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You have a secret stash of hammered blue paint, or did you buy your own? I just paid an unreasonable amount of money to legally import a few pints of Hammerite Hammered Blue from the UK this spring, and I hope to never pay that much for paint ever again.

usually engines designed for higher octane fuel get a knock and notably worse mpg if you put low octane fuel in them. obviously this only matters on engines designed/tuned for higher octane fuel in the first place. anyways, our life is surrounded by choices of buying more durable, efficient...

This applies to almost everything in life. If your vehicle gets 15% better mpg on premium high octane fuel, and it costs 11% more than regular octane, your vehicle is spending less on gas even though the initial price is higher. This is such a simple problem we deal with every day, but folks...

Benchmark Abrasives has plenty of roloc options

Just looks like a regular H frame puller that someone cobbled together to do some other task. Between the anvil and the v shaped pad, it might have been used to push something off a pin. I'd probably just keep the H frame, source a new lead screw, and toss the rest. I mean, realistically I'd...

I'd be using a torch and a GripEdge or RBRT T45. Alternatively, Mayhew square extractor. If those don't work, welding a nut on gets almost everything out.

the above ratcheting wrenches are a nice idea. Just get one of the old style Snap-on ones off eBay for like $20, dedicate it to this job, and when you get done give it a nice spraydown of WD-40 and then throw it in the used oil can for a day. Seems like a combination wrench and a ratcheting...

I have the Snap-On ones and they're so annoying that I should sell them. RE: @mikey03 above, that's exactly what happens to me. They come loose and wobble when I need them to stay, and they get jammed on and locked straight when I'm trying to wobble. This is especially bad with the 1/4" ones...

kind of a new development, but yeah, they're close enough to one-size-fits-all that the next time I build a starter mechanics kit as a gift I'll probably only include semi-deeps

Yeah there's a few things I definitely don't like about Tekton, namely the way they constantly discontinue things (hard handles :() and the way they include a ton of useless sizes in their sets (you basically can't buy a wrench set from them without 6/7mm anymore, sizes I will never ever use a...

who actually watches this drivel? it boggles the mind.

It's getting to a point where I just use semi-deeps for everything if they fit.

I mostly own Snap-On, Wilde, and Tekton. I'd still probably buy Snap-On because I like the handles so much + the ridiculously strong shank on the 54" prybar, but I'd certainly consider Wilde-made Tektons because of the warranty. I bent the hell out of a 17" Tekton at the junkyard recently and...

hard handles are better handles. mi-USA is actually not very important to me, but hard handles sure are :)

Alternative, I just don't buy screwdrivers from Tekton anymore. "I don't like" certainly means they won't get sales :)

I don't touch a grinder without either the UVEX Bionic or my welding helmet on. I also use it for all kinds of other stuff - metal cutting saws, using a sawzall in most scenarios, cutting with an air hammer, working with my hydraulic press. Pretty much anything where I already know my face and...

I still think it's absurd that they didn't put nice Witte screwdriver blades in their existing nice red hard handles, just to be clear. I'ma stay mad about that. I really liked those handles.

• Eye Safety Prescription Safety Glasses. I wear ArmouRX. Full wraparound coverage and comfort. • Ear Safety 3M Peltor. I sometimes wear 3M foam in-ears underneath. • Face Safety UVEX Bionic faceshield or my ESAB Sentinel A60 welding helmet. The UVEX Bionic is incredibly comfortable, I wear...

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it's so funny knowing how quickly after this post they cancelled their US made screwdrivers and went to 100% imported Witte ones and got rid of literally Tekton's best product, their hard handles. I really want to like Tekton, but they make one bad decision after another. Their customer service...