Recent content by Highland

That's obscene! I like it!

Boy, the wheels fell off this thread! 'Course, I haven't bought anything orange in the last year either!

When disassembling a SO ratcheting screwdriver, do yourself a favor and clamp the screwdriver in a soft jawed vice, blade pointing up with the snap ring gap facing them. Makes re-assembly a lot easier than chasing it around the bench or requiring three hands. FWIW

If I ever feel like pulling a dozen 8 foot chunks of sucker rod out of the ground with a HighLift, I hope I go lie down down somewhere until the feeling passes!

I used a carbonator pump when I built mine about twenty-five years ago and it's still working fine. A friend uses a water tap for a swamp box cooler and turns the water on when he is ready to weld. On the output side a hose goes outside and waters his yard!

Twist the 3" Roloc into a 2" pad and trim around the pad. I use some old, old tin snips I don't care about.

ICT didn't have an adapter?

Snap on. Every Mac tool I've bought has left me with a "could of got a Snap On for that price" taste in my mouth.

As popular as those trucks were and as common as it was for rust to form there, I'm surprised that someone isn't making patch panels for the center of the firewall. A quick search didn't find anything though. Around here, those pickups are commonly made into pick-up bed trailers so every junk...

What? Nobody bought any orange Snap On stuff? Unbelebable!

5-10 years ago, when the local parts house went from Advance to NAPA they simply re-boxed the rebuilt water pumps, starters, alternators, etc from AAP to NAPA boxes. I avoided their parts for several months, not because of quality, but I knew the two knotheads that did the re-boxing and didn't...

I'm well past the point of buying used tools just to fill a toolbox drawer. I buy new or like new tools and if they have some illegible scrawl carved into them, I'll just pass. A better example will be along soon.

If you do any metal fabrication, I predict it will become one of your most used tools. I think I have three angle die grinders, two straight and a extra long. They live in a drawer with a squeeze bottle of ATF and every time they come out of the drawer they get a couple drops. The oldest is...

Plumb bob down from the wall girt. Get "base angle" from your metal building supply, drive anchor it to the slab. Self drilling, wafer head sheetmetal screws to attach plywood to base angle and wall girts.

For decades it was a Snap On round/flex head (FHNF100?) with a chrome handle. Eventually, it needed a kit put in it and when I went on the truck the driver just handed me a new ratchet! The replacement was never quite as smooth as the original. A few years ago I bought a orange hard handle...