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Yea, over here they make things healthier by just giving you less of it for the same price. They claim it's healthy, they make more money, and you walk away still hungry. I guess bullshit is bullshit no matter where you go.

History Channel did a Modern Marvels about the General Electric locomotive plant in Erie, PA. EMD which was the Electro-Motive Division of General Motors owned the market for basically the entire diesel era until just a few years ago. Like everything GM touches, they got shitty and problematical. GE moved in and now they're by far the most common. I don't even remember the last new EMD we got. GM sold off the locomotive division and I haven't heard them mentioned since. Better that way I guess. You go up to get on your train and realize you have an EMD in the lead and you feel like your dog just died.

"If you want a good cup of tea, you have to visit a McDonald's, yes a McDonald's. Not that it is great, but everything else just sucks." This is possibly the first time in history that McDonald's has been touted as producing the finest quality product in town. lol.

This is a typical warranty for the aftermarket replacements. We guarantee against any defective products. a full refund will be provided for any defective, damaged, or misrepresented items within 30 days. No refund will be given after 30 days of the invoice date, only replacement. If your battery fails to perform within warranty period, please send it back for a replacement, (please include marketworks order number as your proof of purchase). the warranty is with us (not the manufacturer). Defective product will be replaced with another unit within 30 days from invoice date. All products we sold are BRAND NEW, fresh out of factory. within the warranty period, defective product will be either repaired or replaced solely at our option. This warranty does not cover damage caused by accident, abuse, neglect, modification, alteration, misuse, repair, modification or physical damages. Warranty will be provided to the original purchaser only and the invoice number is required to obtain the service. Customer will be responsible for the return shipping and we will not refund for shipping and handling fee.All return products (Replace or Refund) have to obtain an RMA number before it is being shipped back. All non-defective, undamaged products are subject to a 20% for restocking fee and handling fee, if you would like to get refund. There is no restocking fee for damaged or defective products. Shipping and handling fees are non-refundable. A return item without an RMA number on box will not be accepted by our warehouse. Refund will be given as money back less shipping cost. The warranty will not renew, once a replacement had been made. This means that the battery we sent you for an exchange will not have a brand new warranty period. Posting NEGATIVE FEEDBACK before giving us the opportunity to repair or replace the item will result in void of warranty.

"Beware of "southern" values there are both good and bad, bigotry and racism are a lot more common down here in the south." I'd be willing to agree with that but it's a lot more true in the deep south than it is here. It's like anywhere else. Every bigger town I've ever been in had neighborhoods that white people were warned not to go. I've never felt as out of place being white as I do when I go to Atlanta.

I've got a Makita LS1225 Compound Miter and I've been real happy with it. The factory blade was a 60 tooth so I went and got an 80 tooth Avanti Pro. I went to HD to get a Diablo but they had an Avanti bonus pack that was buy 1 get 1 free so I jumped all over it. Maybe they're just having a Toyota moment. They were top quality cars until the news became littered with Camry's speeding 100 mph down the road on their own accord. The quality control guy at Makita will probably feed himself to a sea monster for the shame he's brought to his family after seeing Eric's video of the melting Makita drill.

Tools are designed to get dirty, but dust building up in the vital parts over time will shorten the life of the tool. There's a difference between a tool user and a tool enthusiast, We are the latter. If we weren't, we wouldn't spend hours on here talking about them.

Wayne, you'll be proud to know that the Queens diamond jubilee celebration is on network TV in prime time here in the states. I've even watched a bit of it.

To me the design of the Milwaukee Hakzall / Bosch copycat were great, they allowed you to get a Sawzall in places Sawzalls had never gone before. The idea of shaving 4" off, screwing up the balance, and calling it something different, just really doesn't make a lot of sense. But I'm sure someone somewhere was sitting there saying "man, if my Sawzall was 4" shorter it would be way better".

Up until the late 1960's each Conductor had his own caboose that nobody else was allowed to use. Every terminal had a cab track they used to store them and when a particular Conductor was called, a yard crew went and dug out the right caboose and put it on the train he was called for. They had them fixed up super nice. Many had curtains, carpet, pictures on the wall, etc. They were like luxury apartments on wheels. The railroad eventually got tired of the expense and the hassle and they pooled them meaning you got whatever caboose was first in line and they eventually did away with them altogether and put the conductor on the engine.

