My Harbor Freight sand blaster works great...just be sure to use dry sand and have a good water trap in your air source
Weasel, Yesturday Jdavid51 came by to pick up an engine. When I put the cylinder on my cherry picker I somhow managed to miss the hole in the cylinder and it let us know when we had that big assed 390 up about 5 feet from the concrete. Waslaaaaammmmm. Man did I feel like a usless tool at that very moment. Jdavid didn't get shook in the least, he just said it looked like he needed a different oil pan. Damned nice fella. If someone has an extra 390 pan laying around it would be a big plus if you sent it to him. Probably a pickup as well.
I checked out the link, and man were you right! I never dreamed... But what was even more interesting, did you look at the paint? There are some colors I don't think Krylon has even developed yet!
i work irigation , and one day at harbor fright.. i saw what looked like my dream tool, it was a PVC cutter , lineman's plier,micro spray tube punch , phillips/flathead combo tool... and not ONE MOTHER FUCKING THING ON IT WORKED AT ALL!!!!!!
I've got one of those, but I stopped trying to use it to bleed brakes after the first try. BUT, if you remove the little plastic trap cup on the bottom and zip tie a gallon Ziploc bag to it (or just an extension hose to a 5 gallon bucket), you can use it to remove excess/overfilled oil from a crankcase, drain a radiator, or basically pull fluid from just about anywhere you want before removing it for rebuild/replacement/etc. I use it to prime the filter for my 125 gal. aquarium after cleaning, too. Makes things much easier since it sits up on a ledge 12 feet above my foyer. So it hasn't been totally useless. Just for bleeding brakes.
I spent good money years ago to buy the one and only special tool that removes front strut inserts from a 92 Pontiac Gran Prick......worst.car.ever....
,, wrapping the socket and bit with a short strip of electrical tape works well too - not so permanent.
2. Most anything made in China. The steel they use is either rubber or brick. Cheap normally equals crap.
Shit man I have that exact one and love it! I do a lot of small wiring and can't afford to nick the copper. Super time saver.There might be better designs out there but still use them a bunch.
I have used a pair of Klein 1010 strippers, actually several over the years and am very happy with them. I also use a Klein crimper, a true crimper, not the kind that just crushes the terminal, I have had since about 1984. This is in commercial use on a daily basis wiring cars and truck. They are tools that are not lent or borrowed unless someone is working with me on a project, and the first ones accounted for at the end of the day.
It'll be five years in October that I've been married. I just remembered another tool that is apparently useless... Or at least "without use", anyway. Unless I gotta pee.
On old bicycles (the kind made in USA) the left-handed nuts were those sizes, I guess to make you think before you started cranking on them the wrong way...
Whoever it was that said 'Shrinking Hammers are useless' never used one to tenderize beef. They're the tits for that! Just make sure you put your steak inside a zip lock bag and pretend you're sending a message to people you don't necessarily agree with. Bam! Thud! Whack! Works like a charm.
I've NEVER seen ANYONE ever use one of these "headlights"! Which is weird 'cuz they're just SO DAMN STYLISH too!
Hey! that 19/32 wrench fit the trans mounts on late 70's to mid 80's chevy pickups. The only time I ever encountered a bolt of this wrench size.
How about a solar powered flashlight? I got one of those once from an aunt who I don't think liked me very much.
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