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I use Super Soap. Doesn't dry my hands out nearly as much as anything else and it comes in 5lb tubs. Any bike shop can get the stuff (it's also sold as Phil Wood soap)

Bicycle mechanic

Ironclad cold conditions are a good compromise between dexterity and insulation

x2 for the evercraft flare crowsfeet. Great value for a set of tools I don't use every day

Blackburn makes real nice pumps. I haven't used the new park pumps that just came out but the previous gen ones were pretty crappy. My personal favorites the topeak joe blow pro. Stands up to shop use, autoswitching head, high volume, and fully rebuildable with cheap kits straight from topeak...

Their p-handle ball ends are awesome too, made by Bondhus

Park's shop quality stuff's descent. Stuff like headset presses, starnut setters, alignment gauges, truing stand, cone wrenches, spoke wrenches, cutting guides, the awesome FFS-2... but their other stuff like screwdrivers, combo wrenches, hex bits, sockets, torque wrenches (more general purpose...

also awesome for starting ******* in a double wall non eyeletted bicycle rim

super soap's some awesome stuff too

Ah hah! I knew there would be a solution out there. I'll give it a try next time I got some flaring to do.

Quite a few in Upstate NY and Vermont.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Craftsman-Impact-Swivel-Universal-Joint-Socket-Adapter-1-2-in-Drive-/170963877495?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item27ce3dbe77&vxp=mtr

Van Hoy snaplock, anybody?

My favorite gearwrench tool is a 17mm indexing ratcheting box end. Couldn't find anything to reach an inside exhaust manifold flange nut, but the indexing wrench did the trick.

If I were sears, and every time I started making tools overseas a rush of forum readers flooded my stores buying out left over US made tools, I would keep moving production overseas. Just saying.