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LS Corvair Project: Getting Closer! Brake Lines… Do Them Right, Cause They Matter.

This project is getting closer and closer to a real running and driving car. The brake lines are the subject of this video here and as you well know there are a lot of ways to handle them. Watch how...

Are Power Tools Like These Cordless Impacts, Made FOR Black Friday, Any Good?

There are a lot of tool kits on sale right now, as so many manufacturers put their stuff on sale for Black Friday holiday sales. Not only do they put everything on sale, but they also have been...

Weighted Sockets = More Power. So is Heaviest Best? Physicist is stumped

If you’ve ever had a crank pulley bolt that won’t come out, you know what true frustration feels like. Hondas are famous for having a 19mm crank bolt that is exposed to the elements and...

Tools, Shop Supplies, And More That You Can’t Live Without: Fireball Tool’s Founder Jason Gives Us His List

Anyone who has ever spent any time visiting other workshops knows that you are always seeing some tool or fix or supply that you didn’t know about or think about for your own workshop. Those...

Here Are Project Farm’s Top 10 Tools To Get From All Their 2022 Testing!

We love Project Farm tool reviews and testing, and have featured lots of their tool comparisons. When you take 10 or more brands of a specific kind of tool, then you find out the real quick which...

The Most Powerful Impact Wrenches on Amazon vs Milwaukee: Not Bad!

Ever look at those Amazon tool listings and wonder if one of those weirdly named brands could possibly be worth having? Yeah, us too, so when we saw this latest video from the Torque Test channel,...

Who Makes The Best Bench Vise? $60 vs $500 “Unbreakable” Vise? Irwin, Yost, Wilton, Ridgid, Heuer, Central Forge

Vises can be expensive. I know that when I’ve been in the market for one, I looked at both used vintage Wilton’s, new high dollar vises, and cheap discount vises as well. Ultimately my...

Who Make The Most Powerful Air Hammers: Head to Head Testing

Air hammers, when you need one there is nothing else that compares. And while we call them Air Hammers, there are plenty of other attachments that can go with them from chisels to cutters and punches...

Who Makes The Best Annular Cutter? Fein, Milwaukee, DeWalt, Euroboor, Hougan, Hermes, S&F, Evolution, Steel Dragon

Annular cutters have been all the rage in the last couple of years as, like many tools, they have become much easier to find and much cheaper. If you are not familiar, they are similar to a hole saw...

Who Are These Non-Slip Wrenches Fooling? Icon v Snap-On, Milwaukee, Metrinch, Dewalt & More

Do these things even work? To be fair, I’ve never used any of the Non-Slip wrenches before that I know of, although some of the newer end wrenches I’ve seen in friends’ toolboxes do...

Hemi Swapped C10 Build: “HemiHalf” Official Reveal – The Hemi Swapped C10 Is An Animal!

It’s alive! Here is Part 7 of the Gen III HEMI C10 build that Derek has dubbed the HemiHalf. It’s back from Moparty and ready to get buttoned up and ready to rock so the burnouts can...

WALMART Has a $170 ($245 Kit) Brushless Impact Wrench?! Is It Worth Buying? Dyno Test Below!

It seems like everyone and their brother is getting into the cordless tool game, and that some of them might actually be worth owning. Not so long ago name brands like Milwaukee, Dewalt, Bosch,...

Who Makes The Best “Ratcheting” Wrench? Craftsman, GearWrench, Blue Point, Proto, Wera, DeWalt, SK, Williams

Ratcheting end wrenches are one of the finest hand-tool inventions to hit hot rodders in decades. I love them, use them a lot, and can’t imagine having a toolbox without them anymore. But who...

How To: Restoring An Old Lathe For Your Shop At Home

Old tools and equipment are awesome, but sometimes they need a freshen up to look or perform their best. In the case of old milling machines and lathes, they often work perfect but are cosmetically...