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StormDrain posted:I just got my set of Esco jack stands. Part of me is upset there's only one choice when it comes to pin style jackstands, and there's dozens of the ratchet kind. They are really nice though, and I value having a big flat bearing plate on these too. I should call my insurance agent for a discount on my life insurance policy. Edit: Those aren't the three leg ESCOs? Reuben Sandwich fucked around with this message at 20:05 on Dec 3, 2020 |
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Reuben Sandwich posted:Gray makes pin types but they're $200+ a piece. I'd go to a lumber mill and bought solid wood blocks for that price. What's wrong with the 3 leg escos?
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Reuben Sandwich posted:Gray makes pin types but they're $200+ a piece. I'd go to a lumber mill and bought solid wood blocks for that price. Ya just the three legged kind. Not like any sort of racing stand that pins into the rocker. I'm still in the market for two more if there's a better option!
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Anyone know of a good alternative to McMaster for good quality hardware at decent prices? I'm in the US, just not the contiguous 48, and McMaster will ship to me but with some of the worst shipping rates of any website I've ever seen, worst yet, they won't even tell me what the rate is until after they ship. Made the mistake of ordering something I had trouble finding anywhere else from them once, paid $70 in shipping for $20 of merchandise, never again if I can help it.
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Elem7 posted:Anyone know of a good alternative to McMaster for good quality hardware at decent prices? AK and HI get hosed on shipping, especially anything heavy (hardware). McMaster isn't for you. Bolt Depot might be willing to to USPS flat-rate boxes, which are the only affordable way to get stuff to AK/HI. :edit: if you're in an outlying territory (Guam, USVI, etc) then USPS flat-rate is the only choice. God save the USPS, they're also the only affordable way to send stuff to the military when deployed. APO/FPO were a godsend when I was in the sandbox. Motronic posted:Yeah, Akrobins and their generic counterparts are usually the way to go here. And yeah, gently caress Uline. They're a drat cult and run by truly evil people. sharkytm fucked around with this message at 23:28 on Dec 3, 2020 |
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I need some large (3-3.5"ish) retaining ring/snap ring pliers and I'd preferably like to get them locally so I can have them 1st thing in the AM. What kind of places might stock those? I'm in a small/mid-sized city. Auto parts stores don't seem to have any that big on the shelf, and the big box places of course don't either.
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Heavy truck repair or a hydraulic shop. You might even be able to borrow them for a hefty deposit. Bring donuts & coffee.
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I was gonna say harbor freight because I thought that's where mine came from, but I can't find them on the website.
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angryrobots posted:I was gonna say harbor freight because I thought that's where mine came from, but I can't find them on the website. I have these: https://www.northerntool.com/shop/tools/product_200308959_200308959 and they have done fine but won't quite grip on this big one-the angle is wrong and they slip or something. There is a larger 10" version of those that would probably work, but it doesn't seem to be a commonly stocked item.
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My largest lockring pliers are a proto 251g parallel jaw set and a CTA A848 set. Not sure either is big enough for your requirements but the prices are alright on the A848 on amazon, and IIRC it is larger. The 251g I only needed for one specific reason I can't remember while rebuilding my nv4500, it's rare I actually need parallel jaw movement on such a tool.
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Might try a good sized Napa.
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I have this ridiculous, oversized set of Astro Pneumatics I could lend you if you're in the Seattle area. They seem to be good quality.
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I am very far away from Seattle but thanks! Looks like the local Napa has a set in stock that might do it-I’m gonna call in the morning. Good to know they are the weird tool place. I’m not sure I feel like spending $100 on a set for this one thing-may wait until next week and order the one plier I actually need. I have a backup in the meantime at least-thanks for the help!
