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A lot of small appliances use torx screws. Plan on having bits for T15, T20. Actual torx screwdrivers are often better because the fasteners are recessed.

I recently stripped my washer down to repair the transmission. Whirlpool neutral-drain issue. I used 5/16, 7/16 and 1/2 sockets along with a 1/4 nutdriver. The sockets could have been deep or shallow. Either would have worked fine. The listed sizes, along with a 9/16, cover just about all the...

Join a barbershop quartet and practice in your garage. Order in some pizza and it'll be just like going to Shakey's.

IDK? The photo is a page from my water heater manual. Perhaps the use of temperature limiting mixing valves is not guaranteed to be 100% universal?

What about faucets?

I think it's a matter of competing interests. 120 maximum to prevent scalding. 140 minimum to prevent bacterial growth. I trust myself to adjust the temperature of my shower.

140°F, which is the minimum requirement to avoid Legionella virus.

Blow molded kits are often the right solution for many people. Apartment or condo dwellers who don't have a garage or shop. Students in dorms or rented rooms. People who frequently move or travel a lot. A blow molded kit can be stashed in hall or spare room closet or locked in the trunk of a...

I'm thinking Xcelite series 99 done up for RCA repair technician kits.

Another vote for T1-11. I had a home for 31 years that was sided with T1-11. Cheap, would last a good while if you kept some paint on it. Easy to replace when the time comes. Only panels I replaced in 31 years were the sides that faced the wind and weather.

It came outta the earth so it's gotta go back in.

When I first entered the manufacturing world in the late 70s, just about every plant had their own toolroom operation. Larger companies ran their own tool maker apprenticeship and training programs. Every one of those tool and die makers had a Kennedy or Gerstner toolbox. As time went by...

That's correct. It was so convenient to be able to buy open stock sockets at Wally's. They started out on an open peg, then went behind a locked cabinet, then were removed completely. A friend who was a manager at Wally's at the time confirmed that they were flying out the door except nobody was...

For home use, where it's unlikely to wear out the sockets, I would buy just the sockets from any value brand such as Husky or Kobalt. Then I would buy myself the nicest ratchet I could afford. That's where all the feel and goodness come from.

Seems to be a common situation. I notice that many of the units in my complex seem to have been replaced by the homeowner. I'm with you. That doesn't look like a $1500 job to me either.

At my last job, for high torque fasteners, we used a device that was essentially an air motor and gearbox that turned the socket. Torque was too much for a human to hold so you had to develop fixtures and brackets to mount it to whatever you were working on. These bolts and studs were...

In one of my past lives I worked as a draftsman/application engineer. It came at a point in time when all of our customers were switching to metric. It was actually a very painless process.

Pela 6000. Hand pump. Around $75 on Amazon.

Not to sidetrack, but that little metric set was my first tool purchase in 1969 at age 13. I used money from my job feeding cows. They were needed to work on my 1965 Yamaha YG-1. Santa Claus followed up with a small set of Craftsman metric wrenches in a plastic pouch. And with those, I was off...

Wow, that's a blast from the past. Back when high school still taught tangible skills that could be used to earn a living.