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Shipping weight from SO should include the pallet. Layout is a factor as others said, having replaced SO slides a pair of those for a 30 deep box you could swing like a club and split someones head open. I would believe any box of similar capacity would have these heavy slides so that accounts...

The beauty is that they just don't strip stuff out in the first place. I've used a lot of brands, a lot. Grip edge hex just works better. I've been thinking about trying the torx - but I have so much damn torx. Hex as a design just ***** so I'm interested in a solution. I have pretty good...

Matco Opti-grip hex is the same thing. Their extractors appear to be the same as grip-edge as well and they include the foreign object extractor. Sometimes it's on sale for the same or less than authentic grip-edge, and in 3/8 for instance their set has an extra size common on Jeep and Volvo...

Got the gun cleaned out and spraying, decided against harsh chemicals and just forced more product through with compressed air. My plan is to fill the bottle with soap and water when I'm finished with my current project and flush it.

https://www.garagejournal.com/forum/threads/grip-edge-dual-action-wrench-retention.547939/ Grip edge hex is excellent in my opinion from working on cars. The dual drive set is my main use metric hex set in 1/4. They fit okay in the Astro handle, VIM doesn't work.

Well the fluid-film branded gun is $120 so I'm motivated to try and fix this. I'll run some acetone or similar through it as a test. It's 100F in the shop all day so I think the product should be soft enough to flow well. If I have to buy one I'll probably try their specific tool. The...

I wonder if I could run motor oil through it, I have plenty of 1/4 filled bottles to try. That or acetone which we use for brake clean. It's half fresh, half new, all pretty jiggly like it looks in the can. I tried pushing some fresh stuff into the tube and forcing it through with compressed...

Went to spray some fluid film today, no-go. Air flows out the tip, but zero FF is flowing. This is a woolwax branded gun but it appears nearly identical to the handle assembly on the fluid film gun. The fluid film gun reviews say that it's obviously designed for this thick stuff. This...

The astro is nice, it's mildly annoying to use as the + shaped assembly wants to bend and fold with the air line connected when hanging from the chain. I wore mine out, bought the mastercool unit as I only need a valve assembly to rebuild my kit, and bought an airlift while I was at it. The...

Double flex wrenches are very nice, as are the double indexing pry bars. If you have their flier there will be deals on Lisle, Schley, etc which are similar to Amazon pricing. Gripedge seems to have MAP pricing and is about the same on the local truck versus Amazon, maybe $5-10 difference...

They help when your wrists ache after doing 8 axles worth of brakes in a day with some ****** 2" handle on a c-clamp or manual twist tool. If you like manual tools, visegrip 11R gives you good feeling as to how the piston moves while compressing while giving you good mechanical advantage. Lang...

That's what the inductive heater coils turn into. Insulation melts/burns off and you'll have exposed copper. I have a few which are 75% exposed copper on the coil tip. I would agree insulation makes them safer, although there's probably a breaker/fuse in the tool, and it's plugged into the...

Buying two AC machines, a 134a and 1234yf, you're talking ~$10,000 by the time you throw a 10lb tank of YF and a 30lb tank of 134a in each machine. You just stagger the car flow to work around machine limits. Unless you're in super high demand areas and then it's more cost effective because of...

My employer has a Mahle arctic pro - it sort of *****. The main problem is the on-machine instructions are very very sensitive, you need to be 100% exactly doing things in the most literal way possible. And doing anything out of order can screw up the process, meaning you need to start over...

Hopefully they have things sorted out since I got a newly released LP90 via SK which sucked. Nice to see another source for the slim design USA made locking extensions.

Breaker bars and fixed wrenches don't fit in a lot of places. Just buy longer ratchets and ratcheting wrenches. If the only way to hold the fastener from spinning is clocking a ratcheting wrench one tooth at a time until it fits, so be it. Sometimes the tools take one for the team. I've had...

I actually saw one of those snap ons broken like that in real life. Can't image what had to be done with it. I had a bad 10mm out of the box but the slim ring on those are fabulous. I break stuff free with them just like I break things free with a ratchet. I have a set of Gearwrench XLs and...

I think luck. Just looking at the bits they appear they would fit the VIM better than the Astro. The astro design has the retaining ring more centered in the wrench, VIM has the retaining ring more near the edge. On the 1/4 drive nano sockets, they have the retaining ring grove in the center...

I know these are rather new, the dual drive style bits in 1/4 drive. Grip edge advertises these as "7/16 (11mm)" driven end via a wrench, IIRC 11mm was the size in video on the bit. 7/16 is around 11.1mm. I used the 1/4 astro 78345, which the Grip Edge bits go into and lock securely. However...

Seems kind of pricey versus buying a NOCO or a traditional jump pack that the $299 price point. 2000amp noco is 199 on Amazon, the regular 1700 Jump N Carry is sub 150 bucks.