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There was no Amazon or internet when I was buying tools.

Now that I'm older and wiser, I agree with you. When I was 19, I did not have 5500 dollars for a box. I had two grand and it made sense to me to bite the bullet and get the bigger one up front so I wasn't buying four. The one thing I kinda stumbled upon was I got special edition boxes and...

This was in the 90's, so ten grand went a lot farther. I only remember my first "big" tool box being on Snap On credit and my 3/4" drive set. There was also a time I think one of my Snap On guys was having a rough time and he asked if I could "buy" some stuff for him. I let him do it and I...

I usually just carried truck credit but every once in a while I'd buy something big and carry a Snap On loan. I always paid it off fast cause I hate interest. Once, I asked the Snap On guy to write me a letter to a mortgage company because at the time, Snap On was my only credit. The letter...

I've always glass beaded parts right before painting and warm them in the sun or warm them with a heat gun. Never had adhesion issues.

I had a black and silver Yukon like that. Loved that truck. If I were to come across a clean one Like that I'd probably be inclined to LS swap it. I know I say that about everything.

Years ago my dad bought the two magnets that go on your fuel line. I was so disappointed in him.

LS swap it!

He is 21. He's great.

For Father's Day my son got me a non contact thermometer from HF. I already have a Milwaukee and a Raytech. I asked him if he'd mind if I swapped it for something else. He didn't mind so I got these.

It was new to me.

Recently picked this up. I build bicycle wheels as a side gig. Until now, measuring hubs and getting an accurate measurement of the spoke flanges from the center was kind of a crapshoot. I spotted this on a wheel building website. 75 bucks. Total bargain. You first measure the total width...

I can say this... I use breaker bars where necessary, I don't use pipes and other sorts of extensions. I'm also 6'5" and when I was young, had a 52" chest and was just a big boy. I didn't yank and jerk on my tools. Always practiced smoothness. I have probably only ever broken two sockets...

I've told this a couple of times in the past. I'm not a Snap On cheerleader by any means but I did buy plenty of their tools when I was wrenching on diesel generators. I worked in the field so I saw value in Snap On being "the best". One day I was going into Brooklyn to service...

I have a ton of Snap On tools but I was buying them mostly in the 80's and 90's. Sometimes I rarely will still grab something IF I see the guy and IF he's willing to make a cash deal. Now I usually buy Icon or Tekton. Recently, I couldn't find my probably thirty year old Snap On spark plug...

Yeah, I don’t see a need for that. I’ll probably get the on head compressor for big Mopars though.

Everyone sitting down? For years I’ve wanted a really good quality valve spring compressor. David Frieberger was talking about LSM’s compressor with utmost praise. I just treated myself to one. All I can say is wow. Sealed bearings on both sides, silky smooth operation, rated for 1200...

Few years ago during a construction project at my job, there was a guy installing fire sprinklers. It was all No Hub or whatever you call it. All the pipes are joined together with a coupler with two bolts. The guy was using a Dewalt impact gun with a totally beaten and stripped chrome 12...

That air drill is sweet.

Forty years ago I worked in a marine engine machine shop. I was 19 years old so I was buying a lot of tools. Back then there were no cordless impacts, only air and we didn't use it so we only had chrome sockets. The impact stuff struck us as dirty automotive stuff for ham fists. Our engine...