Recent content by jeep44

A lot of good people,American people, still work for GM. Why do you wish for the fall of a company which has done so much for this nation? This "socialism" **** that is on the lips of every loony that can't deal with the results of the last election is really getting beyond deranged. Do you...

I must have been about 21 when I bought my first tools-I had gotten out of college, and had bought a '65 Galaxie 500 (in '75). I went to Kmart, and got a set of 5 wrenches, and a small S-K socket set in a metal box. I still have them, and use them,too. I've since made up for my late start in...

Those British Superslim wrenches are nice-I just picked up two of them at an antique store recently,along with two Honda-marked wrenches. The Superslims were also in some British motorcycle toolkits,and they are very useful to me (I have a herd of old Britbikes). I grabbed the Hondas because...

Hmmm...Bilsteins for $700 or Monroes for $120? tough decision there...

In the plant I worked in for 30 years, The Tradesmen all had Kennedys-top and bottom. There were just a few guys with Craftsman boxes. My original 30-year old bottom box is out in my garage now-it served me both as a Diemaker and a Pipefitter. My topbox, and another kennedy bottom box,are in my...

I live on a dirt road, and that calcium chloride-saturated mud gets in everywhere under a car and rots it. I had to replace the brake lines on my wife's '95 Cadillac when one developed a leak-it ran under a "protective" shield that got packed with mud. I had to do the job in my driveway,in...

Last summer, on a trash day in my neighborhood, I hapened to notice two metal toolboxes sitting out by the curb with a bunch of other trash. I thought I might find a use for them in my barn, so i went back and grabbed them. I expected them to be empty,but they were full of tools! Wrenches...

GM is a global company. They own Opel, Holden,and Daewoo-so how is this "Rebadging"? The vehicles are still made by GM.

No, most GM vehicles are not "rebadged"-I have worked for GM for 30 years now-All of our powertrains made here in the US have been metric for many years now. Only a few of the variants of the THM400 that have been in continual production for many years are still SAE-all new designs for as long...

No theory, but when I started my Diemaking apprenticeship 30 years ago, all the machinist trades like Toolmakers,Diemakers, and Machine Repair had brown (Kennedy) boxes. The mechanics, like Millwrights, had red boxes.

That top box was my first toolbox as a Diemaker Apprentice back in 1979. My son has it now in his garage. My Kennedy bottom box, acquired at the same time, followed me around the plant for the next 30 years,and picked up a few modifications along the way-1/4" steel plates top and bottom, 6"...

You will never regret buying a Troy-Bilt. Mine is an '88 Horse. It's made like a little tank.

At the place I work,the floors are wood blocks-very rough. Everybody had the sheetmetal guys "wrap" their Kennedy boxes (never saw a SO or Craftsman) with heavy plates top and bottom,and nice custom-made cabinets on the ends. Then they went to the crib,and got rubber-wheeled 6" casters,and...

An interesting CW site. I do CW reenacting, and I have most of those very same binoculars-they are quite common on eBay.

The price has gone up on those cans-I used to see boxes of them at local gunshows, in unissued condition. I must have one somewhere around here in all my WW2 militaria.