Recent content by Bent Wrench

Mamma bought me their 56” toolbox and side cabinet last year and it is actually a pretty nice box.

It really gives me a headache and not for the reasons mentioned so far. I’m left handed and my box is arranged to accommodate this fact. So all my my power tools and the handles on my hand tools face the direction that make grabbing them with the left hand easier. When a “righty” puts thing...

Concord Executive made in Seki Japan. You can get them many places but I got mine at a knife site I frequent that gave me a discount code. The cheap ones I was tired of using were so inferior to these that after I used these the old ones went into the trash. I also like the black color which...

We always used the term “dikes”. Same with “side cutters” that a lot of people call “linesman’s pliers”. A funny story in my house is about the time I was under the wife’s car dropping the gas tank when the final gas line connections were those plastic pinch clips on plastic lines. So I’m...

Amen on telling family to leave someone performing a task to wait until they reach a stopping point. I had to break my wife of the idea that needing an immediate answer to an unimportant question while ripping sheet goods on a table saw isn’t a good idea.

Coleman Outdoor Products, Coolers Lanterns Thermos, I mean heck we still call it that around here even other brands. Swingline staplers Coke, used generically for pop in lots of places. (Sorry Pepsi folks)

A bump rod, or bump stick is a tool that you use to impact an aircraft assembly or especially the parts that the outside skin attach to. It’s main use is to adjust the contour of the skin when you have a low spot. You give the back side of the structure a couple of whacks, go out and see how...

Blind fasteners is what we call them in aircraft assembly. These are fasteners that can be installed when only the head side for instance is accessible and a compression sleeve is drawn from the stem side through the bolt from the top.

Great advice from the other posters. One thing to remember that wasn’t said... anytime you are taking off a major component after it had been lifted and test bounced, the center of gravity will shift. On a situation like removing a rear end off of a pickup where the weight distribution *****...