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Yeah, that's kinda annoying and potentially dangerous.

Dangerous? You know whats dangerous...crawlin' on a truss above the fourth floor with your soil pipe (snap) cutters to cut down the the cast iron stacks with no harness 'cause the framers will laugh at ya. Then they laugh at you and you got a hammer to throw down four stories. Yea, dangerous for the effin' clown that fucks with me.

just kidding man. I was only half that angry. Did get in some crazy situations though. Biggest fear with tools? When La Mara was texting me on the freaking job and there was a dude walking around with a machete. He was a drywaller? I dunno, everybody thought he was dangerous.

All those keyless chucks will eventually do that, but this one did pretty much straight out of the box.

I hope that screw extractor works for you; I've never had luck with them. I usually just bore the screw out and tap it if I have to (not often...or just go up a screw size).

That dowel jig I picked up has been a workhorse. Finally found a good one. The table saw has been too.

lordgalvar wrote:Dangerous? You know whats dangerous...crawlin' on a truss above the fourth floor with your soil pipe (snap) cutters to cut down the the cast iron stacks with no harness 'cause the framers will laugh at ya. Then they laugh at you and you got a hammer to throw down four stories. Yea, dangerous for the effin' clown that fucks with me.

I've never used a screw extractor, but thought it'd be worth a try.

lordgalvar wrote:Ryobi -> it is good to use until it breaks...feels cheap and is a little weak.

I've fried one with-in 5 minutes

I'll add to for list Hilti, a bit pricy but will stand up to heavy production abuse.

I think my problem with them was that I usually destroyed the screw before I tried it.

Now nipple extractors...thems the tits.
Speaking of soil pipe cutters, I left them under the house. They are pretty worn out and the body is cracked. Kinda sucks...it's like a 700$ tool, but I picked em up for 150 at a yard sale and used the hell out of them. Already replaced all my sewer...so when I die somebody will get a really cool 2"-6" snap cutter made by ridgid. Or I'll just get them eventually.

I need a new torch.

If you ever have a stuck screw or a frozen pipe or bolt try heating them up with a torch (just a touch don't make them white hot). Try touching that screw on the pedal with a soldering iron to break the wedge (unless it is crossthreaded then good luck no matter what you do).

Forgot about Hilti. They are kinda of new-comers as far as I know.Made alright demo and chipping hammers. I liked their chipping/drilling hammers more than bosch, but bosch and makita made better demo hammers (granted this was like 10 years ago).

Ryobi...yea, they can do that, but I dunno. I had one that lasted a good year of hard use out in the field. But it couldn't drill a 2-9/16 hole through two 2x4s or even one (it honestly had problems with 1-3/8 self feed bits). but it was ok for screws and stuff. The Milawaukee I plumbed whole houses with in a pinch (it sucked but I did it...have done it with a hand saw too).

Chankgeez wrote:Yeah, that's kinda annoying and potentially dangerous.

not really, dangerous is watching someone get a air hose wapped around a fly cutter on a drill press, copping the hose in half and knocking one of the knobs off the hands on a large powermattic drill press… or…. getting you hand rapped in the air hose when it get wrapped around a flycutter and needing stitches [my boss at the time did that one..]… I'm so glad I am not a shop lead anymore… that shit is someone else headache…

Yea, running those pipe threaders is like that too. Too many people I know have no fingers from those damn things. One little snag on a burr and it is taking the hand. Too many way more dangerous things out there to worry about than a lightly flying bit.

Almost lost my finger with getting wrapped up in a small rope (crazy guy I worked with dropped the thing we were carrying). Hung upside down in an attic (it was 120 outside the attic, probaly 130 in there, stuck between a duct covered in plastic and the roof sheathing. My boss ditched me as I was soldering and I got stuck...(he went off to do some ummm...illegal things I am sure) finally got out and passed out on someones lawn. A-hole. My friend got knocked off a ladder by a hole hawg (mostly cause he is an idiot) and it threw him into a window and his muscle fell out of his arm and he has a cool 10" scar on his face.

Hole Hawgs can be crazy if you ain't got the touch.

I'm a plumber man...I only break concrete (and it is never my fault )...no reason to brace nothing.

Actually it is usually because I pull from the left and the framers would pull measurements from the right and it would keep switching. Or someone wanted a bathroom after the fact or concrete guys broke my pipe.

Milawaukee corded stuff is the best, but not as good as it used to be. That stuff is so easy to repair too. Love my hole hawg.

wait..what happened to all the posts?

lordgalvar wrote:wait..what happened to all the posts?

I read what you said wrong.. thought my tangent didn't fit make sense but you read it so that's all that matters

lordgalvar wrote:Yea, running those pipe threaders is like that too. Too many people I know have no fingers from those damn things. One little snag on a burr and it is taking the hand. Too many way more dangerous things out there to worry about than a lightly flying bit.

Almost lost my finger with getting wrapped up in a small rope (crazy guy I worked with dropped the thing we were carrying). Hung upside down in an attic (it was 120 outside the attic, probaly 130 in there, stuck between a duct covered in plastic and the roof sheathing. My boss ditched me as I was soldering and I got stuck...(he went off to do some ummm...illegal things I am sure) finally got out and passed out on someones lawn. A-hole. My friend got knocked off a ladder by a hole hawg (mostly cause he is an idiot) and it threw him into a window and his muscle fell out of his arm and he has a cool 10" scar on his face.

Hole Hawgs can be crazy if you ain't got the touch.

A lot of stuff can get behind you if you don't watch it. I have seen too many things that just by luck didn't really injure/kill. I personally never really have gotten hurt, although the wear and tear on my knees and feet and risks and thumb joints…

lordgalvar wrote:I'm a plumber man...I only break concrete (and it is never my fault )...no reason to brace nothing.

ah.. well… Trained as a boat a builder ended up making trim out stuff for production housing [tract houses]… for most of the large housing builders building in the puget sound area basically it's all that ginger bread shit that makes houses look dumb

Boat building seems pretty cool. Lots of it where my parents live in Anacortes. I did prefab plumbing for a while during school. Pretty alright job, but it kinda takes all the fun out of the uniquness of houses.

Yea, I hated tract housing down in here in southern california. It paid the bills though. It's just a job, but it helps to learn stuff and trick for building cool stuff at home. Cheers man!

Speaking of tools....don't think I would ever find this useful, but it made me laugh.

http://www.leatherman.com/tread-831998.html

That would be useful in a tool related emergency, but not everyday. The price

DeWalt 20v Lithium Ion ALL DAY. Light as anything, can hold a charge for freaking ever, and a belt clip. All essentials for me, I've been going 9 months strong with my set

Just put my new step drills through their paces. Brilliant invention, perfect holes at the right sizes. Cut like a hot knife through butter. No piss farting around changing drill bits. I just drilled a dozen perfect holes in the quickest time ever. One of the wisest pedal related investments I've made this year. Anyone building pedals for profit or for fun who doesn't have a set should get some. I can't say enough good things about them.

So I have this Weller SP40L soldering iron I bought a million years ago. Because I'm an imbecile, I didn't realize at the time that chisel tips are terrible for soldering pickups and the like, but somehow I managed to get done what I needed to. Anyway my neck pickup connection came loose on one of my guitars and I want to resolder it, but I'd like to buy a replacement tip for the iron first. I contacted Weller to ask which tip would be compatible, but they never wrote back. Thanks assholes. Does anyone know what tip to get for it, and where to get it? They probably don't make this model anymore; do I have to get a whole new iron?