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sharkytm posted:AK and HI get hosed on shipping, especially anything heavy (hardware). McMaster isn't for you. Bolt Depot might be willing to to USPS flat-rate boxes, which are the only affordable way to get stuff to AK/HI. Yah, plenty of places online will use flat rate priority boxes but many like McMaster refuse and if asked usually fall back on "we can't control what the 'puter calculates for shipping." I've paid $16 to ship flat boxes literally full of stone or even lead from small outfits but big vendors like McMasters can't seem to figure it out for non-48 customers and will charge $50+ for 2 pounds of stuff. I'll give Bolt Depot a try next time I need something.
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I think they do 100% UPS. The one at Elmhurst, IL, at least, they literally sort and pile up pallets of boxes and the UPS truck pulls up and drives the pallets to the shipping hub 5 miles away. I'm surprised they don't have a better rate for the volume they ship, but there's almost no option beyond chucking it in a box and putting it on a pallet.
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Elem7 posted:Yah, plenty of places online will use flat rate priority boxes but many like McMaster refuse and if asked usually fall back on "we can't control what the 'puter calculates for shipping." I've paid $16 to ship flat boxes literally full of stone or even lead from small outfits but big vendors like McMasters can't seem to figure it out for non-48 customers and will charge $50+ for 2 pounds of stuff. I'll give Bolt Depot a try next time I need something. Yeah. They're exclusive UPS and LTL. I recently bought a full 4x8 sheet of .25" GP03 FRP. It was $300 for the sheet and $110 in shipping, but it arrived on a semi the next drat day. It was half the price of any local materials supplier, and I would have had to either pick it up, or pay the $50-$75 truck fee and wait a few days. If you're APO/FPO, you can get McMaster to use USPS, but if not, you're boned. Bolt Depot are good folks, and cheaper that McMaster. Albany County fastener are another possibility. The biggest thing is the use of USPS flat rate. Hell, if you can only find something on McMaster, shoot me a PM and I can order and ship it for you. Uthor posted:I think they do 100% UPS. The one at Elmhurst, IL, at least, they literally sort and pile up pallets of boxes and the UPS truck pulls up and drives the pallets to the shipping hub 5 miles away. I'm surprised they don't have a better rate for the volume they ship, but there's almost no option beyond chucking it in a box and putting it on a pallet.
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Kaiser Schnitzel posted:I am very far away from Seattle but thanks! Heh, awesome. Reason I suggested Napa is because that is where I got my snap ring pliers from back in the pre-internet shopping days. 
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angryrobots posted:I was gonna say harbor freight because I thought that's where mine came from, but I can't find them on the website. I was gonna say the same. Two sets of pliers, one inside one outside, each with replaceable pins for angles from flat down to 90 in a blow molded case. Looks like they don't have them anymore and that's a shame. I've used the hell out of those things over the years.
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I got a pair of those Channel Lock brand ones Kaiser has, and they're pretty decent, mechanism operates nice, pins are decent quality, they're better than the auto parts place of brand ones they replaced that liked to yeet pin tips into motorcycle clutch baskets.
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We have a room at my work that is known that the room with the big socket. Literally no one knows what it's for. It's 3 1/8 inches and has a one inch drive 
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That's the jesus bolt that keeps your grid section of the earth from falling into space.
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New tool box, birthday gift from my family. Replacing my 3 tier craftsman box from about 8 years ago. Basically filled it at this point considering how overstuffed the 3 tier craftsman was.
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Boaz MacPhereson posted:Oil filters. Drain plugs.
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um excuse me posted:We have a room at my work that is known that the room with the big socket. Literally no one knows what it's for. It's 3 1/8 inches and has a one inch drive I used to work at a company that manufactured heavy equipment, the size of tools they had there was fun. Six foot long, 1-inch drive, 1000ft-lb torque wrenches that didn't get used that much since a lot of the stuff needed higher torque than that. They had a hydraulic system on a cart to do that stuff, but sadly I never got to use it. An engineering intern asked me once about a work instruction he was reading, "This says to torque the screw to 1300 ft-lbs, is that even possible?" He'd apparently never seen a torque wrench bigger than 1/2" drive. Basically everything they worked on there had to be moved around by forklift or on the 25-ton overhead bridge cranes. lovely company, but that part of it was fun.
