New tools you've bought recently?

[PetroleumJunkie412]

Love having a forklift at the shop. Wish I had one at the house but there is no pavement, and an off-road telahandler is out of budget. To be fair, a regular forklift is also out of budget for the house as well.

I wound up with a 5,000 lb off-road one, telehandler was a little Out Of Reach for me as well, and didn't have enough uses for it either. When I picked up is propane, with a jib that clamps on to the fork mounts. Not too bad overall.

I was sincerely thinking about getting a tracked skid steer instead, but this thing fell into my lap at a price I couldn't walk away from, and none of the skid steers had quite enough vertical reach to work over top of gooseneck trailers

 

[Blmpkn]

...chasing the Canadian geese out of my parking lot.

XO-1 Supercar

XO-1 Supercar

m.traxxas.com

100mph right outta the box..

 

[Shran]

I bought a Milwaukee metal cutting circular saw, the corded version. Paid $110 for it and another $30 for a new blade. I think it will come in handy for sheet metal and a few other fab projects I have in mind.

 

[Roert42]

I wound up with a 5,000 lb off-road one, telehandler was a little Out Of Reach for me as well, and didn't have enough uses for it either. When I picked up is propane, with a jib that clamps on to the fork mounts. Not too bad overall.

I was sincerely thinking about getting a tracked skid steer instead, but this thing fell into my lap at a price I couldn't walk away from, and none of the skid steers had quite enough vertical reach to work over top of gooseneck trailers

Good stuff, I like the propane, low maintenance compared to gas or electric.

I gotta believe anything with tracks is going to be high maintenance, especially if you ever run it on asphalt or concrete.

 

[lil_Blue_Ford]

Good stuff, I like the propane, low maintenance compared to gas or electric.

I gotta believe anything with tracks is going to be high maintenance, especially if you ever run it on asphalt or concrete.

Gotta be careful with tracked skid loaders on pavement, a hard turn can peel a track off the rollers.

 

[PetroleumJunkie412]

Good stuff, I like the propane, low maintenance compared to gas or electric.

I gotta believe anything with tracks is going to be high maintenance, especially if you ever run it on asphalt or concrete.

Most of the pavement at my shop dissolved somewhere between 1970 and 1980. Not really interested in replacing it

 

[Roert42]

Most of the pavement at my shop dissolved somewhere between 1970 and 1980. Not really interested in replacing it

Helps keep the property values down.

 

[bilbo]

I bought a Chinese vacuum pump off of eBay so I could fix this:

And then do this:

There is a yellow jacket one for sale on CL semi-locally that I’ve been trying to get for a few weeks but the guy was super flaky about responding. Finally got fed up and just bought the one online. It did the job and I have air again in the truck.

 

[lil_Blue_Ford]

does this count? Or should I go find my climbing thread…

 

[Roert42]

Stopped at the HF to look at their ratchets.
Was about to leave with the Icon ratchet and noticed the PittsburgPro one looked identical for less then half the price, so I bought both to see if there was difference. $40 for Icon and $15 for PP.

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An update on this. I've been using both at work regularly for a little bit now. The Icon is hands down worth the extra money over the PP. Smoother action and less drag. Still have a bunch of fit issues even with my Proto sockets. Overall I would say the fit/finish and QC justify the extra $25.

 

[Shran]

Found this old gem at a pawn shop today, I used my old "pick up a handful of junk with a gem in it" trick and ask "what do you want for this handful of treasure?" Sure enough they didn't even pick it up to inspect and I walked out for a $20 bill. I also scored three other Craftsman ratchets, some clamps and a nice Stanley tape measure. Looks like it's been around the block a few times and used as a hammer but the internals look great.

 

[Uncle Gump]

I got a set of milwaukee air tip attachments for my shop vac. I'm gonna vacuum out my cowl and will certainly come in handy working on some restaurant equipment.

 

[pjtoledo]

10.2mm and Y size drill bits, both in cobalt, to drill a smaller pattern in a transfer case output flange.

 

[Shran]

1/4 drive deep 12 point metric socket set. Needed it for the stupid 6mm 12 point bolts for the ABS sensor inside the steering knuckle... Tiny 12 point sockets are hard to find as it turns out, but Menards had a nice set on hand.

 

[broncc]

I bought a Chinese vacuum pump off of eBay so I could fix this:
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This might be the exact fitting I'm missing on my '94 AC line. Care to share the link I'm desperate to have ac


edit: this was not the fitting I needed