Recent content by Outnumbered76

Don't know if this counts but I'm switching from Snap On to Milwaukee. My employer does not provide standard tools for the mechanics (I'm a heavy equipment mechanic), for years I have bought Snap On power tools. They have been of great quality and reasonably (but on the high end) priced for...

or the 8mm. Just got a new set of extra deep 1/4 drive metric sockets, 10mm was missing from the sealed box. Why are there not 10mm sockets lining the roads, where do they all go?

I use to work on transit busses, and trust me. You would want to get on any bus those drivers owned.

Hummmm, all my current tool trucks sell cheaper than the website or monthly fliers, sometimes it a few pennies and sometimes its 10 to 20%. The key here is to pay them on time and when they come around I hand them cash, and if I'm out in the field or on a road call I have them charge my debit...

When you work in a shop that works multiple shifts over 24 hours, over 30 mechanics on the floor at one time per shift and in a building the size of football stadium, how the hell do you know when the tool guy is there. And we have had some lazy ones over the years, and then they complain the...

I learned years ago to heat, heat and heat. Then gas weld, slowly blending the cast filler with the base material. Then heat, heat and heat. Wrap in asbestos (today we use rockwool or ceramic) blankets and then bury in big sand box. Let cool until you can touch it with your bare hand. But I...

I work in a large government fleet, mostly heavy equipment but in general everything from chainsaws to buses, weed eaters to graders. We have multiple shops running multiple shift and we pull new techs mostly from the automotive side. It's strange to have a young guy come in new that only has...

I heard this growing up about more than tools and not just for work tools. I was suppose to have 1 of everything I had at work, at home and the tools to do work around the house. I wouldn't dare ask my father to barrow a hammer or shovel. I was told to buy - once a month a rotation of cloths...

A co-worker covered his in stickers and named it the Money pit, had a vinyl decal made for the hutch door was a couple hundred dollars alone. Then when he got divorced and he had to sell it, he only got about half of what it was worth. No one wants someone else's stickers on there new box.

I wonder if we work together, some of them look really familiar. And he is close to work.

I work in a shop with 114 other knuckle dragging grease balls, most of the guys come in the door from stealerships without there tools marked. After a few months most have marked there tools. After buying the same needle nose vice grips 5 times, I dove into boxes. Found 1 pair that I believe...

Maryland metals in Hagerstown, great prices, easy to work with. The old guys in the shop can fab about anything and offer great advice when needed. Great place to look around at the old machines, too.

21 years as a heavy equipment / truck mechanic, still working 2 jobs. Day job is in a nice clean well equipped heavy equipment shop. I have a nice snap on box with mostly snap on tools and it is pretty sitting there shining away. I started with a mix bag of tools and boxes out of tech school...

I use Martin off set angle double open end wrenches all the time for hydraulic lines, double wrench with a box end, on and off and some times with hammer. They have held up for years. Price snap on off set angle double open wrenches from 1" to 3" some time. Martin makes some nice tools, they...