Recent content by RTM

I still have my dad’s, possibly bought a little earlier. Bulldog Model 6513-09 type 1. Hauled it out for something a year ago, cord was a shambles, but it did the job. I Remember back in the day, doing something on a master cylinder on one of the cars, the Bulldog would not move it, but the...

I could see the top three recreating the profile on the front of a rain gutter, the other two not so much.

My local Ace hardware has a divided drawer of brushes, find something the next size up and grind down. Since there are two wires, maybe increased current carrying capacity, or worried one brush may fail in the engineers mind.

You will bang the life out of all your new doorways. Been there done that, fortunately we were only on rough framing.

Make it the right size, so she can beat you beat you with it, . just like. In your childhood.':eek:

Is that the lamination line for the hardened steel?

He hasn’t been on the board since 2022, don’t hold your breath.

So now you obviously gotta buy a bigger toolbox to store it.

Ability to walk into your local hardware store and get a replacement almost immediately, depending on how small town your hardware store is?

I’ve always thought of those wrenches working on these types of hoses, and treated them the same way a parochial grade school handled you when you mis-behaved, by the ears.

No concerns, I didn't take it wrong. I too have lots of tools, but I have no concerns about using an inappropriate tool, if it safe to me and the tool.

This greatly improved my journey towards success hydrant wrench "w mfg" vintage ny "2 hole" Things started looking better. Took out the word Fire Helped too. Still nothing , but less garbage.

Yup, I can agree with that. Put a miter slot bar on that, push it onto my SWAG mounted Portaband, one less fear in my life.

I didn't say it was the right tool for the job, but it seems to be what the guy in the video used. They may sell something else that looks like that tool, but I figured once he was on their site, he could poke around further. Do you always use the "right" tool for the job, or one that gets it...

Thinking outside the Machinist box, and into my photography days of yore, I had a tripod where the attaching bolt was turned down below the threads. Your screwed thru the base, then it hit the open threads, and could thread into the camera base, and tighten down. Of course, you need to have...