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NUTTSGT

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Was at Menards again tonight. I'm planning on going with I bigger air compressor in the enclosed trailer and thought about putting a quick connect on the countertop.. so I need a short hose. I figured this Flex Zilla whip would work.

Also spotted some quick connects for $1 each and grabbed 5 of them.

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A few things from Black Friday sales and beyond. First up, HAZET 916HPLG fine tooth extendable 1/2 drive ratchet. This thing is a heavy beast. Next up, Craftsman V series pliers wrench CMht82250. Last up, Ko-Ken RS3015M/8-L62 ring grip metric bit socket set 3-8, 10, 12 mm sizes. quite a price difference on this set, shop around. Ko-Ken 2137 hex bit holding socket, and a 2120 magnetic attachment for their 1/4 drive flexible driver/extension.
 

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Squankum said:
Heyyy.... that steering wheel isn't NHTSA-approved.

... and not easy to procure! I had a hell of a time gettting Superior to make me up some 10-inchers and 12-inchers for our Tillicum store ... had to almost swear a blood oath that they wouldn't be liable for anything ... finally got them in .. no maker's name anywhere, of course. ...
$99.99 a pop out the door ... sold out in a week! - bk
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Got myself a liquid level from Speedway Motors. Fairly well made, brutally simple.

Bought one of these years ago for a friend of mine and his corner balancing scales for his race car preparation, which is how they're marketed. Price has crept up since, and I'll be using this for some landscaping/drainage work.

Black bases are solid plastic with female threaded holes for the brass barbs.

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This baffled me for a while, then I checked the Speedway website and the flakes in this vial are dye for the water. Last time we just used yellow Prestone windshield washer fluid.

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Two downsides to this: on each tube, an inch is half an inch of distance. Also, potential meniscus effect affecting an accurate view. But it's fast and easy and gets you pretty darned close with ease.

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I never had luck with liquid levels.... I always had a RABID air bubble in the hose that messed up the measurement. Thankfully lasers came out and work well. I needed "Balls ON" accuracy...
 

NUTTSGT

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Wait, there's a NAPA wrench thread? Oh no...

Mike
Not a true NAPA wrench thread but discussion about it.

 

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OK, file this under "impulse buy"... But it could be handy. I do a lot of IT/electronics diagnostic stuff, and it's handy to know voltage/current draw (or current output capability) of certain devices. Normally I would use a meter and a butchered USB cable. But this handy-dandy little inline voltage/current reader is only the size of a flash drive! Very handy, and it was on clearance at Menards for $9.95. I saw the package and I thought "USB Multimeter, huh, where do the probes connect?". I thought it was an on-screen actual multimeter. It isn't that at all, but it's still neat, and totally worth $9.95 to me.
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I tested a few of my chargers with my phone attached as a load:
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I was kinda hoping it showed volts and amps at the same time, but it switched back and fourth about every second or two.
i have a fancier one of these, which also does USB C, showing voltage and current (and power) at the same time. It's very handy to figure out if somehting is charging or dead, dead, dead, and to watch power draw over time. I don't use it all that often, but knowing what a device that's misbehaving is doing is worth the price of admission (it cost about $30 at a phone repair place, but they're readily available online.)
 

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So I put a bid of 19€ on an online auction lot at the weekend which I won so I collected it today. The description was “Tool box and contents” but is was the box itself that caught my eye and I could see a soldering iron on the top which I needed. The box seems to be an old military radio or battery case and I was pleasantly surprised with the contents which I would value at around 150€. There was a small Nippy engineers vise in it along with everything else.
Your purchase seems to be of British origin.

Yes, the box is a battery (or ”accumulator”) box.

P & G were Pritchett and Gold, once Britains biggest accumulator manufacturers, better known by their trademark “Dagenite”!

The contents are all things commonly found in the U.K.

The box is probably worth the €19 on it’s own.

The copper grease is a very good anti seize grease that’s excellent in damp conditions, but works equally well in the dry!
 

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Hope you got a discount, what with those being damaged so badly in shipping.

Are those not needle-nosed?
Not Needle nose

Needle nose:

I went looking at one of my Harbor Freights for those today and the dude said they must have been stolen because, he couldn't find them :dunno:

He went on to say that people stole the Icon stuff as fast as it went on the shelf.

I might have to bite the bullet and order them online. :wtf:
 
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