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Sears gave me my first credit card when I was 16, with a whopping $500 limit. Bob Vila convinced me Craftsman tools were the cats meow and I would frequently walk the aisles, drooling over them. Bought my first CD player there when tapes dodo'd, and doubled my computer RAM with a 4MB chip (cost...

Every farm shop I've ever been in has an old refrigerator for oil cans and funnels.

McMaster is the only place I've found for those sliding storage tubes. https://www.mcmaster.com/shipping-tubes

I've got the Tekton sets. While the joint has to be a weak point, I have on a couple occasions pulled on them to the point I was expecting pieces to start flying, but so far they've held. I don't make it a practice though. As for 6 point vs 12, initially I didn't like the 6 point. When working...

Damn those do look really good. Their marketing hype really craps on Martin and gives Snap-on a run for its money. I got Snap-on in SAE but went with Sunex for metric. The Sunex are okay but don't look nearly as nice as the Tekton seems to. And they're 15/60 degrees. The one thing Sunex has...

Boutique tool shop selling rebrands is my guess. The screwdriver handles look very similar to Crescent. Their $130 "Tactical Pivot Light" is a dead ringer for Harbor Freights $20 Braun light. Every third sentence they state how they donate 1% of sales to the troops. I didn't see anything...

I recently replaced my Craftsman wrench sets for partially the same reason. They were early 2000s USA, but like you said, they just kind of didn't do it for me anymore. But I really chose to replace because I wanted different features: longer length and anti-slip open end. Went with Proto. I...

Torque adapters. Bought a mac set because I like every bolt to be torqued right, even if it's hard to reach. But $200 for the set seemed a bit high.

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There is a pawn shop on eBay I've had two dealings with. Both were conventional auctions. First was a snap on hammer wrench nobody bid on so I won it for $15. Then got a message saying it had sold long ago and was listed in error. Fishy imho since, being a pawn shop he's got a perfect place to...

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I haven't been to Canada since I was a kid but if I ever make it there again I'd like to check out Princess Auto. (Only learned of that place since AvE became a thing.) I'm curious what you mean by them doing it better? I once was searching a unique tool and found it on their website, but...

I bought a Proto set of the same design as that Williams. My brother in law was a JD tech and told me flare style are still useful in hydraulics, not for the fitting on the line but for holding whatever it's attached to (jam nuts, etc) which are larger. Well the one occasion it could have helped...

Im on a quest to find something to drive my tap holders. I've been through all the past posts on ratcheting t-handles and have gotten some good ideas, but the few options I like would have to come from the UK it seems. So if I settle for a non-ratcheting t-handle I'd want it to be bigger than...

Nope. If the valve is under liquid, liquid will come out. When you open the valve and regulator you're lowering the pressure in the tank which causes the liquid inside to boil and convert to gas. The fellow getting liquid out of his vertical tank at 75psi can be illustrated by a pot of water...

You can always check the box to show "used" items only and weed out the new stuff from dealers. Or just sorting from "lowest price first" will tend to show the used stuff first. It's how I'm slowly building my slug wrench set. For whatever faults it might have, Amazon is a godsend for someone...

1 - How do they compare to other premium brands? I don't have apples to apples of each, but if comparing angle wrenches to crows feet, they are certainly acceptable. 2 - Why choose Proto over Snap on? The name sounds much cooler. Also price. 3 - What is it about Proto that made you choose...

I seriously looked at pass-through ratchets for combine belt tensioners (which are very long all-thread's). Had trouble finding a set with 15/16" which is what most of the tensioners need. Ended up going for a GW ratching combo and an Armstrong old laminated style. Glad I did if the ratcheting...

As for eBay, you could always list it as a "Buy it now" at whatever price you want. Pretty sure its free to list so you're not out anything if it doesn't sell. I can't imagine I'd ever trade down a tool like that for a HF. I do the other method a fella mentioned of buying HF first and if I...

Around the shop I use high percentage rubbing alcohol when I don't need the aggressiveness of brake cleaner. Mostly because it's softer on my hands, but also easier on paint. I wonder if that would do for your hammers? But Simple Green is safe for sure. I knew a gun guy who swore by Simple...