Recent content by milkovich

I believe TTI has an even higher proportion of their business going through HD, but at least they treat their other distributors well. I think it's more like a Mexican standoff between TTI and HD, each needs the other whereas SBD and HD is more like an abusive relationship. Interestingly...

DeWalt is just a house brand for HD at this point. SBD painted themselves into a corner chasing this quarters numbers over and over while screwing all their other distributors to push more through HD. It's so bad, someone with the buying power of Menard's doesn't even bother with Dewalt even...

My first instinct is to overbuild by bolting a 1" steel plate on the platen. I'm sure an engineer will tell me why that's wrong and I'm an idiot but I suspect it would live a long and happy life cutting keyways.

I dug this famco WR up at an auction but I didn't look closely enough at it. My concern is that I really wanted an arbor press for broaching keyways but the WR is basically a platen version of the #3. Do I cut a hole in this one (which cost me very little money) to let the broach go through or...

Thank you! Any chance you also have a parts and part number diagram?

Emmert K1 back online. I lucked out on a few deals on spare parts like the front collar and ever missing tilt bracket. It was a bit more intense than a spray bomb, I had to sand blast the parts, and try my hand at nickel welding for the first time, the machined parts are bare steel with...

Here's the "mk1" version I whipped up out of recycled plywood, I lucked out on this one, tall enough for all my block planes, and deep enough for all my brace bits. If It had a triangle top box (like a montezuma or dutch style) for chisels it'd be perfect for woodworking tools.

I did the 45 degree bevel and used a burnisher to get the bur up. Per the instructions, it doesn't take much of a burr to work, it also shouldn't be shaving sharp? I really haven't had much call to use it although my dad gave me a stack of plain sawn (what we call slab sawn) cherry and that...

I have not yet. I'm still figuring out scraper planes. I can roll the edge and get it to cut, but It's tearing out ever so slightly, especially on softwoods like cedar. On oak, it seems to work fine, but I haven't tried it on any reversing grain or tough spots.

It doesn't look like there are a lot of threads on here devoted exclusively to miter boxes and I've only ever seen a handful of weirdos (like myself) who collect (hoard) them. The saws themselves seem to be worth more money than the frames, but I notice on eBay that the spare parts for these are...

Leaving Nascar and bullying customers over a $3 socket doesn't seem like good business but they're still going while Sears and Sears Hardware are a memory so "the way it ought to be" clearly isn't profitable.

The price of VIM mag rails is kind of overkill for a home gamer, but even if it's 1 double rail for deep and short 8mm-24mm sockets, it's a huge reduction of "therbligs" for a "messy worker" like me. The other innovation that maybe is less than 10 years old is the EVA foam inserts. I'm never...

Hah that’s my line too, I had to talk him down from the $20 retail antique store price. The day wasn’t quite done, I hit up a garage sale and found a ton of starret dividers, calipers, Swiss rifflers, an old Stanley v logo 5c, and an ECE toothing plane. The cool thing is these tools belonged to...

Slow day at the flea market. Was doing good till I found the moulding planes at $15 a pop, but they are minty. About $50 for the whole pile so not quite a “you ****” but a lot better than eBay for little stuff like brace bits and good saw files.

I'm worried about what air hammer they benchmarked. There are some really sucky normal ones (high bpm). The long barrel ones from SO, CP, or Sunex are hitters. It's one of those tools where your day is going to **** when you run out of oomph.