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Yikes. I wonder when/if carbon fiber tanks will be affordable enough for consumer compressors.

You wonder who in the hell imported so many tools and how they ended up in one warehouse. Heyco never had a big market in the US, right? Maybe they were meant for trunk tool kits in cars? They use double open ended wrenches in those kits.

NASA. https://climate.nasa.gov/

Like I said, we'll pay for today's consumer paradise on the back end. Nature charges interst. When the full force of the Holocene Extinction hits, billions of those people who developed a taste for Coca-Cola will migrate to the global North after their cities become uninhabitable due to...

Is this a safe space? Sorry, didn't mean to upset you in any way.

Saved a bunch of links for when the slides on my KRSC430 took a dump. Turns out Snap On uses the cheapest slides on the market and charges 6x as much for a Snap On logo cardboard box. Great business model. https://www.cabinetparts.com/c/drawer-slides/side-mount-drawer-slides...

At what cost though? All of those Chinese (and soon Indian) products are steaming their way across the ocean in thousands of cargo ships that emit as much CO2 as hundreds of thousands of cars per year each and there are no environmental and labor standards to speak of in China, except for...

Re: Wicked Fast Router & Dremel Bit Organizer Trays Using Dadoes (instead of holes) Take this thread and the video down, patent it. The People's Republic will still steal it but at least you'll be able to prove it was your idea. An idea for improvement, use HDPE or silicone as material and...

Re: Wicked Fast Router & Dremel Bit Organizer Trays Using Dadoes (instead of holes) Some guy in a Chinese factory is taking notes. Coming soon to a Harbor Freight near you.

I lust over those things. Really an ingenious design. How much did you pay for 'em and what's the backdrag like? I've done stupid things like used Gearwrenches to counter against an electric impact. Think the SKs would stand up to that kind of abuse?

They cheap out on everything now because no one gets paid enough to afford good domestic tools like back in the 1960s and 1970s. The laser engraving on the new Mac pliers is so shallow it's barely legible after a year of use on mine. I wish the engraving was real like on your old schools...

The Mac guy definitely tried to steer me and the one other young guy towards the Expert line of tools because they were more affordable and the big *** grab bag sets like the 10 piece set of pliers to fill out our toolboxes. He sold it to me as a "weekly special" for $140 or something. For a...

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One way to find out...

This was the first set of tools I ever bought off a tool truck because it made me feel official and "part of the brotherhood" or whatever. It came with a bunch of "bonus" pliers as a BOGO come on. Then I saw that video about the Doyle pliers a few weeks later. Felt like a sucker. Like a...

That's awesome. :bounce:

Pull the top off, blast it with Black Beauty or something else that will aggressively cut through it and respray with Raptor Liner. Raptor is nigh indestructible and the finish comes out nice and even on your first try. Goof proof. Won't crack or chip. You can put the tops back into service...

Highly recommend getting rid of the wire and trying a Power Probe PPSK. It's variable up to 125W equivalent for about the same price and size as a good 40W plug in. Paid around $45 for mine on eBay. Once I tried butane, it's hard to go back. Not having the cord makes it so much easier to...

Is it a compound setup or is it just two tanks sitting next to each other?

Good example. Gold IR231 for $250 + shipping OBO. Looks like new. https://www.ebay.com/itm/125th-Anniversary-Ingersoll-Rand-IR231-Impact-Gun/312269333742?hash=item48b4b3e4ee:g:k5kAAOSwiJhbx1~t I read on their website it's some special electrostatic gold plating process. Not like getting your...