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HF tool chests are good. Big value for the money. I’ve seen many mechanics with huge snap on boxes use that HF tool cart. Mechanics I’ve seen on YT and TikTok recommend that cart. Some of the Home Depot stuff is supposedly pretty decent as well if you catch it on sale or clearance. Like Elysium mentioned, some HF stuff is a direct clone from the major brands. I know snap on tried to sue them over one of their hydraulic jacks a few years ago. They lost since snap on doesn’t actually make it.
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I got a big rear end husky tool chest for free from the father in law because they are moving to a cabin and have no space for it. It owns because it was their 900$ cart.
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Yeha I looked at those. I have small garage and it's already getting fuller.
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Sun Joe SPX3000 2030 Max PSI 1.76 GPM 14.5-Amp Electric High Pressure Washer https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B00CPGMUXW On sale for $129. Is this any good? I’ve been casually looking for a pressure washer for random poo poo like spraying the moss off the top of my shed and some roof tiles and whatnot.
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Unless your roof is metal, you don't want to use a pressure washer on shingles. It will prematurely wear out the material and can push water into crevices. Best to use a hose. If you use a pressure washer, use a low pressure tip. Try not to scrub too much. https://www.bobvila.com/articles/how-to-remove-moss-from-roof/ I picked up a ryobi electric for dirt bike washing and other pressure washer stuff and it's been really great. Easy to use, quick to assemble and put away and it has a soap hose. I think it was around $150?
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I have an electric ryobi pressure washer not fast works fine no fuss. I have HF General tool cabinets and they work great.
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Verman posted:Unless your roof is metal, you don't want to use a pressure washer on shingles. It will prematurely wear out the material and can push water into crevices. Best to use a hose. If you use a pressure washer, use a low pressure tip. Try not to scrub too much. Our house roof is tile, but the shed is shingled, so this is good to know. Thanks!
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I spent last weekend building a workbench that I am pretty happy with. In process:  Fully constructed:  Starting to accessorize:  I still need to finish the pegboard layout and then figure out what other hand tools I make sense to lay out in that space. Any thoughts on some obvious ones I'm missing? I have ratchets + wrenches in that case on the lower surface and saws + level hanging from nails on the sides. e: for context, I'm still very new at this and slowly accumulating tools. The only power tools I have are a drill and circular saw. Salvor_Hardin fucked around with this message at 03:26 on Apr 12, 2021 |
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Looking good! - Carpenters pencil - some sort of screw/nail/odd little bits storage device, my mind is not telling me the word for this right now
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tangy yet delightful posted:Looking good! Ah yeah, the pegboard hardware kit had some little bin things I could fit somewhere. Thanks!
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Salvor_Hardin posted:Any thoughts on some obvious ones I'm missing? What do you intend to do at yonder workbench? Like, as a woodworker, the missing tool that jumps out at me is "a vise" (not a hand tool, but as useful as any!) and it'd probably necessitate some modifications to the bench. But that's only if that's actually your thing.
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tracecomplete posted:What do you intend to do at yonder workbench? Like, as a woodworker, the missing tool that jumps out at me is "a vise" (not a hand tool, but as useful as any!) and it'd probably necessitate some modifications to the bench. But that's only if that's actually your thing. Ah I actually have a vice but it didn't come with bolts so it's off on a shelf until I pick up some 3/8" bolts. I am hoping to avoid mods but you're right, its not trivial to figure out how to join it. The underside of the table corner looks like this with the rectangle in the upper right representing a cross-section of the leg:  As for use, just low-stakes home projects for now. Past jobs have been a cat tree, picnic table, hammock stand. Next up will probably be a couple of lawn chairs.
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Man I have so many projects I want to do right now with wood while the weather is nice (gets too hot in summer here), but I do not want to pay market price for wood these days.
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tangy yet delightful posted:
A pickle jar.
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Can anyone recommend a mini/precision hot air gun? My impression is that the normal ones aren’t so good for very precise heating, and I’ve got some plastic bending to do (plastic about 1.5mm thick by 20mm wide) where I’d prefer not to heat the surrounding plastic too much. I’ve been using a mini blowtorch but that tends to heat it too much and to flame polish where I’d rather it didn’t.
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Vindolanda posted:Can anyone recommend a mini/precision hot air gun? My impression is that the normal ones aren’t so good for very precise heating, and I’ve got some plastic bending to do (plastic about 1.5mm thick by 20mm wide) where I’d prefer not to heat the surrounding plastic too much. I’ve been using a mini blowtorch but that tends to heat it too much and to flame polish where I’d rather it didn’t. You don't want a precision heat gun, what you want is a normal heatgun and a nozzle attachment (careful they get hot!) https://www.amazon.com/Nozzles-Sold...18225890&sr=8-8 
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Rutibex posted:You don't want a precision heat gun, what you want is a normal heatgun and a nozzle attachment (careful they get hot!) Good thinking! I don’t know why I forgot about them - I knew all about the wide spread nozzles and the ones that let you shield behind a pipe.
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I burned my fingers just looking at those things.
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Verman posted:I burned my fingers just looking at those things. If it smells like fried chicken, you're doing it wrong.
