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Can anyone tell me anything about this pair? Thanks.

According to Wikipedia they are the largest privately owned tool manufacturer in the USA. Their giraffe logo is cool, reminds me of the Lobtex lobster logo.

I recently purchased a PB Swiss Electricians Chisel and I have been happy about the quality. It was only $20ish dollars too, on DRPD.

Late reply but Mike is awesome. I messed up a $150 PB Swiss order (gave him the wrong address and the package got lost) and he immediately said “Well, we’ll have to eat the cost but we’ll send out a new order for you.” It was a birthday gift for my son’s godfather, so it meant a lot.

My parents had one of these, hated it. Guess I’m stupid. But not as stupid as the Kohler “engineers”.

This summed things up perfectly. I did however buy a pair of Snap-On 6” needle nose pliers on eBay that had literally six scratches on them for $25 plus $3 shipping, I plan on having them for a really long time and seeing as they are the price of 1.5 fast food lunches I think it’s a good deal...

My wife recently asked me to put together a toolset for her to use around the house. I figured that if I feel I’m entitled to spend OUR money on nice tools for myself, she deserves nice tools as well. This being said, I’ve been instructing her on proper use and care of said tools. She has...

Darn it, I’m going to have to get this. (I’m on the couch with the wife who is watching tv and holding my phone at an angle because is she see’s tools she will go “Do you really need more tools!” Lol I kid, she is a good sport about it… most of the time)

Late reply, I grew up in Los Altos, but this is what the architecture looks like north of Redwood City I lived in Sunset District when I went to San Francisco State University, it looks like the home I lived in. Also I just want it say, OP you are living the dream. Wish you the best.

For home use I personally think you can get away with having multiple battery platforms/brands because your garage/shed is only a minute away. For commercial use, like at my work, it helps to have a unified battery platform. We use Milaukee, and it’s nice if say, the battery on my impact goes...

I’m really sorry to hear this. I just hope no family members or pets were injured in the blaze. Best of luck to your rebuilding what was lost.

This isn’t an expert opinion but I would assume it would be easier to do the wire runs before the foam.

Today has been a good week and a nice little haul of German and Japanese tools came in the mail for me. I got: Knipex 8” Forged Wire Strippers Product #13 72 8 They have a great hand feel, very smooth operation, and their stripping/cutting abilities seem great. I was able to cut through 1...

That’s what I’ve always used, I get a little nervous filing the cut pieces though, one extra swipe and it can cut in too much. Besides that it seems to work well, except for when a piece goes flying and I end up having to use the plastic equivalent. I never though about using a rounded #10...

That’s awesome. Wish you the best of luck on your restoration!

That smell is caused by butyric acid that comes off of the Cellulose Acetate Butyrate used to make certain screwdriver handles. Butyric acid was first extracted from rancid butter by the French chemist Michel Eugène Chevreul. The word butyric comes from the Latin word for butter: butyrum...

Thank you for the suggestion. Do you think they would work well on brass photo-etch? Photo etch is thin pieces of brass used in scale model construction (I.e. the engine compartment grills on a tank, antenna on an airplane, etc).

This post reminded me of something, when I was a kid (probably around 2002-2005) my father, an electrical engineer, did some consulting for Snap-On’s diagnostic tool division through a friend of his who worked there. I remember him telling me he was doing consulting work for “Snap-On Tools” and...

As much as I would like to deny it, yes the marketing often works on me, however with high quality tool companies their reputation wasn’t built solely in a board room, Knipex, Snap-On, etc have decades (sometime even 100+ years) of high quality manufacturing, metallurgy, and “battle tested”...

Thanks for the reply. I do solar installation and I myself use a Klein d275 for copper wire and copper wire only (10 gauge and below), so I’m afraid I would never be able to justify the expense to myself or more importantly, my wife. 😅