Recent content by Tooltime7

Yes I do live in same town as Great Neck, but if GN is this site then it is news to me. For one, they are listed in Tennessee... But hey, I guess everyone loves a conspiracy theory...

Hi guys... Long time lurker here. Snap-On distributor since '05 Just came across an ad for a new supplier to wagon jobbers... www.mobiledistributorsupply.com Seem new, has anybody heard of these guys? Thoughts?

http://www.cnbc.com/id/25349920/for/cnbc/ My apologies, it was their CFO, not CEO.

Under a rock, in a cave, on Mars apparently.... What I am talking about specifically, is the price of steel, which is obviously a major component in most tools. Steel, actually, has been fairly consistent up until about November/December of 2007. The price has since more than doubled. The...

Well I guess it starts... you'd have to think so with the price of steel basically doubling worldwide in the last year or so. I saw a report today in which Lowe's CEO stated that "Price increases from their suppliers are coming in at an unprecedented rate." This is probably going to be the...

Short answer? No, they're garbage. Even for around-the-house use.

eh-hem....that should be "hears"

I've lived around the corner from the GN plant for a number of years, they've been here since at least 1974 when I moved in and had always been manufacturing. But this didn't seem right when I read it, so I asked a neighbor of mine who is a supervisor at the plant. He said that while most...