Recent content by Sooosirius

Have done the same with mine or the shops 1" drive. Taking mounting bolts for telescope cylinder off of a 80 ton crane. Bolts torqued to 875ft/lbs with very little access to get any leverage on. Need to hook the crane on the bar for the bolts on the left that need to pull up and for the bolts on...

Baby steps, working on it... Working on what? They were made in the USA, now RECENTLY overseas.. if they never went overseas there'd be nothing to work on and no baby steps to be taken. Nothing to get excited about here.

My snappy guy has a 3/8" dr green on his truck right now. I asked about a 1/2" dr and he said he recalls them having them on promo a while back. Also said there's some other colours coming out soon for a promo but he wasn't able to get ahold of the all black one that I would have been interested...

Yeah we used to have problems with stuff "disappearing". A handful of people were let go or left over last few years and now things are pretty good. Shops basically all apprentices now including myself with the excepting of our foreman and one other guy. Only things that go missing end up in a...

That takes all the fun out of it :dunno:

+1 I work in a Heavy shop on mobile cranes and just about all the big stuff is provided. Some extras include: -$400/yr for tools -$200/yr for boots -$200 for Metatarsal boots as needed.. not used often so they last -Shop gets 1 "tool" per month, lately we've been replacing older equipment with...

The picture does. The handles aren't even the same, I'd return them as well. If you aren't going to get the same item shown in the picture that your a ordering from then why even bother having a picture up there.

What kind of rack are you using for your larger wrenches? Haven't seen anything around here yet that will hold mine.

I always wonder how many times these tests didn't work out in the companies favour and they kind of...

I use ORFS and Metric almost everyday working on mobile cranes. JIC not as much but our knuckle booms come from Italy and are mostly hydraulic tubes and JIC fittings.

ORFS - O-Ring Face Seal on the top and I'm assuming JIC on the bottom from the looks of the far right plug.