Recent content by stovebolt6

We have turkey day in Canada, it’s just in October.

Me too. I have this set, use them often, and I think they are the best overall value in wrenches today. https://www.amazon.ca/Genius-Tools-706M-Metric-Wrench/dp/B002AIX502 (cheaper yet for Americans).

Here is mine at home. I’m not a mechanic by trade but cars and mechanical junk are my hobbies. Bottom is an old MAC that was my grandfather’s back in the 70s/80s when he was a heavy duty guy. It’s beat up and has had a hard life, even though it looks pretty good in pictures. But it works...

I have the long, low profile double box end wrenches (they look identical to the Snap On set that costs an arm and a leg) and they kick ***.

Colour in the stamping with a paint marker, then let it dry. Spray a rag with brake cleaner and give it a wipe to get the excess off.

Thanks for the tip :beer:

Looks like it, though I think the ones I need have a sliiightly more curved front, though it may just be the pic. There's probably 100 different subtle variations to these handles out there.

Just wondering if anyone has a source or knows of a good place to look for old drawer pulls like you'd find on an old Proto or Waterloo box. I have an old Mac box that had its drawer pulls stolen at one point (wtf) and they were replaced with the more curved Proto style ones, but some are...

That's a pretty good endorsement

Interesting point. Makes sense. Correct me if I'm wrong but shouldn't a flare nut round off long before a flare wrench spreads though? I'm used to just cutting hardlines off. I want to try a quality flare wrench though to hopefully save some work.

Don't own them yet

I have a lead on a set of Mac flare nut wrenches for a good price. However they are a bit older so they do not have "surface drive" or whatever you want to call it (radiused corners that don't contact the fastener). Now I know the consensus here is Snap-on or bust for flare wrenches, but will...

Yep all my chrome sockets are GW. They are the real deal and are no different from Matco sockets.

I used to do my hack backyard mechanic work with a mess of hodgepodge tools that often left me in a worse spot than before I started a job. I was younger then.. still am, but over the last several years I've really come to appreciate good tools. My philosophy is that I'll already be pissed off...

Basically I'm just wondering if having wound down slightly below the scale messed it up internally or knocked it out of calibration.