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[Squankum]

I am not sure this is true. It seems places sell a broad variety of jack seal and rebuild kits. But it can be hard to figure out which one works for you since there are so many models. Some larger cylinders can be difficult to open though.

We here at GJ have? had? an exhaustive thread about jack hydraulic repairs hosted by a Mr. .... HiBall?

 

[Jtels85]

Has had a steady stream of new tools coming in the last weeks, but have forgot to take pictures.
A couple of days ago I wen't to a store that hade a big sale on Teng Tools so I had to pick up a few things, and as usual a few more bits snuck in the cart, don't know how that happens all the time....

I’ve always been interested in Teng tools, but never pulled the trigger. Looks like a nice haul!

 

[Jtels85]

Just a few pick-up’s during my lunch break today.

Our local True Value is in the process of putting their Master Mechanic tools on clearance to make way for a new DeWalt mechanics tools display. The majority of Master Mechanic’s offerings are manufactured by Apex Tool Group, same as Husky and Duralast.

 

[Madjik Man]

Well, sure, if the Bag Balm has run out.

Wait... you're supposed to put that on your hands?

 

[Squankum]

Wait... you're supposed to put that on your hands?

Sure, if they're realllly dried out. Otherwise, use Udder Creme.

Shania Twain put bag balm on her face, and it worked for her.

I've put in ... indelicate places when the weather is like it is lately, and you're walking around and there's sweat trickling down and you're doing a lot of walking in long pants and there's chafing. That's why my autox box of goodies always had the 1 oz. travel tin.

 

[Beerhippie]

Sure, if they're realllly dried out. Otherwise, use Udder Creme.

Shania Twain put bag balm on her face, and it worked for her.

I've put in ... indelicate places when the weather is like it is lately, and you're walking around and there's sweat trickling down and you're doing a lot of walking in long pants and there's chafing. That's why my autox box of goodies always had the 1 oz. travel tin.

Doing landscape construction in the Corvallis, Or area with its heavy clay soils, our hands would get dried out and crack from the clay. A pair of cotton gloves saturated in Bag Balm and worn while sleeping was the cure. Messy, sure, but cracking hands **** a lot.

 

[930dreamer]

New to me! Second Pic is from the GJ, not mine.

 

[SC Fly Guy]

New to me!

Damn!! Nice score.

 

[SC Fly Guy]

You sure you didn't go to Clackamas High?

We made HA balloons from dry cleaner bags, coat hanger wires and tuna cans stuffed with cut-off fuzees--giant glowing red jellyfish in the skies. We'd send 'em up when the breeze was blowing towards town, wait an hour or so and call the police to report a UFO. The dispatcher would always respond with "Honey, you're the hundred and forty-sixth caller to report that!". That's how we kept score. Never did get caught for that one....

Must be were separated at birth and moved a couple thousand miles apart!!

OK, so here's the story...

I got into the rocket hobby in the early 80s, through a friend from Boy Scouts, whose dad (also our Scoutmaster) got him going. Back before the internet (and before I had a driver's license), our access to rockets was primarily through mail-order catalogs, at least for the model kits. I could buy engines at a mall toy store (K-B Toys, IIRC), but they had an extremely limited assortment of rocket models.

Anyway, I was always a rule-follower (my friend and I both became Eagle Scouts at the same time, within a year or two after this episode), and somewhere along the line, I learned that I needed a permit (maybe just to buy engines without an adult?) in RI.

The permit process went through my town's Fire Department. On the application, I had to list specifically where I planned to fly the rockets. Pretty much any park in town was OK, plus the fields at local schools. In reality, only a handful were big enough, without being surrounded by forests, to be able to fly and actually RECOVER a rocket.

So, with permit in my wallet, and maybe a year's worth of buying, building and flying without issues or complaints, I decided that my next science project would involve model rockets. Created a few different fin designs, used the same body, nose cones, engines, etc. and tried to differentiate which was the better fin design...

