Recent content by 6-Holer

For what it's worth, the oil drain-plug on most "real" BMC Minis is a 15/16" hex. I don't know about BMW Minis though.......'prolly not?

My weakness is for pliers and prying tools. While visiting a friend's "Foreign Car" shop yesterday (tells you how old he must be...ha ha) I noticed a small, well-made, very stiff, little pry-bar that he'd bought from his Snap-On guy last Monday. It isn't marked Snap-On, only "4140" on both...

63Savoy has got it right!! PineRite soap powder is the best hand-cleaner ever sold, period! It's hard to describe all of it's good qualities, but the one I find the best is the way it rinses off nearly instantly when your hands are clean and when it is gone it is truly gone, every bit of it...

Am I the only one that is aware of some kind of weird, juxtaposed, irony in a trouble-shooting lamp for car-work made by Lucas?....not that there's anything WRONG with being English & electric...... (just kidding...trying to get a rise out of someone!)

J HAV, I'm certainly not an expert on identifying the makers of old vises, but I DO know a cute one when I see it! "Cute" isn't an adjective you hear applied to a vise very often, but your new little #3 is about as cute as they come! I wish I'd seen the auction, I'd have taken it much higher...

+1 Knipex! (......make you throw rocks at anything else!)

A couple of years ago I got an extra-long metric set with S-K's name on them. I'm sure they're the same ones that now are sold by E-Z Red. I bought mine almost immediately after first seeing a friend's sets. He had both English & metric versions. I could tell that they were too good an idea to...

For the cars that I'm familiar with, the Lisle #40400 seemed to be the most universally applicable design. I've duplicated what their design does several times, and when I saw their little insulation-piercing clip I bought one. I'm not sure yet exactly what the LED's function is, but I've only...

I too received a "Your Order Has Shipped..." notice from them this morning. It was for an order for a couple of Knipex pieces I bought from them in April, 2011. Seeing any indication of on-line money/credit tomfoolery gets my attention quickly, but a previous poster's guess at a software-update...

I believe those are jaws for a tubular holder that removes inner tie-rod ends from a steering rack. Sorry I don't remember whose it is though.

So far it looks like Monte's photo is the only remote reference to Ballistol. Personally, if I ever ran out of the stuff, I wouldn't even bother to turn the lights on until I got some more. I became a fan about 10 years ago, and my enthusiasm for it grows constantly. http://www.ballistol.com/...

I can't believe that no one (even Moose!) has mentioned the 21mm nuts that secure the wheels on every Toyota passenger-car I've ever seen. (I'm just sayin'........)

Bolster- More & more I find myself using the 2 sizes of Knipex Plier/Wrenches I've got to both remove & install pins on various assemblies I encounter. Their geometries give them very powerful leverage, and the jaw shapes/designs are surprisingly versatile. Just a thought. -phil

I believe it is for manually (with a ratchet) rotating some GM window-regulators.....I have one I bought in the '70s, thinking the pin-pattern might be handy someday. Never happened. I have a good friend that's been an auto-glass guy for years and I spotted one in his box one day.....he...