I always wanted to write a book on things every boy should know... Like a reference manual... Everything from building a go-kart to learning morse code! =)
This is a great demonstration. I enjoy your videos a great deal Scoutcrafter! Your love of tools is inspirational. Kids need to learn the joy of working with them.
Great demonstration and your right, I should have waited to buy my adjustable end wrenches. Brand new from Harbor Freight and the slop is so bad at the thumb wheel they actually open up and skip a tooth. Terrible purchase. I'll go back to the flee market and find a good used "made in USA" wrenches from now on.
Hi Wyatt, The good news is Harbor Freight is starting to import a lot more tools from Taiwan! Taiwanese tools are great! Nothing like tools made in China! I know we usually don't use adjustable wrenches much but I have always liked messing around with them, especially the well made ones! Thanks!
@@ScoutCrafter Some of the latest Chinese tools are quite good for the money, but it's hit or miss on which ones. Need to look at the construction instead of just using the worn out "Chinese is junk" mantra. I would agree that most of the really bad ones I come across are made in China.
i scored 2 brand new 'rothenberger' adjustables for super cheap, 12 & 18 inch, about £1 each....they bind up if you moved them much, took me a couple of minutes to remove the burrs, where someone had hit them, but you couldnt see so well at the glance, they are totally new now! score!
ScoutCrafter GREAT VIDEO 2 of 3 i could use for fishing weights. had a few in my life that ended up in the scrap bin,for the exact same reason. didnt know about the little washer trick until now. hope everything is going great where you are. Bobby
Hello Norherman! There are so many people today that piece wrenches together that it's hard to tell what's original anymore! I doubt that Kline wrench would come from the factory like that! Thanks!
Scoutcrafter, Another excellent production with lots of information! Your camera really shows the story. Is there any fix for the Buffalo? Can you shim it?
Great video scoutcrafter you've helped me upgrade alot of my tools with my spare change. Keep up the great work! One question for you I have a 712sl proto adjustable wrench and don't know how the set screw comes out so I can polish things up a little better any idea? Does not have slot for a screwdriver are these held in by punching in metal to hold set screw? I don't want ruin a beautiful wrench thanks
Hi Matt, I made that Wrench tester years back to bring to the Scout meeting so that the scouts could learn to use different wrenches. It is nothing more then a Bolt that passes thru a piece of 2x4 with a valve spring for tension. Basically it turns but with resistance. I'm going to build another with different size nuts! Thanks!
Great video. I’d just pass on these all together at a flee market. Brand new set of husky wrenches is $9.99 and they have an unlimited warranty like craftsman so if they break you can just get new
some of us enjoy older style and being able to repair it, its all part of the fun, we like seeing the old makes that have gone, and made in the USA or UK, and thinking of those who used it before, i sometimes think the tool gets something extra from its old owners. perhaps you are a young guy, you think a bit differently
Don't get me wrong I love old tools, but for what they are this seems like quite a bit of hassle. Really they only reason I have older tools at all is because they were my great grandfather's and they have sentimental value. I prefer buying all of my tools brand new, original, and then carrying them with me throughout my life. That always makes for the best set to pass down when you're older
i think some enjoy the bit of hassle, to a degree, as you get older you want the kind of tools you had when younger or like your dads, esp if he didnt get to hand many down, its fun to hunt them down at yard sales, esp when youve been bitten by harbour freight or see how much branded tools cost, i guess you either do or you dont!
Hello Enr1997, You're so right, there are some really great tools out there today that are very inexpensive! The only problem is that for some strange reason I have to have triplicates of every tool I own! lol Thanks!!!
Hello James! LOL Dont we all! Especially if the nut was made of softer steel! I remember as a kid if we rounded our bicycle nuts too much it was time for the vise grips! LOL Thanks!!!!!!
I think it was a case of sounding like a better tool! LOL I swear I have a pair of Vise-Glips! Yes GLIPS! They look the same as Vise Grips but a knock-off! LOL Thanks!!!!!!!!
Is that a genuine "Kline?" Look at the spelling, it's not a Klein. I think that's the problem right there...I would've walked away for it being a bad fake.