Got all of the rockets built, and carried all of the stuff to the local high school on our bikes. Not OUR high school, mind you, as we went to a private high school further away, in the next city over (beyond reasonable biking distance, especially given the hill involved, while carrying a ton of rocket-launching gear).

Wearing our "visitor" school jackets, we stuck out like two sore thumbs, running up and down the athletic fields, launching and chasing my rockets.

After around 45 minutes of this, we hear someone yelling at us from the other side of the chain link fence near the street. Turned out to be a police officer.

Assuming he was questioning our rocket-launching-approval status, I pulled the permit out of my wallet and gave it to him. He stared at it, but couldn't make any sense of it.

He had us climb over the fence, get into the back of the squad car, and started asking us all sorts of ID questions. We were probably around 14-15 at the time, so we didn't have any IDs, other than school IDs (maybe).

After sitting there for 20-30 minutes, he let us go.

Apparently, someone had broken into the computer lab at the high school we were visiting, setting off an alarm that called the police; and when he pulled up, he saw two yahoos running away from the building (us idiots, blissfully unaware of what was happening, just chasing a rocket)...

To this day, I don't think that permit was worth the paper it was written on.

Mike

Man, I have so many similar tales and this is bringing back great memories We learned pretty quickly not to make them look real good (remember the old Estes Saturn V?). The way we launched them, bad things happened. We’d take the little adapter out and jam a large (D-Size) in the tube. We’re still looking for a couple of them!?!

 

[Madjik Man]

Sure, if they're realllly dried out. Otherwise, use Udder Creme.

Shania Twain put bag balm on her face, and it worked for her.

I've put in ... indelicate places when the weather is like it is lately, and you're walking around and there's sweat trickling down and you're doing a lot of walking in long pants and there's chafing. That's why my autox box of goodies always had the 1 oz. travel tin.

In order to keep the cutlets from sticking to the pan…. I use baby powder. Lavender scent.

 

[LXCam]

Well I’m a ******* two days in a row. I need to change out four doors tomorrow. 300lbs a piece and a million security screws. I normally have a couple carts up north for **** like this but somehow managed to take both of them south recently and forgot to grab one yesterday when I was at the office.

So I check out who’s got what in stock up here. My only solution…harbor freight.

My options where a complete POS plastic unit for a buck thirty or as I just found out an even worse POS metal one for $80.

Well I suppose if anything it’s looks pretty for now

I have no doubt these have been discussed in the HF pass or fail thread but let me give ya’ll some advice. This things a hard pass

 

[Squankum]

Well I’m a ******* two days in a row. I need to change out four doors tomorrow. 300lbs a piece and a million security screws. I normally have a couple carts up north for **** like this but somehow managed to take both of them south recently and forgot to grab one yesterday when I was at the office.

So I check out who’s got what in stock up here. My only solution…harbor freight.

My options where a complete POS plastic unit for a buck thirty or as I just found out an even worse POS metal one for $80.

Well I suppose if anything it’s looks pretty for now

I have no doubt these have been discussed in the HF pass or fail thread but let me give ya’ll some advice. This things a hard pass

Back in my office days (which involved big folders and literal paperwork), a coworker of mine had brought in a HF cart like that to stack folders on, move them to and fro. Me, I was still clinging to an old bit of olden days file cart technology that I had rescued from the trash heap. I had also just bought red Craftsman tool cart like this and, well, mine's nice... and his HF cart just made me feel sad. Wimpy, wobbly. For lack of just a little steel thickness, they punished some customers with ****.

 

[four.cycle]

That unit is getting rave reviews on HF's website. If it is as thin as it looks in your photo, I'd have given it maybe 45 minutes to an hour in the back of the warehouse with one of the grunts before it landed in the scrap metal pile with the junk brake and clutch cores.

(okay, okay... some of the reviews are not so "rave".)

 

[shakenfake]

I’ve always been interested in Teng tools, but never pulled the trigger. Looks like a nice haul!

Used some at a previous job. Nothing special, there was one tool that flat out sucked but I don’t remember what it was, Allens? Even had a Teng box or two.

