Recent content by spinellib

Amazon Prime Members only, I think. Good price for a cheap china fire starter, I mean jump starter.

Sure, why not. The only limitations are: 1. the "thicker walls" But today, impact sockets are rather thin-walled. 2. the "Flex" you supposedly get with the softer impact socket metal, which could hinder precision torque settings when using a torque wrench. But what do I know? I buy 40 year old...

Well, to be clear, the only thing you charge with the wall adapter is the internal lithium battery. It's a small 2200mah 8.4V battery, so it doesn't take long to charge. I charged up the caps and tried out the jumper, the caps have held the remaining charge, like 60%, for several days and are...

Well, these JNC units have very few reviews online and on Youtube, including some negative feedback. My "review" is this: It's not a piece of cheap junk. It has that JNC "quality" look & feel to it. The instructions in the manual are poor and leave many questions unanswered. Since this is a...

I bought a couple of these. The price seemed low enough to experiment with. It's kinda neat -- the big capacitors soak up juice like a sponge from multitude of sources. The Ryobi unit is probably superior, but this is, at this moment, a lot cheaper. It's little brother with lower capacity...

Incidentally, re: "funding schools" When you live in a sh*thole state like Massachusetts that thinks it's great to spend $257M on a new high school...[REDACTED]

Maybe this is why people add "Serious Inquiries Only" to their ads. To keep tire-kickers and busybodies from wasting their time.

One more piece to your puzzle: Our cars' alternators produce AC voltage and then it's "rectified" to DC.

Are Yard Sales getting this bad, too? I haven't been to a yard/garage sale in decades. But I do visit Craigslist a lot, which is 50% of spam from used car lots, appliance stores, scammers, etc. The prices people ask for their old & used junk are comical -- 80% of original retail. Sure, bro...

I added an o-ring, actually. I'd rather have used a flat silicone washer, but didn't have the right size. I also used a little teflon tape. Same as this guy:"" title="

Just a few M18 tools, here. No complaints nor issues. However... I just bought a "broken" M18 backpack sprayer (Spoiler: They all leak from new) off ebay and "fixed" it...I think. The price was right and I have plenty of M18 batteries that need tools. My gamble paid off. It's a great sprayer...

The *real* hidden Value in a Power Probe is the Education it forces upon the user. When you learn how (and why) to use a Power Probe, you're gaining an education in Circuitry. And, yes, I do believe the Power Probe is worth the price. I bought the PP4 instead of the III because the 4 can do...

I chose the "Tooldom" unit. Seems good. I haven't used it yet for CAN, but I did use it once to monitor voltage while my alternator was acting up. You guys probably know more about the Tooldom brand than me, but their BOB looked identical to the Power Probe BOB at half the price. The ebay item...

Techstream is best (and also phased out for cars 2024 and newer). I don't know first-hand because I don't own one, but a very good Techstream alternative for Toyota/Lexus is Launch's Creader Elite 2 unit that is specifically for Toyota. From the reviews I watched, it seems to match Techstream's...

I agree with the guys above -- I like the old Snap-On scanners. For me, Snap-On is easy to navigate because that's what I'm used to. These chinese scanners seem to be quite capable...and cheap, but I don't like the "Android" layout and their menus are, to me, weird. But some of these, like the...