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Hello fellow crew members, As most of you have noticed I am able to make my own stickers I have also noticed some people would like to have some of these stickers so in saying that I will host my own forum giveaway…… I will produce and give away 5 sets of stickers, you can have a choice of pretty much any tool company you want. If you are the winner you tell me what company…. it’s as simple as that.
The set will include:
1 sticker up to 15″ long and 8″ tall
2 stickers 8″ long and 4″ tall
2 stickers 4″ long and 2″ tall
Please Read:
all you have to do is tell us a tool story that includes you, and some kind of tool that you own, it can be a screwdriver or a jackhammer or anything in between……
please post with HERE IS MY STORY: at the top of the post
once you posted 1 story you are entered. but you can post as many stories and you can comment on as many stories as you like. post your stories right here or comment on a story found here…….
this giveaway is open to all TIA members regardless where you live on the planet so everyone has a chance…..
5 members that have posted a story will be randomly picked on February 21st. (my birthday so I will remember…lol) they will receive 1 set each.
Note: I do not sell these stickers nor will I so hopefully you can win some……Good Luck everyone….
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winners announced Here
Sweet…..your stickers are awesome.
Can you give them away for a donation? Lol
DeWalt
Thanks comp56, this is really nice of you to do for the crew. If you need any help with the contest, let me know. I don’t know what I can offer, but I thought I would throw that out there.
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Awesome give away comp!
Jimbo
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I want s comp56 logo sticker, we all know he makes the best stuff 😉
Thats pretty cool Comp,I love decals like this for the man cave. Where should we post such stories ie which part of the forum? Pub Talk?
Nice giveaway Comp!
Nice I’ve been looking for stickers to fill up the tool chest that I fit for Christmas all I have right now is tia
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post stories right in this thread I will update first post…
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post stories right in this thread I will update first post…
Ok,thanks for the clarity.
This is awesome! I hope to hear some good stories from this and maybe offer one myself, cant wait!
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HERE IS MY STORY
Well this is quite ironic, I actually made a little mistake on a recent eBay item. Just yesterday I had my eyes on a new Fuel 1″ SDS rotary hammer, thought I would see how cheap they were going for. The price of one at the time was $175 I believe, and the auction was ending in about ten minutes. I thought, hey maybe I’ll see what the bid is going for right now, so I enter in $176 and would then see if it was higher than that price, thinking that it would most certainly be for at least $200. 10 minutes later I get an eBay notification that says “18 people bid – and you won! Congratulations! You won at $176.00.” D’oh! So that’s how I am now the proud owner of a brand new Milwaukee Fuel 1″SDS plus rotary hammer!
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Here is my story:
One of the first tools that I purchased, power tools that is, was a Milwaukee Sawzall, I was 19 at the time. This was the first power tool, major power tool, that I could call my own without borrowing my dads. Being still in college he says to me, what the hell are you going to use that for? I told him I don’t know yet (this was before my tool addiction) I don’t know when or where but Ill be glad i bought it. I got it discounted pretty cheap when a local hardware store was going out of business. Well that following fall I went to a pumpkin patch with my girlfriend at the time and got some huge pumpkins to carve. Mine was about 70 pounds and had at least a 2 1/2″ wall of pumpkin. Killing my self to carve it with a knife, I got the bright idea to use my sawzall, thus began the annual Jimbo pumpkin sawzall carving. Trying to be fancy and make a spider, i got most of it cut out, got over ambitious, revved it all the way up to finish the cut and cut the whole carving out… yea, oops. Now i use the m12 hackzall being its more manageable but its a lot of fun!
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HERE IS MY STORY
Well this is quite ironic, I actually made a little mistake on a recent eBay item. Just yesterday I had my eyes on a new Fuel 1″ SDS rotary hammer, thought I would see how cheap they were going for. The price of one at the time was $175 I believe, and the auction was ending in about ten minutes. I thought, hey maybe I’ll see what the bid is going for right now, so I enter in $176 and would then see if it was higher than that price, thinking that it would most certainly be for at least $200. 10 minutes later I get an eBay notification that says “18 people bid – and you won! Congratulations! You won at $176.00.” D’oh! So that’s how I am now the proud owner of a brand new Milwaukee Fuel 1″SDS plus rotary hammer!
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Thats how I got my Dewalt XR dry-wall screw gun, won it for like 90 bucks brand new just messing around.
Here is my story:
I recently bought the Milwaukee 2897-22 kit that came with an extra battery, sawzall and toolbag. I have been using the 1/4 and 3/8 impact at work ( I am a mechanic at at Caterpillar dealership) All I can say is wow !! the 3/8 is super strong. Several other mechanics have used it and immediately went out and bought one. My next purchase will be the 1/2 impact. I really like the new gen2 fuel milwaukee tools.
HERE IS MY STORY:
I remember a few years ago my wife and I decided to tear out the carpet in our living room and dining area and replace it with some laminate flooring. I borrowed my neighbors table saw to cut and rip the planks to size as needed. After ripping 3 or 4 planks the blade on the table saw was toast. I bought a new carbide blade hoping it would last a bit longer. I burned it up in no time as well.
