Recent content by RedneckWelder

Why don’t you enlighten us as to what tool company produces its tools in TN so I don’t have to play a guessing game

Best extractors: https://www.lincolnelectric.com/en/ https://www.millerwelds.com/

HF and Amazon are putting a dent on Snap On among the smarter techs The dumber ones are buying enough $20-30k toolboxes and $500 7 piece wrench sets however to make up it seems.

I had a project of having to install about 20 fast fill kits in construction equipment. We’d have to pump fuel out to below the level of the access holes, dumping it into our big oil drain pans. Let it sit overnight and we had clean as a whistle pans, the diesel dissolved every bit of sludge...

That’s another trick we use a lot, especially cleaning up pulling rods (similar to all-thread but meant for the stress of using hydraulic cylinders to pull or press bearings and pins)

My experience on what works and what doesn’t comes from the field. I have extracted plenty of broken bolts and chased, tapped, and salvaged more than my share of threads as a heavy equipment mechanic.

You need a torch but unless you need the portability of burgler bottles I recommend larger bottles.

Cat set is not the heavy duty gold ones. They are decent. I have both the Cat set and the Snap On gold ones. In practice my Cat set backed up the Snap On ones when I tore a gold torx up and was waiting on the tool truck to get the new one in. When I tore them both up then the air hammer came out...

Purple power or similar and a HOT water pressure wash works best. Cold water will also get it done but may take a couple of applications. A brush to agitate once the degreaser or soap is applied helps too. If whatever dealer you took it to has a wash rack, I’d ask them to use it if they don’t...

Yes the retail stock boys and clerks at random stores always have the best inside information. The big companies tell them and no one else.

No.

I’ve been gifted a standard original and a larger one, plus found a small one before. I carry none of them. I always carry a pocketknife unless going into a metal detector secured area. My issue with the multi tools and similar is they pack way too much into the tool. A 4 in one screwdriver...

This. Yeah you may not be placing your body under the car but do you get to tell the car where it’s going to fall towards if the jack fails?

Another factor is that homeowners insurance has gotten much tighter these days as well. They are looking to drop anybody and everybody over anything now.

It’s going to be a crackhead or tweaker, the police won’t care, and your insurance company is almost certainly going to try to screw you out of everything they owe you. And the crackheads aren’t the least bit afraid of dogs, guns, or video cameras. Even if crackhead is caught he’s going to be...