Recent content by 2mJps

I have been doing mechanic work for over 40 years . For more than half those years 1/4 stuff wasn't used a lot but nowadays it is used a lot. Deep 1/4 not so much . I am a tool nut and have a lot of stuff that doesn't see a lot of use and probably will not like the 1/4 speed handle I have . I...

Set i care in my pickup and use at work. Sockets are on 1/4 wooden rods .

I have more than one set of tools in two locations . I have 1/4 3/8 and 1/2 inch drive stuff in separate drawers. No left or right . Someday when i can retire i will get my stuff in one spot and reorganize it all. I was thinking today what if there was just one SAE or Metric ? I remember a...

What are you going to cut ? What are you building ? I have 2 chopsaws and a bandsaw . A chopsaw is for quick dirty metal fab . A band saw is more precise quiet cuts.

I have a small set of craftsman Sae and i think a metric set . I work or have worked on about everything but I don't think i have ever needed them. If that's all i had to use it would make for a long day. Its a tool that i didn't understand till i got it.

When i was in school i worked Saturdays at a place they sold buffalo tools for a while . I got some back then . At the end of the day when i was getting payed i would buy try to buy some . The owner ether gave them to me or sold them at cost. Every thing was junk but the wrenches did last ok for...

When there was a mail order sears place in town they would send out flyers with tools on sell i got alot of stuff that way. I worked as a mechanic for years then stopped we had a good shop at the farm were i had my tools. Then i moved farm was sold i had my tools in a trailer 25 miles away went...

That makes sense . I think it would be a little harder to clean.

My Dad had alot of this stuff its in pieces from a foot long to 6 foot long . The back looks just like hard wood flooring. I dont know if it is flooring because of the way the edges are beveled.

It wouldnt be hard to build a adapter for my ratchet .

I worked in a shop were the tools were furnished long story but every one used tools out of this shop that worked there. Alot of stuff started disapering . We had a new guy but never thought or blamed him. The main tool box was tall you couldnt really see what was in the top of it one day after...

They had several of these at the surplus store . I have a 1/2 drive that was on a drill that the RR used.

I may do that i gave $8.00 for the ratchet it would steal be a cheap ratchet.

One morning at work a coworker piniched his hand with a pair of channel lock pliers . The shop sat on a hill with a big ditch between it and the highway maybe over 200 feet away he went and through then over in the ditch. Not 15 minites the boss pulls up to the shop and gos walking down in the...

My name is Doug and i have a Vice grip problem. When i was married we went to alot of garage sells i have 2 buckets full and i have one draw full of new ones