Recent content by Jigstick

On the way from Pittsburgh to Hilton Head last summer I had a brake caliper bracket bolt back out in the middle of West Virginia. Stuck on the side of the road for 8hrs with an angry wife and my three kids all under age 5. I’ve always cranked those bolts on tight. Then a little tighter if you...

So if I wanted to stick with Williams 1/2in drive 6pt deep and shallows I’d have to buy the impact sockets to stick with US made?

Does Williams make 1/2 drive metric shallow and deep chrome 6pt sockets? I’m only seeing Taiwan made for these. The 1/4in and 3/8in drive I can find Us Made. Am I searching for something that doesn’t exist?

Wicked Edge Sharpening System for me.

DeWalt chop, circular, and table saws. Bosch jigsaws. Makita drills, impact drivers, and multitools. Milwaukee sawzall.

Any problems with Krown swelling window mouldings or rubber anywhere on the car?

Why not just stick frame the whole thing? How tall do you need the walls and ragare doors? What’s the pitch of the roof going to be? Is there going to be a loft? I stick framed my 40x30 and 14x12. If you go this route I highly recommend using a heavy LvL for your ridge beam. Mine are...

Bump Being winter I figured others may be looking into rust proofing. I’m back and forth between Krown and Fluid Film. I have both available for professional application. I’m concerned about the rubber swelling that keeps popping up in my searches. Any of you guys had issues with rubber swelling?

theres no way in hell I'm getting all those sockets in both metric and SAE from SnapOn for $1500. not even close. By no means am I even considering SnapOn. Just too expensive for me. that Budget is for sockets, wrenches, impact sockets, flex head ratchet, etc. But I think I can cover my...

Is the vault room going to have a concrete ceiling? There are systems that you can install under decking to catch any rain water than comes through, and it funnels it into your downspouts. Our deck comes off the 2nd floor, and has a paver patio under it. The system allows us to sit on our...

I currently have a Craftsman kit that I bought back in 2006. It contains a mixture of 6 and 12pt shallow and deep sockets. And I have no idea why they picked which of each to include. All of my 1/2in drive deep and shallow sockets are 12pt. There is a few 3/8in drive 6pt deep...but mostly...

Oh I like that knurling. Never seen a socket like that. That’s nice.

Last year I was replacing bunks on my boat trailer. Removing some PB Blaster soaked rusted grade 8 bolts and nuts holding the brackets on. Stripped out a HF ratchet. And stripped out some HF sockets in the process.

I do need to purchase new tools. We now have a 2nd house located 150mikes away on Lake Erie. We spend a lot of time up there. And I’m constantly dragging all my tools back and forth to work on our boat, motors, boat trailers, etc My plan is to move these craftsman tools up there. And get new...

Thanks guys. I have searched. But the threads keep ending up saying “this brand is the same as that brand which is implies to this other brand but not as nice as this other brand”. And it’s just confusing. FWIW another friend of mine uses nothing but Harbor Freight sockets, ratchets, wrenches...