Recent content by Peoria Man

My 10mm deep offset gets a lot of use on brake bleeders and various other locations where for some reason they fit better than anything else. Also, for the aforementioned strut nuts. And my lawnmower spark plug, but I think I only use the deep offset for it because its handy. By the way, if...

Do you own a lawnmower? Or a snowblower? You'll need those sockets if you ever work on them.

Not very long before; although most likely there was a long transition period when stores carried a mix (like how many Sears stores had both US and Chinese stuff on the same rack until eventually the US stuff was all gone).

The bottle is a nice color though. Or is that wrong too?

Sometimes the tools aren't even deep down hiding in some dark crevice. Co-worker got his SUV back from the shop last summer, and a few days later me and him were standing in the parking lot talking. I couldn't help but notice, why is his hood suddenly slightly mis-aligned? It was as if one of...

That's part of their problem. Sears was constantly trying to re-invent itself, apparently hoping to catch lightning in a bottle. How many different prototype stores did they have in operation at any one time? They had Sears Grand, Sears Home Store, Sears Essentials... the "Softer Side of...

Worse is when you're vacuuming the floor and the hair gets wound up between the drive pulley and the belt. It'll bind up and stink like burned hair and burned rubber. Doesn't take more than just a few 30" hairs to create a problem; the stuff is tougher than cable once its wound around multiple...

Perhaps if you find you need some other random socket or wrench size you don't already have, just buy them as singles at Walmart or Farm & Fleet? That's gotta be cheaper than buying sets just to fill in the missing gaps, some of which you may or may not ever need. I don't have, for example...

Stepping out of the tool department, I've gotten some nice shoes and a jacket at my local Sears recently; no more of that now since it too has closed.

That's probably what I have too. Toro CCR-1000 if my memory is correct; it'll be 21 years old in a couple months. It works great for almost all snowfalls but once in a great while we'll get a certain kind of snowfall that bogs it down. Not deep, but wet.... It might be just two inches of...

5.5mm is useful for certain (some? many?) GM ignition modules. These would be the ones that reside inside the distributor cap; I can't remember now, but the DIS ones might be 7mm.

Muffler bearing nuts can be a real pickle too sometimes (that's why I recommend a pickle fork on them).

Obviously what is being overlooked here is: "Righty tighty, lefty loosey".

Just like how the scrapper monetizes his truckload of scrap metal he collects every week, but on a much larger scale.

I agree completely. It was a good price two weeks ago, right? Otherwise you wouldn't have bought it.