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Reader Find: Break-Free CLP
Kythri writes: “This isn’t so much a tool as an alternative — and an often superior one at that — to WD-40. It’s saved my bacon a number of times.” xanax online no prescriptionFrom the Break-Free...
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Hot or Not? WD-40
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Dealmonger: A $65 Oil Extractor
I spotted this in a tatty copy of SkyMall on my last fight, and I’m thinking about purchasing one, if for no other reason than to cut down on the oil stains on my driveway. Products like the $500...
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Dealmonger: A Free Quart of Oil
It seems somewhat ironic that with oil prices now over $90 a barrel we’d find on a deal for a free quart of oil, but thats exactly what the folks over at O’Reilly Auto Parts are offering. To get your...
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Oil In Your Bearing, Not In Your Hands
Fan in your computer whining because the tiny bearing needs oil? Nothing does the job as well as a micro oiler. Owned one of those cheap leaky plastic pen oilers — the one where you squeeze and too...
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Hot or Not? Protecting The Family Tools
You want to protect the things you love — your family, your pets, your tools – but with all the folk remedies swirling around the mythosphere, who’s to know what works best? For cleaning and...
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Unstick Quick With Slick Strips
Ridout Plastics makes their Slick Strips out of an ultra-high molecular weight plastic film, with a low coefficient of friction. In English, that means it makes surfaces slide past each other easier....
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Pack Your Bearings Before You Pack Your Bags
Raise your hand if you actually re-pack your trailer’s wheel bearings once a year as recommended. Yeah, repacking bearings by hand can be a greasy mess — who really wants to put globs of grease in...
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G-Oil: Biodegradable, Environmentally Safe Motor Oils
With lawn and garden season fast approaching, it’s time to fire up the garden polluters, and by that I mean the tools powered by two-stroke engines. Luckily, Green Earth Technology has developed its...
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The Lube Tube
Greasing the front end of your vehicle can be so frustrating sometimes, you just want to give up and bring it to your mechanic. Automakers obviously weren’t thinking about serviceability when they...
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Rejuvenate Stuck Grease Fittings And Joints
You pop your grease gun onto the zerk fitting and try to pump, but instead of moving the pump handle your arm just stops. You’ve got yourself a clogged fitting or joint. Replacing the fitting and...
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Dealmonger: Tapmatic Cutting And Tapping Fluid $11
Industrial Boys is selling a 16oz. bottle of Tapmatic’s Natural Cutting and Tapping Fluid for $10.86. Lately we’ve switched to this fluid for most of our tapping jobs. It smells odd, but it...
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Dealmonger: Pistol-Grip Pump Oiler $7
Bic Warehouse is selling this pistol-grip pump oiler with a flexible spout for $6.65. This type of tool does most of the oiling jobs in our shop, be it light oil for the lathe spindle or way oil for...
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Boeshield T-9 Rust And Corrosion Protection
If you store your metal tools in a high-humidity environment, you’re asking for rust. Unlike older solutions such as an outer layer of wax, oil, or WD-40, Boshield T-9 Rust and Corrosion Protection...
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Only Mix As Much Gas As You Need
You just want to mix a pint of gas in a 40:1 mixture with two-cycle oil, because you don’t want to have a gallon or two of mixed gas left over at the end of the season. Do you want to crunch the...
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It’s Just Cool: Lubricate Bits With Bad Dog Drool
Most Toolmongers probably just grab any oil that’s close at hand while drilling into metal, but if I actually bought cutting oil, I have to admit that I’d probably buy Bad Dog Drool cutting lubricant...
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Protect And Identify Grease Fittings
The first thing you do when greasing a fitting is wipe all the crud off it so you don’t pump it into the fitting — so how much time and mess could you save if the fitting was already clean? These...
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Bike Chain Cleaner
Dirt and metal particles on your bike’s chain can accelerate chain and sprocket wear and cause shifting or other performance problems. Park Tool sells its Cyclone chain scrubber to keep your bike’s...
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High-Pressure Or High-Volume Grease Gun
Legacy Manufacturing, not to be confused with Legacy Woodworking, claims their MEGABOOST grease gun is the most powerful pistol-style grease gun out there. If you set the gun for boost, it’s able to...
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Budget Shop Truck Build, Part 4: A New Transmission
After a bit of a hiatus we resumed our search for a transmission for our shop truck project. We learned several things in the process, not the least of which is this: transmissions can be expensive....
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3-In-One No Rust Shield
3-In-One oil is no longer the only product bearing the distinctive red, white, and black logo that has graced oil cans for decades. Now the No-Rust Shield joins it on the shelves of the local home...
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Castrol Stick Wax
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Milwaukee Expands M12 Line w/Cordless Grease Gun
xanax online no prescriptionMilwaukee’s ever-expanding M12 cordless line now includes a brand-spankin’ new cordless grease gun. Its primary talking point: an 8,000 PSI max operating pressure, which...
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A Well-Oiled Cable
xanax online no prescriptionMany cables these days are Teflon coated or don’t require lubrication, so you probably don’t have to oil them anymore — but if you do, a cable oiler seems to be the way to...
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Cool Cans, Roundabout Donations
xanax online no prescriptionIn the market to buy a can of WD-40? It seems you now have options. Not to be left out of the commemorative soda can craze, the folks at WD-40 now offer a “collectable”...
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