Archives for 2019

5 Useful Hand Tools – Which Have You Seen Before?

Here are 5 tools that might be new to you.

Would you switch or buy into another cordless power tool system?

Ryobi has come out with an interesting cordless LED area light that would be especially useful during power outages.

Ridgid came out with a new 18V cordless Mat Light that outputs up to 1500 lumens.

Happy New Year!

As I think about my favorite hand tools, Noga deburring tools come to mind.

Here’s some quick information about calipers and micrometers and how they differ.

MM on I Need to Vent About My Precision Matthews Mill: “Emco has extremely nice small and benchtop machine tools. But anything you can just pick up and tuck away simply…”
MM on I Need to Vent About My Precision Matthews Mill: “I agree, machines in that size class are difficult to find. The reason is the “size class” is fundamentally flawed.…”
UberChemist on I Need to Vent About My Precision Matthews Mill: “I’ve spent years looking. High quality small machine tools DON’T EXIST. It seems like a huge hole in the market.…”
William Adams on The Maker Knife 2 just Launched: “I did get: https://countycomm.com/products/ti-grip-precision-hobby-knife and put it in my bag, but have never had occasion to get it out, so…”
MM on The Maker Knife 2 just Launched: “I think this style of knife has its uses, it’s super slim and the blade is small and inoffensive. If…”
ElectroAtletico on The Maker Knife 2 just Launched: “Milwaukee Fastback’s are less than $10. I can purchase 7 of them for the price of that gimmick “knife”.”