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I'm not super picky but I am looking for a set of 1/2" drive 6 point metric sockets. For example, 10-24mm and I hate sets with holes in them. If you have a 15mm socket and a 17mm socket you'd better have a 16mm socket or I'm the wrong customer for you. In my box already I have Klein, Armstrong...

Disclaimer: this is not a cool vintage machine tool or automotive tool. I bought this at a sort of garage sale and although it is ugly and slightly bent and dented in places, it has newish casters on it and it cranks up and down perfectly smoothly. I think it may be useful putting things into...

Shower heads are in the news. They have apparently been deregulated and are no longer confined to 2.5 gpm. If anyone sees a new unrestricted shower head for sale, please post a link. I want to buy one!

Looking through my stuff I found 2 old steel Makita toolboxes. They aren't real big, about like a lunchbox. I think the old 9.6volt drills came in them. Do these have any value? I mean - do people seek these out?

I've had my eye on a pair of 10" Knipex plier/wrench. I see some of them are finished in black and some in chrome and the latter costs about double the former. Why is the chrome version priced so much higher? What does having pliers finished in chrome do for the owner? Why are Knipex pliers...

I have a decent quality (Taiwan) bit set from 1988 in a blue blow-molded case, hinges and latches long since busted. It's a very nice assortment. Several sizes each of Phillips and straight, hex drive and Torx, integral sockets, drills and a few miscellaneous bits like the magnetic extension and...

I'm trying to find the missing pieces of a Proto puller set. If you have any of this please let me know. 2 of their long narrow puller jaws no. 4017/J4017 Thanks for looking! metalmagpie Kirkland, Washington

I had to pull off a 2" pipe bushing from a vertical air compressor tank. I didn't have any wrench that big (2-1/2" across the hex flats). No big impact gun or big impact sockets. I read up on all the tribal knowledge presented here - use heat, huge wrench with long cheater bar, try tightening a...

ASME air tanks have 2 inspection ports on the side. I think they are 3" pipe thread. Somewhere somebody must make an impact socket to fit the slightly tapered square male lugs on these pipe plugs. These plugs are a holy ***** to remove. The last time I tried I put a 3 foot pipe wrench on the...

I picked up one of these tools today. It is complete including the chuck wrench and the cord is in good condition. The tool seems to work perfectly. It is a Milwaukee model 8600 but it was made in W. Germany by Bosch. Here is a very short video: I know that pricing varies with different...

My mother-in-law spends the three winter months in Arizona. She drives a Subaru. We have discovered over the years that if we leave her car battery connected it goes dead. For a time we used to put the car on a battery tender, but recently we have been just disconnecting the battery cables. In...

I'm currently building a small collection of auto body hammers and I notice that Eastwood sells new Fairmount hammers. These have the same model numbers as the old ones and appear to be the same, but they seem suspiciously cheap to me. I'm no expert in this field but I do wonder if these hammers...

I've been monkeying with compressors this year, and am almost done putting one together. It is a 2 stage 4 cylinder Champion. I read somewhere that if I change the range on my pressure switch from e.g. 120-175 to 90-120 that I can actually get more cfm out of it. I don't really need the higher...

I have an automatic timed tank drain unit. I can see it needs to be plumbed to the hole at the bottom of the tank on one side and the other side goes into a bucket or out through the wall to the outside or something. But how exactly did you mount the unit and run the wiring and plumbing? Please...

I acquired a pair of auto body hammers from an estate sale some time ago, mostly because they looked cool to me. I know squat about hammering sheet metal. One of these hammers was made by Fairmount and the other by Plvmb aka Plomb aka Proto (as the company was called later). These turned out to...

I have been thinking about investing in a set of the new type of T-handle allen wrenches, that have a long stem and a short side stem. I looked in person at an HF store a few years back and theirs looked like bad tools to me so I passed. What do you use? What to the pros use? metalmagpie

I'm setting up a vertical 7.5 hp air compressor. The pump, motor and saddle came from an old horizontal tank that failed hydro. I welded the saddle onto a vertical tank I found that was ASME rated and passed hydrotesting. Now I'm at the point where I have to use both hands to pull on the motor...

I am putting together a compressor from multiple sources. It will run off 220 three phase power, which I generate with a rotary phase converter. It will be used as a second compressor to put into service when the primary one is down, or to add CFMs when I need to do blasting. (It has a robust...

I picked up an old Kellogg American compressor with a vertical tank. The motor had blown years ago and was missing entirely. The tank sits on 3 legs. I'm sure everything is solid and stable with a motor up there to balance things but let me tell you - the combination of 3 legs and top heavy and...

I picked up an old ('70s) Champion R30A compressor on a 120 gallon tank with 7.5 hp motor. The motor is 240 volt 3 phase. I hydrotested the tank and it failed. I sold it to a kid building a big meat smoker. I did cut off the top plate of the motor and still have that. My plan is to rebuild the...