Recent content by Deadhead

I normally do not comment on anyone's garage, shop, mancave, etc, for my own reasons, .......but those LED lights in the floor are **** hot dude. Just may be the best idea I have seen in years.

I would not know how to act if I could answer that question. I suppose if your a specialized tech (say front end or transmissions) you would use the same 4 or 5 tools all day long. With what I do, some days its a multimeter, some days is a 32mm impact socket. The list of tools needed to pull a...

Here is my experience for the one time I have had to use their warranty. I have a extended 3/8" 90 tooth ratchet with the soft handle. Its my go to 3/8 ratchet day in and day out. I broke the guts out of on a hard pull. The hardest I have ever pulled on a 3/8" or maybe a 1/2" ratchet. It snapped...

I own that one as well. Love it. Another tech borrowed it a time or two and went and bought him one just like it last week.

Got nothing from the Snap-On dude. Didnt really expect it either as he has the personality of a shoe. Matco guy offered up a hat or beanie. I picked the beanie. Ask him how much for 3 more for my grown boys and he pulled out 3 more and handed them to me at no charge. He wouldnt take any money...

If I showed up to work Monday and someone stole my Craftsman RP's over the weekend, I would replace them with Carlyles in a heartbeat. I recently went on a simple service call and just took a few tools I needed. Once there, the farmer I went to see ask me to change out a part that he had already...

I think red and blue are your variables. Black is ground. I've used mine twice this way. The variable resistor help me isolate a bad auxiliary hydraulic filter blockage pressure switch a few days ago and saved me from draining and removing a fuel tank to change out something else. Used it...

the last one I run had a water catch and a massive overhead vent-a-hood pulling out the bad stuff. You can stand there all day and run it without issue. If you dont have proper removal you will be coughing up the blackest **** in the world out of your lungs and picking/blowing nasty boogers out...

Exactly my thoughts. I get to see AG equipment from the 50's all the way up to present day. So that's SAE and Metric tools needed. My SAE wrenches go up to 2", most folks have never held a wrench that big, or maybe never seen one. Let alone having to deal with storing them in a toolbox. Its...

Got mine in today at noon. This is probably the deal of the decade if you compare it to Graingers sell price. Just the test lead adaptors alone is worth it. I am going to have to learn how to use the adjustable potentiometers to check thermostats etc, etc correctly as I'm not 100% sure how to...

I have the IR W7150. I'm on my second one. My 1st one got run through a combine and spit out the back. Having the option to start over with any gun out there, I chose to get another IR like I had. To me it feels better in my hand than others and that was the main reason I bought it in the first...

Ordered a set this morning on break. Showed 2 coworkers and one of them bought one while standing there by me. 2nd guy said he was going to after work. I have needed a set like this for months if not a year. As for the how's and why's of having this set. It helps to plug into a connection in...

Another vote on a good test lead set and then continue to add to it. A good 250 lumen or brighter flashlight, a headlamp, and magnetic LED light. A good camera to keep in your box. Fuel/hose crimp pliers. Some of the tanks you will be dealing with will have upwards of 300 gal of fluid in...

I have the M12 3/8" ratchet and love it. I bought about 1 1/2 years ago. One month ago I stripped something in the head of it pretty bad. Took it to a Milwaukee dealer and they sent it off for warranty repair. Dropped it off on a Thursday and it was back from the factory and in my box the next...

The shocks where one of the hardest things to figure out. It was a lot of trial and error. I knew my "ballpark" length of where they would be fully extended and I could change the mounting tabs + or - a little bit each way (forward or rearward) so I ended up at O'Reillys looking through there...