Recent content by sparky5982

#100000113 A big thank you to Jori and crew at Epstein's for their fantastic customer service. Hey Jori, How about a pic of you and the crew in front of the first pile of boxes to go out? Don't kill yourself trying to get mine filled. I can wait a bit.

From NEC Table 430.248 2005 ed. : 3 HP single phase motor - approx. 17 amps FLA 5 HP single phase motor - approx. 28 amps FLA The 3 HP FLA of 17 amps x 125% = 21.25. Next largest breaker is a 25 amp. Recommend you buy a smaller motor than any you listed, or upgrade the circuit to at least...

I don't post here often. After reading through this thread, I remember why. I own a lot of Wright, including their round head ratchets, which are my favorite. I WILL take a closer look at SK tools in the future. I like the things they're doing. Thanks SK Eric for chiming in.

Give it a try, why not? (Except it costs $35 for 50g) We use some incredibly expensive (like $300 a tube) Kluber brand grease for a particular machine screw at work. Any other type of grease and the movement will go out of tolerance. I want to say it is a beryllium soap grease. Anyway, what...

The downward curve on that makes me wonder if it's not for limbing a fallen tree.

I imagine it varies, but the stuff we use at work is regular mineral oil base. Says so on the can.

You could always buy any cheap wood top bench and top it with steel plate if you need to pound on it. If you're going to do that though, it would probably take the same time investment on your part to build one from scratch to suit your needs.

My #1 pet peeve is a **** sale advertized as a "barn sale." Where I'm at, people know they can boost traffic by including the magical word "barn" on the sign. I went to three different "Huge Barn Sales OMG" last weekend and every one of them was a shed full of ****** dishes, children's...

I had the IR118MAX for a short period, and well, it was junk. IR really dropped the ball on these, IMHO. I see in earlier posts that some others had luck with them. Not me. Now I have the snap on, one of the very few snap on tools I own. No comparison. Really. In the future, I won't...

Talk about pound-foolish.

I had the IR118MAX - and it worked great, for a while. The thing worked less than 4 months of occasional use. It started "stalling" the anvil after a month or two, then it got worse and worse. Very disappointed in IR about that air hammer. Plastic internals, glued together. I bought a Snap...

Is it a lug wrench? What is the drive size?

I use Vactra way oil on my fine tooth ratchets. It is relatively thin, but has tackifier, so it doesn't weep too badly and adheres to the moving parts. Perhaps most machine tool and way oils would be good. I tried the super lube grease, but found it to be too thick - it caused my Wright...

This is exactly why I'm so confused. My experience with it is that it is totally and in all ways lousy. Yet, others simply love it and it works great for them. I would never recommend it though. I don't know what a free body diagram is. I never claimed to any rigorous scientific testing...

I have one of these. I've said it here before, but I'll say it again. In spite of the fact that so many here love the thing, I know it's a piece of sh*t. It flexes like a wet noodle and the head twists and spreads, robbing all of your torque. I've tried using it about 2 dozen times, and...