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Zyklops is never too far away. 1/4 zyklops and socket rail ride in the pocket often. Gteat nutdriver socket combo.

For adjustables id give bahco reverable adjustable / pipe wrench a try. Also love my channellock wide mouth 6 and 8 inch adjustables.

Anything heavier will also be harder to start. If gun stopped and impact kicked in, the torque output is close to identical in both cases. Thicker impact sockets have more mass and a greater ability to retain heat as a result. MCpdT type stuff there. The gun provides the impact the socket...

My felo 400 series have dealt with 100s. They dont look like that. Wrong size. Love the screwdrivers and not a fair test. Wrong size matters a ton with screwdrivers. Phillips is designed to damage driver vs. Screw when it cams out and you started half cammed out from the get go. Imagine the...

Flatheads are here to stay. Many advantages. Very common - easy to find a tool that would work. Likely cheaper to make. Not friendly with power tools - less likely someone with overshoot horsepower on a screwhead on precision part. Easily substitutions - can pop cabinets open with a penny or...

JIS Screwdrivers would make an even bigger difference. The japanese use a slightly different pattern on their screws called JIS. They're not too common to find in US, but they are available and worth it if you work with a lot of Japanese products. Using the right driver for the screw is as...

I think the s jaw is the most general purpose of the swedish style pipe wrench knipex sells. Only used that style a little bit and for the price they run, i would lean towards ridgid aluminum. If you like the swedish style id consider snap on pwz, made by bahco (owned by snap on). Bahco had...

For pipe i havent had great luck with straight jaw pliers of channellock type but their nutbuster style works great on round parts. Kinda has self locking like the cobras and wider teeth. Might be a bit less damage. In most of my work teeth marks dont matter so i use cobras a lot. With pipe...

I wouldn't do it to a torque spec but off alignment instead. I always judge em by feel. If youre gonna use the fitting to tighten, keep an eye on relative motion of both joint to be sure they're about the same. To my knowledge theres not much that happens from overtorquing pipe fittings. If its...

Im a chem eng and lemme tell u, youre overthinking it by a long shot. Could buy hastelloy with the time wasted thinking about it. Buy stainless or brass or galvanized or whatever suits youre fancy. Better yet u can buy a zinc sacrificial cathode from mcmaster to thread in to the fitting as well...

Grinding equals heat. Heat equals weakness without quality control / monitorint. Whatever you do, minimize heat in modifications to tools and strength wont suffer much. Phase transformations of steel is a facinating concept and temperature history is a big deal when it comes to performance.

Dont take it personal. Everyone out here loves a guy looking for new tools. We are all just secretly kicking ourselves for the mistakes we have made and if we had a chance to start over what we would do. About the most active post ive seen in a while, and even if it aint always informative, at...

Lil drunk and i know it might make a few folks mad, but is it ok to buy foreign if its carried by a mom and pop hardware shop? Thats where i got my screwdrivers, but is it only ok if you support a corporation or is it ok if america makes money off foreign sales? Channellock for all the praise...

I second the notion that wiggle is common. Not a huge deal to me. Precisely mating ends matter for needlenose and cutter, but not much on pump pliers regardless of style. With adjustables with moving parts you dont want super tight as and motion is a chance to get debris inside. My thoughts...

U kidding? Was a great debate and had a lot of action in a short amount of time. Forums get off topic all the time. There were quite a few good suggestions some usa and some foreign. For a young guy starting out there was tons of info. Personally i wish id known about some of the different...

Knipex pliers wrench to not mar exposed or finished nuts is a good bet. Some real nice cutters maybe for the brake lines. My bosch 12v is perfect for me due to its light weight and small size for access. Bionic wrench demos showed them using it on spoke nut bec that was a nut that was...

I buy a ton of us products. I buy snap on, i buy channellock, i buy wilde, etc. Some are better. I prefer my channellock linesmans to my knipex linesmans. I by no means buy preferentially foreign. The point i was getting at in my posts in this thread is that if there is a foreign product that...

German, taiwanese and chinese jobs are every bit as importand as american jobs. Im all for american jobs but not at the expense of all others. People complain about the chinese being able to manufacture so cheaply and that they only pay there workers 15 cents or whatever it is but neglect to...

Well said durallymax. Complete agreement here.

Any thoughts on why flathead screwdriver heads generally have a taper on them thats wider than the blade width? Strength or mfg process used to make em?