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I do a bunch of Mountain Bike suspense worn and wed a high quality set of tweezers for ball bearings, gaskets etc. what do you guys recommend?

We hired a general contractor to do some repairs under an insurance claim for water damage due to an ice damn on the roof. The gc has a roof come by reputch the roof (did a good job) had a drywaller come in fix the dry wall did an ( amazing job). Painter came in did a great job except they...

Picked up a 6 ½ inch Wilton Tradesman for $75. It was a bit rusted but a little time with some scotchbright and felt wheels on the grinder and it cleaned up quite nice. I fully tore it down cleaned the internals added all new lubricant and then replaced the ¼ retaining pins with steel set screws...

I’m in the market for a new table saw. Been looking at getting a sawstop but a friend of a friend offered to sell me an Oliver 232d. Seems in decent enough shape but it would require me also purchasing a phase converter. Seems like a well built piece of old iron, but how precise are these old...

I just upgraded all of my tap handles to Starrett and couldn’t be happier. Just wish I would have done it sooner. So I’m now in the market to upgrade my die holders. Does anyone make one of similar quality to Starretts tap holders?

I bought an air hose reel from lowes just over a year ago for $100. Seemed decent enough and worked great at first. However now the damn thing wont fully recoil the hose. Is the spring in these that weak, or is the cheap *** hose that comes with them just get too stiff? Got any suggestions to...

So apparently WERA considerers there "premium" L keys consumables. I bought a set of there stainless Hex plus keys a little bit ago, and the head of the 1.5mm key twisted right off when removing a camera screw... far from a high-torque application. Figuring this is obviously a warranty repair...

I need to order a bunch of m6 bolts in a variety of lengths. All gotta be torx head and need a combo of ti and stainless. Besides mcmastercarr what’s your guys go to place for specialty hardware?

Was cutting a cedar 2x4 today to make a platform to install a new latch on my fence gate and half way through the first board the Saw starts smoking! Looked like a blue flame inside the vents as well. Pretty disappointed as the saw is only a few years old and for the price it should last a...

So I'm getting tired of heading to Lowes or GD and paying sky high prices anytime I need a few screws. So I am thinking of ordering all of the common sizes of wood screws and keeping a full assortment on hand. Figure it would end up saving me a ton of cash over the long run. Who do you guys...

Hey guys, I had a large floor mount unit at my old place, but it died shortly before we moved into our new house this summer, so I dumped it. Truth be told I no longer use an air compressor for running impacts etc.... moved on a to a cordless Milwaukee system for those tasks. However I do...

Looking to buy a new drill. Been looking at 4 speed cordless ones and want to see if the garage Journal community had any first hand feed back on the various offerings. I’m leaning towards the Festool PDC (felt great in the store) but also looking at the Fein, the Hilti and the Metabo (wasn’t...

Does anyone make a impact driver with a ¼" chuck that has a variable impact torque? The Makita that I have is great for lag screws, but I wish it had a way to limit the torque for installing #6 screws, etc.

Over the years I have always thought of drill bits as consumables and usually bought the mid-grade sets at Lowes of Home depot. I'd use them for wood, aluminum, steel. Basically as a one set does it all, but lets be honest they don't really do anything great, just adequate. Lately I've been...

My wife and I just purchased a new to us house, and I need to run some cat 6 cables, for my home office, baby cam, security cams as well as for the home theater setup. Who makes the best wall plates and terminals these days? In the past I've used levity but wondering if there was something...

Got a project coming up that involves. Utting a lot of ⅜ steel rope and need a set of quality cutters. Looking at either the Knipex or the felco offerings. I cut bike cables daily but am going to need to cut a few hundred or so ⅜ cables for a project.

Does anyone have some photos they could post of the rustoleum rock solid floors the have done? We just bought a new house and I am thinking about doing the floor before we move in, its roughly 550 square feet (2 car with an extra deep bay on one side). House is about 10 years old and the...

We are moving into a new house, and a lot of excess clothing, etc. needs to get stored on shelves in the garage / attic. Who makes the best storage bins? I figure there has to be something out there thats better then the rubber made stuff.

We have three ceiling fans in our house. All are mounted quite high, so we have been using the hunter wireless controllers, but those are complete junk and keep going out every few years. Has anyone had any good luck with any of the wireless fan controllers that integrate well with Apple home...

Trying to figure out who the manufacture is for these Aluminum extrusions. It's similar to 80/20, Bosch etc but I like the interlocking extrusions as it would be perfect for a project I am working on. Anyone have an idea on who makes it?