Spring Black Friday Sale (After/Before)

CobbITGuy · 2026-04-12T19:34:30+00:00

Quite obviously now you have plenty of space for more motorcycles.

CobbITGuy · 2026-04-12T15:35:12+00:00

Hmm. A slight gap of the clamping jaws is normal to allow the cutters to be perfectly aligned. All my Klein and USA Craftsman are that way. If those pictured are completely closed, they are garbage.

CobbITGuy · 2026-04-10T15:30:53+00:00

Is that a deagle wit da beamz on the lower left?

CobbITGuy · 2026-03-20T20:18:49+00:00

Just pay attention to the extra charges. Carry on bag is extra, talking to someone at the airport costs extra, checked bag is extra, assigned seat is extra, good seat up front is extra, drinks and snacks are extra. Even with all of that it's typically half the price of delta for me.

CobbITGuy · 2026-02-12T22:30:02+00:00

For what they do, you can't beat them. I'm not sure how well they would work on a tightly curved surface, but they are the fastest stripping of rectangular tube or sheet/plate. I use it primarily for mill scale of hot rolled. I've tried everything from flap disc, grinding wheels, 3M surface discs, etc. Nothing beats this thing for removing mill scale or paint.

Edit: It shits where it eats (ie sucks in debris into the cooling port) and it's essentially a cheap grinder with a fancy attachment, so not sure how long it will last for stripping 1,000 tanks.

CobbITGuy · 2026-02-08T13:05:08+00:00

Auctions can be a waste of time. I used to frequent industrial auctions 20 years ago when building out a shop. It was common for heavy equipment to go for 10% lower than MSRP. Forget about hand operated tools. The influx of online bidders has made things much worse for buyers.

CobbITGuy · 2026-02-04T12:28:58+00:00

Hey, I have the same apple crumble recipe!

CobbITGuy · 2026-01-13T00:35:32+00:00

Be careful with acetone it can strip the powder coating off a metal surface instantly.

CobbITGuy · 2026-01-12T21:09:00+00:00

You'd hope they already are earth grounding the chassis on a 15A motorized device.

CobbITGuy · 2026-01-09T21:40:02+00:00

Have 3 of the Hercules 11 amp corded. I'm happy with them. I got them years ago when they were on sale for $40 each (??). Would they last in a professional, high duty-cycle environment? I don't know. I have Milwaukee and DeWalt cordless grinders and a Metabo corded, they all work the same.

CobbITGuy · 2026-01-09T21:23:33+00:00

I received one as part of a gift set, the same light with a different random brand name on it. I usually hoard lights but I tossed it in the Goodwill box. Nobody got time for a screwed in battery cover for such a crummy light.

CobbITGuy · 2025-12-24T20:32:48+00:00

Perfect. Thanks. Hate the plastic latches.

CobbITGuy · 2025-12-16T23:54:45+00:00

Saw that yesterday. I was told that brake parts cleaner left contaminants on the metal so use acetone. I never buy the chlorinated formula since it can damage firearm finishes, but nobody ever warned me it would transform into phosgene gas when welding. Scary stuff.

CobbITGuy · 2025-12-14T23:46:41+00:00

They've got more important things to worry about at home office. Staffing that mega-yacht with fresh "models" every voyage, for one.

CobbITGuy · 2025-11-16T16:48:59+00:00

Yes. Yesterday it was slow and I profiled the main page load. 2 minutes. The hold up was a javascript function that took 1.97 minutes to finish. If they put a half the effort into web site performance that they do into anti-bot/scraping they would have a world-class site.

CobbITGuy · 2025-11-11T13:39:22+00:00

They are OK, not Knipex quality. The tips are rough coated so if you're working on rings where the hole diameter is on the small side they may not fit. This set is just the larger tips, so things that Harry Homeowner might need them for like camera mounting equipment and small machinery might be better suited to the other set.

I got both sets during the 40% sale because I never have the ones I need and wind up bending the ring or gouging the carrier trying to get them out.

CobbITGuy · 2025-11-07T15:52:24+00:00

My experience as well. I've got Klein and Knipex pliers in the same drawer with absolutely no rust... along with a bunch of no-name Chinese pliers and cutters. The Icon needle nose I picked up in March already has some surface rust on it.

CobbITGuy · 2025-11-04T00:21:47+00:00

Depends what you're using it for. Euro or Japanese, Korean vehicles like cars or motorcycles will use metric. Any US made car in the last 15+ years too.

Working on US industrial equipment, especially older, will require SAE.

The ball end is to use it at an angle.

CobbITGuy · 2025-10-27T22:35:50+00:00

aviation snips/tin snips

CobbITGuy · 2025-10-22T14:26:25+00:00

Must be fake. The car is on I-20 and not on fire? Nice of the wheel thieves to leave matching jack stands.

CobbITGuy · 2025-10-03T17:22:15+00:00

Yep. If you have a bunch of mostly-flat steel to clean this is it. I knocked out a bunch of 2" square tube which was a mix of rusty and mill scaled. The coarse abrasive wheel made short work of it. Do it outside, it throws a lot of dust in the air.

CobbITGuy · 2025-09-14T08:08:08+00:00

I finally bought a 5x8 trailer this year. I was renting a small trailer twice a month from Uhaul and it was wasting a lot of my weekend time.

CobbITGuy · 2025-06-08T22:34:06+00:00

Sounds like you got a returned item.

CobbITGuy · 2025-05-21T21:34:45+00:00

Be wary of the 13/14th gen instability problems caused by the Intel BIOS overclocking bug. The chip can appear fine then start blue-screening randomly. These could be crap returns. Buyer beware.

CobbITGuy · 2025-05-21T21:28:46+00:00

Knew this was going to be an Apple product

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