench. Also, I'd heard their pattern was short but it turns out the largest-sized wrenches in the set are kind of short -- but the smallest-sized are a little long. Which is kind of backwards from what life might throw at you, I guess.
Organizer is pretty neat.
Size comparisons:
I can't explain why the cats didn't help.
7-24mm, skipping 9, 20, 21, 23. (Does anybody ever use a 23mm?!)
Oh good, I need more confort.
More money than the similar Craftsman V-series wrench set/organizer, except two more, bigger wrenches and priced accordingly. My initial reaction: very comfy, round edges wherever you handle a wrench. Also, I'd heard their pattern was short but it turns out the largest-sized wrenches in the set are kind of short -- but the smallest-sized are a little long. Which is kind of backwards from what life might throw at you, I guess.
Organizer is pretty neat.
Size comparisons:
I can't explain why the cats didn't help.
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Starting a lobotomy business?
(Seriously, the tools they used were really no more sophisticated than that.)
Yes, the transorbital lobotomy, colloquially known as the icepick lobotomy. It was popular in the 1950s. There's a very interesting story about it at https://www.npr.org/2005/11/16/5014080/my-lobotomy-howard-dullys-journey .
I knew a doctor (staff at a mental hospital) who observed several of these procedures being performed. That's the only reason I know about this very strange story.
They vastly underestimate my ability to misplace my wrenches.Oh good, I need more confort.
Confort is hilarious.
Yeah, it's not like you can dangle the organizer from a shoestring into the engine bay and the wrenches will leap into it.
I have a name that's uncommon, but only because one letter is different from a name people have heard before. Because of that, people don't stop and think, they think they know what it is, and can look right at my name and write or type it wrong. So that's probably a how a Frenchman doesn't stop and translate their word for comfort in their head. It's easy for them to think it's the same world.
In contrast, if we were clerks and somebody showed up from Poland and said, Hi, I'm Wojciech Jaruzelski, Jr., and this is my friend, Professor Tibor Wlassics, a lot of us might slow down and ask them to spell that, and we'd take careful notes.
Beerhippie
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We all know that only Snap-On can provide a tool organizer that does that!
As for the names thing... Ellis Island was notorious for re-naming European immigrants. I worked with a guy years ago whose last name was Hooksmith. His family was from Norway, where they had worked for generations for Mustad making... hooks. Part of his family is now Hooksmith, part of it is Hokerschmidt, part is Hookers. They all had the same grandfather.
My last name sounds common (but isn't), and the degree to which people screw it up is actually amusing - some of them aren't close. It probably wasn't funny to my parents when they registered me under an incorrect name at the hospital when I was born...
It reminds me of a joke from George Carlin (though kinda the reverse) that went something like "In America, your name can be spelled S-M-I-T-H and you can pronounce it "Janovski" if you want to..."
Smokeshow69
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Yup, my last name lost an O in front of it when my relatives came over during the potato famine. And there’s actually quite a few spellings for my last name. I’m actually shocked at the amount of people that can’t pronounce my last name even though some dude with the name made a living in the 90’s smashing watermelon in the 90’s
Terra Nova
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Have a big wiring project coming up. Decided to up my crimper game a little.
Doesn't even need to be a difficult name: I worked with a guy who's last name was Houser. Because, that's what the immigration officer at Ellis Island heard / wrote down when his grandfather came over from Germany, and said his last name was Hauser...
Yup, my last name lost an O in front of it when my relatives came over during the potato famine. And there’s actually quite a few spellings for my last name. I’m actually shocked at the amount of people that can’t pronounce my last name even though some dude with the name made a living in the 90’s smashing watermelon in the 90’s
O'Carrottop???
Pretty sure the Sledge-a-O-Matic guy was in the 70s / 80s???
LOL...
Mike
Yup, my last name lost an O in front of it when my relatives came over during the potato famine. And there’s actually quite a few spellings for my last name. I’m actually shocked at the amount of people that can’t pronounce my last name even though some dude with the name made a living in the 90’s smashing watermelon in the 90’s
Your story makes me slightly less disappointed in my coworkers who can't tell Mc from Mac.
