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It is not as simple as that. Dig a little deeper and you'll find very substantial differences, some positive and some less so that make them very different products despite licensing Megapro's intellectual property.

A couple years ago I got tired of forcing a very old Park chain whip to work on modern cassettes so I took some spare lengths of 11 speed Shimano chain and a few quick links and made a quick and dirty chain whip. I had planned on making a more aesthetically pleasing version of it at some point...

Do you have a link to these bits? I've looked but cannot find the full set of them myself.

Go for it! I'd contribute for sure.

For a trim router, I love my Milwaukee M18 one. It won’t replace a full sized router but for for any trim router sided task (mostly smaller round overs and chamfers for me) it’s been fantastic. I do most of my woodworking outside on the apron in front of my shop so not having to drag extension...

Again, that's because you're overwhelming the braking circuit by asking it to slow down. By turning off the vfd, then changing speed, then turning on the vfd you're bypassing the braking circuit. Most vfds have braking speed setting where you can turn down the aggressiveness and avoid...

That's just applicable to their reversible models. They haven't discontinued the non-reversible models.

Problem 1 will be the inertia of the system is overloading the regenerative braking circuit and triggering its overload protection. I haven't used that particular model of VFD so I can't comment more specifically. I use a host of KBAC-24D, KBAC-27D, and KBDA-29 VFDs myself. The first two up...

You can’t because it’s not possible. They’re measurements of different properties of the vacuum. One model could have great IOW but poor CFM while another could be the opposite. An extreme example would be a vacuum pump versus a box fan. The vacuum pump would have fantastic IOW but horrible CFM...

Short answer is they're not directly comparable. IOW is a measure of static suction pressure at no net flow, CFM is a measure of volumetric flow. Two different metrics to measure a vacuum with.

Tekton's newer impact sockets have both laser and stamped size markings.

Yes, but in this case Tekton make a lot of stuff that you cannot find rebranded anywhere else. Just because they don’t own the factory that makes their product doesn’t mean that they are not doing the engineering behind making it perform the way it does. The argument that these companies don’t...

I'm seeing the amazon prices as the same as the direct prices for virtually everything, so purchasing direct saves you money. (And buying direct means free shipping with no order minimum, even if you just need a single socket.)

I'll add that larger 1/4" drive sockets can be very useful for clean/new production work where torque values are lower than with crusty automobile fasteners. I use my 9/16" socket all the time on 3/8-16" fasteners and 14mm socket on M10 fasteners all the time. It's nice to be swinging a lighter...

Wow! Where'd you come by them?

It's not wrong for that saw but it is an inferior design. The better guides run the spine of the blade against the outside race so that it's a true single-point contact with no lateral forces from the rotation of the bearing. As an aside, the second picture shows a blade being run with it's...

This kind of 3D printing is nothing like consumer extruded plastic 3D printing. These are laser sintering metal, so a metal powder is hit with a laser to fuse it into a solid and the part is built up additively that way. The machines that do it well (see the 20-30 µm resolution in the above...

More competition in the market is good for everyone, no matter which battery system you use. Innovation is better than stagnation.

That is correct, they aren’t serial numbers but rather production batch numbers.

I have ~1 year old Lisle tap sockets that are fantastic. I use them regularly in the machine shop. They fit my taps (all modern production high quality tools) great, the taps don't fall out but don't take too much force to remove. Also, a tap will be considerably harder than the socket so a...