Atlas2000

Having been an aircraft mechanic for a long time, I would have loved to have had one! People get upset when you scratch the paint on their aircraft and there are not many flat surfaces (or apprentices) to be taken advantage of. Not to mention that I get upset dropping tools or going back and forth from my tool box to swap them out. I would definitely get one if I was still in the business.

Definitely agree with tcoscarelli. The LEDs are a great help in low light. (especially for an ancient of days like myself)

Always been partial to samurai swords and Gurkha kukri knives.

Any of the crew ever seen something like this before? Guesses acceptable. Thanks!

Just curious, had the seals failed or just no seals to begin with?

Nice shop and magnificent fence!

I can see how it would be beneficial. Have been known to curse in similar situations as the one that brought this into being. made in USA always a plus as long as the quality is there.

Am unfamiliar with the brand, but will have to check them out. Thanks!

Looks like a handy tool.

Have seen this before and found it fascinating. Many techniques from the east are time consuming, but result in very beautiful results.

Nice! I would definitely consider this when it shows up in US.

I agree with Foneguy. I have used reels, but have always been happier paying more for really good hose and just coiling it on a wall hanger. Your milage may vary depending on the situation.

Very nice looking on both counts. I REALLY like the first one!

Hard to tell what and where it is. I'm guessing your garage door spring failed. Quite amazing (and dangerous) how much energy those things can release.

Goetze's Caramel Creams

As electrical horrors go, this is pretty mild. Still remember vaporizing a pair of Klein pliers when I started as an electrician. I had been sent to cut Nomex to water heater in a crawl space so plumbers could move it to a different location. Cut cable and was temporarily flash blinded by my pliers vaporizing. I had looked around the side of the house to see if the meter had been installed yet and it still had the glass cover on, so I proceeded. I should have (and always did after this) looked inside the glass. Some @#$$^& had put bare wire jumpers in the meter box so they could play their radio. Thank goodness for insulated handles as I was sitting in damp earth when it happened. Moral: NEVER underestimate the danger imbeciles will put you in for their convenience!

Nice to see there are some things (very few) that haven't changed much over the last 100+ years. Thanks for sharing.

Definitely a bad ass electric splitter. If it even slowed down for a second when it hit the wood, I missed it! The both ways splitting is great too. Thanks Conductor.

Not meant to be extreme or any kind of slight to EEtwidget, who is clearly a brilliant fellow. Just a personal observation

That is exactly why they want robots. No emotional connection. No empathy, no regrets, no concern, no mercy. They have always had to try and dehumanize the enemy. No decent human would want to kill someone they thought of as being like themselves. Can't think of the enemy as fathers, brothers, friends, just like yourselves without some tinge of remorse. Done on both sides of any conflict. In my war it was gooks, not people. In others, the hun, krauts, whatever.

I'll be waiting to try them too. Being a little long in the tooth, anything to take pressure off my knees is welcome.

Amazing the lengths some will go to.

Looks good! If you want a real challenge try making one from 310 stainless. we used to make things out of it for a research project I helped with. (Plasma chambers) It is a bear! Eats up tools and if you break one or interrupt a cut, god help you.

Wash, rinse, repeat. Welcome!

Good thing they didn't have tractors like that when I was a teenager driving one back and forth from tobacco field and barn. It would have ended badly, I suspect.