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Outlawmws, The ratchet is a S-K 43175. 3/8 drive but the head is only 1 1/8” diameter and overall length is 10 1/8”. Strange looking with such a small head on it for a 3/8” drive and can’t seem to find much information on it online.

Been awhile posting but things are picking up with the weather. Pro sale about 3 weeks ago, Bonney metric swivel impact set, Vulcan and Williams hammers, Easco 3/8 flex head ratchet, Cornwell drivers. Sale last weekend, no luck until I was in the area so I took a flyer on the afternoon of the...

I had a PowerMite Worksop tool set by Ideal Toys, no idea why my parents trusted me with them 😯. Good thing my sister was 4 years older than me and stronger and faster at the time 😆…just kidding…. Google them…….boy times have changed as you noted.

3bay, I think you are correct that those wrenches were made for IBM. Funny this weekend I picked up small carboard box with some screwdrivers in it that looked exactly like Snap-On black smooth hard handles. No Snap-On name on them but code numbers go back to IBM. Also in the box their ended up...

Current Cleveland Cliffs Indiana Harbor West is a former YS&T facility. Worked on it when it was LTV and all the drawings I had to pull as reference where YS&T drawings.

Here you go, one of my Vulcan catalogs with the latest copyright date of 1977 stamped at the bottom of the inside cover. Only date I could find. Hope it helps (y)

Was at one sale and was bummed I forgot my flashlight so I must have bitched out load 😆, lady overheard me and said how about the light on your cellphone ?? ding ding ding, I thanked her and it was good enough light at that particular time.

Been pretty quiet so spits an dribbles around here tool wise and given the weather pretty much only pro sales except one last weekend. From some pros estate sales as of the first of the year. Max 1/4 torque wrench, Wizard 1/4 ratchet, Blackhawk dual regular/refrigeration ratchet, Snap-On line...

Wind uplift can cause that thus code requirements of either collar ties within the upper third or metal straps over top tying rafters to each other.

Waffle Slab, named such because well looks like a waffle !

Same here 👍 Quality sets more often than not are way more than cheap me is willing to spend thus spend time searching for cheap stragglers. Of course occasionally run into great deals on a set.

Pretty slow tool wise around here what with the weather and holidays upon us. Did hit a pro sale a few weeks back a couple blocks over of a gentleman that ran a local garage/towing service. Just misc straggler tools at the home. Blue Point USA metric ratcheting wrenches, Misc SAE Snap-On...

Spreadsheet is GRDSLAB.xls by Alex Tomanovich. "Fb" of is the allowable bending stress (psi) of the 6" concrete slab using a Factor of Safety of FS=2.0 "fb1" is the concrete bending stress (psi) due to the 15,555# post load. The maximum post load, middle post back row, utilizing the the...

Late to the party, that said FWIW, using a generally accepted engineering spreadsheet a quick and dirty calculation of post load versus 6" slab thickness for a post load out away from control joints/slab corners/slab edges. Allowable post load adjacent to slab edges as shown in your attached...

From this weekend. Snap-On prybar, MAC distributor wrench, couple of Snap-On driver bits, MAC pliers, Snap-On sockets, Vulcan spark plug socket. Barcalo wrench set from a private estate sale. Was pictured in the sale photo's but initially couldn't find but sniffed it out eventually, looked...