 

[Semi-hole mechanic]

It's actually easier to get model rocket engines than when I was a kid!

Back then, we had to have a permit to buy them (in theory). The permit had to be approved and signed-off by the County Sheriff. I didn't always have best of relations with the Sheriff.

Any of the larger hobby stores had them last I looked.

not in IL in the early ‘80s. The way things are now, you probably have to have a special license that’s only available at a very small office, in the basement of a gov’t building in Springfield, and it’s only open on the third Wednesday of the month between 9:02qm and 10:04am minus their 1/2 hour break. Oh and it costs $217.13 and they only accept cash and don’t give change if you don’t have the correct amount.


PS we bought our engines at Bolay’s Hobby Shop, in Decatur, IL. , where we also raced slot cars. Dad bought a lot of my AFX cars, and Lionel train cars there, along with plastic models in the ‘70s and early ‘80s.

 

[LXCam]

That unit is getting rave reviews on HF's website. If it is as thin as it looks in your photo, I'd have given it maybe 45 minutes to an hour in the back of the warehouse with one of the grunts before it landed in the scrap metal pile with the junk brake and clutch cores.

(okay, okay... some of the reviews are not so "rave".)

It’s thinner than it looks. If it survives tomorrow carting around a couple hundred pounds of tools and hardware I’ll be amazed.

 

[WWheeler]

Got in an order today from JB Tools. They had the best price I'd found on some more Astro I've been wanting, and threw in some stuff they had on clearance that I'll put to use.

A 1/4"dr Astro Nano ratchet, 1/4"dr Nano socket set, and External Torx set, and a couple Astro wire wheel brushes, some OEM feeler gauges, O2 Sensor thread chaser, and some Nicholson files.




Astro Tools Long Flex Head Ratchet Wrench For 1/4" Nano Sockets (78345)
ASTRO 13-Piece 1/4” Drive Low Profile Nano Impact Sockets - Metric (78113)
Astro Pneumatic 13-Piece Drive External Torx Nano Impact Socket Set (78313)
Astro Pneumatic 3" Wire Wheel Hand Brush W/ Interchangeable Head (9025)
OEMTOOLS 22 Blade Go-No-Go Feeler Gauge (25024)
OEMTOOLS 12 Blade Valve Tappet Feeler Gauge (25304)
OEMTOOLS 26 Blade Master Feeler Gauge (25025)
OEMTOOLS 6 Piece Disconnect Set for Fuel Lines (24681)
OEM Tools Oxygen Sensor Thread Chaser (25255)
Nicholson 6" General Purpose Mill File With Ergonomic Handle - ******* Cut (21687HN)
Nicholson 6" Flat File Double/Single Cut Smooth File - American Pattern (03533NN)
Nicholson 10" 2-in-1 General Purpose Dual Sided File - ******* & Smooth Cut (21910N)
Nicholson 14" Hand File ******* Cut Double Cut - American Pattern (06198N) - x2

 

[Beerhippie]

That's the Pace-o-matic approach. Allows one to recharge while the batteries are recharging.

I had to deal with this again today. I have two hours from when I get here and when the pub opens to get one of our outdoor seating areas mowed and clean. Grab the weed-whacker (line trimmer) and edge. One batt down. Mow. One batt down, but the other is only half-charged (I mow fast)--and I need the blower to clean the walks and pads....

 

[rharman]

Do they even sell model rocketry stuff in the stores anymore? I had an Estes set in my early teens, and Walmart, Kmart, and the small regional chain Magic Mart all sold a wide selection of rockets and engines. Yet, I haven't seen them in quite some time.

It's actually easier to get model rocket engines than when I was a kid!

Back then, we had to have a permit to buy them (in theory). The permit had to be approved and signed-off by the County Sheriff. I didn't always have best of relations with the Sheriff.

Any of the larger hobby stores had them last I looked.

Huh? I am in Michigan and bought some just a few weeks ago for my younger son (12). They were sold in the local hobby store (Hobby Lobby) so I was assuming nothing is needed to responsibly use.

