Recent content by chucktee

Thanks. I see there's an ongoing thread about it in the Questions & Suggestions forum. I'll try again when Ryan thinks it's settled.

Well, I tried to insert images amongst the text of my tale, but the forum "ran into some problems". So I'll add them as attachments, and perhaps they'll make sense anyway. Edit: Aaaand, I don't see any attached files, either. Is it me? Further Edit: Finally got the pics loaded. It was July...

Estate sale get. My presbyopic eyes are excited.

Yep, kinda close... 9-1/8" x 1-1/2" here. (The pic doesn't help as much as I'd hoped, parallax and all...)

Glad this old thread resurfaced. I had never seen a hex drive socket set before. Turns out I have a "partial set" (one part only, that is ;)) myself: There aren't any ID markings on it. I had always assumed this was a specialty tool for some long-gone piece of equipment.

Arriving in today's mail was a pair of Williams 1/4" drive ratchets. One to replace the cheap, no-name Asian model in my toolbox with the plastic parts threatening to pop off at any moment, and another for the cabin tool collection.

In today's mail... I have a set of star drivers like this one, from T6 to T25. One day when I needed the T20 driver, I discovered that the set instead had two T25s. So I got that mistake corrected today. Metric and SAE hex keys for the toolbox while the older sets go to the cabin...

I came across this old thread while searching for a possible manufacturer ID for a couple of West German offset box end wrenches. They are similarly styled, although only one of them is marked CHROM-VANADIUM. The other is marked DROP FORGED STEEL. They're both SAE: the larger one is 13/16" x...

After tossing my home center special, value-engineered Poulan saw in the dirt out of frustration last year, I bought a Stihl MS261. It’s been a reliable workhorse.

Not new--new to me. If I have to declare a passion, it's woodworking, not wrenching. But of course there's always been a need for tools for building, maintaining, and repairing things outside the world of timber, so I've had a modest and slowly growing set of tools ever since I was a teenager...

This Wilton came with the 1960s 15" Rockwell/Delta drill press I bought and restored several years ago. This vise came from an estate sale a few years ago. No markings on it, but I think it's a Palmgren. And this one came from an estate sale a little earlier this year. No markings, and I...

If you can find the serial number on a plate somewhere among the parts, you can figure out when it was made here. That site is the place to look for the manual, too.

You talking about that sling blade? I also grew up thinking the gooseneck bar being discussed here was called a crowbar. That may have come from my dad, or it may have come from television. Maybe both. But the tool made from flat steel, about a foot long with a right-angled bend at one end...