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    What's it worth: Craftsman box.

    hell yea', get up and get after it or she'll be at someone else's home for the holiday !!! those old boxes are only getting fewer & fewer each day for a reason... you can always make your $$ back and maybe more because we (all men w/kids are looking to pass down an old box). it's a good deal...
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    My "Mac" Tool Box resto

    DAMN...... BOY HOWDY, now that came out great !!! man o' man, now that's what you call a fine, fine, FINE tool box. man that looks sharp. you did a good job on it and the time shows in the great paint. i got a large mac tool box a few yr. back and had to fix the draws, repaint after fixing...
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    How to hook up a generator?

    please, PLEASE... don't do that !!! the trouble that can make for you and maybe some poor fool down the line is not worth it !!! I've been told that "real men don't read instructions", or some other **** that some one might think is cool but it can make a difference if you well take the time...
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    middle of the road finds!!!!

    keep an eye open around intersections for most items coming off or out of the trucks. next watch for the rough roads and turns for the same thing - tools falling out or off. i have picked up alot of chains and tools this way, just pay attention to the road side as you drive. if you don't pick...
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    Price vs. Quality

    MONEY is made to spend, WOMEN were made to love, LIFE was made to live ! in other words... spend your money your way, spend your money on what you want, spend your money to suit your wants in life, cheap is fine for some things you might not care as much a bout if you lose or gets lost and the...
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    Cleaning up Bonney ratchet?

    it's 11:50 in the PM and i just had to go look at mine to see ???? never had any trouble with it after many, many years of work but have redone all my ratches over the years but never even looked at this one twice ??? how do you get into it to clean & reoil it ??? come on now all you bunch of...
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    hansens

    blond, brunett, red head, not everybody likes the same thing ! i belive he this a point, just because a guy with a tool box that looks new(and the tools look as though they are not used) has somthing thats not the only way to go. my tools slide across the concrete, drop, etc.. so they get used...
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    Air ratchet wrench needs repair

    take it apart (if you are going to trash it anyway) and learn what you can from it. never can tell when you might be able to fix or at least keep it for parts. always got sombody thats needing a part or got a ? about something on an impact. it sounds like a bearing or fin got trashed.... never...
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    what's your take on toward the blown in blanket insulation system?

    its good, does the job, works great for a "redo" for any tight spot that hard to get into. the bad side is the clean up if you have a ceiling cave in, it get everywere !!
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    Greetings all...

    you can't fight it...... the more you read the more you well want..... the more time you spend here the more things you get done....... the next thing you know "you're one of us, and...... you can't fight it'..... you well understand more and then...... you well start to chulckle as you here...
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    new project to build with my son.

    looks good, time well spent, time spent w/your boy is the start to him going places and a good start for manhood. the seeds are planted and as he grows his ablity is going to serve him well. in a few yr. a can see him on the cover of a mag. w/ some killer idears for trucks/cars/bikes. "you did...
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    Is this 'ole box too far gone???

    buy it or you well kick yourself for not gettin' it. it's in to good of shape to not get it ! if you can even find another roller like it, you'll be sorry if you miss it, cause you know the next guy well buy it........
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    Humidity levels, what is acceptable

    the tool box liner may have a little something to do with it, how much oil or grease may be something to look at. the sweat on your hands, not wiping them down w/ oily rag...... your going to hand its not just one thing but a few things that can help beat this problem. i grew up in NC. and now...
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    Northern Tool price DROP day after purchase...

    can't hurt to try, the worst they can say is no. on the other hand alot of co. well go the extra step if they here you are wanting to do more bid-nezz with them later, any bad or hurt feeling can linger in this economey so they should work with you. remind them of you looking over your "next...
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    cl vise and stand...

    great find, boy howdy, if the old vice could tell the life its seen. as times are hard every one around here (north west Fla., the panhandle) are scraping anything they can get there hands on so to see this vice in as good a condition as it is for the age, thats a great find and a good save. it...
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    Anybody have a "working reference" tattoo?

    owned a shop in Colo. a few yr.s back and did a few but nothing like the ones I've seen out in TX. a lot of oil field workers have tattoos showing stuff they work with, and some of the things they come up with are great. some show respect for the tools and equipment (shift pattern for a twin...
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    Is this columbian vise jaw out of whack or normal?

    i'm kinda rough on tools, i don't buy tools that look like they were made to be in books. i buy tools from pawn shops, tool stores, etc.. that get going to be beat, hammered, painted with and on, clubed etc... i buy cheap tools at first to lend out and misuse, even sometime misplace! if i need...
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    Long time reader first time writer...

    it has now started, there is no going back, you have just joined up with us, do fight it, just sit back, read a little each nite, it well become like a life unto itself, do not fight it, you are one of us now, you can't fight it, you well enjoy it, look forward to it, read a little more each...
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    RemLine toolbox age?

    i called and tryed to find out about what # and year mine was and was told they (the co. now) did not have any way of telling me. "she" said that the new co. did not have pic. of the old style or any info. on the boxes being made before they got the remline name ??? i've got a lower box like...
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    Garage Cabinet colors/designs

    just one more thing, 1)dark colors make it look smaller and closed in as a lighter color well make the area look larger, 2)make sure the paint can take a good wipe down as they well need to be used under all cans of stuff(grease, gas, solvents, wd-40, pb-blaster, etc..) 3)light colors reflect...
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