There were a few factors that killed the caboose. Part of it was the railroad being cheap, but the main factor was technology. The real purpose of the caboose was to man the rear of the train to ensure that the air was being properly maintained all the way through, to signal to following trains if needed, and to serve as a marker to other trains that the entire train was intact and nothing was setting in the track the were about to enter. For this purpose federal law required a flashing red light on the rear which the caboose was equipped with. As time went on they developed a box that is placed on the back called an EOT (end of train device) or FRED if your out west (Flashing Rear End Device). It is operated by a battery pack or pneumaticly and has a flashing red light, and conveys the air pressure on the rear and whether or not it's moving, to a box on the engine. The advancement of portable radios made rear signaling unnessecary, so there really was no need for a caboose anymore. You will still see one every blue moon as they are still used on jobs that regularly require shoving backwards for long distances of over a mile. Riding the caboose has become somewhat of a treat, though a dirty task when it's on the ass end of a coal train.

Eco: I'm the same way. I like the long design better. These types of saw have an odd balance to them. Wayne: I have not the slightest damn clue what "standing down and delivering like a highway man" entails, but I'm going to assume I agree. For whatever strange reason that made me think of that song "Whisky in the jar".

I've began to question Makita a bit myself lately. An electrician acquaintance of mine can't stop talking about how shitty their drills have become. I wrote it off as him just being over critical until I saw eric practically melt one on a video. Then I read a comparison test where the Makita brushless is putting out about half the specs as the rest of the pack. Maybe they just aren't what the used to be.

The 5 year warranty says it applies only to tools purchased in the United States. I would think that buying it from Ohio Power Tool would qualify as such. I've dealt with Ohio Power Tool before and their customer service is great. I typically use CPO Milwaukee but they don't ship international.

This thing may be old news but I'm just seeing it for the first time. It's only 4" shorter than a standard recip saw, so I'm kinda on the fence as to whether it really warranted a new tool. http://www.dewalt.com/tools/saws-reciprocating-saws-dwe357.aspx

Ohio Power Tool ships international. I'm not sure, but I imagine that if you ordered it from the United States a US warranty would apply. http://www.ohiopowertool.com/

"I will concede on the different battery chemistries, but does this really warrant new tools, A few manufacturers have actually made their batteries backward compatible." In some cases I would say yes, others no. For example, When Milwaukee changed platforms they incorporated the redlink technology. Whether or not you see it as a benefit all depends. My M18 tools with Red Lithium batteries (all of which are pre-fuel) are equipped with the overload protection and the charger safeguards the battery as it will not begin the charging process until the battery cool to within the optimal temperature range, and so on and so on. It really wasn't used as a big marketing point, it was mentioned in the product description, but it was in no way intended to be a selling point. Now that they've introduced the fuel line they gave it a fancy name and use it as a minor selling point when in reality it isn't new at all. It may do something a little extra, but the functionally is the same. However, even though though it's not an entirely new feature and it alone didn't warrant a new tool line, it's useful though sometimes annoying. Then we have Dewalt standing in the corner like a scorned woman afraid to commit. They put out the 20V Max line and generate all this buzz and then sit on it for a while without releasing any tools beyond their initial releases. They release the Nano base battery to reap the benefits in run time and shelf stability that Li-ion offers but they're somewhat hindered in regards to onboard electronics by the stem battery design. We all know 20V Max is the future, but if the nano base batteries offer the same runtime and other Li-Ion benefits, and they're still producing XRP tools, what the hell is the point of 20V Max at all? The only logical answer is to phase out the stem batteries. What is the only reason to phase out the stem batteries? To create the room required for onboard electronics. The point here is that Dewalt must see the OBE's as being important enough to change lines. The tools are exactly the same in terms of looks and specs, they cost roughly the same, the battery life and performance is the same, we've already established that the 20V is actually 18V anyway, other than OBE's what could possibly be enough of a benefit to have the 20V Max line at all? Now we're staring the brushless era straight in the face and suddenly Dewalt is now in a 3 generation love triangle. You can get 20V Max performance out of the Nano base XRP, you know the brushless tools are on their way, so if you were buying a Dewalt tool today why would you buy a brushed 20V Max tool? If you needed a tool that wasn't offered in a 20V version what kind of jackass would you feel like to drop $300 or more on an XRP tool that's soon to be 3 generations old? Dewalt really isn't in that much different of a situation than everyone else, it just seems worse because of the nano base factor. If I were a Dewalt guy I'd be foaming at the mouth.

I preffer the Eyes myself. I've been carrying it in my pocket for 9 years. In that time I've bought at least 7 other knives, but I can't let go of my Eye brand trapper. Part of it is sentimental I guess. I'm not one to let go of things like that. I've carried the same Zippo lighter since 1998.

I use 3 in 1 oil constantly. I remember my grandmother always having A bottle of 3 in 1 sewing machine oil sitting around. It came in a blue can instead of the usual red.

