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I was working on a project here at the house yesterday while my wife was offering moral support. At one point while she was playing with an old pair of 10 inch straight jaw vise grips she asked me a question that I felt like I should have been able to answer, but couldn't. Just how much force...

Some one questioned me on a previous thread where I described grenading a 1" drive Proto ratchet and a 3/4" drive New Britain ratchet on some stubborn fasteners om a couple of jobs. That question was basically "why does everyone grab the ratchet rather than the pull handle for immovable bolts?"...

I cleaned a set of contact points this afternoon for a neighbor and noticed that I only had one unused FlexStone left in the pack of what was originally a dozen. Time to buy more. At least I would if the part number was still good. It appears that Snap-on doesn't have these listed on their...

I was cleaning the doodads in the 3/8" drawer last night and shot some oil into my little star shaped Mac XR1 GL "Palm ratchet" and started thinking. I've owned this thing just this side of forever, maybe thirty years, and never seen another like it. I suspect that it uses a sprag internally...