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    Bits for drilling tile

    Milwaukee has some nice bits for stone, very sharp. Don't use a hammer drill, just rotary slow and steady. Marble cuts like butter.
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    Anyone use a breaker bar for lug nuts?

    I use a 4 way cross wrench to break them and a Craftsman 1/4" impact driver to spin them on and off.
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    Is this old craftsman radial saw worth my time ?

    I used one for 40 years, I didn't have a table saw. It never hurt me but it took up a lot of real estate. I went with the $100 recall which at the time involved shipping the motor back to the rebate admin. They supplied the box and prepaid shipping. Gave the rest of the big pieces to a scrap guy...
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    The Harbor Freight PASS/FAIL Thread...

    Well I thought the whole point of a breaker bar is so you don't have to bust your good ratchets.
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    The Harbor Freight PASS/FAIL Thread...

    Was he a musician? There's a pick guard from a Telecaster stuck in the baseboard under the table in photo #2.
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    Harbor Freight Coupon Thread

    I don't see any reason why you can't use it. Buy it from the first clerk.
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    Toughest rattle can paint?

    Plastic is a whole different animal it's problematic to get paints and glues to adhere to it. Rustoleum has a plastic primer in rattle can. Your problem is probably not so much the paint itself but problems adhering to the substrate. If you want to spray bulk paint with hardener without a spray...
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    Harbor Freight Coupon Thread

    That might be the last one ever after it expires. Raised prices,20% coupon greatly limited, no more printed coupons in the newspaper. It's like they think they're a real tool store or something.
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    Harbor Freight Coupon Thread

    No, you can only use one per visit. You will have to go out to the parking lot and come back in wearing a fake mustache to use the second one.
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    The Harbor Freight PASS/FAIL Thread...

    I bought a Rigid a few years ago and it saved my **** on a jammed door lock on my truck. The actuator rod dropped and jammed and I couldn't remove the inside panel because I couldn't open the door. It was like laproscopic surgery. That said, if you need a borescope, I would forget about both...
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    Harbor Freight Coupon Thread

    If you mean the monthly slick paper catalog, the one I got today has the 20% on the back cover.
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    Organizing breakers

    I drew up simple floor plans of each floor and put the breaker numbers in their respective locations on the maps. Drawings in plastic sleeves are held inside the panel doors with magnets.
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    General ratcheting technique question

    My set of Craftsman ratchets from the late 70s early 80s has a knurled spinner wheel built into the back of the head. I don't use the set much anymore because of the low tooth count but I do miss that feature. I'm surprised it is not a feature on more modern ratchets.
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    lighter/mini torch

    I have a Blazer that I bought mostly on looks alone. Use it for any heating needs where a small concentrated flame is required. Heating small nuts or screws for loosening, even use it to pre-heat a weld sometimes. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B002PEVGPC/?tag=atomicindus08-20
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    The Harbor Freight PASS/FAIL Thread...

    Did you ever try to unscrew a bent screw? That's what that's for.
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    The Harbor Freight PASS/FAIL Thread...

    That's the type of set you could pick up in any department store going back 50 years or more even before China started making tools. First socket set I ever owned. Always came in a metal then later plastic case and always came with the plastic spinner wheel.
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    Portable Table Saw Options?

    99% of table saws have a 10" blade, I wouldn't consider a table saw with anything less, and I can't see the point of a cordless table saw.
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    220' pull

    Slip a piece of lubed hose or plastic flex tubing or conduit over the pull rope and down into your conduit far enough to go past the 90. Rig something to hold it in there. If it starts cutting the hose you can give it a quarter turn
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    Starter Toolboxes

    Yeah, i have a speed square but rarely touch it. I always reach for the combination square or 6" machinists square. I suppose if I was building houses I would find it more useful.
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    Files ???

    When I was a youngster before I had all the fancy power tools I have now, fabricating any metal part I needed meant hacksaw then file to final shape. Whew, but I had a lot more energy then.
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