I believe the guy with the ******* in his picture is referring generally to Iraqi use of chemical weapons during the Iran-Iraq War and the Al-Anfal Campaign.
Anyone have experience with ATD hand tools? Never heard of them before.
A catalog flyer thing came across my desk, with a pretty decent assortment of snap ring pliers made by them for a decent price...feel like it might be getting just to see if they're garbage or not.
I rarely use snap ring...
Just for you guys in the NEPA area: the Sears at Viewmont is closing. Liquidation sales begin April 22.
http://wnep.com/2016/04/06/sears-at-viewmont-mall-to-close/
So, if you've got broken CMAN stuff, now's probably the time.
Also I know almost everyone on here loves to bash the Sears...
that snap on box is cool as frig...
that said, that people collect/sell/deal in older quality tools like antiques -- to be put somewhere and admired -- is really strange to me. like seeing stradivarius behind glass at the smithsonian.
This. Just go the math route. Isn't complicated, doesn't take long at all, and will set your mind at ease way more than comparing your torque wrench to whatever they loaned you at the parts counter that was last used by johnny-torque-wrench-breaker-bar.
I often chuck my heavy steel jack in the back of my beater to go across town and help out friends, family, friend's family, etc...and uhh, it *****. Lighter would be better. OP has my sympathy.
I'm sure if you thought about it for any amount of time you could think of situations where it...
I had a similar issue a long time ago...ended up buying some super long extensions and wrapped some u-joint adapters in a bunch of masking tape. Allowed me to significantly shorten the distance quite a bit without the ujoints just flopping all over the place.