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I need to pick up a bottle jack and was looking at the harbor freight 20 ton. Has anyone used one or have one? Do you like it?

I have a 1/2 snapon click type I got from my grandfather but it's lowest setting I think is 30 ft/lbs I want to get something for to cover the 0-30 I can't get to for working on my 4-wheelers. Can anyone recommend a good one that I won't go broke buying?

I got a snowblower from my grandfather but I don't know much about it and I am having some issues. It is a tecumseh euro 8.5 I think it is yard king. Any way for some reason the first 2 forward gears make it move in reverse. Every gear seems really slow after that also. It seems like only the...

I want to build a welding table where is the best place I could find some square tube?

Just wondering how these welds look. I just got a hobart handler 140 and love it just not exactly sure what to look for in a good weld. Have been doing a lot of research though. This is the first time I have ever touched a welder of any kind.

Has anyone ever ordered mig wire from welding direct. The only have 1 brand and it is the cheapest I can find. Just got a hobart handler 140 and I have a lot of practicing to do

I want to get a 1/2 breaker bar but don't want to spend a ton. Am I just asking to break my hand by buying a harbor freight one or are they decent?

I had a thread started maybe a week ago about buying a new compressor, well I was actually givin one today. The person it came from had not used it in years was just sitting in a shed. I brought it home and plugged it in turned it on and it came right to life. It did not sound like it was...

I have 2 old snap on ratchets I got from my grandfather, not sure how old they are but they look and feel pretty old. What I wanted to know are there new internals I can put in these that have 80 teeth rather than the ones that are in there now with about 15 teeth.

I was looking to get an air compressor for my home use just for occasional use. I don't have 220v so it would have to be 110v. Is there anything out there worth getting for running an impact or air ratchet here and there? Home many gallons would be needed and hp?

I was thinking of getting a 33 gallon compressor for my shop I'm just going to run impact guns and air ratchets stuff like that. Is this size good enough. The reason for this size is I only have 120 power source. Anyone else have one, and how do they like it?

Are these tools worth spending mOney on. I was thinking of picking up some impact sockets.

if anyone has a 13/16 open/box combo wrench they want to get rid of please let me know pm me please

I got a used matco pro Formance series box about a week ago and the guy I bought it from lost the key. So today I thought I would take out the lock cylinder and get a key made. Well big mistake, I started to take out the lock cylinder and realized I had to take the bar off that runs to the back...

i am new to mechanics actually just getting into it. i have been reading as much as i can on here. there is a tun of great info i have already leaned alot. my question is i know snap on makes blue point how much better are the snap on tools compaired to the blue point line. there is such a big...

I just picked up a match box over the weekend. I got a pretty good deal on it. One of the drawers feels a little hard to pull out. I wanted to try and clean the tracks. I am new to the world of mechanics and this is my first highend box. I am excited to get it working like new and loading it up...

i have been in the market for a new box. well used but new to me here is what i found do you guys think its a good deal. i was going to go check it out sunday http://hudsonvalley.craigslist.org/tls/2732513982.html

i am new to the mechanics field im just learning. i know of the other big brands like snap on, mac, matco but i have never really heard of sk are they comparable to the other big brands. i have been looking around and finding them used and they seem to be alot cheaper.

i have been reading on these forums for a while but this is my first post. i have been in the market for a new tool box so i was looking around on my local craigslist and found a mac mb1700 base with a mac 1410 top. the guy is asking 2000 for both i wanted to see if you guys thought it was a...