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I've got sunnex, grey pneumatic, DeWalt, proto, snap on, HF, northern tool, Astro, Capri, craftsman, and probably 5 other brands. Buy whatever is cheap and available. The guys at work typically lose impact sockets about 100x more often than they break them so we started buying DeWalt stuff...

A chop saw would just be misery for your primary saw while framing. Shoot just what you loose in not gang cutting adds a ton of mistakes and time.

I've used the M18 fuel 7-1/4" saw we have at work a lot and if I was invested in that platform I would buy one. If I was buying corded then I would buy a mag77. As it is the only time my 77 comes outs is if I want to do demo work where the cordless safety nannies get annoying. Otherwise my...

We used a lot of lista cabinets when I was in the oilfield as tool boxes in mobile work trailers. While the drawers probably don't open and close as nice as say my krl they aren't any worse than the vidmar and Lyons cabinets we have at work now. They saw a lot of abuse and made 5-10 years with...

I saw a video where they said they were for use as a backup wrench when you running an impact or at least that's what the guy who came up with the concept wanted them for. Personally I figure they make sense in an environment where you do one job with one size wrench over and over again. I...

We have been buying gear wrench, wright, and DeWalt at work for ratchets. They seem to work fine, they don't get nearly the use anymore with battery impacts being the preferred way to turn stuff though. A couple of our contractors have switched to almost exclusively Icon for hand tools and...

I've carried a leather PST 2 or wave for 20+ years now at work. It fits my pocket nicely, means I always have a set of pliers, a knife, a file, a screwdriver handy. I wouldn't mind someone making a really slimmed down tool for going out but it seems like they only make those with gimmicky...

It happens, generally if I can plan the repair I'll buy the tool ahead of time but I also 2-3 drawers full of ratchets, sockets, and accessories that I try to use when I can even if it doesn't make sense. Theres lots of other tools out there, no sense spending it all on 47 different types of...

Every time I do a job at home and I start cycling through all of those cool to have sockets/wrenches I often wonder could I have just got this fastener taken care of the annoying way in the same amount of time as it took me to find the trick tool. Every once in a while the trick tool was the...

Somewhere between 30-50, I used to buy every cool old ratchet I saw. Now I only buy one if I have an immediate need and have started giving away others, turns out DeWalt/Milwaukee makes something that fits my hand way better than a ratchet.

The 1/4 ton ones are super handy for pulling and moving stuff around. Having gone through 10-20 of them at work I would buy the harbor freight ones as they are about as good as the CM or anything else at this point for 1/3 the price. After that the one ton units get a lot of use. By the time you...

If I was doing primarily sheet metal I generally prefer Lincolns because they seem to have a softer arc but I've never ran an inverter Lincoln wire feed. Consumables, the farm store down the street from me sells a bunch of the normal stuff for either brand despite only selling Hobart welders...

They aren't particularly hard to make spin in bigger sizes. We have a dust collector at work that uses them to retain the bag cages to the tube sheet and every time we work on them we end up replacing several. For the right application they are handy though.

I would go with the langmuir personally. I bought the tracer for our table at work and I think I'm the only one who used it (I just did it to try it out). With software like inkscape you can take a picture, scale a known dimension in cad and have the picture traced out probably faster than you...

As my grandpa said. Tools shouldn't get in the way of getting the job done.

I've got some HF deep impact swivel sockets that are handy for suspension work when you want to use the impact rather than break out a ratchet. Not necessary but they were $20. Not working on cars I've modified a lot of sockets including, cutting, grinding, boring them out, welding on them and...

Every time I see a thread like this I wonder if I work on more stuff than the average bear or just bring more tools to the job. I'm also a big fan of not buying tools that you probably won't use but 1/4" shallow and deep sockets don't really fall into that. Interior work other than seats and...

Unless you need them for odd ball fasteners you can probably get away with 3/4 sockets in roughly 1-1/8" to 1-7/8" (maybe 2) and similar metric values.

I really like my CP714 but they aren't much cheaper. They trigger isn't as good but Astro Thor is pretty popular for the price. There is also buying a used 7x rivet gun. They can be had pretty cheap and have all the hitting power but you can also back off when you need to.

I have a big box full of tools but in my tool cart I move unused tools out, latest is going to be 3/8" chrome sockets, I rarely use them and it would free up a bunch of space. If I put my metric wrenches and 1/2" sockets in my cart I would be able to do like 80% of the stuff I do but that last...