Recent content by Tool.Nerd

A.P. put their name on a really nice set of picks or dental tools or whatever you want to call them. I found them at Northern Tool on clearance a few weeks ago and wish I had picked up another set or two. They're quite nice!

On occasion, you will find library card catalogs that make a great small parts storage rack. My neighbor keeps one chock full of gun parts.

Reminds me of something I saw a few years ago in the Machine Design publication (generally junk and product pushing, but sometimes useful): there was an editorial in the beginning about one of the people protesting "corporate greed" because there were no jobs available. She was an art history...

You do have to have a job you can tolerate. Unless you really luck up, that's about all you can ask for. And they don't hand those out for free. You have to shovel some **** and bust your buttocks raw and lay awake at night because you're so tired you can't sleep to get there. And yes, you...

That is a SWEET chain tool! I wonder if there's a titanium and bamboo version out there to minimize weight?

Ever so slightly off-topic, but the preset torque wrenches from Bontrager are quite nice. I noticed they have a slight disadvantage: they have the allen key epoxied into the tip so you have to buy a different tool for every size faster you need to torque down... Turns out, about 5 seconds of...

I don't think he "denied" his children--I think he taught them how to survive and flourish. Getting a job you like will give you a better chance of success career-wise, too. It's much harder to motivate yourself and climb the "corporate ladder" if you hate sitting at a desk. My biggest...

My only complaint with Park Tools is that some of their tools, like the cog remover (HCW-17 I think) is just a sheet of plate steel cut into the required shape. Would be nice to have a handle or something, or some surface to exert force against the tool that is not 1/8" thick... On the other...

Gloves are a great one. Anytime I have to move something large with sharp edges, or touch any general item that I really need to get ahold of but don't want to touch, I find myself reaching for them. No matter how nice of a set I get, though, I always go back to those red Craftsman gloves that...

lasteagle, I'm glad to hear someone else suggesting warehouse racks. I bought four uprights and used two of them with crossbars to frame the benchtop-area. I got bored and wanted another area for mounting my stationary tools, and as the pallet rack uprights were set up such that the bench...

Probably a bit cliche, but my first garage project was welding up a "heavy duty" workbench in the corner out of some used pallet racking and reinforced 12-ga steel top (6 c-beams under each 36x48" segment). At first I thought it was too deep for practicality, but I've used it more than anything...

I'd have to say the coolest thing in my garage right now is the damned concrete slab...