Recent content by Roert42

I wasn't happy with the throw on the ratcheting mechanism of the tekons I have, that may be why I overlooked them. I have some of the old 6 pt double ratcheting box ends, and I'm not a huge fan. Although the ones I have are MI PRC not Tiawan, so maybe the new ones are a bit better. I did...

Seems like you can't find a similar pattern wrench in 12pt at all.

I’ve used the clear ZEP bottles for WD-40, transmission fluid, and PB Blaster. I’ll also will reuse old windex bottles.

Sounds like an insurance company thing. My house has electric baseboard heat, so each room has it's own thermostat. When the insurance company asked why kind of heat, just said "electric".

As far as I’m aware China still touts itself as a communist country. This should classify it as a “Second world” country. Regardless of the quality of its saw blades. The blue HF blade has more anti vibration squiggly lines then the Diablo. Probably not comparing apples to apples. This could...

Fill up tires, blow dust/ sawdust, blow grease/ dirt off an old transmission before working on it, blow water off an old engine I just pressure washed, sand blasting cabinet, air hammer, needle scaler, painting, 3” cut off wheel, air ratchet, plasma cutter, air nailers of various sizes, palm...

if it’s going to take you an additional trip to move the lift, leave it for the next owner. If you need to spend two weekends dismantling it, two weekends installing it, and you need to make an extra trip to bring it to the new house, not worth it. If it only takes half a day to take down...

I would either ignore the crawl space or concrete it in. There are a lot of houses with dirt basements around here, but I wouldn’t use it to store anything valuable unless it was concreted.

Just waiting for your grandpa to kick the bucket to buy his ‘72 Mach1 for $6k. Don’t worry I’ll even come pick it up to save you the delivery fees.

For automotive use, I find that standard length combination wrenches are the most useful. Most of the work is done with ratchets and sockets. Then you get miscellaneous ratcheting wrenches, or long/short/angled wrenches for specific tasks. For industrial use, I find most of the work is done...

They are pretty popular in my industry. We work on machinery that is primarily stainless steel so most of the time once the bolt is loose it spins off easily. I don't need deep + shallow sockets with a variety of extensions and a ratchet. Just to use the extension like a nut driver after I...

Anything Swiss army tool / does a bunch of things poorly type tool. Vice grips are crappy clamps and terrible pliers. Second to that category of tools are torx drivers. Sockets, L wrenches, screwdrivers. They all s*ck. They have to be perfectly square to the fasteners to work at all, and...

I agree. You can also get them with various sanding grits and scotchbrite grits. So you can quickly step down from a heavy grit to a polishing disk as needed.

Spring loaded butterfly nut.

Harbor freight sells a set of adjustable height feet for their Icon cabinets. They have multiple slotted hole patterns on them already. Unfortunately they do not list dimensions on their website, but you might be able to look at them in a store before buying them...