Recent content by jskeen

Little rain dont bother me :). But seriously, a high end tool is a high end tool, no matter who made it. I base my quality appraisal on several factors beyond just "hand feel", to include the wrench zone on the shaft, etched tip, and the fact that while it shows signs of plenty of use, the...

Anybody happen to recognize whats left of the lable on this? Its interesting in that its obvious when in hand a very high end tool, and that the handle is in fact transparent red, just so dark that under anything except direct, very bright sunlight it looks 100% black and opaque. Sory for the...

Dude, You ****! :-)

I bet they are proud of those... :)

Per my Dad, pookie was a specific type of marine sealant that was used aboard ship to waterproof electronics boxes. It was also unofficially used to reinforce tool handles and custom mold handgun grips. Whenever he ran into a screw that was beyond the range of a normal screwdriver, he would...

Those little steel hammers are usually referred to as machinist hammers (at least down here in Tejas) they are almost always shop made, because they are a good end of course project to assign a student at the end of his intro to the lathe class, are marginally useful, and the materials are easy...

Yep, ** is Case speak for carbon steel (most of the time) unless it says stainless or SS as well. Here's a handy reference for getting a rough date on it. https://www.allaboutpocketknives.com/catalog/content/case-knife-age-identification

Those coleman ovens are great if car camping, especially with a group. Way quicker to feed a bunch of hungry cub scouts hot biscuits with than a dutch oven, less setup coal management and clean up. (not to mention temp control on a stack of dutch ovens is a dark art, seldom learned, let alone...

Love that case 5.25" folding hunter design. My all time favorite for farm and ranch belt sheath carry. Little large for my pockets, but when feeding, running fence, or other other ranch days where it will be in your hand several times an hour, I've not found a better style. Is your new one...

HillRom, might be a model 820? Been a while but used to work on those. I can see the height adjust and tilt features being really handy for getting the bits you are working on at just the right height and angle. At one time I had a much older manual hydraulic surgical table that I had...

Just my opinion here, but that looks like a dedicated manufacturing tool of some sort for a specific process. The limited lateral bracing makes me think that it was probably not used to clamp one end of something very long, with the other end waving around. It would have had to be individually...

Sounds like you got this one nailed down now, but for future possibilities, and general consideration. If you want to test the wire run to a particular device, try the following. Disconnect both legs from the breaker and from the system at the other end. test voltage to ground at both ends...

This set was my Dad's backup socket set to his craftsmans that lived in the top of his roll away. I don't recall where he acquired them, although the stamp below the brand on one of the 2 deep sockets in the case may have been a clue, as he was a Vietnam era navy Vet. Never recall it having a...

Anybody recognize this little critter? No idea where it came from or who made it. Ran across it in a box of stuff in the loft of my shop, and decided it would be handy for shaping the top of bone guitar nuts because it has thinner jaws front to back than anything else in my shop except a pair...

Ok, I finally got curious enough about this little critter to take some pics and post it up to see if anybody recognized it. I've had it for years and use it all the time for fabricating guitar parts out of bone, rosewood, ebony and the like. It is one of the few tools that I can honestly say...