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Hello, yesterday I was at walmart and noticed that some a few Ultra Steel (or was it tough?) tools were made in the USA. This is the walmart brand so I found it quite surprising, no global material shenanigans either like stanley. The three items were, a hacksaw,miter saw and box and a speed...

Hello,some time during the next year I am going to need a welder to do some repairs on my car. I am going to try to buy a used one, in the case I do not find a used one within a year I will get a hf flux core. Ford decided it would be a great idea to use plastic rocker covers, so being that I...

Hello, I have put in 2 new lights in my garage, which has made me pay more attention to the wiring. I have a few questions about how to do a few things. First, there is light-bulb up on the ridge of my garage,would it be okay to could I remove the light and run the wire down to my shop so I...

Hello, in my garage there are two 4ft shop lights that came with the house have shat the bed, so I need some new ones. They must plug in ones since my garage wiring is already is a mess since the person who did it was probably drunk, so I don't want to open a can of worms. I have been...

Hello, recently I have been working on getting some hand planes clean and back up to snuff. I have been using vinegar for the rust on the plane irons and chip breakers and so far it is looking good. The finish of the totes and knobs on a few of the planes are pretty rough, but the wood is in...

Hello, today I ended up impulse buying a glu-bot,a babe-bot (both made by fast cap) and some rockler bench cookies. Knowing my luck, 10 minutes after rockler closes, I find out the ring that holds the tip in on the babe-bot was broken. Has anyone dealt with fast caps customer serivce, rockler is...

Hello everyone, I have a old west german black and fecker 7 1/4 miter saw and I would like to put a new diablo thin kerf blade on it but I am having a slight problem. The blade on it now is probably original to the saw (30y+ since it is west german) and the old blade is thick kerf. The new...

Hello everyone, I was wondering who is the oem of these husky levels. I bought them used 6 or so months ago and they are nice and have some neat features. Not sure how old they are, I would bet early to late 2000's. Here are the pictures. http://imgur.com/a/c8Iz3 Also threw in a picture of the...

Hello everyone, I have been wanting to get a 10" miter saw for a while now to replace my black and decker 7 1/4 saw. The black and decker one is actually pretty nice considering it cost me $5, the label on it was printed in west Germany so it 26+ years old. It works fine but in the spring I need...

Hello everyone, today I bought a craftsman table saw of cl listed for $25 got it for $20 and I need some help. Here is the album http://imgur.com/a/0XmT0 Sorry if there are any formatting issues in the post. The previous owner said that her dad used it professionally and gave it to her 8 years...

Hello, I rarely use my 1/2hp block grinder since it is a hassle to pull it out of the cabinet, clear off a space and clamp it down. I would like to make a grinder stand but I do no have any nor know anyone with welding equipment. Anyone got any ideas of how to go about making a stand? I do have...

Hello, I have a two basin soap stone slop sink in my basement that weighs about a metric **** ton. It it not hooked up to anything and it is on about the sketchiest wooden platform that you could possibly imagine. It takes up a lot of space which I could get a good size workbench which I would...

Hello, this weekend was pretty good for yardsales. I made some money this week flipping some games I picked up last week, so being me I ended up spending most of it on tools (again). I spend about $49 total on everything, besides the stuff in the pictures, I also got a bunch of dvds, some random...

Hello, I was by harbor freight this weekend to pick up some of the pittsburg pro screwdrivers. Really liking them so far since the handles are pretty much identical to the 2nd gen bahco ergo screwdrivers. I got a pack of the free screwdrivers as well and I noticed that they have updated the...

Hello, I was repairing a cut in one of my jorgensen wood clamps and when I was filing the patch down, I noticed that my files have alot of junk in them. This junk is not metal, it looks like plastic, rubber or some kind of goo that is stuck in them as well as some surface rust in between the...

Hello, recently I noticed that sears pretty much had no empire tools left a few weeks ago. Today I went there to spend some points (got a fatmax hacksaw/recip saw blade handle for $.99) and I went to the level section and noticed that they have johnson products now. Just wanted to share.

Hello, I bought 2 black and decker gripmate clamps a while ago at a yard sale and only today I found out that there is supposed to be inserts for them. You insert the gripmate into the plastic piece and you insert it into one of the bench dog holes on the workmate and it works as a holdfast...

Hello, I find war production tools/government tools very fascinating, specifically from World War II. I have not seen any threads about showing war time production/goverment tools so I decide to make this thread. I have been sorting through my sockets and looking up unidentified ones on alloy...

Hello, a while back I bought a woodworking vise along with some other stuff from a yardsale. The vise looked like it was stored at the bottom of a lake and it was shedding rust and paint like a dog. I disassembled it and worked on cleaning it and so far I have gotten the 2 rods and the screw...

Hello, I got to axe you all a question. Puns aside I am wondering how old this craftsman axe head is. I bought bought it saturday with a bunch of wrenches (about 12, mostly old craftsman) for $5. It had a new handle on when I got it, a Garant one to be exact. I looked up craftsman axes and saw...