PutnamEco
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Store rarely let you get your hands on anything other than their store brand.
My local Home Depot just about always has a display up for either Makita or Ryobi. Most often a cordless tool with a dead or missing battery though. It is also most likely a tool geared more towards the DIY crowd than the professionals too.
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I'm not at all above asking a fellow customer what they're looking for and what they plan on doing with the tool. Most people are eager to listen to what I have to say. Every once in awhile I get a weird look though.
I tend to MMOB when I'm in the stores unless I hear someone planning something epically stupid or I get asked a direct question. There is just so much stupid down here, I can't be bothered with it all, and like Ron White says, you can't fix stupid.
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I'm leaning more toward the Chinese standards raising.
I wouldn't hold my breath, I keep hearing about them wanting to lower or abolish the minimum wage, outlaw unions, and cut Social Security etc., and with all the people out of work.
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I typically buy new but I do commend your effort.
People keep buying them, they will keep making them.
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Cutco was pretty ruthless when my buddy worked for them. His manager would call 3 or 4 times a day checking on him and pressuring him to find victims. They were like knife wielding pimps. He didn't last very long.
I was under the impression my room mate was a free agent just selling them under commission. I think he was only selling them part time along with a couple of other things like magazine subscriptions or Fuller brushes. He was a pretty good salesman and didn't like being tied down, He might even still be selling them, I don't recall him ever quitting.
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I didn't even know they made 2WD Jeep Cherokee's until I saw one in Florida.
I remember plenty from my youth in NJ, I remember they along with the Wagoneers and Gladiators were worth about half as much used as the 4x4s.
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I didn't even know they made 2WD Jeep Cherokee's until I saw one in Florida.
I remember plenty from my youth in NJ, they were about half the cost of 4x4 version in the used market. Same with the Gladiators and Wagoneers
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LOL, RoboEco
I could think of a fair amount of upgrades I would want.
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How can it be legal to force everyone to have to have something the patent for which is owned and controlled by one individual?
????It is not legal, The Sawstop guy is trying to get legislators to pass a law for a safety standard, and he has hedged his bet against anyone else coming up with an idea that he has not patented.
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The trouble is the Milwaukee is not easily available over here.In fact I can't find one.
I love the look of the compact sds Milwaukee for over head work.
I think it is a trip to somewhere where i can try before I buy to see how they perform.But again that is as rare as hens teeth over here as well (they don't do try before you buy)
It is not like we have a lot of places here that let you test tools either. The rare instance when a big box store has a display set up of some new tool (often broken or abused by the time I notice them) or when we can catch a demonstration day put on by manufacturer or at trade shows are the only real time we get to try out any tools. Some of the premium brands have demonstration area set up, like Woodcraft does with Festool, or like Hilti, that have company reps who will let you try their demonstration tools. This is one of the reasons that these blog/forums are so prolific.
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Yes it's a WF-38 I always heard that the WF stood for "War Finish" but it doesn't. As you were saying WF stood for Wright Field as it was a major contract destination during WWII. However, there are Plomb tools from that era that do say "War Finish". These were apparently civilian models and while the did have the same dusty cadmium finish as the military models, it was intended to mean that due to the shortage of materials associated with the war effort they were not up to the typical quality standards of the company and therefor not covered by the Plomb lifetime warranty.
The Old mechanic that I used to be friends with told me they were company issued tools from his days when Wright was doing jet engine testing. I never really got to into the finer points of his tools because airplanes....
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I couldn't help but think of that ratchet being reminiscent of an early style of Snap-ons ratchets, after digging around over on Alloy Artifacts it would appear they are from the same era.
Link to bigger picture @ Alloy artifacts
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Looks like Titebond has realeased a couple of new products. A Translucent and a No Drip formulation.
The translucent appears to be a totally new product claiming nearly invisible glue lines and is something I'm looking forward to trying out, the no drip looks to me to be an update or renaming of their Molding and Trim glue.
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I usually tell them things they didn't know about their tools.
Most of the younger people could care less in my area, they just point at the tools and walk away as quickly as they can, some of the older people will take a little more time, but usually they are not really all that interested in tools. I have had much more enlightening discussions with fellow customers than I usually have with the stores staff.
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I'm in no hurry for the future....or flying cars.
I'm getting to the point where I'm wanting some bionic replacement parts for my body.
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My buddy that died this summer sold Cutco knives for awhile. He wasn't very good at it but they were damn good knives.
One of my old roommates was a salesman type, he tried selling all kinds of things, He even used to sell these supper cheap Chinese/Taiwanese ratchet sets whose quality was soooo bad it almost defied description. I still have a few of the Cutcos he sold me, at least they lasted a lot longer than those other tools. I also have a friend who is a chef, if you think Cutco is expensive, don't ever think of looking into the knives pro chefs use.
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Guy I work with thought he was going to be clever so he drove to Sarasota to buy a Navigator he found cheap on EBay. When he got there he realized it was 2WD. Long drive for nothing.
I will say we do have a lot of four wheel drive trucks here, they tend to last a little while longer than they do in the north. It is kind of scary how may people actually drive large vehicles here. Picture little grey haired old ladies who can hardly see over the steering wheel, driving Suburbans, not to mention all the retired snowbirds driving around in their 5th wheelers.
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I'd say not. Apparently the guy that invented it is a patent attorney and holds 90 patents related to saw stuff. We may have won the battle, but there's a whole war ahead.
This whole patent/copyright thing has gotten well out of hand. Our laws are in need of serious reform.
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I think a lot of manufacturing will shift back to The States eventually. Maybe not today, maybe not in our lifetime, but someday.
Only after our own shortsightedness has run its course, and either Americans become willing to work for Chinese wages or the Chinese raise their standard of living to ours.
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I still go out of my way to get American hand tools, but I've pretty much given up on power tools. That Makita is the first of what I consider "traditional" SDS style hammers with interchangeable chucks that I've seen.
I have not given up on American power tools. There are still plenty of perfectly usable old tools available in the used tool market. Maybe if we quit buying Chinese tools they will go away.
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This is a stock pic I found online and may very well be a 9/32. However, the one I have is a 1/2 in. Found it on eBay for $5 and figured what the hell. It's a conversation piece if nothing else.
Is yours a WF model?
I grew up not far from a Wright airport, Curtis Wright by then actually, one of the old mechanics there had these Plomb ratchets as parts of sets. I was always impressed with his tools. He had an impressive cart he used to drag around, wish I would have had a thought to document it with pictures.
Hope you'll post some pictures of your ratchet. I love old tools.
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I'll have to look around for some product tests.
Just like everything else, I never see any long term tests on oiled vs oil less nailers. The only thing your likely to find is a comparison of brand new nailers and they never test them to the point of failure.
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If your big boxes are anything like mine finding help is a tall order.
In my smaller community the big boxes are never really that busy, so finding the help is not that much of an issue. They are pretty good at finding what they have in the store too, the problem is they have little to no knowledge of the products they are selling, and that is among their better employees. Some of the senior citizens they do hire are an exception to this though.
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I have a magnetic stub finder from C.H. Hanson and it's by far my favorite.
C.H. Hanson do have some interesting products. Their auto adjusting locking pliers are on my list. It is to bad they choose to make so many of their products in China.
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I think it is both him and the law. RRP is causing a lot of grief and many don't want to have to comply with more laws that will require even more new equipment.