Yea those Snap-On Flank Drive metric wrenchs and Sockets fit both SAE and Metric just fine. I always woundered why SAE could not till I read the sizing charts.

You notice the 9mm fits nothing. I have only ran across a 9mm once in my life.

 

Carry quarters in your truck. 7-11 sells air if you are low.

 

Learn how to weld so you can fix minor stuff on your truck. Years later you will have a garage full of expensive stuff that is a hobby by itself.

 

That is pretty much the same thing as sand blasting, the pos and negative part take into affect very well.

 

Somthing worth doing is worth doing right!!!!!!!!

 

It's slightly more complicated than that, but it is possible... though not a very quality machine (to say the least). IIRC my friend has a bunch of links (he does a lot of high-voltage experiments, cool stuff). When he wakes up I'll post em.
The thing is, iirc, that you have to be able to control the voltage and amperage fairly well, otherwise you'll end up with a very weak weld that doesn't look pretty at all.

But, if you think about it, almost anything can be made at home with enough time and effort... How do you think it was invented?

But what if it's not worth doing and you're only doing it because you have nothing better to do? (sorry, couldn't help myself)

 

Sure, you can make an arc welder with batteries and clamps. 4 wheelers do it, and in fact, there's a production tool designed to do this, only with a high output alternator in addition to the batteries.

It'll work better with 2 batteries hooked up togeter in series.

(begin tangent)

As for that MacGuyver thing..I've heard about that "If it works there, it works in real life." My girl friend insists that all the expiriments were carried out by MIT students (how that came into being, I dunno).

Anyhow, I dont believe that's toooo true. There was an episode where he was trapped in a mine and some guy who wouldnt die had tied some random woman to the bottom of an elevator and was gonna blow it was some C-4. He was going to detonate it by sticking a fuse into it and lighting it.

Were that to happen, the result, IF any, would be some burning C-4, not a tiny explosion that severs an elevator cable and sends the car into the water below.

(End tangent)

 

A small fuse should not have been able to light the C4 in the first place. That's the beauty of C4 - its stability. The stuff won't liquify in water, stays solid, you can eat it up all you want. It takes a LOT of spark to set it off. Or one hell of a flame..a little fuse shouldn't cut it.

Semtex on the other hand.....

 

here's a quick fix for worn out universal socket adapters you know the little things that allow you to use your socket wrenches at an angle after a while of using them they start to flop all over the place and it can be tricky to get them into a tight spot just take a piece of wire heat shrink and slip it over the universal right where it pivots and voila almost as good as new
also for those rusted bolts if you have the chance to do it before you start working on an old truck or what not first spray the bolt with what ever type of penetrant spray you like and then tie an old shop rag around the bolt head and soak it with the same spray it just holds the penetrant on the bolt so the stuff doesnt just drip off or evaporate away
another one i learned from an old mechanic i used to hang around with is to use cereal boxes to cut you own gaskets out of ive never tried it myself but he would swear that the cardboard along with just a little rtv blue would work just as well as any gasket you bought at the parts store
also you can use a little bit of the aquarium silicone glue stuff (dont know the actual name of the stuff) on the insulation of spark plug wires or the boot that slips over the spark plug that get damaged or have small tears in them to keep water out i drove an old cherokee i used to have with silicone on two of the spark plug boots that had been almost ripped off for a few months before i finally replaced all the wires with no problems whatsoever


sorry for the lack of punctuation and other stuff

 

The best fix for those lose swivel sockets is don't use them on Air Rachets. They make a set that is made for Air Rachets and will not wobble all over the place after hard use.

We used to make gaskets out of boxs all the time. Now days everything is special compound or thickness so it's hard to find a use for that trick anymore.

One trick I still use is cut heads of long bolts to help trans, water pumps, etc slide right on so it all lines up perfect.

 

http://www.hydrogen18.com/%5Cproject...er/default.asp there are a bunch of links there to homemade arc welders. (Note: If you're viewing it in Opera, Mozilla, or Firefox, you have to highlight the page for the text to show up because the guy doesn't know how to write html )

 

Use butter flavored Pam to lube your mig wire to keep the rust off. It's cheaper to use and it smells like popcorn when you weld.

 

I use Waxed dental floss, if I have a bolt or nut I absolutly don't want to drop I tie dental floss to it. If I have a nut in a blind spot, I.E. behind a bumper I use dental floss to pull it into position thru the hole. I've used it around pipe thread with dope to stop leaks. Why waxed dental floss?, its in a neat holder with a cutter and the wax makes it easier to handle with wet or greasy hands. I've also used it to cut faded spotter mirrors off.

 

usually easier to use electrical tape on swivel sockets unless you have some heatshrink sitting around.

 

Swift deployment of a spring loaded center punch against the side windows of vehicles will usually stop the person from running you & your bike off the freeway....
They don't teach that one at MSF courses & it isn't in the books...