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I have eight Snap on cabinets KRA 3025 I have aquired over time and at the moment they are all in a line on my garage back wall. Which works fine but I now need more room. So my question is can I take the wheels off of four of the cabinets and stack them on top of the other four? Is it easy to...

Had a pt Cruiser sitting around doing nothing so thought I would make a van out of it. This is my first real attempt at a major project and I am very pleased with the results.

Here in London the olympics have really overtaken normal life, there are special olympic athlete and officials only car lanes. Shops near the stadiums cannot get deliverys during the day. But all that does not matter because the games have gripped the nation I have never seen anything bringing...

I have just spent a week with my nephew to see if I wanted to invest in his business, now he is a great plumber/heating engineer with every qualfication available but I could not believe how much of his time is run by gadgets!! I have just turned fifty and I am been lucky enough to be retired...

Has any one ground down a normal socket extension bar to make a wobble one.

Fed up with carrying my welders out to where I need them so decided to build a welding cart, Luckily my wife runs a mobility store and I had a old disabled scooter laying around which I stripped down and so had a perfect 4 wheeled chassis with suspension and steering. I then turned the steering...

Has anyone changed the wheels on a floor jack to larger and maybe pneumatic ones, I often use a floor jack outside on a gravel drive and would like a jack with higher ground clearance and easier to roll. Any ideas?.

I have a construction company and we work all over the world mainly building restaurants and every two years I take on two apprentices. One will be a Carpenter/Joiner and the other a Plumber they will be learning for three years and attend college one day a week they will also learnto be...

Please forgive my ignorance in this but why do some of you use electrolysis to clean old vises and similar. what is the advantage in this over a wire brush, scraper or other mechanical .:headscrat

Had to share my bargain I got off ebay, it's a vintage "Britool" barn sided cantilever toolbox with carry tray. It's in good condition and the only one I have have seen, it came with the tools you can see, a few Gedore and Williams superslim but all too rusty for me. I got the lot for the...

I have lots of small magnetic parts trays/dishes which I use all the time but now I would like some large ones and I have some large metal roasting trays which would be ideal if i could permantly magnetise them. So how can I do it???

Are Snap on Euro better than Blue Point ?? could any of the wise men tell me because I have a couple and they just don't feel right.:headscrat

I have wrench's and sockets from most quality manafacturers including Snap on, Britool, Mac, Proto, Gedore, Facom, but I have no Japanese ones and knowing they like quality equipment, I wonder if I have just missed them. So what I'm asking is there a Japanese snap on equivalent.

Why are all the new tool handles becoming the soft spongy or rubber type? I can see they look good and feel good and would be great if your in construction but doing mechanical work they get dirty too quick and are hard to clean especially compared to the hard handle type. It's probably just me...

Forgive me if you have seen this or there is a thread about it, but this is cool I found it on Jesse James site and it was a gift to him!!

While at a car show here in London I bought these at a stall selling old tools the 14" bolt cutters are made by H.K.PORTER Boston and have a patent date of 1923 but dont know the actual age of them. They look and work fantastic the other buy was a wire stripper made by PYRAMID of Chicago with...

Hi I am constantly in awe at your guys ingenuity and skills!!. I thought I would add my small effort, after using store bought shop stools and finding even the best makes not very mobile or sturdy (I'm a big guy) I decided to make a comfortable easy moving strong one made to last. First the...