Those who do know shit about tools

[Mrleft8]

You were supposed to give up and buy another before it made its reappearance.

Did it laugh at you?

I very nearly did order a new one, but decided that if I did, the old one, (which is barely used) would appear in seconds. Maybe it heard me fire up the computer and heard the AMAZON bling, and decided to show up.....
Yes it laughed. And it puffed dust at me when I opened it.

 

[Mrleft8]

You've just explained my relationship with studfinders.

I had a stud finder.... Sadly she was more into the kind of studs that could spend more on fancy drinks, and ski trips than I was willing to provide.... Their loss, not mine!

 

[Black Sox]

My father in law constantly berated his long-suffering and patient wife for cutting the bread at an angle.

Until she died and we discovered who had been angle-cutting all along…

 

[Wetabehindtheears]

Why the hell does the shop vac cartel offer no less then four different size hoses and corresponding tools? It seems there is 1 1/4”, 1 3/8”, 1 7/8”, and 2 1/2”. I have the 1 7/8” hose but recently accidentally bought the 1 3/8“ floor nozzle. Went to return it and Lowes had no 1 7/8” tools in stock.
Also their filter bags are astronomically high. The shop vac cartel must be in cahoots with the printer ink cartel. Bastards!

While I’m complaining, I have sworn off anything Craftsman. Too proprietary when you need parts and accessories.

 

[WhoaTed]

Why the hell does the shop vac cartel offer no less then four different size hoses and corresponding tools? It seems there is 1 1/4”, 1 3/8”, 1 7/8”, and 2 1/2”. I have the 1 7/8” hose but recently accidentally bought the 1 3/8“ floor nozzle. Went to return it and Lowes had no 1 7/8” tools in stock.
Also their filter bags are astronomically high. The shop vac cartel must be in cahoots with the printer ink cartel. Bastards!

While I’m complaining, I have sworn off anything Craftsman. Too proprietary when you need parts and accessories.

I’m with you on the vacuum bullshit. The printer carts too. The man keeping us down.

 

[chester]

I’m with you on the vacuum bullshit. The printer carts too. The man keeping us down.

Big Shop Vac!! They're monsters!

 

[WhoaTed]

Big Shop Vac!! They're monsters!

When I was a kid one of my uncles had a dual motor Craftsman, you could switch one motor on for regular duty or both for sucking up pretty much anything. It was a beast, big tank also about 40gal maybe but I don’t recall. Haven’t seen one since, probably a very limited market and I’m sure it wasn’t cheap. I wonder what happened to that thing.

 

[WhoaTed]

I got curious and lo, there it is. I don’t recall the drum being conical but that’s pretty much the one. Looks like this guy was using it for his wood shop dust collection system.

https://www.woodworkingtalk.com/threads/craftsman-home-n-shop-vac-dual-motor-dust-collector.191810/

 

[chester]

When I was a kid one of my uncles had a dual motor Craftsman, you could switch one motor on for regular duty or both for sucking up pretty much anything. It was a beast, big tank also about 40gal maybe but I don’t recall. Haven’t seen one since, probably a very limited market and I’m sure it wasn’t cheap. I wonder what happened to that thing.

years ago (late 90's?) my girls, bless their hearts, bought me a shop vac for father's day. there was a "horse power race" going on in Big Vac at the time. They loved me so much they got me a 6.5 HP, 350kph blower monster vac. sat on a dolly with built in tool holders in all its muscular yellow glory, thanks girls, i love you too. I still have it and it's always been way too fucking big!

it lives in my small workshop/garage and finding a place for it blew up lots of under bench storage. I would take it to the lake to do spring boat cleaning and almost need to swing the boom out and hoist into the cockpit with the mainsheet (kidding). but fuck it is big and ungainly. If i had ever filled that can up I wouldn't have been able to lift it to empty! Did I mention I still have it?

 

[Mid]

who knew?

where's that hand up 'moji thingy ........


takes one to know one

 

[hard aground]

When I was a kid one of my uncles had a dual motor Craftsman, you could switch one motor on for regular duty or both for sucking up pretty much anything. It was a beast, big tank also about 40gal maybe but I don’t recall. Haven’t seen one since, probably a very limited market and I’m sure it wasn’t cheap. I wonder what happened to that thing.

It's probably in some cousins basement sitting beside a still working 1960's fridge

 

[SloopJonB]

Why the hell does the shop vac cartel offer no less then four different size hoses and corresponding tools? It seems there is 1 1/4”, 1 3/8”, 1 7/8”, and 2 1/2”. I have the 1 7/8” hose but recently accidentally bought the 1 3/8“ floor nozzle. Went to return it and Lowes had no 1 7/8” tools in stock.
Also their filter bags are astronomically high. The shop vac cartel must be in cahoots with the printer ink cartel. Bastards!

While I’m complaining, I have sworn off anything Craftsman. Too proprietary when you need parts and accessories.

Craftsman has been crappy for decades - especially their power tools. Handyman quality at best.

They got along on nothing but their "lifetime guarantee" for a hell of a long time.

 

[SloopJonB]

Did I mention I still have it?

Of course you do - you can't get rid of a tool your kids got you.

 

[Point Break]

I noticed that our mechanics at the FD always got a weekly visit from the Snap On tool truck. Now we’re talking somewhere around 25-30 mechanics. It was always well attended. We have our mechanics an annual tool allowance and they were required to have their own tools. So I asked a few of them if Snap On were good tools. The consensus was they were “good enough”. I learned that with a few exceptions for this or that critical tool they didn’t buy top of the line because they could break, get lost, or walk off in a busy shop. I found that interesting.

 

[Grande Mastere Dreade]

Why the hell does the shop vac cartel offer no less then four different size hoses and corresponding tools? It seems there is 1 1/4”, 1 3/8”, 1 7/8”, and 2 1/2”. I have the 1 7/8” hose but recently accidentally bought the 1 3/8“ floor nozzle. Went to return it and Lowes had no 1 7/8” tools in stock.
Also their filter bags are astronomically high. The shop vac cartel must be in cahoots with the printer ink cartel. Bastards!

While I’m complaining, I have sworn off anything Craftsman. Too proprietary when you need parts and accessories.

also the cordless tool companies.. it seems every iteration the batteries change configuraion and eventually, you have to buy a whole new set of tools as the batteries die.. and also no standard battery connections between manufactures so that batteries are interchangeable

 

[longy]

I noticed that our mechanics at the FD always got a weekly visit from the Snap On tool truck. Now we’re talking somewhere around 25-30 mechanics. It was always well attended. We have our mechanics an annual tool allowance and they were required to have their own tools. So I asked a few of them if Snap On were good tools. The consensus was they were “good enough”. I learned that with a few exceptions for this or that critical tool they didn’t buy top of the line because they could break, get lost, or walk off in a busy shop. I found that interesting.

The expensive tools don't swim any better than the cheaper tools.

 

[hard aground]

The expensive tools don't swim any better than the cheaper tools.

they do convince you to swim after them quicker though

 

[billsreef]

they do convince you to swim after them quicker though

In my days as a boat mechanic, the most important tool in the shop was a powerful magnet on a rope.

 

[longy]

^^ Spent a fair bit of time magnet fishing. Once had the plastic toolbox hinges fail walking down the dock - that took the rest of the day. Found a few other tools, sadly they'd been down too long

 

[justsomeguy!]

I hooked that errant 10mm socket with a magnet at the bottom of my slip.