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My shop has finished walls, and I do a significant amount of metal work. Apparently my drywall screws have become magnetic and are attracting any airborne metal not captured by filtration. The weird thing is it's not everywhere? Any inexpensive/portable way to demagnetize the screw heads...

I consider my compressed air setup pretty decent but suddenly am having issues. Any large consumer is releasing water vapor at rate that is unacceptable. This setup has been in service for 10+ years so I am typically fluent in its abilities and fully understand that hot air holds water vapor...

I am rebuilding a steel flatbed with rust jacking between the floor and crossmembers. Both are being replaced. I am sure from new they were just bare steel with powdercoat on what could be seen which lead to failure. My fist thought was to prime and paint everything and wirewheel where the...

I have had absolute hatred for the M100 gun I put on my 252 for sheet metal work. It's ridiculously stiff and always wants to coil/bend and not lie straight. For lack of a better description It's like it has a twist internally. It's significantly more unwieldy that my 200 and 400a guns which...

I recently picked up a KTL1022 that needs drawer liners. $350 off the truck is not impressing me much. I use a lot of magnetic organization so a thin liner is ideal as would be one without a lot of texture. Original liner thickness is about .050" so something in that realm would be great. I...

I may be making this up, but was there ever a blow molded case for the CJ2002 puller? The only thing the plastic trays are good for is taking up drawer real estate to encourage buying bigger boxes lol. At least Horrible Freight did some thinking with the Icon knockoff and its nice case.

I found a thread here from nearly 4 years ago that Tekton had started roll marking as well as laser marking impact sockets. Looking at their site I see a couple examples of this, but the bulk majority of impact sockets pictures appear to be laser marked only. Have they just "not gotten around"...

I have yet to find an wall mounted exhaust fan (24" ish) that is suitable for a conditioned space. Most have visible air gaps closed and will open in winds. Even with a good seal it's still a large portion of a wall with an R value of zero. I am in a climate with cold winters and humid...

I recently picked up a Coats 70X, For what I paid its been a fine machine. I cannot get the onboard bead blaster (nozzles on the plate not the aux cheetah on a hose type) to work. By working, it will physically blow air in great quantities as it should but does not seat a bead, ever. The...

I would like to be able to balance lug-centric wheels. The adapter from legitimate companies is stupid expensive, but these likely chinese knockoffs are all over ebay for about $120, which is much more reasonable to me. Anyone use one of these adapters before? I am not following exactly how...

First off this is not a blanket statement, I own far more Knipex, Wera and Wiha than I care to mention. I buy a lot of machines from Europe and they always come with a toolbox with an obligatory set of double and single open end wrenches. Common brands are USAG, Beta, Unior and a few others...

I have an old "soul less" ultra I used for quick and dirty jobs. It's been a tank but when I went to use the other day it it's stuck with some multi language message that it does not have a SD card installed. I popped the card out made sure everything was clean and still nothing. I can get...

Well my $77 auction balancer apparently has issues. Everything at its face works as it should with no errors. I have a couple (probably) known good balanced wheels that when balanced will say they need weight. I can then rotate the wheel on the shaft 180* and it will say a different amount...

I have outgrown my shop and its not likely I will put an addition on this one. I have/am accumulating much more "shop" tools like a brake lathe, tire machine and balancer as well as all the other big **** thats not being used every day like engine stands, door holder jack, topside creeper...

I picked up this balancer today. I think I did ok on the price, yes it works lol. Still searching for a rim clamp machine for it to be friends with, but that will show up eventually It came with an "B" and "C" cone but most of the junk I work on has a larger hole diameters but OE is a little...

With the cost of rotors lately I picked up a brake lathe at a very reasonable price. Its a Accuturn, I believe a 8922. It unfortunately was lacking some of the bells and the cones for hubless rotors. I knew before I bought that the adapters from the OE were expensive so no surprises. I...

I started off with a set of the black handled SO drivers in the 90's that started the decomposing trend we all are familiar with. I was between dealers for awhile so most of my drivers got banished to a ziplock bag as they were too nasty to work with and the fumes were actually removing the...

Last summer I went to use my rotary laser level and had all sorts of problems with false alerts from the detector making it essentially useless. I figured it got dropped or whatever so I purchased a replacement at $130. Right out of the box that one did the same thing. I contacted customer...

I am currently using Ernst stubby racks (rebranded/copied by countless other mfg). I can only find them in forward, does another company offer something similar in reverse? https://www.ernstmfg.com/5074-GRIPPER-Stubby-Wrench-Organizer-Red-10-Tool.aspx

I wanted something a bit different when I built my shop. I am on epoxy all day so I kind of didn't want to look at it at home. I like epoxy but it does have its limitations for a working shop. I already owned the equipment to grind the floor and liked the look so I did this "small" floor as...