Recent content by Schurkey

OK. They say they're "10 ton". "I" will not get under a ten ton load they're supporting. Never mind ten tons EACH.

The deceptive advertising of jack-stands involves combining the rating of two stands into one "spec". So two five-ton stands = "10 ton" jack stand (pair.) But those don't even look like "5-ton" (each) stands.

NOTHING good comes from AI.

Dismissive, insulting reply intended to minimize the person with a legitimate question/problem, and the problem itself. "Your issue isn't important because you're not living in a shi_hole starving to death. But if you WERE living in a shi_hole starving to death, you wouldn't be able to...

I have a couple of those. They're cool...but they're Industrial Interchange (Milton "M") so they won't work with my Euro High-Flow (Milton V) coupler plugs. It occurs to me that they'd be good on my compression testers, though. All of mine--and most but not all of the industry--uses...

OK. That's what I figured. Tape? Yes. Has no business on straight threads, or anywhere on a vehicle. Tapered-threads only. Liquid "Teflon" (PTFE) thread sealer is used on head bolts when they go into the water jacket, along with any other bolts in through-holes--rocker arm studs that...

Is there REALLY a difference in pipe-thread tape? It's all Teflon (PTFE), there's several colors, and there's choices in the thickness of the tape. The ordinary white stuff is really thin, I've seen yellow advertised as being thicker. If there's a color-code for thickness, I don't know about...

1. Probably spins way too fast. A gear-reduction 1/2" version might be OK. 2. I've heard of more than one guy that burnt-up his cordless 3/8 drill "priming" an oil system, in part 'cause they don't know to quit as soon as you see pressure on the gauge.

I got rid of all of my name-brand speed-handles. I might still have some craptastic off-brand junk...somewhere. The single actual use I might have for them is to "prime" oil systems on freshly-rebuilt engines. A speed handle and a 5/16 socket would be dandy for Olds V8 and--maybe--Ford V8...

MSRP and "street price" can be VERY different.

Or having to maintain two properties.

That's WONDERFUL. It's exactly what I was trying to get across in my earlier post.

MATCO "makes" almost nothing in their catalog. I guess they make most of their tool boxes, but I think the less-expensive/smaller ones are also imported. Pretty-much everything else is contracted-out to someone else, generally in Asia. MATCO got their start making tool boxes for Mac Tools...

Waterloo had multiple "levels" of quality. They made everything from "homeowner" bottom-end stuff, to genuine "professional" grade. I'd pay $200 for that. I'd pay $200 for just the bottom roll-cab. I'd use it in place of a "tool cart"--a temporary job-centric box that's easy to push around...

I've cut hundreds of rotors. I can WATCH the metal of warped rotors get sliced-off by the lathe bit. As a rule, if you cut half the warpage out, you'll see that the inside and outside braking surfaces are "opposite"--where the inside braking surface is cut, the outside braking surface isn't...