About 1/4 of the way through the job I started using my little corded black and decker jigsaw to cut and rip the flooring. I finished the entire rest of the job with the same jigsaw blade. Never had an issue! I know it was the wrong tool for the job, but hey…..it worked. Plus ripping laminate flooring planks with a jigsaw is really fun…lol
Your going to love it. I do!KnarlyCarl wrote:
HERE IS MY STORY
Well this is quite ironic, I actually made a little mistake on a recent eBay item. Just yesterday I had my eyes on a new Fuel 1″ SDS rotary hammer, thought I would see how cheap they were going for. The price of one at the time was $175 I believe, and the auction was ending in about ten minutes. I thought, hey maybe I’ll see what the bid is going for right now, so I enter in $176 and would then see if it was higher than that price, thinking that it would most certainly be for at least $200. 10 minutes later I get an eBay notification that says “18 people bid – and you won! Congratulations! You won at $176.00.” D’oh! So that’s how I am now the proud owner of a brand new Milwaukee Fuel 1″SDS plus rotary hammer!
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Here is my story.
For quite a while I was in the market for a portable electric pipe bending machine. A REMS Curvo. REMS is a German brand of quality plumbing/heating tools. And some Tradsmen on a couple of Plumbing/Heating sites I belong too always talked about REMS tools and the quality of these machines. Being a tool nut I knew one day I would own one of these machines. This brand of tools is not that easy to come by where I live and they are quite expensive.
One day on one of the Heating sites there was a post by one of the members that a fellow Tech had passed away and his wife was going to be selling his tools/equipment. I actually had the oppurnutinty to meet this Tech at a couple of Oil/gas Heating Seminars over the past few years, Great guy, well respected in the trade. Passed away too young. I was able to get in contact with the wife and ask about the Curvo pipe bender and was able to purchase it.
Here is my story:
I was newly married, young and dumb, short on cash and living in an apartment…etc. While walking through Sears tool section I spotted a 8 in table saw for $100. I just had to have it. I bought it and then hid it in the trunk of the car so my new wife would not find it. I did not have a project in mind and did not need the saw but the “Tool addiction” was born and continues 30 years later. [emoji851]
DeWalt
Here is my story:
When I was 14 I had my first experience with a power tool; it was an old Bosch jig saw. My parents had just got all the windows in the house replaced and my dad was trimming them out. He let me screw around on some scrap wood with the jig saw to get the hang of it, before letting me notch out all the sills… I was hooked. To this day my favorite tool is a jig saw and I even have a Bosch of my own, the JS572EBL.
Nice idea Comp, people would love those stickers. Nice job.
HERE IS MY STORY
Wow, talk about a flashback, I just ran across something that I thought I had to share. This was my first experience with a cordless tool, my Dad gave me a small Makita reciprocating saw that he bought new, it was the stick style of battery, the old kinds Makita had (maybe they still do?)
The reason I say they maybe still have them is because I wanted to check out Makita’s line up and see their different cordless tools, and I came across the exact same saw that I had as a kid, talk about your holy flashback batman moment! See picture and link below.
This little reciprocating saw used the small blades, used an allen wrench to change them, and I used it mainly to cut tree branches in our orchards when it came time to prune (I grew up on an apple farm, I had apple products before it was cool ☺). I still remember a lot of detail about this little saw, such as the metal clasp that hinged open to allow the changing of batteries, the safety that pulled back with my middle finger, then operated the switch with my pointer finger, it was just one speed. I can still picture the battery charger too!
I think the last time I saw it, however, was 15 years ago, and I couldn’t tell you if I could find it again, or what even happened to it.
It’s still on their website:
http://www.makitatools.com/en-us/Modules/Tools/ToolDetails.aspx?Name=4390DW
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Just saw this on the Acmetools site, but I thought it was Comp56’s before a coat of gloss red lol.
A lil late to the party,but i’ll give it a go.
HERE IS MY STORY:
A couple years ago the wife and I bought our own home finally,I had tools like crazy but not what you might consider homeowner tools. My old School dewalt was dead and i knew I wanted an impact. After some research I went with the Porter Cable 20v line,for the price they are crazy good. after drooling over a post of 12v stuff I bought into the Bosch 12v line. These tools have been great around the house,I love the impact,its a beast. hoping to get a multi speed impact someday.
HERE IS MY STORY:
So this happened when I was seventeen. I was working long days and often would neglect to lock my vehicle at night. Of course eventually it got broken into one night and this prick made off with my Milwaukee radio and impact wrench. Even worse is that he drove past in the morning audibly laughing in the morning when I went to leave for work. Called the cops and they couldn’t care less. Anyway I do my homework and find where this guy stayed that night, talked to some people, turns out he’s a deadbeat stereotypical white trash POS that always pulls this crap. Long story short I hung around for a while, car chase and ended up losing him in the Sand Dunes. I miss that impact[emoji20].
Nice! Keep the stories coming, I love reading about the mishaps and crazy endings lol
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not to late at all you have until the 21st of Feb…..
