Recent content by d.mcfarland

I thought when they went to the thinner head the tooth count changed.

I'm curious what new tools they are talking about releasing as that arena seems a bit crowded so anything new to the market needs to be innovative, high quality, and/or worth more than their cost.

Post a picture, would be very helpful in this situation.

For the fun of it?

Going to call this complete. My rendition of how it would have come from the factory. Painted frame and blued screw. I have almost no use for it. If someone wants to trade, let me know.

I have a seemingly new vintage one if you want to buy/trade. Let me know.

Hell yeah Chris!

Some vintage Vise Grips. The newer looking ones at the bottom are IRWIN made in the USA and the two larger ones are Petersen era. May end up modifying one of them or someone is getting them in their secret santa package this year.

Koch Chemie Green Star (GS) is the answer followed by their Motorplast for an almost new appearance. Safe, effective, and long lasting. These products were seemingly designed for this specific task. The cleaning job is probably 50% product 50% user so to be honest a lot of products will...

Cut this old rusty (went through rust remover obviously) C clamp for a custom welding hold down. Kind of felt bad cutting it as it was just rusty, not damaged in any way, but a forged body is necessary due to tig welding. I look at it like I'm giving it a new life. Plays into my enjoyment of...

As long as the current wood doesn't touch water you're good. Hopefully they have some kind of plan. The job isn't "right" but significantly cheaper it seems. The current dig up might prevent some hydrostatic pressure under the slab, but not a whole lot from the walls i'd say.

Topic subject line is ratchet and your post states wrenches, so clarify please.

Just tossing it out there, but maybe let's focus less on the SWAG giveaways and more on the AMERICAN made tools. That's what this whole thing is about or at least what it was originally about. Also I guess while I'm ranting, seems like HJE is moving further and further away from USA made tools...

Started with a carriage bolt (to have the square portion under the head) and quickly tig welded on a large stainless wing nut. Seemed like the most logical choice and the closest I could find to the old C clamps posted above. What should we do next?

I've gather random objects to weld to the end of locking pliers and we will see how they are in use. Stay tuned for updates.