Recent content by amason3

Correct, listen to this guy. There are some things you can't cheap out on. If you had any experience welding (just plain steel) then you'd know you're screwing yourself over even more by not learning on a decent welder (you won't know if it's you screwing up or the cheap welder, spool gun...

Like many I was a craftsman proponent for decades because of their price to quality benefit and the ease of warranting damaged tools. Craftsman has gone away from that, but Tekton has learned from the old dog and improved upon Craftsman's formula for success. Craftsman raised panel 36 tooth...

And to use Nickel rod.

Cripe distributing still has quite a bit of their stuff. They have a handy 1/4 drive socket set up to 9/16 and 15mm with the 88tooth ratchet (like matco). Mostly it is one off stuff though.

Just look on Ebay. The more complete the set, the better the price obviously. Complete sets will sell around 1/2 of new unless they're 1/2" drive (for some reason those sell even cheaper it seems). If it's miscellaneous sockets that aren't something special like the rounded or knurled then...

Gearwrench made a name for itself when it was made in Taiwan, prior to Craftsman going to China. More recently gearwrench went to china. As far as I know, the ratchets (120xp's) still seem to be holding up well even though they are now made in china. I have no clue as to the gearwrench sockets...

https://pipefitter.com/store/welders-pencil-silver.html You can find them somewhat cheaper, but this is what i'm talking about

Try silver lead welding pencils or soap stone.

Yes. Yes; more so if I have to get back up off of the floor. I grew up SAE so I typically have no issue up to 1", and will just grab metric to either side of what I think it is since I'm not as used to judging the size. The problem arises when I think it should be standard and is metric. No...

As has already been said, buy one with a higher amperage rating, if you get up around 13 amps in a 4 1/2" grinder (regardless of manufacturer) there shouldn't be any issue with burning it up unless you really abuse it. Even with lower amperage units you should be able to hear and feel if its...

I've got two or three electricians screwdrivers I don't remember ever using, even when doing electrical work. If I'd have remembered to go get them they certainly might have come in handy for doing wall plates at least (since most everything else electrical nowadays is phillips or square head)...

I did a quick search and didn't find this info, so forgive me if I missed someone posting it, but I was in Menards today and found they had reorganized and put all of the Gearwrench items they had left in the store on clearance, as well as Masterforce USA sockets. The restocked Masterforce...

You'll have to get a drawbar to adapt the 5/8-11 threads to something like a morse taper and then get the correct chuck.

Got this from another forum: "Since sometime in the early 1900s, the standard US sizes for hexagonal bolt heads and nuts have come in two flavors, SAE and Heavy. The SAE heads are 1 1/2 times the bolt shank diameter, the Heavy heads 1/8 inch larger. A common example, for a bolt with a 3/8 inch...

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