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Bought this pancake hood to help fight the fogging when it's cold. It worked, weighs near nothing, but was a pain, so I moved to the modern age and man this thing is nice.
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Edit to say. Moved to the modern age and got an auto dark lens. Apparantly they have improved over the last 20 years!!???

There were really good ones 20 years ago too. But $$$. Now there's a bunch of affordable ones that are good too.
 

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I got this work caddy stool thing from HF for my fat ass.


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Finally dipped my toes in the dark side. Been holding off for so long lol. They just have too many of the tools I want to be battery powered.. Tire inflator is the first of the sickness. Gonna be using it for the "incases" definitely taking it on all of my long road trips, it'll be great for the come out to a flat tire on the truck in the morning. The random tire on one of the projects that's gotta be moved, when I don't want to drive a whole truck and fire up the gas compressor. Eyeballing them die grinders and mini buffer, as well as the mini belt sanders.

Also hell of a time to get into it! There havin some good deals. The bare tool is 120 but with this deal you get a battery and a charger for 130!

Y'all need to check out milwaukees specials goin on, my local farm and fleet had the same deals.
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I got this work caddy stool thing from HF for my fat ass.


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Thats a neat seat. Only problem for me would be, whatever it is I'd be looking for would be in that little drawer!!!!???? Lol
 

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Thats a neat seat. Only problem for me would be, whatever it is I'd be looking for would be in that little drawer!!!!???? Lol

Yeah I like all the storage pockets. Already came in handy for using the impact gun and holding the lug nuts. I had to do some sidewalk demo and grinding in my driveway and it save my back and knees too.


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Finally dipped my toes in the dark side. Been holding off for so long lol. They just have too many of the tools I want to be battery powered.. Tire inflator is the first of the sickness. Gonna be using it for the "incases" definitely taking it on all of my long road trips, it'll be great for the come out to a flat tire on the truck in the morning. The random tire on one of the projects that's gotta be moved, when I don't want to drive a whole truck and fire up the gas compressor. Eyeballing them die grinders and mini buffer, as well as the mini belt sanders.

Also hell of a time to get into it! There havin some good deals. The bare tool is 120 but with this deal you get a battery and a charger for 130!

Y'all need to check out milwaukees specials goin on, my local farm and fleet had the same deals.
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I've been doing the same thing with Ryobi the last few months, they've had some killer deals going on. I had a variety of battery powered tools and I'd gotten sick of all the different batteries/chargers so I decided to commit to one brand going foward. Ryobi is hard to beat, they've never changed their battery shape for 20yrs, the current batteries will work in old tools. Plus the green matches my box lol
 

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I've been doing the same thing with Ryobi the last few months, they've had some killer deals going on. I had a variety of battery powered tools and I'd gotten sick of all the different batteries/chargers so I decided to commit to one brand going foward. Ryobi is hard to beat, they've never changed their battery shape for 20yrs, the current batteries will work in old tools. Plus the green matches my box lol
I do like that concept, obviously batteries are a huge part to the madness. I've been rocking my 18v dewalt stuff for over a decade, batteries are just about as expensive as the new stuff so that also helped me jump in. Ive had zero issues with my 18v xrp's even the first generation stuff still works, maybe why I've held on so long.
 

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A flywheel holder. Not sure how much I want to use it..
And the factory manual. Everyone should have these. I buy em all on ebay for about $30.
 

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My last HF Blue 1/4" x 10mm Deep socket, fell to the bottom of the scrap yard dump truck, while selecting a 96' Crossfire 5.7L Roller Block core.
Butter Fingers... I could see that sucker all the way down under three 1 ton rear ends, 2 engine blocks and a washing machine... and could not reach it.

The 45oz USA DB Hammer was a good buy. The battery was not included... just the tool...
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89Suburban, that Rotary Drill / Chipping Hammer Rig is cool. Ain't held one of those in a few decades.

The welding shed has a cracked floor and the epoxy has been sitting in the big barn to patch it since last fall.
Somebody broke the Husq K760 casting at the frame, so there's no saw for me to cut the cracks (or steel pipe it's supposed to be used for).

Perhaps the company grinder will survive and avoid the trip to tool heaven... with a diamond blade? We've got 180' of cracks to fix, at least.

Not looking forward to doing it because the shop floor is heated and I'm not covered for causing a flood or replacing the plumbing, if it cracks.
Hoping they find a guy with insurance, who's carrying all the fittings for the emergency slab plumbing splice(s).

Feel as though I could go an entire lifetime, without having to say the words: "I may have just cut the plumbing system for the $65,000.00 heated concrete slab"...:893Chainsaw-Smilie-

Cannot seem to pull the trigger on this new thingy they sell for the job:
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The Plumbing Destroyer!
 

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I do like that concept, obviously batteries are a huge part to the madness. I've been rocking my 18v dewalt stuff for over a decade, batteries are just about as expensive as the new stuff so that also helped me jump in. Ive had zero issues with my 18v xrp's even the first generation stuff still works, maybe why I've held on so
They have adapters for the new 20v batteries to work on 18v I still use my flashlight and grinder that way. I killed a 18v hammer drill using a masonry bit for polit holes to sink 7 acres of T-posts.
 

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I do like that concept, obviously batteries are a huge part to the madness. I've been rocking my 18v dewalt stuff for over a decade, batteries are just about as expensive as the new stuff so that also helped me jump in. Ive had zero issues with my 18v xrp's even the first generation stuff still works, maybe why I've held on so long.
Prairie drifter I had the same problem had a Dewalt kit had pretty much everything,then they changed the battery platform. The Ryobi one+lithium are backwards compatible with the 18v nicads all the battery management is in the battery so I adapted my Dewalt stuff to Ryobi batteries. As I need tools I'll buy Ryobi. That way I just have one battery.
 

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A flywheel holder. Not sure how much I want to use it..
And the factory manual. Everyone should have these. I buy em all on ebay for about $30.
Those flywheel turning tools are a knuckle saving tool. I have had mine for 25 years, don't use it much but when I do it make life so much more easier.
 

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Those flywheel turning tools are a knuckle saving tool. I have had mine for 25 years, don't use it much but when I do it make life so much more easier.

I've never bought one yet. My stubborn ass will probably continue making due with a big screw driver. I'm sure I will eventually buy one... then tell myself I was a fool for not buying one decades sooner, lol.
 

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