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Seeing those reminded me of the time I was working on my guitar as a teenager. I learned very quickly to never lay a screwdriver next to a pen style soldering iron because they are shaped very similarly and you may just in fact pick up the soldering iron and not the screw driver you were intending to grab without looking. Hearing my own skin sizzle is one of the things I never wish to repeat ever again.
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Verman posted:Hearing my own skin sizzle is one of the things I never wish to repeat ever again. Flashbacks to my vasectomy
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Verman posted:Hearing my own skin sizzle is one of the things I never wish to repeat ever again. Did that one once walking into the muffler of a pressure washer that had been running for something like two hours. That one took a while to heal.
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Oh man, the fish belly skin on the bottom of my arm about an inch up from my wrist vs the muffler of a chainsaw. My skin stuck to the drat thing like...well...fish skin on a hot pan.
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Henrik Zetterberg posted:Flashbacks to my vasectomy There's a smell to LASIK. It's not burning, technically, but I'm not sure it matters.
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Other painful stories: Friend was wearing a cable knit sweater in metals class when we were learning how to mig weld and a piece of slag popped and his sweater instantly ignited into a blue flame ball. It singed all his chest hair and eyebrows clean off. At the time it was the late 90s early 00s so he had a lot of alcohol hair gel as well and I just remember the smell of burning hair. He was quick to get the sweater off though before getting seriously burned. The other bad smell was when I stubbed my big toe really bad and read up on lancing it with a red hot needle.  Drilling through the toenail with a red hot needle is nauseating on its own as it smells awful and sounds like a cross between the sizzle and a squeak but the relief was immediate. I don't get too squeamish but I almost passed out when I pulled the needle out and saw a large amount of blood squirt 5 feet into the air. My bathroom looked like I hit the an arteryThankfully all my years of shop class and what not I never saw a kid chop off a finger or anything too severe. In our foundry section of shop class, my cast pouring partner hosed up and dropped the crucible of molten aluminum on the floor. That was cool watching liquid aluminum move across the floor lighting everything on fire but also super sketchy since I had to jump up onto a table to not get burned.
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Cathead burns for me. When the client wants "just another 50" in the middle of the summer, that poo poo gets hot as gently caress. Especially if the ground is already hard as hell.
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My brother once leaned up against a hot oven housing at some plant and thought he was going to have a funky scar of a panel line and two hex head nuts on his arm. Instead it healed instead of making him look like he had a robot arm.
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I recently bought a summerhouse and need some tools for different things. I already have a Bosch drill and a mouse sander, but plan on just buying into Ryobi. Can anyone recommend two things for me: 1) A good online retailer of tools in the EU, preferably Germany - I have previously used some UK based ones, but being in Denmark after Brexit means import duties and gently caress that. 2) A good brand for hand tools, some of the ones I see recommended here are US-based. Things I have seen around here are Wera and Bahco, and I don't really mind paying for good quality, but wonder if anyone have any other brands.
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refleks posted:A good brand for hand tools Wira Weha Bahco Lie-Nielsen Veritas Knipex
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refleks posted:2) A good brand for hand tools, some of the ones I see recommended here are US-based. Things I have seen around here are Wera and Bahco, and I don't really mind paying for good quality, but wonder if anyone have any other brands. Narex for chisels and similar things
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Trabant posted:There's a smell to LASIK. It's not burning, technically, but I'm not sure it matters. I also experienced the smell of my own burning eyeball 
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In an almost "reverse bad injury" sort of thing, last fall I was using a circular saw and was a big dummy dumb dumb and my finger was just ever so slightly in the way. But I felt the blade hit my finger, dropped everything, screamed VERY loud in a pre-emptive "oh gently caress, I definitely just cut my finger tip off" sort of way. Only to discover I barely grazed it, just a small drop of blood. My neighbor even came rushing over because she heard a saw, then screaming, and is am EMT. I had to sheepishly admit it was just a tiny scratch and I'm a big baby.
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I had a miter saw on the floor (unplugged), tripped over it, pushed it down so the blade was exposed, and fell into a tooth of the blade with my shin. I still have no idea how I did it, but it kind of bruise-gouged my shin through jeans and I still have a scar/discoloration a year and a half later. I don't even think it bled though?
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On the same theme I had a drill bit break and go flying last night and it didn't hit my glasses but I'm glad I was wearing them
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You ever use a chop saw and have a piece of wood come flying past your face while your safety glasses are on top of your head? No? Me neither...
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Chop saws and circular saws at least leave something to sew back on if you're lucky. Shapers, jointers, fuggetaboudit, they take no prisoners.
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Henrik Zetterberg posted:Flashbacks to my vasectomy I have an amazing POV video I made of a doctor staring down at, uhh, something just off-cam, while a few fine tendrils of smoke waft up past his face, while chill music plays in the background. Trabant posted:There's a smell to LASIK. It's not burning, technically, but I'm not sure it matters. Oh poo poo, I remember that too, now. I think I'd forgotten because I was juuuuust sedated enough to not care at the time.
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Shop around for a vasectomy doctor and find yourself one that will give you IV sedation for the procedure. Well worth it, source: my balls
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