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This was year sixty for a local fire departments fundraising auction. They take consignments from the community and spend Saturday with four auction wagons selling for, in this weekends case, eight hours. I’ve made it to three quarters of the auctions and am always struck by the amount of old...

Pressure blasting is the term I’ve heard used to describe introducing abrasive media into a pressure washers stream to strip rust or paint. Thinking about it now, I’ve also heard it called dustless sandblasting. I have a new to me Trail King equipment trailer with badly flaking paint due to...

My monthly trip to HF today yielded a cordless Hercules paddle switch grinder in the clearance section. It appears to be unused and is another tool I wanted to test out for employee use. Before I used it I wanted to see if lubing the gears would quiet it down some. I’ve opened up my M18...

I forgot to look during my last monthly trip to HF, but is it possible to buy two 27” cabs and make one all deep drawers for a power tool cabinet and make the other almost all shallow drawers for a poor man’s Lista copy for small parts storage? I’m only interested in the narrow cab for this...

I’m working on organizing our parts room today and I’ve misplaced my tape measure a dozen times. Silly problem but I came up with a quick fix for myself. I took a small HF magnetic hook and drilled the back of the rivet/threaded part. Then shaved the small ridges on the back of the tape measure...

Are there any texts that reference formulas and practice for elevated slabs? Are there so many variables that only an engineering firm can calculate the design? Asking for a friend.

I’ve bought several CAT ratchets and all have been Snap On so far. Last year I came across CAT part number 468-5748 that showst an FLF80 in the book. I called to order one, price being marginally less than SO thus not a great bargain, and found them on back order. I called again in December and...

Maybe we’re looking at tool manufacturing all wrong. What if Williams is doing a Toyota/Lexus play? Williams says to themselves “we build really nice tools and we want to make more on them. Nobody knows us and won’t pay super high prices for our stuff”, so they buy Snap On to use the name...

Forgive me if this topic has been discussed recently, I didn’t find specific threads on it. We’re pricing our options for an 80’x80’ equipment shop for our business. Our current shop is a 38’x76’ wood building, 16’ walls and as of this year, fully insulated lean-tos on both sides. It has one...

I bought this GW kit maybe ten years ago as a Christmas special, 29.99 iirc. I love kits and this one had it all. This kit still lives in the suv for quick fixes and emergencies. Hopefully HF will see this and do a “meme tool mk III”. HF kit for scale. I did buy an empty Icon 3/8 socket kit...

I have a high school aged kid that’s going to be helping me part time on taking apart and scrapping some small equipment and pickups. All the work is going to be done outside in the elements and I’m not lending my good tools to the cause. I want a 1/2 impact, grinder, and possibly sawzall. In...

I missed the new release buying opportunities for the Forge batteries last year. I don’t specifically need more m18 batteries but I was intrigued by the pouch cell design in the 6.0. IIRC, the 8.0 and 12.0 were tabless cells. I’m still seeing bogo deals on the two larger batteries at Home...

I have to jump vehicles on at least a bi-weekly basis. Almost all are 6.0-6.8 litre Diesels up to 10-15L trucks. All have at least two batteries, some three, a few have four. Some are low when I need to start them and some are stone dead. My go to for at least the last decade has been to keep...

I found this ratchet in a wonder box last week. The socket ejector setup was a new one to me. There isn't a release for the detent ball but there are two pins, one on each side of the drive that push a socket off. The Google is almost completely silent on this particular unit. I'd be interested...

I'm in the market for a used scanner. I'm looking at SO because that's about all that's available used in our market and I have past relationships with the Snappy guys and they are the only serious game within 50 miles. No Matco, Cornwell, not even used OTC scanners have shows up on CL or in...

I made a pawn shop purchase of a pretty large set of Milwaukee Fuel tools; grinder, 1" sds drill, circular saw, sawzall, drill, six bay charger, and several 4.0 batteries. None look beat up but the sds drill, sawzall, and grinder have quite a bit of concrete dust sticking to them. What works...