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Looking for a set of these...if I can upgrade from this it would be great. Thanks. PS: The larger sizes not needed but OK if with the set.

My april fool's joke on myself today was to purchase a small Honda generator. (YES I know it's more expensive than the competition. I wanted the clean waveform for potentially running computer and radio.) Question is this: If I plan to not use it for months at a time, what's the best way to...

Found this ol' tool in my Dad's stash...what is it? is it a "hand vise?" What's it for?

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/MMQXCQD I had a lot of help with this one. I'm not terribly familiar with service & warrantee issues so I appreciate the help. The options to the questions were suggested by the forum members. If you don't see an option here you want, then you must have missed the...

There were a number of people who wanted non-USA ratchets surveyed, and a few more US brands were also elected for survey. While the main ratchet survey is now closed, the new follow-up ratchet survey is now open: https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/R6HQP9T Here are the results of the previous...

Next survey will be regarding satisfaction with warrantee and service for hand tools from main brands. Prefer to test MAIN brands, not every possible brand. However, if your favorite brand is missing, let me know NOW, before I post the survey in an upcoming thread. Complaining that your brand is...

So I had to reactivate my SurveyMonkey account for a client, and while it's live, may as well use it to pick up some tool data. You've already seen my Wrench Brand survey, and my currently running Ratchet Brand survey. What should my next survey look at? Give me some ideas. May as well use my...

Calling All Ratcheteers: I have re-opened the American Ratchet Brand Survey after a several year hiatus. There's a relatively comprehensive list of ratchets here...you may see some brands that are new to you. Have at it, fellers! https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/98BD5V9 I'll publish the...

Went to a swap meet near Huntington Beach last weekend and was shocked to see these new Bonney metrics in buckets...started salivating...usually large numbers mean cheap prices. As I'm picking out a set I ask how much. "Teen dollars." I asked "Ten dollars for how many?" He said "Teen dollars por...

I promosed Bull, a year ago, that I'd publish some photos of tools restored with a vibratory polisher. So this weekend I headed to a Los Angeles mexi-mart and picked up <$40 of tools for the project... - a sweet little Snap-on box, for which I overpaid (could not help myself - $30), - a...

I shouldn't have bought these, 'coz I have no idea what they are. Maybe some type of battery terminal plier? Can one of you historians please tell me what I purchased, here? Notice the much brighter metal on the visible handle...same on the other side, too. Looks to be a different type of...

Thanks to the 158 GJers who've taken the Wrench Popularity Poll since 2009. That's a very respectable sample size. With this much data, we have a relatively stable view of what the GJ population (and perhaps tool nuts in general) are most and least interested in buying. This data is useful...

In my "away" box I have a set of full size Combo wrenches (it's my backup Pebble Plomb set). That box is getting awfully heavy. I would like to replace the full size combos with a set of stubby (non ratcheting) combos. I am looking for a brand that's in the middle of the "cost-to-performance"...

Ran this Vintage Tool Brand Survey years ago when it got 86 responses. Reported it somewhere in an old thread. Just recently reactivated my Survey Monkey account, and decided to open the poll again. Get some fresh data. https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/98GWM5D This survey was originally...

Now I won't have to get up, to go anywhere... http://www.youtube.com/watch_popup?v=cuIJRsAuCHQ

Anchored at home all day due to a sick kid, I thought I'd do something nice for the wife. She's been having internet problems at her desk and we narrowed down the problem to likely a bad ethernet cable running under the house. (Decided to run ethernet to the kid's room at the same time). So I...

10am this morning I ordered $10 worth of screws from McMaster Carr. They were delivered to my office at 3pm. I was terrified...I figured they must have chartered a military rocket to get them here...there were no shipping options at checkout and there was no price given for shipping...it just...

PRICES LOWERED JAN 4 & AGAIN JAN 6. First person to post "I'll take…" below, gets the item. Please follow up with a PM. Add shipping for USA, $5.50 if fits in a flat rate box or envelope. Small items ship to Canada with small flat rate box for $13. Larger items will go next larger flat rate...

Latest Realtor magazine publishes national (and regional) costs of various additions to the home. Here are the National average costs on the addition of a garage, for discussion. Add midrange garage: costs $60.6K, resale value is $35.8K. Add upscale garage: costs $90K, resale value is $48.2K...

Does anyone know what that silver, sort of "ice crystals" pattern on your typical electrical handy box is? Is that a galvanized coating? :headscrat I need to know because I intend to oxy acet weld on it. I understand that welding galvanized is a no-no.