I don't want to get a permit for it. How careful should I be about being seen?

I had to get a license from the local FD. I'm sure my dad had to sign off on it. This would have been mid 1960's. As I recall, you had to show the license at the store to buy engines.

 

[zimman]

Had to have the cheap miter saw also to go with the table saw.
Zim

 

[Meursault74]

I have a 40 oz. version of that hammer. I hit things with it. It is good.

which one is it, now?

 

[F-22]

Knipex X-Cut Compact Diagonal Cutter 73 02 160
The box joint gives relatively high leverage for its size, without compromising on jaw capacity or requiring excessive handle movement. The specified cutting (not jaw opening) capacities are the same as the 180mm High Leverage (not TwinForce).

Been eyeing those for a while now. A box joint is really cool and unique for pliers of that size and use.

 

[Andres26tnt]

More tools acquired, I wanted to get something similar to the Mac RBRT. Could had bought the craftsman overdrive but I wanted cheap cheap lol. So settled on the old Mac pt deep sockets jk . These are rebranded by a company called PTW, they do mostly motorcycle tools. The full set was 25$ 6 to 19mm. Also went for a different design for the short by SMT, these have been popping up in Amazon. Full set Satin finish, 8 to 22mm.

Been wanting a nice locking flex to replace my broken stahlwille. So I got a dual 80 snap-on, we use them at work and have zero issues with the button on the neck of the tool.

Lastly Pro-auto sell a super nice locking flex head, 330mm long. It is a quality piece, never seen this design before. I found out Tone rebranded the same ratchet except with their hollow handle. So I bought the rebuild kit thinking the other didn't have a quick release. Turns out it does have QR, the whole back piece is the button. So now I have a extra gear just in case.

 

[F-22]

Well, by some strange circumstances a very kind person brought the Icon pliers over from the US to EU for me. Did not need them by any means but I was really curious how they stack up next to Snap On.




Teeth on the Snap On are slightly sharper. The Icon forging is much more crude. In terms of performance the hinge is nice on both but the Icon has practically no wobble - I am impressed.

Upon closer look it is very clear these come from different forging tools and have different grinding patterns. But they really did a good job copying.


Overall great pliers, definitely worth the money. Shame SO is getting copied but at the same time - it's just a pair of pliers...

 

[2001ZR2]

OK, yesterdays fix of new tools.... Some minor stuff from Tekton and Koken.


My first few Tekton tools just arrived, had to see what all the fuss was about. Definitely decent enough for the price, and I really like the (now discontinued and discounted) hard handled long screwdrivers.

Also some new minor Koken spinners & swivels, Tekton sockets, wrenches.

Tekton screwdrivers were in the outlet section, I guess they are discontinuing their current US made screwdriver lineup and going to a German producer? Either way, damn nice long, hardened US made screwdrivers for $25!

Short video here:

https://youtu.be/IILzNDdpU4c







Tips compared to my Wera's...

Thanks for video gave some good incite

 

[2001ZR2]

Shocks are on the way, scheduled to arrive here tomorrow. I sprang for this to ease the chore.






Made in USA.

I've got one of these think it marketed as Snap On. Haven't seen it a long time...
Was actually thinking about earlier today.

 

[Dr.JohnnyFever]

What a disappointment.

Missing parts and brackets welded so badly off that it is going to take at least some hammering (or maybe cut an re-weld) to assemble.

The box in the background isn't the box it was shipped in. It is the box that it was shipped in to the previous buyer. Very disappointed in either Amazon or JBTools as they obviously threw the old box in a new box without inspecting the contents.

 

[GX460DIYguy]

Snagged this snap on bf608b out of a junk bin at a local pawn shop today for 50¢. Looks like it wasn’t really used all that much, but at some point it got left outside and stayed there. Gonna see if my rep has a replacement handle for it tomorrow.

 

[Jarhead0408]

I

I swear that duct tape and electrician's tape adhesives work as antiseptics, and have healing powers.

--An old boomer.

