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I've exchanged many Milwaukee batteries that have failed prematurely and I have at least 50 Milwaukee tools and probably 75 M18 and M12 batteries. My most recent purchase was the new high speed 3/8" drive and ¼” drive ratchets. I bought these ratchets because Milwaukee makes a high button...

I have the ICON metric reversible ratcheting wrench set and I like it a lot. One of the reasons I like it is that the wrenches are really long. When they recently introduced the big wrench completer set for this I was willing to put my $199 on the table and pick it up. Then I looked into the...

Once upon a time, well like six months ago, if you just waited Milwaukee out you could get some very attractive deals on their M18 tools other than the endless drill/driver ******** listings you still see. Is there anybody on Earth that still hasn't got a drill and impact driver. I've got at...

Well, It's happened again. I was on Amazon buying an Irwin tap socket/driver. This is a tool with a tap wrench on one side and a 3/8" drive recess on the other so that it can be used with 3/8" drive tools to tap hard to get too holes. I brought the item up on screen and the famous YOU LAST...

Maybe I'm too old school but these seem really odd to me. OK so they don't roll, but, isn't catching a rolling socket before it goes off into oblivion one of the small joys in life? Get off my damn lawn (actually, I have rocks) you square socket.

I've found out another interesting thing about Toyotas. Two of my friends have multiple copies of Toyota trucks and one of them was removing the heads (or trying to) from one of them today to take it in for a valve job. No knock on Toyota the thing has 200,00 miles on it so no harm no file...

OK, as some of you know I had to buy a new Toyota Camry because some jack-off kid wrecked my Hyundai Sonata. Yea, that was sad and tragic but life goes on. So I've now got 1170 miles on my Camry and I just changed the oil. My belief is that the first oil change is the most important since that's...

The best transmission man on YouTube is Hiram Gutierrez. He is THE DUDE. In this video: at 15:14 Hiram whips out an all steel ball peen hammer that I've never seen before. Can anybody identify who makes this hammer for me. I have a thing about ball peen hammers and this one looks really neat.

As many of you know I am not an American flag waver. If S-K dies I don't care. If Snap-On dies, as long as I sell my SNA stock before it crashes, I could care less about those bandits (although they do make me money). However, if something is made in the USA and is without a doubt the best there...

I keep seeing the recommendation of using what amounts to a modified hockey puck on a floor jack and rubber pads on jack stands for lifting a car that had to be lifted at the pinch welds. I don't see the point so if somebody does please tell me what it is. First off the grooves cut into said...

It pains me to say this but I really, really like the quality of the Doyle Pliers being sold at Harbor Freight. I've bought several pairs and I'm surprised at the quality I'm seeing from these tools. I have the electricians pliers, the diagonals, their 12" Cobra copies, and their 14" curved jaw...

I have about 20 or so torque wrenches and I like to use them. Bought a new car, a 2021 Toyota Camry with the 2.5L, and I can't find a torque spec for the oil filter. DO NOT REPLY BY TELLING ME 3/4 OF A TURN AFTER THE GASKET MAKES CONTACT. I don't give a **** how much of a turn after it makes...

My 2016 Hyundai Sonata was destroyed by a 17 year old ******* going 100 mph on Happy Valley Road. That sucked. But I have a lot of Hyundai/Kia maintenance parts that are currently useless to me that I'm willing to sell the entire lot for $50. This includes: 10) OEM Hyundai oil filters. 1) WIX...

I've got a **** load of torque wrenches. Easily at least 20+. Eclatorq and Gearwrench digital with and without angle measurement and an equal **** load of clickers from everybody from Torque-Tech to J. H. Williams to AC-Delco to Precision Instruments split beams. Now I understand the inherent...

Conventional wisdom is that you use a torque wrench to prevent OVERTIGHTENING of fasteners. What I have actually seen in practice is that normally technicians UNDERTIGHTEN bolts and nuts. An example: A friend of mine is a motorcycle madman. He's got about 10 of these mostly Honda dirt bikes...

Normally, we get a whole load of new tools from Milwaukee at their big party in Milwaukee every year but with Covid and all this year it's all virtual and I completely understand that. Problem is the tools that have been introduced this year sort of well basically ****. A couple of foot pounds...

Has anybody figured out a way to overcome the problem of using a Milwaukee cordless Portaband with a table such as the Swag. How the hell do you overcome the problem of needing to use a tie wrap to hold the damn trigger down while you're using this saw as a stationary band saw? Is there an...

These 50-100% price hikes at Harbor Freight are insane. Did Eric Smidt suddenly develop the worlds' worst coke habit. I'm stunned - This can't be for real, but, it does seem to be. Did he forget what made Harbor Freight Harbor Freight?

Like most of you I've got a zillion ratchets. But my all time favorites are the Williams B52 and the flex head version of the B52 and I have several of each. These have round heads and I just like them better than the pear heads so prevalent these days. Anybody else on my side of this?

I love torque wrenches and I have a ton of them. I've even sold torque wrenches but something I have experienced for both myself and many of my friends is that NORMALLY people UNDERTORQUE stuff a lot more than they overtorque stuff. The exception to this rule is impact tools. But, if using...