Interesting story. A few years ago a co-worker of mine was called for what we call a manifest train (which means it's a bunch mixed freight cars) operating from Russell, KY to Columbus, OH. Most of this run is pretty boring because with the exception of a few little towns it's most through corn or soy fields as far as you can see. In the middle of the night they go over a defect detector which is a device installed on the track that measures the temprature of the wheels, counts the axils, and alerts you if you have any hotboxes (overheated bearings) by sending a message over the radio. Any time you go over one of these, especially in the middle of the night, your praying it says "No defects" because if there is a defect your ass is walking a long way to check it out. Rain, sleet, or snow, your walking your ass 2 or 3 miles and it sucks. On this night my co-worker wasn't having much luck and the detector spouts off a defect way back in his train. It's way up in the night and he's practically in the middle of nowhere, and the whole scenario is like a scene from a bad horror movie. This isn't really all that out of the ordinary so you have to be a bit thick skinned but this particular night there was something very un-ordinary when he got back there. As he approached the potentially defective car he started seeing lights, red lights, like 2 sets of red eyes in the Ohio darkness. Needless to say it made him a little uneasy because he knew there were no lights that were normally there. As he got closer he realized these red lights were in fact tail lights on cars, which while he was relieved it wasn't aliens or something, still didn't ease his mind to much. Why would 2 cars be out in the middle of nowhere Ohio, in the middle of the night, along the railroad tracks? They weren't there when they went by 15 minutes before, so they must have pulled up since the train stopped? Sure enough, as he approached them they were parked right beside the car he was looking for. 4 men in suits step out of the cars and approach him. One of the men asks "what's the problem?" at a bit of a loss for words he proceeds to tell them about the potential defect and how if the bearing is in fact hot he'll have to set the car out at the next siding when the man interupts him "the car is fine. Go back to the engine and get going". The Conductor starts trying to tell him about his responsabilities when the guy sticks a Secret Service badge in his face and says "go now". He complied and hurried back to the engine as fast as possible and went on down the road. He looked up the car on his paperwork and though the car was showing in the train it had no information about the contents. After he arrived in Columbus he asked everyone he could find about the car but nobody knew shit. After a week or so the Trainmaster calls him in the office and shed a little light on the mystery. Come to find out it was a boxcar full of money! I don't know how many millions of dollars you can put in a 60' boxcar but I know it's more than I'll make in my lifetime. It was headed somewhere in Pennsylvania to be destroyed. Hard to tell what goes down the tracks in some of those cars.

Yea, every trip. On a freight train the locomotive or engine as we call it is the only place to ride. Well, once in a blue moon you'll have a caboose for some reason, but 99 trips out of 100 your on the head end. The Engineer is on the right side of the engine and the Conductor is on the left. On passenger trains the Conductor rides in the coaches, but on freight trains your train consist mostly of coal and chemicals which don't make for a very comfortable ride.

My wife and I went to New York City last summer for a work related conference. Everyone we knew that had been there suggested we check out the street vendors for lunch. So, we were sight seeing one day and stumbled upon one of the 5,000 Halal food vendors about the time my stomach started growling. I've done a good bit of traveling but being from an area where many high schools have like 1 or 2 black kids, 1 mexican kid every 4 or 5 years, and never a muslim kid EVER, it isn't exactly the most cultured place to live. It's a beautiful place, the cost of living is low, and I could go on vacation, leave my door unlocked, and my neighbor would probably mow my lawn while I was gone, but culturally diverse it is not. We had not the slightest of clues what Halal food was. We saw a bunch of them and we just figured it was some big street vending chain or something. So my buddy from Virginia and I went to the Halal cart and our wives went to the one called King Tut which was right beside it. I ordered chicken and rice and it was spicy and very good. My wife ordered a Philly cheesesteak and we sat down at Rockefeller center to eat. As we started eating I noticed that the King Tut cart said something about Halal food and I realized Halal wasn't a brand name. About that time my wife started spitting and hacking, and said, there's something not right with this sandwich! What's wrong with it I asked? I don't know, it's like the beef is out of date or something, it's just awful. She walks back up to the cart and tells the guy the beef is out of date. He looks at her and says "beef?" she stood silent for a moment and asked "this isn't beef?" "No, no, no, lamb" My wife turned white as a ghost. After a quick google search on my iPhone I discovered Halal is the islamic equivalent of Kosher. Had I have known that we'd have probably just went to Mcdonald's. At least their Kangaroo patties taste similar to beef.

After using quality drill bits I will never buy cheap ass bits again. Speaking of, you have a recommendation for cobalt drill bits? I'm looking at the Milwaukee set (big surprise huh). I really like the black oxide thunderbolts so I don't have any reason to believe the cobalt set won't be as good.

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My wife prefers astroglide......oh, wait a minute.... But seriously, Though WD-40 is more versatile, I've found that for penetrating purposes S'OK (most of us just call it Soak) is far better. It tends to get a little tacky as it dries, so I wouldn't really recommend it as a lubricant, but it does a fantastic job of penetrating. http://www.shamrockspecialties.net/sok.html