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Hey everyone, I brought a DeWalt XRP hammer drill home from the scrap yard yesterday. It looks like a DC925. I'm not typically a DeWalt fan, but it looks like a nice drill, and hey it only cost me $0.20. I've been looking around for adapters to my current battery platform, Makita LXT and found...

Back in 2008 I had the great misfortune to aquire a new TTI-built Milwaukee Sawzall. The thing was a smoking pile of junk. Literally. After just a few weeks it let the magic smoke out and we sent it in for warranty. It came back in a couple of weeks and we put it to work again. Just a few...

Is anyone else drooling and saving their pennies in anticipation?

Tell me about salamander heaters Hey everyone, I have a bunch of different work to do, all outside and all in the winter, on days ranging from cold to miserably cold. So it occured to me to wonder, do salamander heaters work outdoors at all? Sure it's not going to heat up the whole state of...

A few weeks ago I bought an old Walker 867 series B floor jack from the scrap yard. Thought it would be an easy pump seal and a refill of oil. Boy oh boy was I wrong. I got the pump seal done in half an afternoon. Then I saw a small stream of oil from under the gland nut on the control valve...

I had been doing kind of a deep dive on air pressure regulators, and kept noticing the same regulators under different brand names. Also, changing brand name can get you an identical product with better availability or lower price, so I thought I would start a list of which regulators appear...

Hey everyone, One of the many much-lauded virtues of air tools is that even cheap ones can be good. I'm wondering how far I can push that. My current favourite air tools are a 1hp Cleco air drill and a 4 hp Atsco grinder. Both are absolute beasts at what they do. They far and away outperform...

I was browsing eBay and came across a Nitto Kohki QA-5000 in (appears to be) reasonable shape for a price I could (almost) afford. These drills have auto feed, more power than I could shake a stick at, a great lubrication system, and a pretty solid reputation I tell myself that the ROI in...

Another question for the awesome tool nerds here at GJ :) I pulled this Ingersoll-Rand right-angle grinder out of the scrap pile at my local steel yard. IT has no markings other than IR in an oval. Nothing is wrong with it except a poorly designed and leaky trigger (which I will fix if I get...

I haven't seen any thread like this on GJ, so I thought I would start one. We have a lot of threads about "What is the best (air compressor, welder, wrench, etc)" but not one for all of them in one place. Also ideally this thread is only for tools that are exceptionally durable and functional...

Older Curtis ML-5 air compressor lubrication? Hi everyone, I have an older Curtis ML-5 Masterline 5 HP air compressor. There is no oil filter or pressure gauge. I am wondering how to tell if it is pressure or splash lubricated? The Curtis website only mentions the newest series, which is built...

Hey everyone, first post here. I have a Craigslist special Curtis ML-5 compressor that I just set up a few months ago. The other day I noticed it builds pressure much slower from 160-170 PSI than from 50-60. also that there is a detectable stream of air coming out of the crankcase breather...