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My warranty claim was denied . These were a pair of wire cutter, 8" or 200mm long. They are like little bolt cutters. Pretty heavy duty. Anyway I chipped the first 1/8" of the end of both blades . I dropped them off at the store and after a couple of weeks the representative came by . He said I...

I'm excited. We are going from 100amp to 200amp Thanks to climate change, central air is now needed in the summer . Last summer we had over 40 C, we were hotter than Los Wages for awhile. My 2car garage workshop had three 220 circuits wired in when we had the house built 35 years ago, a...

I went looking for a 12 pt to fit 12mm square. Since I was welding it, cheap was fine. A Princess Auto and a KMS tool store only had 6pt in 3/8" I guess the world is converting over.

The other day I was using a die grinder to open up and grind round some trailer spring eyes. Maybe 30' of 3/8 hose. This might be the first time I've had much of a problem wet air. I have filter/ water trap at the compressor. What are some cost effective (read cheap) solutions. I'm not planning...

I went to use my digital electron caliper and it was flashing. Dead Battery. This time no spares. And the battery wasn't even a dollar store special . EverReady I think. I've had enough of constantly picking up batteries, so when I was in KBC picking up a reamer, I got a coolant proof Mititoyo...

Look what I found at the fleamarket today http://vintagemachinery.org/photoindex/detail.aspx?id=16576 One I found isn't as pristine, base is a bit rusty, but it is identical . When I hooked it up, it ran quietly . $20 and the change I had in my pocket, three loonies and a couple of quarters...

I have a inline Craftsman from the dawn of time. It's an awkward 6", there are no commonly available discs . Being inline my hands are high up, so it pulls. But there are times when a disc sander is the perfect tool for wood. 10,000 rpm of the mini grinder or 7,000 of the full size seem a...

I removed the alternator on my '08 Dodge 6.7 Cummins and thanks to GJ suggestions these tools made the job easier. Isn't that what tools are for. A long 1/2" flex ratchet for the tensioner. a hose pick for the air hose(the air box gets removed) and a 1/2" dr 6 pt 15mm after the 12pt 3/8" dr...

He has posted a vid about a couple Stanley ratchets failing. You know, the black set of 400 or something for $99. If you are looking for a truck set, it might be worth a pass.

Where are Facom tools sold by Granger Canada made ?

The combination wrench design we know was standardized by Plomb (Proto) about 90 years ago, As a standard mechanics wrench that happened about 70 years ago. I get that 70 years from an old Gray catalogue that included combination wrenches in their big master mechanic tool set for the first time...

A lot of the posts center around this question. Some make it simple, just buy Snap-On. Thanks to reading far too much on this forum, I find I don't have a wrench for 18mm bolts so I need a 27mm combination. I'm in Canada, so my chooses and price will be different than yours. Google my friend has...

Again I'm annoyed with a tool company. This time it's Gearwrench/Canadian Tire. I bought a set of stubby ratcheting wrenches on sale for 60% off , $35. Good price. It's missing 17mm and 19mm. In over 50 years of pulling on wrenches, 17mm has been one of the most commonly used metric. It'll cost...

Combination wrench length over the years seem to have gotten longer, in the <3/4 or 19mm anyway. As a millwright, I used a Gray set from the '80s.These were the same length as Proto, Craftsman, or Snap-On of their day. On my last job, 6 years ago, my tools might have gone missing so I picked up...

Years back I picked up a made in USA 1/4" socket set from HD, just for curiosity, who made it.

When I picked up a larger sized an engineers' wrench at the fleamarket, I thought they weren't the most useful of wrenches , being on the short size for the bolts. I use one on my quick change tool post and that is the only time I have used one outside of the 1/2 x 9/16.

I think that's the name for open end wrenches. I'm only 71 and outside of one on my quick change tool post, I can't remember ever using them. I have two sets in my working box and I'm collecting post war Gray. They seem to me as being rather short in the larger sizes . Were they much used ? We...

The fleamarket has opened. I found a nice S-K 15/16" socket, from the '58 to '62 time period. In the set I bought, one socket was split and welded. Might have been the 15/16 ? I thought.. A common size to break. I get home and it's the 7/8:bounce: 9/16 bolts were very rare on the machines I...

I'm not sure if the time frame matches. When you buy a common Taiwanese wrench the shank is rectangular in shape . The first time I saw this was on some MAC wrenches the other millwrights had. This was 1979. The sawmill had burned down and the company supplied new tools. So that's when they...