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I use Mechanix every day, like them a lot. Never paid retail for them, the pairs I have at home I bought on deals from Woot or other places, and the ones I use at work come from us (O'Reilly) so they're free to me. The boss puts in a request and we get gloves when we need them. If I ever have to pay for gloves for home now I can just use my employee discount and get them cheaper than retail. I use the M-pact version at work and have a set at home, so far they're the gloves I always reach for when I need gloves. I have a bunch of other styles but the M-pacts are my favorite. The set I have at home I had to modify a bit, the Velcro sucked on them so I just took it off and sewed the opening together. There's elastic so I can just pull them on, and sewing them made them snug enough to not worry about them pulling off

Mine is a Stanley Fatmax 20oz. Anti-vibe. First one I grab for anything hammer related, whether it's the right hammer for the job or not.

Seems there's another gun that uses Ryobi bateries...the B-Tec 807. Their kit even comes with a nice hard case.

Holy shit!! He's got Ryobi tools in the video, he's gonna be the laughing stock of the tool world!!!

Well...he asked...

Watching some vids on the glue gun, apparently the reason why it doesn't drip is because the tip has a check valve. Which, in retrospect, I know it does because I took the tip off the other day and saw a ball bearing inside.

Cool tool for sure...

Yes, I can...and I have many times.

If you already have at least one Ryobi battery, and want a good glue gun, there's no denying that the Ryobi is the way to go. Especially considering the pricing on other brands. Would be awesome if it was dual-temp but I'm not complaining in the least about this gun.

Well now, that's a weird one to figure out. Where would a glue gun go if it were powered by a power tool battery? I'm guessing hand tool, because it's not really a power tool. Anyhoo... Anybody wanting a glue gun and doesn't mind having Ryobi batteries, buy this glue gun!! It's fantastic, if not for any other reason but the fact that you don't need a cord. Long story short, it heats up quick, it dispenses glue beautifully, and it's great in the hand. Takes less than 2 minutes to warm up enough to dispense glue, and when it's "hot" glue flows almost too good. The trigger is good and has a lot of throw to it, so you can draw a fairly long bead of glue before having to pull the trigger again. It's also pretty sensitive, to an extent, you can squeeze out small amounts for when you only want tiny drops. I wouldn't say it's perfectly accurate but you can vary the amount of glue that comes out pretty good. Grip feels great, nice rubber overmold and a good size in the hand. Using the compact battery it'll get too hot to touch on the plastic from the end of the casing to around 2-3 inches down the gun, placing your hand around it isn't bad but you can't keep your hand there for long. I don't know what their larger batteries will do...If a higher capacity battery means more heat or if there's some kind of thermal cutoff internally. I'd imagine there's a limit to the heat, so the whole thing doesn't just melt. Externally it does get too hot, but you won't be putting your hand there anyway. Cool-down time is fairly quick, takes less than 10 minutes to be cool enough to wrap your hand around the gun with no problems. A little bit after that and it's cool to the touch. Doesn't drip. After playing with it the night I bought it, and using it for a project today, it only dripped once, and that was because I had my hand pulling the trigger a little bit when I set it down. Otherwise, no dripping. Dispense some glue, then wipe the tip as you're done, and nothing else will drip out of the nozzle. The nozzle is removable, so it'll be easy to clean if need be, and from what I've read Surebonder tips will fit it. Surebonder makes a glue gun that takes Ryobi batteries, not sure if they're in cahoots or if it's just something they decided to do. Actually, now that I'm looking at Surebonder's site, they have 4 different guns that take Ryobi batteries...I think the Surebonder guns are more expensive than the Ryobi though. They do sell a kit though that comes with a battery and charger. So yup, it's a great gun, it runs great, it feels great, it's green so it matches the rest of my stuff, and it's cheap. If you have Ryobi batteries already and want a good glue gun this is a no-brainer for sure. If you don't have Ryobi batteries and want a good glue gun, it won't kill your wallet to buy a charger and battery and the gun. Ryobi stuff is cheaply priced so it's not a killer to buy a few of their products, considering that they're good products. You can always paint it red or yellow or whatever color you need so it won't clash with your existing tools...

Well... Glue Gun by Edward Durbin, on Flickr

Clearing my history and stuff didn't work, and it does the same thing on other browsers...seems to not be on my end. Thanks for checking into this and fixing it if possible.

Photos aren't showing up for me in certain threads. This is the message I get for the photos that won't show up if I try to open them in a new tab. If I click on the image icon in the threads it just goes to a blank window with the same image icon. I'm going to see if it's on my end by clearing my cache and history and whatnot, I'll report back if anything fixes it.

Awesome board!! Love chess, played it since I was a kid. I'm no master by any means but it's hard to find good players.

Water. I drink about 80-100 ounces or more every day. Coffee every day in the morning, another at night. Every two weeks or so a pop/soda/cola...whatever you want to call it, whenever we hit the Mickie D's or Portillo's or whatever. Every once in a while when we're out to dinner a Bloody Mary, maybe a Jack & Coke. A Twisted Ice Tea or Mike's Hard Lemonade here and there during the summer.

You have any calling to use them yet, they look like they'd be pretty practical in application. Curious to know how good they work and how well they'd hold up to hard use.

I want to say that I've seen a tool like that before, and it has something to do with either leather work or shoe repair. I'm sure I'd be wrong on both guesses though...

You didn't, the whole thing was supposed to be funny. I guess you had to be there to understand. No worries...

He was unhinged, a lot of the stuff he said was really off the wall, even by my standards. Had a lot of obvious mental issues...he was a nice guy but I think his brain-to-mouth filter was broken. I tried to help him, tried to be nice, but he had a warped sense of things, and didn't have very good conversation interpretation skills. But, that's neither here nor there, it's history, done and over with, and that's that.

It's a jab at he-who-shall-remain-nameless, about how he'd beat people to death with his tirades about whether or not we saw his latest post or video or whatever.

Subscribed to your channel, if not for any other reason but to see if you can give us the same quality entertainment as He-Who-Shall-Not-Be-Mentioned did...did you see the video I posted in the thread with the video about the posting of a post regarding a video posted in a post in the thread with the post? I've often wondered about cleaning myself up and doing some serious videos but never get the nerve to do it. The vids I've done so far have been so random and filled with mindless gibberish that I didn't mind doing them. Wonder if I could do a serious video on something worthwhile.

The Craftsman set is the same as Irwin bolt extractors. I use the Irwins at work probably once or twice every couple of weeks and they haven't failed to perform yet. I use my sets at home but nowhere near as frequent as I do at work. We get a lot of heads broken off of bolts on our pallet trucks and other stuff, and the Irwin stuff does great. The only time they won't work is when there's not enough meat left for them to grab onto. When that happens I just drill out the hardware and retap.

I think my favorite is my Ryobi jigsaw. I'd say the Airstrike nailer but I think the jigsaw is more fun.

Yup, the vac is typically clean so the only thing I suck up is the parts I dropped and whatever little bit of dust that might be in the area at the time. It really saves a ton of dicking around, especially with stuff that's that perfect size of being too small to grab easily with your fingers.