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Tools are spilling over onto shelves. Need another toolbox for the lesser used tools. Thinking about the Series 3 US General. Seems hard to beat (or even match it) it for the price. Can you put a side cab on the 27" roll cab?..... HF says no.... but that may be the liability lawyers. I can't...

Curious if anyone has (informed) opinions on MAC's electronic angle torque wrenches. Awesome?.... Meh?.... Bleh? -Ryan

I'm sure this is a love it/hate it kind of tool..... but I love spinner handles. For some reason, they make me smile when I need one. I think some of the MAC 3/8" ones photo-bombed one of the photos below. I have one of the last USA-made SK 1/4" spinner handles, but solvents have started to eat...

Hi Gang, I've been using ELM327 dongles and various apps for Android just to check stuff on the fly. The wife is an iPhone person, and her car finally set its first CEL (at 170K miles on the Volvo P3). I gotta run out there with one of my grown up scanners (including Volvo dealership level...

Anyone out there have a full(-ish) set of Hazet extra-long combo wrenches? I bought a 10mm, just to check them out. Here it is compared to a Snap-On which is pretty long for a standard pattern. According to the internet, they seem to get exponentially long as the sizes go up. Some read to be...

Hi gang, I'm pretty well bought into the M12 platform. I have a need excuse to buy a cordless ratchet. Does anyone find they prefer the "regular" Fuel ratchet to the "high-speed" or vice-versa? Are the torque numbers (55 vs 35 ft-lbs, respectively) to be believed? When I've used air ratchets...

Another order from Mister Worker came in. This time, a set of Facom flex/hinged ratcheting wrenches (7-19mm, set 467BF)..... and some Hazet things. Some European forum members spoke highly of Facom, Mister Worker has been awesome to deal with, and I needed a new set of ratcheting wrenches...

A friend of mine, a retired Volvo Master Tech, emailed me that he had a rounded nut in a place I know too well. I suggested WrightGrip. He went with Mac's RBRT. Job done. The Mac wrenches were not cheap, but they also weren't the typical tool truck expensive. A day or two later, the Torque Test...

Hi all, I'm looking for a tach to set (and check) base idle on the cars. I like the "clip the pick-up on the ignition wire" style. Quick and easy setup for a quick and easy job. Not sure what's out there anymore, as it's an odd tool to need 30 years ago, let alone in this day and age. I've got...

I need to buy drill bits again. For the most part, I'm drilling steel/aluminum with cordless drills. Not really doing fabrication as much as dealing with broken fasteners or rivets. For years, I've been stuck in the endless cycle of gimmicky drill bits from the local box store: You need...

Hi All, I know this can't possibly be a thing, but I figured I'd ask. Is there a generic kit, or kits, of press sleeves and pucks for pressing bearings and bushings in/out with a shop press?.... or are we left using a mish-mash of sockets, pipe fittings, and scrap bits of metal? Best I've...

I've noticed lately that jack stands are being sold with a capacity for the *pair* of stands, not the single stand. Has this always been like this, and I just didn't notice?.... or is this a new and sleazy thing? I just noticed that Amazon Basics has their "own" jack stands. This is from the PDF...

Here's one for UK/European friends: A friend of mine (retired mechanical engineer), who is a 1980's Volvo (VW) diesel nut and rebuilder of SU carbs, discovered that the hydraulic lines on Volvo CAM steering racks are a Whitworth size. Can you still get Whitworth wrenches? Unfortunately...

I feel like this should be a dumb question. Just looking for a simple digital tire pressure gauge that doesn't leak like a sieve when you put it on the valve stem. Should be an easy thing to find, but the market is just flooded with crummy ones.... that let 1-2psi out of the tire before I get...

I just ordered a new 5" 3/8" drive USA-made flex ratchet from Olsa. I figured why not? I got a little frustrated with my Wright 3440, and I wanted another shorty flex ratchet without detents. Unfortunately, the search engines missed Nepros and KoKen's offerings. Oh well. I like supporting USA...

I have an early Depsetch brand endoscope. You can plug it into a phone or even a PC. The image quality is pretty poor. Blocky, and loads of chromatic aberration. Time to upgrade. I've got a MS Surface Pro that I run the lab scope and Volvo software with. It'd be nice to use an endoscope with...

Hi All, Long story short: Last year around Xmas, our 23 year-old high-efficiency furnace died (heat exchanger, easy diag). No one was available to install a furnace.... and an unbelievable, pipe-burstingly-cold, cold front was on its way in. So, I ordered a Goodman furnace, took several...

Well, curiousity got the better of me, and I bought a Wera 1/2" drive socket/ratchet/stuff kit. It's actually pretty neat. My only complaint is that there's some loose "paint" in the female ends of the tools. The ratchet handle has a bit more length than the standard handles I have here. The...

What do you guys recommend for a set of feeler gauges? Bonus points in they're in a "metric-first" (metric friendly numbers instead of round thousandths).... but I'll go with anything accurate at this point. I have three sets of feeler gauges, and I'm getting different numbers as I set the...

Hi All, I've got sockets and other tools, but find myself needing a flex-handled O2 sensor wrench to get at some downstream O2 sensors hiding in the "trans tunnel" of an AWD vehicle. Anything to look for and/or look *out* for? Thanks! -Ryan