Funny timing here, but my brother sliced his leg open in three parallel cuts with a chainsaw last week. I don't know what they used to stop the bleeding, but it was wrapped up with electrical tape. It did well enough that he finished the job and went to the hospital afterwards.

 

[Beerhippie]

I

Funny timing here, but my brother sliced his leg open in three parallel cuts with a chainsaw last week. I don't know what they used to stop the bleeding, but it was wrapped up with electrical tape. It did well enough that he finished the job and went to the hospital afterwards.

Tell your brother not to do that anymore. Maybe some new chainsaw chaps for a Bday present?

 

[Jarhead0408]

Tell your brother not to do that anymore. Maybe some new chainsaw chaps for a Bday present?

Yep. Between our Dad and myself, we're on it.

The cut nicked into the muscle. Could've been a LOT worse.

 

[Jarhead0408]

Sure, if they're realllly dried out. Otherwise, use Udder Creme.

Shania Twain put bag balm on her face, and it worked for her.

I've put in ... indelicate places when the weather is like it is lately, and you're walking around and there's sweat trickling down and you're doing a lot of walking in long pants and there's chafing. That's why my autox box of goodies always had the 1 oz. travel tin.

You put it on the wrong bag!

Or, maybe not...

 

[pfbz]

More tools acquired, I wanted to get something similar to the Mac RBRT. Could had bought the craftsman overdrive but I wanted cheap cheap lol. So settled on the old Mac pt deep sockets jk . These are rebranded by a company called PTW, they do mostly motorcycle tools. The full set was 25$ 6 to 19mm. Also went for a different design for the short by SMT, these have been popping up in Amazon. Full set Satin finish, 8 to 22mm.

Been wanting a nice locking flex to replace my broken stahlwille. So I got a dual 80 snap-on, we use them at work and have zero issues with the button on the neck of the tool.

Lastly Pro-auto sell a super nice locking flex head, 330mm long. It is a quality piece, never seen this design before. I found out Tone rebranded the same ratchet except with their hollow handle. So I bought the rebuild kit thinking the other didn't have a quick release. Turns out it does have QR, the whole back piece is the button. So now I have a extra gear just in case.

Would love some links, or at least some additional info to help googlify some of this stuff. Had zero luck finding matching sockets from "PTW" or "SMT", and did find a "Pro-auto" ratchet, but not the swivel head you show there...

 

[Skyman]

I've got one of these think it marketed as Snap On. Haven't seen it a long time...
Was actually thinking about earlier today.

If it ever cools off around here, I will put it to the test.

 

[2001ZR2]

If it ever cools off around here, I will put it to the test.

On my '67 Camaro and '82 GT it worked like charm

 

[mikeinri]

I

Funny timing here, but my brother sliced his leg open in three parallel cuts with a chainsaw last week. I don't know what they used to stop the bleeding, but it was wrapped up with electrical tape. It did well enough that he finished the job and went to the hospital afterwards.

WOW!!!

I'm not a boomer, but was raised by boomer parents, and had boomers as Boy Scout leaders. Not necessarily in the camp of, "tape it up and get back to work" but if you're bleeding badly, you need to stop it quickly, by any means necessary.

If you're deep in the woods, and not getting to a hospital quickly (as in, days), sure, then you'll want to be more careful about an infection.

But if it's bad enough to need a trip to the ER, your goal is to get there fast enough that you can live to worry about fighting the potential infection later. That may mean, throw a sweaty T-shirt on it and secure that with a belt or piece of rope.

You'd be surprised, most things won't hurt you, especially with the cleaning they'll do at the ER. Plus, you'll probably get a tetanus shot and antibiotics there.

Mike

 

[Semi-hole mechanic]

WOW!!!

I'm not a boomer, but was raised by boomer parents, and had boomers as Boy Scout leaders. Not necessarily in the camp of, "tape it up and get back to work" but if you're bleeding badly, you need to stop it quickly, by any means necessary.

If you're deep in the woods, and not getting to a hospital quickly (as in, days), sure, then you'll want to be more careful about an infection.

