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You're right, the tech usually isnt making $90-$175 an hour, but the shop is and if that tech is on the phone searching around for parts, the shop is losing that money. I'm not sure what part of the business you work in if any, but in the heavy side of things i would say my average parts call is...

ditch the wish app needle scaler. If youre only doing a project or two get a harbor freight one, if youre gonna scale more, just buy the ingersol rand 125 scaler, its been the standard at every truck and equipment shop ive been at.

20-30% is pretty much industry standard for heavy truck shops. Even though they may not stock everything and source it locally some sort of mark up is still needed because a tech or shop office guy might spend a half hour getting the run around on the phone with a new guy at the parts store or...

Carhartt makes a nice one that i use alot for road service.

i have an amazing amount of chock full of nuts and cafe bustello coffee cans full of the same problem. I however did manage to keep some organization while i filled them and sorted them by type, or kept a can or two for a certain vehicle i parted out E.G. 1986 trans am, or 1994 kx125. If/when...

Hey guys, i have an older set of craftsman turbo sockets that i find pretty handy, but my set does not go up as large as i would like. I would like to have twists that go up to atleast 1". I've had my eyes on the SK set because i love SK products and they have an easy warranty, but the way i...

I have the same style wrench but made by lectrolite (40's or 50's era), used on 20's and 30's ford car and truck brakes. Mine is marked ford brakes as well. I actually keep this wrench in my toolbox still at work because its handy for hard to access pipe plugs and heavy trucks and machines have...

Definitely do not recommend them. I bought the 6" harbor freight vice and it lasted about 4 or 5 years before the whole jaw and arch part of the vice on the stationary side literally cracked in half. Also used to work for a shop that bought two of the exact ones in your picture and they lasted...

Just saying, Snap On does not make their own torque wrenches. CDI or Precesion Instruments makes their torque wrenches I believe.

Re: a couple of whatsits Haha its a good time to strike for bargain hunters. It's when someone is going to prison and selling belongings that they wont be able to store while they're in, or need to raise cash quick to pay their lawyers/court before they go in.

Usually I'm pretty frugal and don't buy things that I already have 3 or 5 of, but these rules seem to go out the window when it applies to SK:drool: Get a set of my favorite raised panel SK's, 1" to 1-1/2" (missing 1-1/8") and a double box end thrown in for $75. I'd love to have SK in some of...

Although i can appreciate the attention to detail and overall quality of Snap On combo wrenches, i dislike their feel and they downright hurt when you're using them to backhold a stuck nut and bolt combo and you're impacting the other side with a 1/2" or 3/4" gun. On the other hand, i would...

For your hobby use as much as i hate to say it, just buy a harbor freight pump. I was given a 30 year old Big Red brand compressor that needed a pump, i bought the harbor freight vertical twin pump, did the calculation for pulley size vs flywheel speed and swapped the electric motor pulley, then...

This thread definitely mirrors thoughts of my own. I still cant believe after everything Armstrong went through they were closed over 100 years later due to big corporate greed/bean counting.

Cat 3406e motors have a pipe plug going into an oil passage on the lower right side of the block that takes a 5/16" square male pipe plug socket. Usually 1/4, 3/8, and 1/2" get you by.

Given my opinion of the Williams is slightly dated because mine are from the 90's, but both are fine tools, i just think the Wright's are finer. The new wright wrenches are seriously some of the nicest wrenches made, they're so thick and solid that they have absolutely zero flex in the jaws and...

Not really so in the heavy duty world, and i don't work on light duty unless its for myself. Big truck ignition and security is still pretty dinosaur, modern freightliners just use a chrysler truck key blank with no chip involved. Slightly older FLD or Classic freightliners just used the...

I've used the blue point inflatable bag lockout kit and find them very useful, but sometimes customers have their drivers leave trucks places to be worked on and the space cadet driving leaves with the keys so it'd be useful to be able to work the ignition as well, hence my interest in quality...

I've explored their website, but i was looking for firsthand experience on what is worthwhile.

So between lockouts, customers forgetting to leave keys, and having to go junkyarding for older parts, i've been looking into getting jiggler keys to make life easier. I see cheap china sets sold on ebay but this definitely seems to be an area where you get what you pay for, so what brands and...