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A flub blade flashlight in my back pocket and the 4" Proto 704s wrench on my keys gets me pretty far, but since my oldest boy "borrowed" and misplaced my SOG EOD I have been a bit out of sorts. Since I am ordering a new multi tool I thought about what to replace it with and how horrible the...

The west wall of my old mortise and tennin barn is in rough shape. It's the long walk of a lean to addition of the main barn that was a milking parlor when this place was a dairy farm. Lots of bits of broken siding and the bottom edge of the old wood siding is rotting out. The sil plate is...

I frequently use a torche to drop interference fit parts out of housing and need a fan to cool them down quickly, it would also do double duty to move some air around my bay during the hotter parts of the summer, so a squired cage is less than ideal. I have been borrowing an M18 leaf blower...

I frequently have to cut through 5mmx20mm copper posts at work, I have been using a rotary tool for this, but the dust is definitely annoying and not conducive to some of my goals, I thought about getting a multi tool if there is a blade that would be up to the task. Do any of you have any...

My mother gave me an M18 hackzall back in the spring, thinking it worked with my M12 line. I didn't notice the mistake until the other day, well after the box got tossed during the business of summer. I am pretty deep in the Dewalt 20v for bigger tools, but love my m12 stuff for their size and...

I found a "John Deere" service cart browsing the locals used market, I know most of their boxes are made by Montezuma, but this doesn't look like any Montezuma product I'm familiar with, and I can't figure out what else it might be. I'm also unfamiliar with JD ever releasing a service cart...

Found these in a community box at work, no idea why the hell someone would take these to the grinder instead of turning them in for a warranty claim. They are completely unusable and ground unevenly.

Blue point hammer fall out of one of my late father inlaws tool bags moving stuff around. Any idea how old this thing was to crumble and come apart like this?

My dad was over the other night and while we were talking he was looking at some of the photos I have framed on the wall that I took and suggested that I try to sell prints. While I am fairly proud of some of them, especially the black and whites printed on metallic paper, most of my stuff are...

I recently got transferred to the fancy building at work and they told me to leave my old boxes and tools behind. After a few months of working out of another departments spare Lista, they are finally building me my own work area and told be to get then a tool list together by next Friday. My...

I need to make some new storage in my garage, primary for tires and motorcycle parts. The garage is currently all open studs, with no ceilings, so I have some vertical space I can work with. I would like to build a short (24" deep) shelf above the overhead door. It is located on the table...

Just found this little guy on CL and got him home last night. He lived in a sign makers shop for many decades. The only semi readable plate was the GE motor plate on the back. After some work with ATF and White Scotch Brite and red rags I have it identified as a Hamilton Sensitive Drill...

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Moved in about 2 years ago, and I'm finally getting far enough ahead on the house to start thinking about how to finish out the garage. I really want to get some sheetrock and insulation up on the walls, just to make it nicer and to close off the drafts. I know that the majority of heat loss...

Over the weekend I set out to clean up and organize the garage in preparation of redoing and finishing the shop this fall. While I was sorting and cleaning my socket drawer, I was amazed by how many duplicates I have, especially of different brands. So i started taking down an inventory of...

Let's face it, that stack of leather and plastic in your back pocket is a tool. We use it to carry, protect, and organize our business and legal dealings. Sadly it tends to get used far more often than most of us would like. My current let isn't long for this world, so I am starting to look...

I am getting ready to move my shop space and need to clean out some things, and since I work for THE MAN now and don't spin a wrench for my dinner I don't need some of this junk. So I am selling my Ethos Scan tool. The Scan tool: Ethos EESC312 237SEN-001784 Works great after I put new...

I've been out of the wrench spinning game professionally for a bit, but I wanted to update my old Ethos. When I tried the auto update through shop stream it told me that my build (7.2) couldn't be flashed through the internet. I did see that Snaps has a setup to rebuild the pre 8.2 units...

I picked up a press at an auction the other day, and while it seems like a nice unit I have never heard of the company. I though you guys might be able to shed some light on this for me. This guy has seen its share of use of the years and I would like to recondition it before putting it in its...