But if it's bad enough to need a trip to the ER, your goal is to get there fast enough that you can live to worry about fighting the potential infection later. That may mean, throw a sweaty T-shirt on it and secure that with a belt or piece of rope.

You'd be surprised, most things won't hurt you, especially with the cleaning they'll do at the ER. Plus, you'll probably get a tetanus shot and antibiotics there.

Mike

Also not a boomer (Xer) but raised by Silent Generation parents and had much older Boomer siblings. When I mashed the end of my right trigger finger when I was 15 between a 1/2 cu. yard container and the back of the garbage truck I wrapped it in the tail of my T-shirt and squeezed it at the base to slow the bleeding. When we got to the ER some old biddy nurse took a fingernail brush and scrubbed the open wound with betadine. No anesthetic and no regard for my pain. Dad was holding my other hand, as he later said, not to comfort me but to keep me from punching her. The Dr. numbed it with lidocaine with 3 shots around the base of the finger and then stitched up then of my finger with 11 stitches, and drilled 2 holes at each side of my nail to stitch it on so I didn’t lose it. No tetanus as I’m highly allergic. No antibiotics, just splinted and wrapped in a couple miles worth of gauze.

 

[Squankum]

WOW!!!

I'm not a boomer, but was raised by boomer parents, and had boomers as Boy Scout leaders. Not necessarily in the camp of, "tape it up and get back to work" but if you're bleeding badly, you need to stop it quickly, by any means necessary.

If you're deep in the woods, and not getting to a hospital quickly (as in, days), sure, then you'll want to be more careful about an infection.

But if it's bad enough to need a trip to the ER, your goal is to get there fast enough that you can live to worry about fighting the potential infection later. That may mean, throw a sweaty T-shirt on it and secure that with a belt or piece of rope.

You'd be surprised, most things won't hurt you, especially with the cleaning they'll do at the ER. Plus, you'll probably get a tetanus shot and antibiotics there.

Mike

My dad was pre-Boomers and pre-Silent Generation, too, and both he and my mom would worry about every scratch and cut I got. What I considered to be normal - a brown scab - they'd get wound up and say, "Look at that! It's infected!"

I was well into adulthood before the history of it all dawned on me: they grew up pre-antibiotics. It was a scarier time.

I later met an American who had been a POW in Germany after the Battle of the Bulge. On the forced march east through the snow and slush, his pinky toe chafed on the inside of his boot until the skin was worn raw, and that's where his infection started. Towards his last weeks in the prison camp, he said he could feel every beat of his heart as a throb in his entire leg.

V-E day came and it was time for the POW's to be shipped back to American lines. Medical screening was done, an amputation was discussed, but one German doctor told him, no, do not let that happen, when you get back to allied control, they will have antibiotics. He got back to a U.S. Army hospital, and within a week he was doing much better, and kept his leg.

Still, wear those chainsaw chaps! A guy I know recently had some skin cancer removed from his face and you don't want to see those pics, so wear a good sun hat, too!

 

[Beerhippie]

Also not a boomer (Xer) but raised by Silent Generation parents and had much older Boomer siblings. When I mashed the end of my right trigger finger when I was 15 between a 1/2 cu. yard container and the back of the garbage truck I wrapped it in the tail of my T-shirt and squeezed it at the base to slow the bleeding. When we got to the ER some old biddy nurse took a fingernail brush and scrubbed the open wound with betadine. No anesthetic and no regard for my pain. Dad was holding my other hand, as he later said, not to comfort me but to keep me from punching her. The Dr. numbed it with lidocaine with 3 shots around the base of the finger and then stitched up then of my finger with 11 stitches, and drilled 2 holes at each side of my nail to stitch it on so I didn’t lose it. No tetanus as I’m highly allergic. No antibiotics, just splinted and wrapped in a couple miles worth of gauze.

Never met none of them. Every generation I encountered seemed to run off at the mouth a bit.

 

[D.F.B]

Broke the bank on this one.....................................