Recent content by VT Tool Man

Garage cabinets for camera storage? You don't say. I bought one of the Craftsman (Professional?) welded cabinets for the basement shop about 10 years ago. It has dark gray speckled doors with black cases. It was a fabulous product, particularly when compared to the Craftsman red, Husky and...

On a trip to Japan last year with the family, we visited various hobby shops and tool stores. Among other things, I stocked up on various Olfa knives and blades. I also did the same with NT Cutter and Wave Corporation blades, knives, circle cutters, etc. Such precisely sharp tools. Olfa seems...

It looks like they resurrected some of these deals, maybe found more stock. As far as shipping goes, it's free if you have Amazon Prime. https://tools.woot.com/plus/merry-knipex-and-happy-tool-year

It looks like the tools section on Woot has some actual tool deals today, as opposed to some random bidet sale. Not quite sure what makes a bidet a tool, but anyway there are some solid deals on Knipex pliers and sets, along with some other promotions rolled up into this one. Yes, that includes...

Because I am a sucker for nice tools, particularly at good prices, I have both sets, but one is in the house for some basic stuff and the other in the garage. The USA-themed set does include the same rack. They just don't show it in the picture on the Harry Epstein site. These are really great...

Late-stage Armstrong tools seem to have been assembled with less than a lot of care for quality. Over the past few years, I replaced an incomplete lifetime set of Craftsman tools with 1/4, 3/8 and 1/2-inch Armstrong sets with short and tall SAE and metric sockets....and, well, the quality of...

Home Depot is like Walmart and many other big box stores (shocker, right?) that dials in price points very precisely. With Walmart, you can travel to the next store 10 miles away, and the prices can swing wildly on non-advertised items. When I lived in New York, the stores in the Jersey zone...

Nice box. I bought the exact same one right around the same time you did. One of these days, I will share the details of mine with pics, etc. For me, the drawer configuration of essentially and open floor plan with each one was perfect for my needs and has the capacity to be reconfigured any...

Almost all of my cordless tools are Makita. If I were starting over, I might have chosen Milwaukee, but almost every 18V Makita tool I have tried has been satisfactory. I actually started with a 10.8V kit that consisted of a drill/driver and an impact driver, both with a 1/4-inch shank. The...

Thanks, Smoke. Me, too.

I had a pretty hard price point and sold some other tools I no longer needed and knew I would get a few bucks for the old toolboxes. I was trying to make it as little new cash involved as possible. The Extreme boxes do look nice. As do some of their competitors. I looked at everything from Icon...

Those Styrke boxes look nice. What's the ETA on your box? Nice to see you supporting a small business that makes a quality product--one that competes against incredibly cheap labor overseas. I am with you--an American-made box was not a requirement for me, but a Chinese-made one was a...

Like a dummy that I can be sometimes, I missed this last year. Hoping to get in on the action this year--if I can wait. So many good deals on quality American-made stuff. Hard to resist.

I ordered a set a few days ago. I have started using more impact tools and only have deep 1/2-inch impact sockets, plus a small set of short Makita sockets for use with a 1/4-inch hex shaft. I'll update with what I think of them. I am just an occasional home mechanic, so I can't justify the...

Nice cabinet, GForceJunky. I just bought a Tekton toolbox (rebadged Rousseau) and I am extremely happy with it. The drawer carrier system looks exactly the same. Pretty heavy duty stuff, particularly at that price listed.