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I'm not up on the specifics, but the address printed on the roll should help define some kind of date range (for the roll, at least, cause hey it's Sears)- looks like they lost naming rights to Sears Tower entirely in 2009 when Willis Holdings Group assumed them, but hadn't been in the building...

I've only ordered from HJE maybe a half dozen times, and never any bulky stuff or really common stuff I can recall. I just resign myself to the idea of paying for shipping and don't worry about it... it does remind me of buying mailorder in the 80's over the phone from a paper catalog, and...

My wife has a basic dial gauge that holds pressure in her car, and it's kinda neat... I like using it on the odd occasions I do. I could see it being useful if you needed to show someone that their tire's low or something, or if your mobility is limited or you've got a weird access problem...

I'd expect the other US- made Danaher brands would also be pretty darn close - Allen, KD, NAPA, maybe Master Mechanic, and maybe Easco (older, and might have a knurled nand, don't recall ofhand). I'd swear I've got a Craftsman 21mm deep 12 pt in 3/8, and will check when I get home. I don't...

I'd guess the majority of them were... I'd also guess that only Jori knows, if he's concerned enough to parse it out, and it's his business... My order wasn't really technically an Epstein's Day order - I forgot to register for that special pricing etc beforehand, and didn't want to be that...

I would, frankly, be stunned and stuff, if Apex was doing that... :willy_nil good eye Fed!

What don't you like about it lardy1? I don't have any newer Gearwrench ratchets (I've already got a bunch of ratchets, and really don't like Apex), but the GJ consensus from several mechanics and whatnot seems to be that the 84 tooth have less backdrag and smaller heads than the 120XP, and are...

Order 7025 went in at 11:59 their time, I think... I needed some more wrench rolls, and of course a bunch of random little add- on stuff- a couple more Bonneys, Osborne needles, an Enderes prybar, a sap, a mystery bag, that v- belt punch I don't really need for $3, that short Wilde prybar...

Been looking at that today while distracted by a toddler, and can't find a pattern. Looks like the satin 45 and 75 degree offset wrenches in satin finish in SAE and metric have dots in front of some part numbers/ size combinations... but the dots don't correlate to being available or not in...

I really like the forged K's in diamonds and the logo font... and the quotation marks! The smaller one looks a lot like a check nut wrench.

Huh. Never thought of it that way. I mark stuff left handed, or transfer the tape to my left hand when I'm trying to be really precise . Most of my tape measuring is takeoffs and verifying plansets and whatnot, not marking cuts, though.

I'd probably choose door A, because both of my cars are Japanese makes like Junkdrawer Dog mentioned, and you get longer wrenches. I always err on the side of too many wrenches, though, and would just buy a full set spaced by twos (8x10, 12x14, 13x15, 16x18, 17x19)... but I really like...

A lot of the older US tapes I've owned had big arrows involved, makes it a little more obvious. It's never occured to me the tape should be marked upside down- I hold the tape measure in my right hand and run the blade with my left... seems normal to me... :dunno:

I'd guess it's a US market wrench made in China in 2018. The AH is a date code. https://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?p=7737539 edited to add: I also don't know what the first A is for, but assume it's a plant code for whichever factory or company was making the wrenches...

It's a full set because it doesn't skip any sizes, which seems to hit a chord for some folks and is how Tekton is marketing their new socket line. Isn't skipping 24mm and including 26mm kinda nonsensical though? I'm not saying that 8mm and 11/32" impact sockets are important, but that's a size...

Yeah, this, IIRC all the Simpson earthquake retrofit lag bolts have 5/16" hex heads and wide open access. You can run impact screw bits with one too.

Let us know how that goes! It's never even occured to me to heat metal that's in wood, seems like extra work for no gain and a lot of potential downsides. End nips are the single tool that gets this done. You can practice on the easy end grain so you've got a good feel (gripping without...

Nice RHFT ratchet! If you don't need it back to work right now, you could try soaking the head end in ATF, WD-40, or whatever you've got laying around and letting it drain after spinning the drive stud a bit. An ATF soak has helped a couple of mine, but they weren't locking up. If you take it...

FWIW, I just bought a 10mm Heyco combo wrench from KC Tool in Kansas, because it was cheap and I have a compulsion to buy 10mm wrenches. They listed the country of origin as Ireland (see JBH's post very recently about KC Tool and COO from customs docs), and the damn wrench says Heyco Germany on...

Triple- caught is the worst kind of caught. I'm stunned you're recommending the Snap- on, given all your complaints about how FD+ snags on bolts and prevents that wondrous wrench- flipping so central to the Snap-on combo wrench design. :dunno: :lol_hitti Wright Grips are great wrenches.