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All good info. Thanks.

I have one of those vises, but it's marked Sheldon, not Wilton. I believe Sheldon was primarily known for making woodworker's vises. How or why is not known to me, but clearly there was some sort of collaboration between Wilton and Sheldon on this vise.

It's not CROW. It's ERON. It's their version of the quick action drill press vise.

This was close to forty years ago, so details have faded with time. But to my best recollection, it did not damage anything else as it blew out towards the open space in the middle of the garage. The garage door was open. The explosion caused the compressor to bounce off the wall behind it and...

Blasphemy!!!

My first upright air compressor was bought pretty well used. It sat just inside my garage so I could use air tools in the garage and fill tires etc. outside. I was fortunate I was outside when it exploded. I can tell you that's an experience you don't soon forget. Being young and stupid, I...

I'm shocked it took this long for someone to point this out. The name kinda says it all. Impact drivers are essentially souped up screwdrivers. Impact wrenches are souped up socket wrenches. You need the right tool for the job.

As someone who works a lot and works on things a lot, I find it nice to engage in impractical exercises from time to time. Although my projects tend toward the whimsical, I applaud your ingenuity.

Absolute garbage. There are many reviews and videos that demonstrate such.

If you're in it for the long term, the Graco Ultra QuickShot might be the way to go. It's cordless ( uses Dewalt batteries) ) and designed for smaller painting projects like furniture and cabinet painting. But it's sure spendy...around $1500 as I recall.

The answer lies in the fact that nearly every picture on the Ryobi website shows it as a shelf and not a workbench.

I've has a NOCO GB70 for years and it's never failed me.

Generally speaking, storing things vertically provides maximum space utility within drawers. For example, you can increase usable space in your socket drawer by storing the rails upright. The same goes for things like wrenches and pliers. There are many good systems for doing so, but it often...

I actually disagree with this. Although there are sellers who think their rusty junk is made of gold, I've had great success at flea markets and garage sales finding really good items at reasonable prices. Sometimes even "great deal" prices. It really just depends on how much time you want to...

I recently purchased that set of ratchets on sale at a great price from Advance Auto to replace some Gear Wrench flex heads that "mysteriously vanished" from my travel box. So far, I've been very pleasantly surprised.

This.

You'll never go wrong with DeWalt. The big box stores regularly have many types of sales on their tools that can make the price of entry pretty enticing.

There are literally dozens of those sets on Amazon and other places that appear to be exactly the same except for branding. I have a set that is functionally acceptable and much better than the wood blocks I used to make for the same purpose.

I'm going to go with...none of them. If, after 15 years, you haven't had a use for any of them, you likely never will. Ha!

Parker made a line of "semi-steel" vises, but it wasn't an alloy. A steel bar was embedded in the spine of the slide. Ductile iron was invented in 1943.