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Saltus is a vice grip brand I haven’t seen in a long time, sure there’s a pair or two kicking around here. What is the intent behind the vice grip holder? As an alternative to a small vice?

Gripedge Torx extractor. Or cut a slot in it and use a impact

In absence of other factors, picking your favourite color is a valid strategy for choosing your power tool brand.

About half of my Makita kit is a decade or so old. Had one impact fail, probably because it got left out in the rain for a couple of days. Smoked a brushless motor on an SDS with a 4” core bit, but the electronics still worked fine after a motor swap.

Working on a lot of larger German sedans (a6/5 series etc), the larger sizes are necessary for suspension fasteners. I think the 21, 22, 24 get the most use, although I’m sure 23 comes out to play occasionally. This may have changed on the newer sedans, I haven’t yet seen anything past 2018 in...

Ahh cobra, I was thinking Jaguar! There are socket/torque wrench adaptors for knock off spinners: https://knockoffspinnertool.com/ Think you might have found the issue 😂

Give it a tap with a copper mallet

Found this Unior 1901 1/2” ratchet today. Seems like a solid tool, strong and the ratchet works nicely, although it’s low tooth count. Any ideas on age?

Constantly impressed with the attention to detail on your work and how you share Oli. Is it normal to do work like this yourself in Germany, or do most people hire it out like in the UK? But confused why you drive a Kangoo in Germany? Surely the German manufacturers are much nicer! (Although...

Is ‘very small farm road’ a direct translation? In UK English it would probably be a ‘farm track’, or just a ‘track’. Dunno about American English. Impressive work with all of your projects, I’m amazed you dug out that much by hand. Anything more than about 10 spades worth of soil and I’ll get...

Are the tools ok? (Hope you recover quickly

I’m very interested to try this, I recently used a new 261 with the skinny chain and was impressed how quick it cut compared to mine. My only complaint is that there is now a ms300 and a msa300, which might get confusing. Or maybe the idea is that they are equivalent? At some point I’ll get...

Anything in fractional sizes.

Is undoing these and doing them back up weekly in the equipment/anchor spec? If it’s literally ‘check they are tight’ I’d get a breaker bar, pull on it and check there not didn’t move, then move on.

Find the worst tooth, count the passes to bring that tooth back. Mark the tooth with a sharpie. Apply the same number of passes to all the other teeth. Check/file the rakers. Chuck the bar is parallel and doesn’t have a burr. Clean the groove out in the bar. Check its oiling. Done. If I’ve...