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Good afternoon everyone I have a M18 Fuel 1/2" impact and since I had that I also bought a M18 Fuel string trimmer. The former comes with a 5 Ah battery and the latter an 8 Ah although they are interchangeable. I've moved and now I use the string trimmer for all lawn cutting as a lawnmower...

yes really. It's for a wooden bar stool. It screws into a threaded insert in the leg. There's eight of them, two per leg, one of the stools was loose and wobbly and I never sit in it so nobody told me. I went to snug it up and one of the machine screws snapped. Any ideas? It doesn't even...

Good evening all Last weekend I found a Simpson 260-6XLPM at Value Village for the princely sum of $7, including probes (but the alligator clips were missing, so there's a reason you can't absolutely hate me.) I cleaned it up, replaced the one destroyed D-cell battery terminal, bought some new...

I don't know why I didn't think of this before, as my dad probably still has the one he bought ~40 years ago... Background: I am renting two rooms in a house, until I get my stuff together enough to buy my own place. One room is divided between bedroom and home office, and the other I have...

Good morning all I've been complaining about the water quality in the house in which I'm living for a while now; there are two issues 1) there's something in our water (iron?) that makes it range from yellow to orange. I noticed first it one morning a couple years ago when I was taking a...

Good morning, I found an old pressure canner in the thrift store a few days ago, and I'd wanted one anyway. The metal looks fine and after replacing the gasket, regulator, and the little air vent I took it for a "dry" run (actually full of water and steam) and it works fine. However, the jar...

Good afternoon, It was raining this morning so instead of working on my Jeep like I planned, I cut some liner for a hand toolbox (I have a couple old ones that I picked up here and there that I've been saving to sort tools just like this) and cosmetically cleaned up all my air tools. They're a...

Good evening, So as I posted earlier, I decided that I was going to buy a cheap air compressor so that I could use some old air tools that I have, specifically a die grinder because that appears to be the only tool that will remove the skidplate on my Jeep without destroying stuff I don't want...

I'm coming to the conclusion that I need an air compressor, thinking I'm just going to buy something for a couple hundred bucks and it really only has to last 2-3 years. But I've worked myself into another corner where I need a die grinder to finish the install of my trailer hitch on my beater...

This has been a frustration for years... just this morning I was cleaning the bathroom and after I was done was going to spray the shower and tub with a bleach solution to kill any remaining nasties. Spray bottle doesn't work. Are there any that last more than a month or so? What do...

Looking for a set of 12 point sockets; I've been a six point guy my whole life but now I see I need 12 points. Saturday I had to replace the front wheel bearings on my Jeep and that required a 13mm 12 point. I had an old Craftsman 3/8" drive socket but I was worried about shearing my 1/2" to...

Can someone recommend one? Can't grease the U-joints on my Jeep with the stock coupler on my Lincoln grease gun, and I hate that coupler anyway. Thanks for any advice.

Weekend before last, I found myself needing a #8 UNF (NOT UNC) tap and as a result ended up ordering all the UNF #4 - #8 HSS plug taps from McMaster as I am kind of OCD and I figured if I needed one, I might need the others too (and my Irwin/Hanson "Super Set" doesn't have them; #10 is the only...

what to buy? I was doing a full service on my Jeep and my USA Craftsman 10mm hex socket broke before the drain plug in my transfer case came out. I'm annoyed because a) I know that the xfer case was replaced 50K miles ago and b) this might be the first time I ever used this socket. I remember...

Never was real impressed by it, haven't successfully used it for anything. Today after I finished fixing the exhaust on my Jeep I was going to rotate the tires and hit the Zerks. Well it failed again. had to use breaker bar to get the wheels off. I see that people like these, is there anyone...

One more tool recommendation request for the hive mind. I need to get a stub of exhaust pipe out of the cat inlet on my Jeep, I was originally thinking of trying to do it with a Sawzall and then realized that it might be worth it to just get a die grinder for better control/less risk of...

Who can recommend one? I know that I've tried the harbor freight ones before and they feel stressed just taking clamp marks out of thin tubing. I need to fix some serious rural engineering on the original exhaust on my XJ (THICK) and am thinking one of these sets...

Helped a coworker with a flat tire the other day. Discovered that the 19mm Snap-On impact socket that I had in my Jeep had gone completely missing; I found only a bare breaker bar but fortunately there was a backup 4-way lug wrench (note to self: get it back; I think it may have been my...

Good morning, I have a Milwaukee 1620-1 drill that I got from a friend's dad. Took it apart and fixed a bad connection, also bought a piece of pipe to replace the missing handle. Used it for a while, but when my housemate borrowed it one of the chuck jaws broke. Now I'm down the rabbit hole...

Good evening all I have an old Milwaukee right angle drill that a friend's retired electrician father gave me. I lent it to my housemate because he needed to make some big holes in a stump to pour in some kind of biological stump-b-gon. Anyway, he managed to get this big self feeding auger...