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Amazing what real money can buy. Medical stuff is generally real money when new, and a different universe from a $200 new homegamer toolbox. The good stuff is addictive.

We have a power station of another brand. We bought it to keep the internet stuff and background music and even a few LED lights working seamlessly when the power flickers or goes out for a few hours. It has been flawless for that. I wouldn't dream of trying to use it for resistance heating of...

I barely managed to move a Rubbermaid 7x7 about 50 feet with the attached plastic floor. Twisting was a big problem. It was repeatedly close to blowing apart from the twisting. I would expect a bigger one without a floor to be considerably more difficult. I would want to have at least a full...

I have plugged sidewalls with some success, and a few failures. I don't know that I would do it on a freeway vehicle but I wouldn't hesitate on my trash hauler.

I have used a fair bit of that and I concur.

Wife and I wore silicone ones for a year or two. We never found any that we really liked the look of, and we just stopped wearing them, realizing that we didn't care if anyone else knows that we're married. We know, and that's enough.

I clearly didn't pay attention to the first pic where it is standing on the floor near a chair!

Looks a lot like some specialty valve adjusting tools I've used.

I have tried 3 different aftermarket nicad or nimh batteries for my DeWalt 18v stuff over the years. Each of them were the highest-rated on Amazon at the time. None of them had more than half the actual runtime of the originals. I'm debating whether to try lithiums from Amazon or take my dead...

Depends entirely on the quality of the included tools. A stamped steel open end wrench that is little more than sheet metal? Probably straight to the scrap bin. A crudely finished but forged combination wrench? Probably into the bin of crummy tools that are destined to be bent and beaten into...

I use one of these https://www.harborfreight.com/replacement-wheels-for-the-120-volt-circular-saw-blade-sharpener-98862.html on a threaded arbor on a spare electric motor. It has held up really well for several years. I only use it with tungstens. It's a little coarse for my preferences, but no...

In contrast, I was delighted to sell my transformer welder after I got an inverter TIG machine. But I have never needed a welder to hold up to severe service. I'm just a home shop guy, and the inverter TIG is far more versatile than the Hobart AC/DC 225 stick welder.

I grind my tungstens with this. I don't even remember what it's supposed to be for, but it's at least 5 years old and it was really cheap. I don't use it for anything else. And it's seen a lot of use, because with essential tremor, I dip a LOT.

I have one of those. The bail clamps the lid down hard. It's not coming off accidentally.

I have a 36 inch bench against the wall. I use the far 6 inches or so as a place to keep shop chemicals, parts trays and the like handy. I built a small shelf above that for cordless battery chargers and the most often used cordless tools. It works very well for me. It would be a bit of a...

How long ago was that?

I have a 48 inch one that I welded up a frame for and added cattle panels to front and back just to protect dog noses and tails. I also put it on wheels. The fan pulley is a lot bigger than the one in that photo, so the fan turns pretty slow & quiet. It still moves a whole lot of air, but not at...

Just one question: Do you have an assistant named Kato?

Being a Sluddite (semi-Luddite), I'm not ready to trust anything really important to AI yet. Given the rate of change implied in offshoots of Moore's Law, that may change by next month or next week, but then again it may be quite a bit longer. Flaws can lurk for a long time in out-of the way...

Nice deal on decent quality tools. But DeWalt 18v batteries are unobtanium. The 20 volt adapters have to be disconnected before the tools are stored, otherwise they will permanently kill the 20v batteries very quickly. In my unpopular opinion, DeWalt 18 volt tools only make sense if you can...