Wish I had money.....
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No kidding. That is a nice matching set.
I'd be tempted....except I just bought a generator to deal with a 55-hour power outage.
Dammit, I hope someone buys that soon. I am drawn like a moth to matching sets of nice tools.
Uncle Buck
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Would indeed be nice to add those to the box. I have always liked the way the handled ratchets looked; but I always wondered if they might be difficult to get used to?
Fedwrench
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That's a great set. Too bad I already have 3 of the ratchets. Those handles are my favorite. They're comfortable, clean up easy, and the same as found on some Mac ratchets.
rsanter
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if I had money I could have bought so may good deals that I could have sold to make some money. then I would have money so I could buy good deals that I could sell to make money.
bob
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Uncle Buck
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Wow those look great and would look even better in my tool box. But I have to say no, I have developed quite the tool addiction lately. Most recently it has been air tools.
Are proto's lifetime warrenty? If so where do you take them?
-Dan
Are proto's lifetime warrenty? If so where do you take them?
-Dan
Wow, 55-hour outage ... SF Peninsula had a 28.5-hour outage and I'm considering a generator too ... Which one did you buy?
Merkava_4
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PROTO comfort grip ratchets
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I bought a "Champion" 4000/3500 at Kragen Auto. It is a Chinese clone of a Honda, just like the ones HF and everybody else sells.
Before you flog me, consider this. I have a Honda EB5000X here, it belongs to a friend of mine. He got it in some horse trade and dropped it off at my place because he couldn't get it started. I have messed with it in the past with some success, but the carb is shot. I pulled on it for quite awhile Friday afternoon and gave up. (Power went out about 5AM Friday).
By Saturday morning, I realized that:
a) My freezers were thawing.
b) PG&E was overwhelmed by the number of downed lines, and restoration wasn't coming soon.
c) With over 100,000 customers lacking power, generators were going to be a hot item, so I had better get moving...
I had seen the cheap generators at Kragen in the past, so they were my first stop at 7:30 on Saturday. I thought it was odd that they were already open, as they don't normally open until 8AM.
I asked about generators, expecting to hear "They're all gone", but they had three left. The manager, after selling out of them on Friday morning, rented a U-haul truck and went to Sacramento (in the height of the storm) to pick up more. He got 36 of them and stayed open until 11PM Friday. By Saturday morning, they were all gone but three.
I loaded it in my truck, stopped to fill a 5-gal gas can and headed home. After filling it with oil and fuel, it started on the second pull. It did very well running my refrigerator, two freezers and submersible pump. I kept going out to check the fuel, but it ran all day yesterday and today until noon on a single filling.
There are ZERO generators available here today, and lots of people still without power. No "D" batteries on the shelves, either.
Sorry for the hijack...but it's good to be back...
Generators are so cheap these days for something small and basic, I wouldn't be without one if we had much risk of losing power for long, but my area is all under ground power, so we rarely have any trouble.
Now this might tempt me.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=190187933701
Now this might tempt me.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=190187933701
Charlie's68
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i bought the 6 piece set for less than that about a year ago off of ebay:
they are nice, and i use them heavily.
they are nice, and i use them heavily.