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Gallagher died in 2022. He never stopped working, that I know of. Heck, there were even two of him at one point. (His brother, touring some of the same act as Gallagher 2.) This led to woe, rancor and intrigue, IIRC, starting with the both being booked in the same small city and the brother not backing down. Linky:
Gallagher (comedian) - Wikipedia
He did go on to be a difficult, cranky old man, and the best source of those stories is... Carrot Top!
I got a pair of Klein crimpers like that a few years ago, but didn't know that different jaws were available for such things until last month!Have a big wiring project coming up. Decided to up my crimper game a little.
Skyman
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toddmorr
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Anybody know if Facom sells a 440xl wrench set with most sizes, like the set in squankum's post #73657 above?
I paid off my truck account and credit, so this by no means will be a regular occurrence.
But my dealer had the new pliers on the truck, he also had the turbo/hose clamp sockets I've been waiting months for, and the pry bar used for tool box drawer slides (but I thought could be useful). Obviously I walked away with all 3.
But my dealer had the new pliers on the truck, he also had the turbo/hose clamp sockets I've been waiting months for, and the pry bar used for tool box drawer slides (but I thought could be useful). Obviously I walked away with all 3.
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Nice. Now go and also get the ratcheting ones, the ones with the switch.I bought some FACOM wrenches. 440.JP14PB, $107.20, Amazon USA. (I just realized I didn't check Amazon UK or Fronce.)
7-24mm, skipping 9, 20, 21, 23. (Does anybody ever use a 23mm?!)
Oh good, I need more confort.
More money than the similar Craftsman V-series wrench set/organizer, except two more, bigger wrenches and priced accordingly. My initial reaction: very comfy, round edges wherever you handle a wrench. Also, I'd heard their pattern was short but it turns out the largest-sized wrenches in the set are kind of short -- but the smallest-sized are a little long. Which is kind of backwards from what life might throw at you, I guess.
Organizer is pretty neat.
Size comparisons:
I can't explain why the cats didn't help.
Best ratcheting wrench I've laid my hands on. Didn't buy a set, just the sizes I need and can add later.
LeeG
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Went to a farm auction last weekend. Picked up a few things.
Some Stilsons, some Ridgid, a few US made other stuff. The funky wrench was made in Germany. Not shown, about 400 brand new Dormer branded HSS drill bits, 1/4” - 7/16”. Not bad for about $80
Some Stilsons, some Ridgid, a few US made other stuff. The funky wrench was made in Germany. Not shown, about 400 brand new Dormer branded HSS drill bits, 1/4” - 7/16”. Not bad for about $80
PugetDude
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I frequently just spell my last name, it's an uncommon variant of a very common surname. Usually just tell people that it was a tragic spelling accident at Ellis Island.
Beerhippie
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Working on old VWs?
I always spell my name first and then pronounce it. I've been called Turpentine as long as I can recall.
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Gallagher died in 2022. He never stopped working, that I know of. Heck, there were even two of him at one point. (His brother, touring some of the same act as Gallagher 2.) This led to woe, rancor and intrigue, IIRC, starting with the both being booked in the same small city and the brother not backing down. Linky:
Gallagher (comedian) - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
He did go on to be a difficult, cranky old man, and the best source of those stories is... Carrot Top!
Well, I knew Gallagher started in the 70s, and thought he worked into the 90s, but didn't know he kept going beyond that, and didn't know about the brother.
The Carrot Top thing was just meant as a joke. I had no clue that they were somehow intertwined. Although, without Gallagher around to tell his side, I don't know how much I'm believing anything Carrot Top is saying at this point.
I liked Carrot Top at the start of his career, but around the time he hit the steroids, I lost interest and didn't find him funny. I don't understand why he looks like that when he's not on stage; although, Marilyn Manson and Robert Smith rarely go out in public without makeup on from what I gather.
Mike
You mean a long pattern?
The Facom Tools Thread.
Very Cool, none of them appear to be Philips or otherwise, all straight blade of various lengths and width. Phillips does not have the same issue with a flared-out head, so any would do. For flatheads, finding ones where the width of the tip is also the width of the complete shank is a lot...
www.garagejournal.com
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