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Offline hickory n Steel

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Re: Post all of your latest tool buys here
« Reply #495 on: February 07, 2021, 02:09:12 PM »


These cheap inox brand polycarbonate safety glasses have always been good to me, especially 3/$5.
The greenlee pouch is meant to hold a pair of electricians scissors and a cable splicing knife, it was only $5.
I have the scissors, but not the splicing knife that I don't necessarily need.
You can't beat 50 cents a piece for the brushes.

Oh and just to make up for these imported goods that I bought I picked up a little something domestic  ;)
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I had some premium rewards points that got me a good deal on the little 6233 at the hardware store.
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Offline skfarmer

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Re: Post all of your latest tool buys here
« Reply #496 on: February 08, 2021, 11:41:30 AM »
good looking knife.

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Re: Post all of your latest tool buys here
« Reply #497 on: February 08, 2021, 03:32:46 PM »
Mystery solved , I feel so dumb for not noticing it before  :-[
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Re: Post all of your latest tool buys here
« Reply #498 on: February 08, 2021, 03:40:07 PM »
That double pouch leather holder is a neat idea! Me likey! :great:

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Re: Post all of your latest tool buys here
« Reply #499 on: February 09, 2021, 11:33:18 AM »
Not sure how I feel about the plastic knob, but my old import sure doesn't work very well anymore and I needed a new one.

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Re: Post all of your latest tool buys here
« Reply #500 on: February 09, 2021, 04:49:51 PM »
That double pouch leather holder is a neat idea! Me likey! :great:
We all used those at the phone company, holds a small knife and a pair of electricians snips. I still keep one one my bench and one in my tool bag.

Offline jeffmoss26

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Re: Post all of your latest tool buys here
« Reply #501 on: February 09, 2021, 07:04:40 PM »
yes! someone else who calls them by their proper name, snips!

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Re: Post all of your latest tool buys here
« Reply #502 on: February 11, 2021, 03:36:41 PM »
4 inch Cobras, smallest they make. I have all the rest so why not ;)

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Re: Post all of your latest tool buys here
« Reply #503 on: February 11, 2021, 04:30:15 PM »
Klein calls these " serrated electricians scissors with strippers " .

 they're exactly what I have which go in this pouch.

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Re: Post all of your latest tool buys here
« Reply #504 on: February 12, 2021, 05:03:54 AM »
4 inch Cobras, smallest they make. I have all the rest so why not ;)

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Gotta find me a pair of those, I have the Knipex affliction too

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Re: Post all of your latest tool buys here
« Reply #505 on: February 13, 2021, 05:33:33 PM »
Hit a yardsale today.


The stihl trimmer was $20 because it wouldn't feed the line, and the mower was $25 because it wouldn't start.

Both are fairly recent, and both turned out to work perfectly.
A couple blasts of starter fluid and the mower fired right up like new, the trimmer just had some line tangled in it because they spooled it in wrong.

I had no clue Stihl trimmers were made in China but you can't beat $20 regardless.

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Offline bonneyman

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Re: Post all of your latest tool buys here
« Reply #506 on: February 13, 2021, 06:31:20 PM »
Great deals!

Well, everything's going to China. Nobody can resist that cheap labor! Just gotta make sure you've got spare parts for when stuff breaks - which it will.

Probably halfway through your front lawn!  :))

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Re: Post all of your latest tool buys here
« Reply #507 on: February 13, 2021, 07:41:37 PM »
Great deals!

Well, everything's going to China. Nobody can resist that cheap labor! Just gotta make sure you've got spare parts for when stuff breaks - which it will.

Probably halfway through your front lawn!  :))
For the $20 payed if this one fails I'll either buy a better one or stick to the 20v B&D trimmer that has been great to me.
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Offline john k

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Re: Post all of your latest tool buys here
« Reply #508 on: February 13, 2021, 11:38:44 PM »
Snapon 10mm, for 50 cents, next to an 11mm I have had.   Will never know why somebody needed an obstruction wrench so bad.
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Re: Post all of your latest tool buys here
« Reply #509 on: February 14, 2021, 09:18:52 AM »
Snapon 10mm, for 50 cents, next to an 11mm I have had.   Will never know why somebody needed an obstruction wrench so bad.

Sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do!  :lol_hitting: