Recent content by scurvy

Simply put, it's part of the "flat" sections of the forging die and the way the hot blank adheres to it. The dies are not perfectly smooth - for industrial finish wrenches they are allowed to have a rougher surface finish than the dies for consumer wrenches. There may also be a bead blasting...

Almost all wrenches are 100% forged. I'm an engineer. I've helped design products and something shaped like a wrench would be forged all the time. It's not cost effective to cast a wrench handle then forge the ends on it - that's two operations. Wrenches start out as a round blank of material...

That finish is probably partially from the forging die and partially from bead blasting afterwards. Any decent wrench will be forged. Casting won't get you the same strength levels nor the tolerances of a forging operation.

I watched all that kid's videos yesterday and nearly wet myself. Between his car junkyard, tools & those boots... wow. :thumbup:

I bought one of these at their $39.99 sale price plus a 15% off coupon. Works great for rotating my 2006 Golf TDI's tires. At a recent TDI get-together, we set up an assembly line for doing brake flushes & tire rotations. By the end of the day we had done something like 8 cars and the HF corded...

Depending on what Owen needs compressed air for, it may or may not be OK. Like everyone else has chimed in, the pump (and its rated duty cycle) is what determines the overall SCFM of compressed air available. The tank acts only as storage so the pump doesn't have to run every time you need a...

I spent many, many days in an old industrial shop in Atlanta GA while getting my sheepskin from the North Avenue Trade School. The shop's floor was made of the kind of floor russlaferrera described - pine heart blocks soaked in creosote. It was absolutely wonderful to work on, your...