Recent content by Urambo Tauro

Well whaddaya know. I'd all but given up on finding two companies that agreed on a universal color-coding standard. With all the differences in wrench and socket set coloring out there, I hadn't even thought to give nut drivers a closer look. But after a little searching, it looks like you're...

No organizer here. My Craftsmans came loose in SAE and MM pouches which have to be dumped out every time I need one. I was thinking about grabbing a piece of wood or something and drilling holes to keep them in, but for now I am storing them a shallow drawer so I need something relatively flat...

Heh. Not gonna lie, when I clicked this thread, I was expecting a discussion on Leatherman-type multi tools. It's funny (and kind of irritating) that the term "multi tool" has caught on like it has in the context of oscillating tools (or, "oscillating multi-tools", if you will). "Multi tool" is...

My garage isn't attached, so I can't speak from experience on how much the residual heat from parking cars and briefly opening the house door are going to help. I'm sure the effect is minimal though, especially if the garage isn't insulated. Frankly, it's not really a question of how cold you...

Agreed. It's too much of a selling point not to advertise. If they're trying to say "USA" without explicitly advertising it as the country of origin, then they're probably trying to keep the COO on the down-low as much as they legally can.

I bought Kobalt's "Double Drive" tools when they first came out, but haven't gotten much use out of them. The ratchet has come in handy one or twice, but I've never used the screwdrivers. I guess they're kind of fun to hold in your hands and play around with, like a fidget spinner or something...

Thanks for the suggestions everyone. Looks like the trolley keeps pushing grease out, so I'm pretty sure that I did indeed overdo the application. I'm going to try and see how much grease I can get out of there without resorting to solvents/degreasers and having to start all over again...

Well, good news and bad... I degreased the drive screw and flushed it out with brake cleaner, followed by compressed air, plus another round of brake cleaner and air. Pretty pleased with how clean it turned out. I went ahead and picked up a tube of Lucas lithium grease, and applied it to the...

I'm not seeing any $10 creepers on the HF website, so it's hard to say what would be an upgrade from whatever it is you have now. I've heard good things about the Bone, but FWIW the creeper I am using now is nearly identical to HF's 63372/63424 plastic low-pro creeper. No headrest adjustment...

Oh, good call. I think my opener is too old to find literature for anymore, but I'm feeling confident that the types of lubricants that Genie offers are still correct for this old one too. Not sure why the big tube is anhydrous calcium while the micro tubes are lithium, but maybe that's an...

Hm, not sure I want a whole tub of the stuff. Think I'd rather use a squeeze tube. Not the micro ones, though. Those appear to be single-serve maintenance shots, and I suspect I'll need more than that for the first application on a clean, dry screw. Lucas offers an 8oz tube of white lithium...

I'm leaning towards lithium, but am still open to other suggestions if any of them are expected to last longer or offer more reliable winter performance. Metal. That's an interesting idea. I can't seem to find any literature for it, so I'm not sure how to go about removing the main screw...

Hey all, got an old (40 years? 50 years? can't seem to find a date on it) Genie screw drive garage door opener, and am trying to determine what sort of lubricant to use. I don't know why it was ever disconnected, but it's been in this garage since before I got here. I cleaned out the old nests...

I currently use a Blitz 11845, which has a removable cap on the spout, and a handle on the opposite end. Only thing I don't like about it is that there's no platform to rest a filter on to let it drain into the pan. I may make something out of steel wire to set inside there. The drain pan I was...

Thanks, everyone. And happy holidays