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I've had a DW734 planer for about three years. It's been good until yesterday. I was using it, and suddenly it started doing pulses of vibration (enough to feel through the floor) and accompanying GRONNNK GRONNNK GRONNNK sounds. It was still working, so I finished the two or three passes I...

Just curious. People tend regard screwdrivers as consumables these days, but presumably working mechanics buy better ones. How long do you get out of them?

Finally wearing out the tips on my 90s black Craftsman Industrial. They had a good run. Not sure whether to spring $42 for a set of 6 Milwaukee cushion grip, or if I should give Masterforce a try, 17-piece set for $27. I would expect the Milwaukee to be higher quality with the price...

I have a fair number of multi-bit screwdrivers scattered around. I tend to favor the flip-around variety rather than the tiny-bits-stored-in-handle kind, for three reasons: 1) the longer bits are easier to handle when switching things around, with no storage cap to drop, 2) the shaft can be...

My wife brought this home from work for me today: It's a N5008AC2 7/16" crown stapler. It has been strapped up to the display wall at Lowe's for years, never used. It has a bit of shop wear and a little rust on its nose, which will be easily dealt with; otherwise it's in new condition. This...

These 30-packs of utility blades are $1.11 at Menards, and they're doing their 11% rebate thing right now, so it comes out to 99 cents for 30 blades after rebate. Not worth sending in a rebate for 12 cents per pack, of course, but if you're buying something else too, you might as well grab...

Yesterday I was at Gemplers and they had a bunch of these Channellock "Uni-Fit" socket sets on clearance for $20: The clearance price tag covered the country of origin, but a quick google check said they were Taiwan, which is okay. So I bought one to check it out. I figured even if the...

My wife wants to know what to get me for my birthday, and an 8" bench grinder would be nice to have. Currently I am under-grindered, having only a 6" Wen that is easy to stall. So I'm looking for a reputable brand that won't break her budget, maybe top out around $200ish. Expected use is...

I got this set of drill bits with a Milwaukee M18 drill: I like the bits fine, but this index box they came in is frustrating. Not sure if bad design or operator error. But I find it nearly impossible to safely get bits in and out of it. The index grips the hex shafts very snugly, and I...

They look nice, but $35+ for 6" dikes is kinda steep. Are they worth it?

Just curious. There are a lot of variant names for this tool.

I am not completely happy with the torpedo level I currently have. It's a plastic Craftsman that I got for something like $2 at Ace during some promotion. It's very accurate, no complaints in that department, but the magnetic strip on it is so weak that it might as well not have one. It'll...

On Saturday I broke my Irwin vise: Looking for another affordable vise to replace it, I was going to go to HF for one of these for $129: But then I saw Menards had what initially looked like the same vise for $119 plus rebate: So I bought it there. But today I was at HF and looked at...

I have a dust collection system in my workshop consisting of PVC pipe to various locations, feeding into a home brew cyclone dust separator made out of 5 gallon buckets, and from there to a large shop vac. The system generally works well, except the table saw branch. The table saw drops chunks...

What do you guys think of mower deck wash attachments, wherein you just attach a hose to the deck and run the mower to wash the underside? Useful, or gimmick?

I've never really kept track of brands, but I need some 24T blades and figured some of you might have opinions.

I bought this 18" Ridgid for $5 at a barn sale. Unfortunately my "before" picture appears to have gone to the big bit bucket in the sky, but we all know what a completely rusty pipe wrench looks like. This one was covered with moderate rust except for a splash of blue paint at the end of the...

I want to be sure it's a standard size that I can easily get a replacement for, before I grind it down and drive it out.

I need to cut a short drainage groove in a concrete curb. Angle grinder seems like the logical tool. But when I search for concrete grinding wheels for an angle grinder, I only find cup wheels that are designed for surface grinding, and nothing that's intended for cutting. Any reason I can't...

Today I had to remove a broken wheel stud from the rear hub of a Subaru. (A tire shop, or maybe the dealer, crossthreaded the lug nut, and it jammed and torqued off when I tried to remove the nut.) I did what I've always done: knocked it out with a hammer, and pulled a new one through the hole...