Tool Talk
General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: RedVise on November 21, 2012, 04:55:40 PM
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Picked up a couple of nice items last week end, a pretty day, riding around with the windows down, listening to John Hiatt - Crossing Muddy Waters turned up a wee bit !!
I have been looking for a large pair of channellocks and came across this Powr Kraft set, made in Japan but looks like there is plenty of life left in them. That's a Single Offset Blackhawk wrench, some basic wirestrippers, vintage tapes, a wooden handle for some type of multi tool, and a Warranted Superior saw.
The winner is the Germantown Master Builder hatchet, I picked it up and the balance and feel were just right! Cleaned the roofing tar off and it looks good.
Happy Thanksgiving to all !
Brian L.
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Nice haul.
When I was a kid, Dad sent my brother out to get a tool for something we were working on, and he came home with a pair of Channellocks like the ones you found. Dad was a little upset at my brother for buying such a useless thing, but it solved the problem at hand, and Dad later admitted he used them a lot.
I have a pair of some off-brand, made in Spain, not terribly good; I'm always on the lookout for a good brand of that size of plier.
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I used those giant channel locks to push back disc brake calipers.
Also to pop the tire valves out of the rim.
Couldn't be without them now.
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I use my "huge" channel-locks all the time.
There are things that this tool will only do.
No others would do! Amen.
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Yuppp! Love that tool, got me through many-a-fix...
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I got a red gripped a pair of New Britains several years ago at a local neighborhood yard sale. He wouldn't come off the $4 price....
The tool auction I went to today had Channe llocks in spades, including two pr. of EASCO(Japanese made ones no less) Brought $25. I snagged a semi large pr. of Powr-Kraft in a pliers flat for like $4. What can I say, I'm pliers-poor now......and tool-poor eternally!!!! See the auction-specific post for more details.
DM&FS