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I ran across the following today while searching for info on what turned out to be a discontinued Snap-on product: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg00871.html http://www.onetrade.biz/ot/review.asp?funcb=220885...

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I swear the eBayer who shipped me my SN24B is a ****** genius. :bowdown: Whereas another eBay purchase I received about the same time arrived with a SN18A having poked a hole out of a box corner through which it could quite readily have escaped, the application of tape to the corners of the...

I only find Trusty Cook pages on archive.org any more: http://web.archive.org/web/20070517015124/http://www.trustycook.com/about.htm http://web.archive.org/web/20070518233448/www.trustycook.com/about_location.htm...

Snap-on TMR739 which (a) has 39 teeth and (b) just sold on eBay for $50.50: ----------------------------------- ----------------------------------- Snap-on TMR860 which (a) has 60 teeth and (b) sells brand new for $38.50...

Rickster in another thread recommended that the eBayer who sold me a set of sloppily-packed wrenches should have used zip ties, and a search of this site shows Rickster getting high marks from a small army of GJ members for zip-tying various tools he has sold in the classifieds. So in...

Any advice as to others might address the eBay purchase described here* would be appreciated. (*) Original listing: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=220376475535 (*) Original listing facsimile: These are my issues with the purchase: * Item was poorly packaged: all the...

Friends, I once heard from "a wise member of a distinguished tool blog" that 4-way angle head open wrenches were very good to obtain after one obtains a basic wrench set. So what would be the relative advantages and disadvantages of the 4-way angle head open end wrenches (a) with the standard...

And yes, I am using the term Vice Grips in the generic sense. You see, IRWIN, a while back, after I here read of how you hung Petersen Manufacturing out to dry, and I then went and shopped around town until I found some real live, made in America of American components Vice Grips, I finally did...

While researching Snap-on's Flank Drive Plus wrenches I found an interesting read at: https://www.expeditionexchange.com/knipex/indexmain.shtml Here are some excerpts of note: "Tip spread is inherent to any open-ended wrench design, whether fixed or adjustable. The tips on an open-ended...

Down at the southside pawn shop I recently discovered Snap-on SN18B 18" breaker bars*, and, being very much impressed with the heft and apparent integrity of the tool, I decided to read up on the subject. (*) Which was the same bar that 64merc sold here last month, and for a far sweeter price...

As they say in the U.K., "And now for something completely different." This is NOT Ronco, folks, this is Stahlwille*; I repeat, this is NOT Ronco... (*) http://www.stahlwille.de/pdf/broschueren/englisch/fast_ratchet.pdf - Found it on...

"This decades-old and proven design is coming to an end, as federal law requires that all portable fuel containers manufactured after 2008 must have childproof lids. "* (*) https://www.expeditionexchange.com/wedco/indexmain.shtml - Friends, I just today discovered the rich history behind the...

I saw an otherwise gorgeous older, sleeker Super Sawzall at a pawn shop today that had one odd detail, and I could not figure out if the reason for the "reamed out" appeanance of the foot was perhaps something gone awry with the reciprocating action, or an owner made modification of unknown reason.