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Dacheat posted:New tool box, birthday gift from my family. Replacing my 3 tier craftsman box from about 8 years ago. Nice! It is a good feeling to have everything in one place and easily accessible. I don't want to undersell how good it feels, but if you combine becoming a parent, your wedding day, and the best orgasm you've ever had, you might come close.
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Boaz MacPhereson posted:Oil filters. On what? The Enterprise?
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Rhyno posted:On what? The Enterprise? Or anything that comes through Jiffy Lube based on stories I've read.
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Speaking of oil filters, I just got one. Gonna change so many filters now! https://i.imgur.com/A5cAb7J.mp4 It even makes a ring when it's done 
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Boaz MacPhereson posted:Or anything that comes through Jiffy Lube based on stories I've read. So they just use it to hammer the old filter off?
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It's cute that you guys think Jiffy Lube actually removes the filter. That socket is just their generic "broken part" they for the up-sell, "Your drum brake here has a one inch hole in the middle and ridges all around the inner lip where it should be smooth".
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um excuse me posted:We have a room at my work that is known that the room with the big socket. Literally no one knows what it's for. It's 3 1/8 inches and has a one inch drive Silly! Its obviously for turning nuts and bolts that are 3 1/8" with a one inch drive ratchet/torque wrench/impact gun.
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mobby_6kl posted:Speaking of oil filters, I just got one. Gonna change so many filters now! so you are the guy that put the filter on the last car I bought.
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I always torque my oil filters to yield.
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Safety Dance posted:I always torque my oil filters to yield. Tighten till it loosens then back a half turn.
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Safety Dance posted:I always torque my oil filters to yield. I've seen your work.
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Awhile back I bought a creeper, not long before moving. Unfortunately the house I bought only had a gravel driveway, so the creeper has been tucked away beside my tool chest, the red vinyl cushion fading to white in the sunlight. 8 years I’ve been working off a cardboard mat, until today. I recently had a new driveway poured and it has finally cured up enough for me to roll up a car and run an oil change, for which I was finally able to dig out the creeper and use it again! I can’t even begin to describe how great it is to have a good workspace again, and being able to use this creeper. It really is the little things that make me the happiest 
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Only having gravel as a surface to work on sucks. I know that feeling. I use my Quickjacks on thick plywood sheets on top of gravel (per QJ recommendations), but it's always a matter of shuffling and "digging" to get it to seat correctly etc. At least gym-mats are amazing to use. I do have a long but narrow garage, but the problem is that the surface is so uneven that the QJs don't make full contact with the ground, which makes me nervous as hell and I never used them inside again. I've been toying with just doing a quick cheap hack job leveling of the garage floor that only has to last a year or so (redoing the house and the garage will become storage/washing machine, indoors workshop kinda thing). Too late now. An alternative would be a car port that we can build a garage next to in the future. At least then I'd be able to work on flat surfaces and have some protection from the elements.
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sharkytm posted:Albany County fastener are another possibility. Their YouTube channel is great. boxen posted:I used to work at a company that manufactured heavy equipment, the size of tools they had there was fun. Six foot long, 1-inch drive, 1000ft-lb torque wrenches that didn't get used that much since a lot of the stuff needed higher torque than that. They had a hydraulic system on a cart to do that stuff, but sadly I never got to use it. An engineering intern asked me once about a work instruction he was reading, "This says to torque the screw to 1300 ft-lbs, is that even possible?" He'd apparently never seen a torque wrench bigger than 1/2" drive. Basically everything they worked on there had to be moved around by forklift or on the 25-ton overhead bridge cranes. lovely company, but that part of it was fun. The machines used to turn bolts on wind turbines are cool.
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