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If a small lathe will do what you need, the 6" Atlas is a decent choice. $1000 is definitely on the high end, but not outrageous if it is in good shape. It does have all the basic needs except for a steady rest. Parts and accessories are easy to find, although not always cheap. It does include...

I think much depends on what you do with it. Wood and metal require significantly different speeds. If you do woodworking and use hole saws and Forstner bits you will also be more likely to adjust speeds. Mostly wood or metal and 1/4-1/2" drill bits I doubt many bother to change speeds. Also...

Some yes, some no. Steady rest, follower rest, taper attachments will generally be brand and size specific. Collet closers are often unique to a model of lathe. Tail stock tooling like drill chucks, and centers will usually use a Morse taper, so most any of the same Morse taper will work...

I expected Bauer from the title, but yeah Craftsman is also red.

Corona makes good pruners, just be aware they have a quality line and a budget line of tools. The box stores tend to stock the cheaper line. My one handed pruner is the BP3160 kind of like those in the first post. I've had them about 6 years, and they see a few hours of use most months. I've...

I have Grizzly's 2x42" grinder, which I got on sale about 2 years ago. It is not without its faults but its not bad grinder and I feel it offers more than the bench grinders with a belt added. For one thing it can be used horizontally and vertically like many 2x72" grinders. With a bit of work...

A lot of the 4x36 belt disk sanders look like they come off the same assembly line, the Bauer is of that type. Grizzly offers one that looks like a different design, maybe good? It has basically the same specs though and is $300. All of these seem to be 1/2 hp, not sure what makes one worth...

Sure it was simply 3/8" standard and deep worked fine on my cars so I never went looking for something more compact beyond very simple and fairly cheap 1/4" sets kept in the car for emergencies. You don't know what you don't know.

I was going to suggest a semi-trailer, think mobile shop. However it sounds like you need space and want to work on vehicles and equipment. a metal carport (or 2 or 3) would be relatively inexpensive, and would be fairly easy to break down and move (or just write them off) in 10 years. They...

The specialty sockets is where I could see shopping around. Not a pro but I've been working on my own cars since I started driving (late 1980s). A Craftsman socket set in a blow molded case did the job for decades 3/8" and 1/2" drive with standard and deep sockets. For no particular reason...

Anybody who has dumped a socket set will appreciate the sets with easy to read sizes on the sockets.

Thanks to this dumb site I've gone from el cheepo sets of 1/4" drive to three nice sets (1 very complete set of Tekton and the two small Icon sets). I always thought of 1/4" drive as a compact set to keep in the car, just a something is better than nothing tool. I did not appreciate just how...

Singles and specialty tools are where some brands will shine. Some brands of sockets only come in sets. In the example you gave that is a time where the higher price would be worth paying to me to get a single socket to use in that specific situation.

Sure, my point was more of the attitude of Google it posters. Things change and most questions have nuance. Sure old threads are often very worthwhile, but even among very similar posts it may take some reading between the lines to get the specific answer one is looking for, and depending on...

And if the 6x the price is true, you can buy two sets of inferior sockets and still come out ahead, plus you have instant replacement at any time of day, even on a weekend or holiday. I get the value of a tool truck thing for a specialized tool, but I have so much redundancy of core items at...

Exactly, there was a "which welder to buy" thread recently and I was kind of blown away by the responses I was seeing. Then I saw the date of the OP, it was a necro'd thread from 2007. Things have changed a lot for welders in 18 years. Just in the 6 years since I bought mine first welder...

Although I've personally not been impressed with Dewalt cordless tools, I wouldn't consider Dewalt a DIY brand either. My experience was also 10+ years ago and comparing them to Makita. They were not junk, but for the price I felt they should be better. Dewalt's corded tools have been...

I bought a Ryobi "Honda clone" generator a couple years ago in an emergency (PG&E shut the power off for an extended period of hot dry weather). It was all that was available at the time or I would have bought a Honda. It has actually proven to be a decent, quiet generator.

The adoption of Craftsman is a good example of that, as they are basically adopting a second house brand (with a higher profile) which competes against their own established Kobalt brand. I guess it could be argued HD has a similar situation with Ryobi and Rigid, but I feel like those two...

TTI makes some of the Rigid and Hart power tools to, but as I mentioned in an earlier post these "lesser" brands may gain from their shared parentage and connection to Milwaukee, but it doesn't really work in reverse to boost Milwaukee. In fact some use that connection against buying Milwaukee...