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Mike, I hope this isn't out of line, but in the large scheme of things Jeeps are quite a small subset of current vehicles, and they are now Stellantis vehicles, which makes them a subset of a subset. Exclusivity works both ways.

In contrast to other posts, I'm going to assume that Hougen is out of budget. Try to find something that can run really slow with decent torque. I haven't run across one either.

I somehow had the impression that you were going to glue the melamine to the steel plate. If not, that's a whole different scenario. Sounds like you have a plan.

Not a dig at you or anyone in particular. Just an observation about the strangeness of the 10mm socket memes that seem to me have pushed out odd things like the sets of a bunch of different kinds of 10mm sockets, or the bulk packs of one kind of 10mm sockets.

Here, let me make you feel older. In the old books I often read, engineers often wore grubby khakis, and surveyed rail lines, and pounded stakes with hammers, while designing the Brooklyn bridge or locomotives. The progression from that to CAD designer is actually mostly inevitable. Those guys...

May not be so much chemical as biological. Never know these days.

I wouldn't be a bit surprised if Stellantis is still using SAE, Whitworth, bicycle threads, and gas/kerosene lantern threads. (Those are all real things) Edit: there are probably also Studebaker Conestoga wagon axle and wagon body threads that some diehards are clinging to.

I know some guys who work on old British stuff that is at least 90% Whitworth. Should virtually the rest of the wrenching world admit that this newfangled metric stuff will never catch on? (Stirring the pot)

And on the Garage Journal, which is all about factories and not cars built in the last 5 decades or so! How dare they!

So, nothing made in about the last half of a century?

Victorinox SD guy here. I realized like 30 years ago that I had never needed to skin an elk that wandered into the shop, or fight off ravening zombies, or cut a burning tire off a magnesium minilite wheel.. As a mechanic, I mostly opened the boxes that parts came in. And the toothpick, tweezers...

Going back to the original post, Diesel fuel stinks and the nasty smell lingers for days, or weeks on clothing. There are plenty of other degreasers that work at least as well and don't smell so much like rotting dinosaur.

I'm sure that @PelicanPines will be along soon to tell a story about nuts and 18" shafts.

The shoplifters have been keeping ahead of the people who try to make sure that all of the items you are paying for are actually in the package when you buy it. I'm pretty sure that the shoplifting thing is now a full-on professional industry, possibly with a stock exchange three-letter designation.

$580 does seem questionable

Yer gonna have to post some images to explain that, because ever since I was a sprout while the crust of the planet was cooling, an engineer's hammer was always basically a lighter one-handed sledge hammer with the same shape of head and a handle longer than that of a 20 oz framing hammer, and...

I worked with a mid-sized one. It was OK, but not at all awesome. Better than the $200-$300 HF cabinets, but that's a really low bar. It still clogged and skipped, despite having a really big dessicant filter. I'm beginning to suspect that pressure feed works better.

Nobody has mentioned pickle slicer?

I don't quite get the 10 mm fetish, much less the folks who have apparently made it their life's work to collect every possible variation of a tool that can turn a 10mm hex head. It's not a religious necessity, folks. I owned maybe 10% of what various posters have been displaying while I was...

Fingers and ankles crossed!