Recent content by jeremyillingworth

For the last year I've been slowly buying Gray wrenches and sockets, building a small collection to cover just what I need to work on my vehicles. I love their smooth chrome and the fact that they have six point wrenches, which I prefer. jeremy Sent from my GT-P5210 using Tapatalk

Which colour would you say looks the most like plain concrete? Light gray? What carrier do you ship with? jeremy Sent from my GT-P5210 using Tapatalk

I was going to use a vapor barrier. It's open concept now but I'm hoping to design some sort of door with a protrusion that will allow me to close it. Does the traction aid go in the epoxy or the top coat? Is a week a fair estimate of shipping time for you too? jeremy Sent from my XT1040...

I have a single detached garage, although my car is six inches too long, so it has no door and is really more of a carport. It's around 9 feet wide and 19 long, so under 200 square feet. The foundation needs a repair and after that's done I'm going to upgrade the interior from dirt to concrete...

I will keep my eye on eBay and see if I can snag one. The alternative is to buy the correct size wrench, cut it and have a socket welded on to it, making a torque adapter of it. Or get the next size smaller imperial crowfoot wrench and have a machinist open it up to the next size. jeremy

If you want it to last you should dig down and make a good base layer of road base that is compacted with a plate compacter. Rebar probably isn't required but I would put some in. Lay it both ways and tie the laps and joints with tie wire. The hardest thing for an inexperienced first timer if...

I would actually like a single Whitworth crowfoot wrench, so I can torque the nuts on the bottom of the barrels. So far I can't even find used or old ones. jeremy

I had never heard of Koken before but I needed a set of Whitworth sockets. I ordered a set with an order of parts for my BSA. The supplier had cheap Chinese twelve points but I wanted six point sockets and got Koken. They haven't had a ton of use yet but I'm very happy with them. jeremy

Further searching turned up a total of three eighteen inch straight wrenches, two fourteens, one straight and the offset, one twelve and one ten in aluminum. I was thinking about keeping one eighteen, the fourteen offset and the ten aluminum. I'm only getting rid of these wrenches to make room...

I'm cleaning out my basement and part of that is getting rid of duplicate tools. It turns out I have three eighteen inch pipe wrenches and two fourteens, which I would like to reduce to two wrenches total. This one has an offset head. Does it do anything special that a traditionally shaped one...

I like the idea of calibrating it against an outlet. Mine came with no such thing. I'll see if I can borrow a photo tach to compare with.

I'm just a amateur mechanic, working on my bikes and a 1966 Buick. I have a timing gun with a digital tach and an analogue tach/dwell meter, both of which were purchased together years ago. I recently had them both on the car at the same time and I noticed they have different readings for the...