Recent content by Southernsorrow

still happy with it, I de-greased it to make sure it was all spotless before adding lube but it literally had 1 drop of red oil on the bottom of the main drive cog. I've bought dry ratchets before but damn

I always check em too :lol_hitti It just pisses me off they can't put a lil oil in what they charge a fortune for "if bought off the truck" I still buy matco stuff I have a full set of matco knurled 1/2 extensions and a bunch of matco sockets. Even when fully oiled it's still noisier than...

I have Snap-on Shl80a and my backup 1/2 Craftsman that was 30 years old broke so I shopped around for a upgraded backup. I snagged a brand new matco CFR158t for $48 shipped off the flEabay... The ratchet was noisy as hell when I tested it out and just as I suspected bonnnne dry... maybe 1 drop...

it's leaking air around where the compression fitting/nut bolts the hard line "aluminum hose" from the compressor to the check valve on the tank. I Tried dope, thread tape "the good tape not the cheap 99 cent white garbage" and still leaking there. I don't see any cracks in the hard line so...

was kinda figuring it to be the check valve, the whole point of that valve is to keep air from coming back out once it's put in... I'll grab a valve and a nut and save buying the hardline unless I need it. Check valve part# is A19718 , the Compression fitting is SSP-473

I have a craftsman compressor. had it for years no problems. I noticed a little over a week ago that it was leaking around the aluminum hardline at the tube seal that goes into the head/manifold. so Okay $2 part changed that out along with valve plate + new upper head gasket and lower valve...

I chucked my new mac in the vice "the head, not the square drive", put about 20 inches of pipe on it and hung from it and it flexed a little but damn I was yanking on it pretty good. It maybe deflected an inch but it snaps right back to perfectly straight once you stop bouncing on it. I highly...

A 1000lb....**** I dont think I even went past 400ish with mine.... Dont own anything that would take that much torque around my yard. The only reason I first went to 1/2 myself was 3/8 was just too damn small everytime needed to fix somthing around here I had to use a 3/8 to 1/2 adapter to...

yeah it's way better than the craftsman I had that's laying in the field somewhere, well the bottom half at least. I think the top half made it over the fence into the neighbors yard :(. Snapped in half, not at the square drive. Now you guys have me looking at and wanting a 24" flex head...

This thing measures out to a 21/32 thick, snap-on lists there as 11/16 thick. I HIGHLY doubt I'll ever break this thing. I simply don't do heavy enough stuff with it. Compared to the rectangular shanked craftsman that snapped on me this Mac is a Lot thicker. To answer a previous post: The...

didn't open the bar yet, still in the bag they might be po'd enough to want it back now :-x.. proof of life cellphone pic:

Well ****...I was set on Snap-On. But I guess I'm going MAC... The one I got off Ebay for $44 new/sealed+ ship just showed up..:headscrat. I guess they were NOT bs'ing' me about it not being in stock.... the UPS label says it was mailed 2 days BEFORE I paypaled them... Now I have to contact...

sorry for slow replies, our power is out "along with internet" for 3 cities wide so I'm running off a generator and hitting the forum on my phone which for some reason is only getting super slow 3g instead of lte.

I got my shl80a for my birthday last year :) .. I actually use it most of the time but some times it's better to just pull out a breaker if I know something is going to be a pita to break loose.

I was actually looking at sk earlier... only thing I didn't like was there is no screw to add tension if the head/drive gets loose. Probably stronger with pin but my old bars with pins are a pita now with loose heads. Not too bad though at $75-80~