Recent content by kiwiwrench

Try this: 3/4 = 3 divided by 4 = 0.75 0.75 x 25.4 (mm in an inch) = 19.05mm There are a few that will be close like that. Crunch the numbers for the sockets you do have and you'll soon know.

Nice work guys! I was at a stag do in the weekend and one of the guys had made his out of a bolt from the landing gear of a C-47 Dakota. Jealous!! I wish I'd thought of that as I'm a helicopter licensed A&P myself. Might have to lose my ring again!

We have stainless and wooden work surfaces at my workshop. Stainless looks good new, bad with one or two scratches, and fine again with enough scratches to give it character. Same with wood I'd say. Now to the important stuff... Stainless is very hard and easy to keep clean if you're working...

Snap on for SAE, Stahlwille for metric hand tools, Desoutter for windy tools, Mitutoyo for measuring. That's for about 90% of our tools. The Snap-on/Stahlwille thing isn't for any profound reason, other than personal taste. My boss ordered all the metric sizes and I order the SAE. I have a...

I work in aviation; our SO catalogues have made-to-order foam inserts. We use foam for tool control.

This is Pilo (pronounced Peeeee-low). Christmas before last he bit my (running) chainsaw and spent the day in surgery. Respects the chainsaw now but like all Border Collies he's fascinated with dangerous spinning things. Loves to come out on the back of the truck collecting firewood or down to...

It interests me to know how people are willing to treat their workshop tools. Do you buy shiny tools and clean them down after every use? Or buy cheap tools and give 'em death? Personally I'm pretty gentle on the things- I'll always break torque with a breaker bar before switching to a ratchet...

William, another Wanganui local with the same problem here. I've seen that NZ post has a service on their homepage where they set up a "virtual" US postal address for you and forward anything on. I've wondered about setting that up and buying something from snapon.com to see how it goes.