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I couldn't get one either, but then for some reason it let me order one for home delivery yesterday morning. I didn't get a ship notification from Walmart, but my FedEx app shows that I've got something coming from Walmart that weighs 21 pounds! I threw in a bottle of Old Spice aftershave to...

Tekton is fine by me. Their screwdrivers are what I reach for the most and I used my wrenches yesterday to work on the car. If it's only occasional use and you can wait, AutoZone puts a ~40 piece Duralast set on sale for black Friday for about $15. It's actually pretty good. I keep one in...

That's still my go to ratchet. It's the perfect length and has never given me any trouble. I think I paid around $16---still a great deal.

I usually use WD40 or PB Blaster, but got tired of the smell. In the house I started using a shot of spay cooking oil and it seems to work about as well with no smell. Easy to clean too.

So what did you end up getting? I use plenty of Harbor Freight stuff regularly. I use two tool carts, 25" 1/2 breaker bar, extendable 1/2 ratchet, 1/2 impact sockets/extensions, and deadblow hammer quite often and they have all done well. The Pittsburgh wrenches from India aren't that great...

I'd buy individual sets to avoid useless fillers and hit different companies' better options. I'm happy with my Tekton and Capri for the more budget minded but still good quality options.

In the late 90's I got a set of India made wrenches from one of those traveling tool sales company. They weren't that bad really. They weren't as good as the then current Craftsman, but they were certainly usable. They got me through my first few projects until my father lost them. (He's...

No idea about the "Hangar" but someone mentioned to me last week that they went to the Jockey-Lot. I haven't been in many years since it's nothing like it used to be.

I was grinding near a 55 gallon trash can and a spark hit something. During a pause I noticed smoke coming out of it and a small flame. Luckily someone had put a half finished soda in the trash, so I just grabbed it and poured it on the flame to put it out. There were probably a dozen people...

One has 1/4 20 bolts/nuts/washers of various sizes, one has m6 bolts/washers, one has 10 32 and 8 32 screws/nuts/washers, and finally there's one in my bathroom medicine cabinet that I put my used double edge razor blades in. My wife has one of the mini tins in her purse with her air buds in...

The HF extendable 1/2 ratchet is very handy. Once I got a long flex head 3/8 ratchet my others rarely got used.

I'm not a sparky, but while doing some work in my brother's house I found that the builder (owner built) was using a cheap 14 gauge extension cord to power one wall of the living room. Behind the washer there was a small hole with the extension cord coming through and plugged into an outlet...

You are right. I realized in hindsight that I should have bought the single wrench from Snap On instead of a set of lower quality. One used Snap On is probably much more reasonable. The GW did work well on transmission lines, but forget about smaller brake lines.

I never could sharpen knives well but could get a great edge on a machete using just a file. Several years ago I got a Spyderco Sharpmaker and get good results.

I haven't been to a Harbor Frieght in years and have never touched an ICON tool. My old Gearwrench ratcheting wrenches are nice but the last set I got was very low quality and the flare nut wrenches I got from GearWrench were junk. I'd take the chance on ICON only because I lack faith in the...

My set was delivered a little bit ago. Just the ratchet goes for more than this kit did! I've got GW sockets, but this is my first GW ratchet and it feels pretty nice. I've got an old set of Craftsman sockets similar to these and it really saved my rear one time.

Nope, you didn't even look at the second link.

Am I the only one that's contemplated attaching a reciprocating saw to a 12 foot 2x4 and using a step ladder as a fulcrum?

I've used both. The pole saw works much better. The chain type did what I needed it to though---a few branches quite beyond the reach of a pole saw. I used a weight to get a line over the branch. The line pulled paracord that was on one end of the saw. It took a while and it got stuck a...

The only thing I'd do differently is instead of using 4x4 posts for legs I would have laminated three 2x4 or 2x6 for the legs. The front lamination would be shorter so that the horizonal 2x6 would rest on it and transfer any force directly to the ground instead of stressing the joint.