Recent content by jbird

I'm an auto body tech. I've used a true 9mm on several different occasions, but they were few and far between, and I can't remember what they were on. It seems like it may have been bumper cover or headlight bolts or something.

I have, mostly for welding very thin sheet steel. The controls are extremely delicate, but for gas welding thin stuff, or anywhere you need very precise heat, they work very well. I think it's more about practice with the henrob design than anything. Don't expect to just get it and everything be...

I went down to the local Sears here. There was a couple picking up the very last drill press, which they had purchased online earlier in the day. The manager told me he could order me one at that price three different times, then not even two minutes later he declined and said he couldn't do it...

TIG welding does have some advantages, but MIG definitely has it's place. Don't even think about tig welding body panels on late model cars without worrying about frying the pcm. MIG is good for when you have to weld a lot of stuff. It'd be a whole lot faster to MIG most stuff than tig it, and...

I've never seen any snappy's like that either. They aren't in the new catalog #800, and a lookup of the part number on snap-on's website didn't show any results. They look like Snap-On packaging and everything, but I sure haven't seen any like them. I did a google of the part number, most of all...