Recent content by VFlorea

I have some old Nicholsons, Simonds and black Diamond, all great. looking to pick up some more Pferd files, i have a set of their mini key files and a rasp and have been very pleased with them. they are german coo and for what it's worth, i rarely trust online retailers for country of origin...

Depends on what it is, panel work with lots of space i can do it live, alot of guys in the field do it. Tight areas i do not, just in case. I used to do testing and metering equipment installs for a utility company as a tech and we'd often work live due to needing active loads to assess accuracy...

Not many deals but i was able to get the Lisle relay puller pliers at half off ($17 CAD vs $34) which i happened to need.

I was unable to find a set by Sunex, they have a 1/4" impact 12pt but it's metric.

I'm pretty sure that brand is popular in the phillipines, but don't know much more than that. It's like their Craftsman.

I got one with shell Tellus 68 way oil and another with Tapfastic cutting fluid since we have tons of it at work, I just bring some home once in a while.

I want one of these but I keep hearing so much conflicting info from both sides. Biggest complaints I hear are that the reversing switch is easily bumped and that the mechanism is fragile, though the ratchet ends shouldn't be used to break bolts in the first place.

I'd be careful with using any rust remover formulations like Evaporust. I recently cleaned some rusty Starret tap wrenches and a feeler gauge in Krud Kutter rust remover - the tap wrenches came out great, but the feeler gauge got covered in some black oxide layer and nothing i tried would get...