Recent content by GypsyR

My mother is quite frankly a hoarder. Mostly books. Technically her house is clean enough and you can walk where you want, it's just way too much stuff. I've tried and tried to get her to part with a lot of it. Donating books here and there. She says she is willing but has to hand select the...

I had to replace some of my slides in my 56". I found 100 pound rated slides at Lowe's that were all but identical. I would not be surprised if they came off the same factory assembly line. Therefore I'd like to think the OEM ones would also be 100 pound rated. So my double side top drawer...

I got sick of fooling with traditional style hoses in my camper and the RV folks suggested a Zero-G hose. Folds up like a firehose rather coiling so it stows away a LOT easier. Or you can wind it up if you want. I got used to using it and now don't want a traditional plastic/rubber style hose...

I've tried more than a few over the past ten years or so, and some fairly pricy ones off tool trucks. But I keep going back to my little Saber "pocket light". The most excellent magnet is probably its best feature. Bright enough for its size for me. Only downside I've found is that the battery...

Circa 1990 Honda Preludes for sure (and some other Hondas maybe) had a little power steering pump fitted to their manual transmissions where you'd expect a speedometer gear drive to be. If you can find and swipe one at a junkyard you can simply chuck one in a drill, add two hoses of the length...

Mine's more like how not to do it, I guess. I like Hansen's but almost half mine don't fit on them. I hate being locked in to a setup. You can see blanks on the gray Hansen for like deep 3/8" 4mm (really) and deep 1/4" 5/8" (does anyone even sell those?) But happily the biggest one in the 3/8"...

Just gritted my teeth and paid $19.55 a 7/16" sheet at Home Depot. Didn't bug me as much as the 6x6's. Bought all they had last week but was two short. They restocked some and I got the remaining two today. Four bucks each higher than just last week. Terrible time to be doing a DIY lumber...

I have the 3/8" version and the first time I really needed it I believe I got my money's worth out of it. Very rounded and very tight starter bolt on a front wheel drive Nissan. BEHIND the starter and access could hardly been worse. After trying lots of things I got a rounded bolt socket, like...

As far as I know the Apollo is simply a Solus Edge in a slightly redesigned case but with the added non-intelligent diagnostics. Should you choose to subscribe to that. The Zeus IS a rebadged Verus Edge. Period. The exact same hardware, we have one of each and I had some free time with "speccy"...

I don't like pin types much, but if the impact is to be used only for the lug nuts on a single car it would make perfect sense to put the correct socket on one and leave it. No worries about trying to find it or it rolling away. I like both 3/8 ans 1/2 impacts but for the proposed situation, I...

Shop bought a Mini-Ductor II about three years ago that wouldn't really do squat like the original poster of this thread was complaining about. We tried it on lots of stuff and it would just get things hot. If you stood on it it would turn a nut or bolt blackish and smoking but that wasn't...

Well you guys, and this thread, inspired me. Sort of. An ex co-worker was looking for cash and dumping some "tools". He had this nasty old vise he said he had been keeping in the crawlspace under his house. And it looked it. Ten bucks, what the heck, never rebuilt a vise before. Because I ****...

For my latest addition I bought the M18 jobsite fan. Basically because it was on sale and I had an extra battery I rarely used. Nice. Been using it on the workbench for about a month. It works OK. Price seemed a bit high for just a little fan. Had to go out in the sun and work under the dash of...

Well....not too good. I've got two. Seemed OK in my soldering iron and Dremel thing. Popped one into my shiny new (cute!) little sawzall to lop off a couple of little pieces of pallet sticking out. Started sawing and choked. Flashed the battery light. Tried again and the same thing, any pressure...

Interesting. I'd mix them without a thought. I like mineral spirits best but it tends to evaporate away. So after some experimentation for the last few years I've been using 50/50 mineral spirits and kerosene. Which works OK. Not great, but OK. One criteria I use is that if you leave something...