Recent content by platypus20

I switched from Milton V fittings to Amflo fittings, every female Milton V leaked after about 3-6 months, with constant coupling, to me they were/are junk

My cousins think upstate ny is just north of the Tappan Zee Bridge Growing up we had camps in Big Moose, Long Lake and Blue Mountain Lake. I grew up about 50 miles of Northeast of Syracuse, 9 miles north of Oneida Lake

I have one of the Chief brand angle air die grinders, from Harbor Freight, $30, works great

At work if I crimped an insulated terminal, using any of the tools shown in this thread, I’d be fired instantly.

I rarely use chrome sockets, I use impacts for almost everything.

I have a couple of the Grey Pneumatic 1/4” impact sets, 4-15 mm shallow and deep and 3/16” -9/16” shallow and deep. I use them quite a bit, I have a Jet and a NAPA 1/4” pneumatic impacts.

I have Allens, Armstrongs, Williams, Protos, Macs and few others. Most are from the 40s and 50s, the Macs are 80s vintage and the Allens are roughly 2017.

I bought one from Harbor Freight, about 5 yrs ago, to use in a job in a sewage treatment, planning on leaving it there at jobs end. It work remarkably well, so well I bought one for home, the one at home has done 3000-4000 holes, with absolutely no issue.

Numerous saws, grinder, shears, plasma cutters, lathes andmilling machines.

It may be labeled wrong, but the set is very good

I have 4 Hypertherms, a PM30XP, a PM45XP, a PM65 and a PM85, one in the truck, one in the shop and usually the other 2 are on job sites. I had one with a build in compressor, worked fine on duct work sheet metal and car bodies, other than that it’s was severely limited. I’ve had at least one of...

My 80 gallon HD sourced Campbell-Hausfeld compressor manual states that Mobil 1, 10W30 is the specified oil, for medium to heavy usage,

After multiple Milton V type fittings that leaked like a sieve, I went to the T style fittings, no more leaks and the flow is very similar.

About 25 of them, multiple cutting and tapping fluids/oils, various penetrants, way oil, various grades of spindle oils and a few others.

I hope your luck with Lehigh Valley was better than mine, everything I got from them, was ****, made the Harbor Freight offerings look like super premium abrasives.