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I just bought a cheap digital caliper and was surprised to see an extra button marked (L/C). Never seen this before so hmm, what does this new button do? Well it turns out it just multiplies the reading by Pi (3.14159...). Ok I get it, you can put the calipers on a diameter and have it read the...

I was assembling some flat pack shelving/storage for the wife today and I decided to add a couple of extra screws on something I thought could be a bit more secure. So I needed to drill a few small holes in some metal brackets. I was in the kitchen and didn't have anything at hand for cutting...

I've noticed that many of the lower cost Chinese drill presses these days seem to have a lot of quill slop. At least compared to older Taiwanese models I've seen. Recently I bought a cheap DP and it runs ok and gets the job done, but it has way more slop than my older Taiwanese one. I thought...

When I'm drilling steel on a DP, if it's a relatively deep hole and I have to peck it (or withdraw the drill to clear the chips), then when I recommence drilling it often feels like the drill bit just dwells for a while and doesn't start cutting straight away. Even when it's just mild steel and...

No joke. Had no milk in the fridge one night last week so I took a quick trip to an Aldi supermarket to get some. Had no intention of getting anything else, but came home with 3L of milk and a small drill press. :o As far a I can tell it's this one (EinHell BT-BD501) rebranded...

I clicked an ad leading to a product on Amazon a few days ago and could barely believe how ridiculous one of the reviews was. The thing that drew my attention to it was that it had just three reviews, two giving the maximum five stars and one giving the minimum possible 1 star. So I just had to...

Looking at small cheap drill presses, I notice that there are two popular styles of slots in the tables. There's the "X" (radial) type as shown in the first attachment, and also the straight (parallel) type as shown in the second attachment. I'm just wondering what particular...

A while ago I bought a box of used drill bits online, mostly to get some larger sizes that I didn't have, but also to have some to practice sharpening on. The majority were just 118 degree regular style sharpened, though some where sharpened to odd ball angles like 90 degrees or even really...

Ryan's explanation of the Green Hammer. Quote from http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=282965&page=4 Sorry HOTFR8, you closed the green hammer thread without providing a link to Ryan's explanation. Your reply implies that Ryan has answered this somewhere that is visible to...

I've got an older 24V nicad drill. It's a pretty cheap **** GMC brand, but I've kept it because it's got a 13mm chuck (my newer drills are only 3/8 or 10mm). Yesterday however it up an died on me. Well not totally dead, it runs as long as you don't try to go full speed. When you depress the...

First up my apologies about the lack of a "before" picture. I wasn't thinking about making a post regarding this issue at the time. I bought a bunch of second hand drill bits from ebay, just to get a few larger sizes that I didn't have and to give me something to practice my sharpening skills...

A bit long winded, but I thought this was an interesting video. I've got to give the guy 10/10 for effort, burning up all those nice drill bits. But some of his technique really made me cringe.:wtf: What do you think?

The instructions on these Chinese nut drivers told me to use "Wite Power" cordless tools. :rolleyes: I only had my green ryobi tools with me at the time, but fortunately they seemed to work all the same. :p

This is something I sometimes come across with old garden type equipment. TBH I'm not sure if it's actually 17/32" or some other oddball size, but it's about 13.4 mm and I've got nothing (neither spanner nor socket) that fits it. Last instance was today when my wife asked me to pull the tray...

Currently I've only got a very cheap little AC stick welder that's pretty crappy. I don't use it a whole lot, just every now and then to (try to) repair stuff. The problem is that most of the time I'm trying to weld something thin and have to have the current set fairly low (to avoid blowing...

This is something I've noticed for a long time and never really understood the reason. I actually had to google what these parts were called (land/margin) to ask my question, so let me ask away. :) Almost every time I've looked closely at black oxide HSS drill bits, the part near the leading...

You grind each edge then stop to take a closer look. One edge is slightly longer than the other. Also, one side is perfect but side the other needs a touch more work. It's always the longer side that needs more work. :o

I just bought a little 4 piece mini pliers set yesterday because they were on sale for a ridiculous price. When I got them home I first thought that the bent nose pair had missed a manufacturing step or something, because the jaws had no grooves or lines or anything to aid grip. They are...

This thread concerns those 1/4" hex driver to 1/2" (or 3/8") square adaptors, like this type of thing: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B000YQ341C/?tag=atomicindus08-20 Looking at some recent threads here I see that some people mostly use their (electric) impact driver as an impact wrench using one of...