I have to say some awesome stories so far……nothing wrong with sharing more than one……
Here is my story:
Thought of another crazy/maddening/ironic happenstance that I would share to help remind people to stay safe on the roads out there.
I was just married, and a week later my new wife and I decided to take a trip east to see family members and a couple other stops along the way. We spent a night in southern Ohio somewhere, and in the morning went to an aquarium and maybe some other place or two, not sure. It was probably going on at least noon by the time we started heading east and were going along route 32 by Jackson, OH. This type of divided highway has intersection with no on/off ramps, but was very much like a regular interstate highway, except that there were many roads intersecting it with just a stop sign for the crossing traffic. Well, this one particular intersection I was coming up on, i saw a jeep on the far side make his way to the median, and I expected him to stop there and wait for me to pass, that’s how you navigate the intersection. Mind you, we’re going 65mph on this highway, and I keep watching the Jeep, and I’m expecting him to stop in the median, BUT HE DOESN”T! The last thing I said before we struck him, was “He doesn’t see me!” After that, it’s a big blur, I remember wrestling with the steering wheel to keep my truck on the road, and that was about it. I suffered a concussion and when I came to, there were ambulances, they took us to the hospital just up the road and we were treated (amazingly NO major injuries by either us or the other driver!) I managed to get a rental car, and make my way back home, 4 hours later.
In the back of my truck, I had my tool bag with all my hand tools, and this particular truck I converted to run on vegetable oil fuel, and had several jugs full of oil to refuel, as well as the plastic tank on back. THAT OIL GOT EVERYWHERE! The poor wrecker company later said they brought bag after bag of oil-dri out and it just kept coming! By everywhere, i mean everywhere, on our clothes, suitcases, and especially my toolbag and tools, which I got rid of my tool bag at that point. One particular tool that I still use, however, reminds me of this on a daily basis. It is a magnetic backed, socket rack that holds sockets in place on the rail and you turn it to lock the socket on and vise versa to release it. That veggie oil got in this rack and I couldn’t clean it out to save my life. So i did the best i could and I still have to struggle to turn the sockets on and off the rack. When it’s really cold out, it’s too stiff to turn, I have to use a ChannelLock pliers to turn them rather than by hand. I know it’s the oil, and not normal for them because I have a couple other racks of the same kind and they work perfect with smooth action etc. So to this day, I have that reminder whenever I use my socket rack set that veggie oil from the wreck is still haunting me!
Please drive carefully out there.
Here’s the video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOm8-qg79Wc&list=PLzHWMWTI3MDRTAAWPKKe66tWth9yfhBad
Heres the rack:
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keep them coming ….
great giveaway man!
still lots of time to get some stories posted…….
still time….
comp56 wrote:
still time….
Apparently nobody wants to take 5 minutes to win some stickers.
Jimbo
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So while I’m still a newbie , I have a little more experience under my belt with all the projects under my belt. I had decided to replace the brakes on my jeep and save myself some money. Which means I need a new tool. So I went out and picked up dewalts 20v high impact wrench for the job. I went on YouTube and watch the video and everything was going great until the last bolt. I was having a hard time putting the bolt into the caliper and decided to use the dewalt wrench. U may have guessed stripped the bolt. The car stayed jacked for 2 days until a replacement bolt arrived. Should have known better did a similar thing on a spark plug on a 60 hp outboard motor, except that just involved a ratchet.
You get the brushless?chadlanthier wrote:
So while I’m still a newbie , I have a little more experience under my belt with all the projects under my belt. I had decided to replace the brakes on my jeep and save myself some money. Which means I need a new tool. So I went out and picked up dewalts 20v high impact wrench for the job. I went on YouTube and watch the video and everything was going great until the last bolt. I was having a hard time putting the bolt into the caliper and decided to use the dewalt wrench. U may have guessed stripped the bolt. The car stayed jacked for 2 days until a replacement bolt arrived. Should have known better did a similar thing on a spark plug on a 60 hp outboard motor, except that just involved a ratchet.
Yeah it is brushless. It’s got some power
still time
Ok for free stickers I’m definitely in.
HERE IS MY STORY
When I was first out of college I decided I was going to take some of my hard earned money and buy my first decent cordless drill. I happened to be at our local Sears and got a pretty decent deal on a Craftsman 19.2v setup. It really was a good drill and served me for what I needed for several years. Fast forward to about a year ago. We just moved in to a new house. I brought my drill and some other tools with me to work on a few things while the painters were still working. There ended up being a short at our transformer and caused the power to surge…it roasted my charger and one of my batteries. So I decided there were a lot better drills out there and it was time to upgrade. My dad had just let me borrow his new Milwaukee 18v kit and my brother has all DeWalt. Naturally I wanted to be different so I checked out Bosch. That is what led me to TIA, i was looking for reviews. It’s been a downward spiral ever since!
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Awesome giveaway thanks
HERE IS MY STORY
I have always liked building things. This came about when I was about 4 years old, my dad and I would go to the Home Depot for the kids workshops every month. My dad is also a volunteer firefighter, and they have a Christmas party every year that Santa comes to and gives out presents to all of the kids. One year, Santa got me a Black and Decker cordless drill. Keep in mind I was 5 when this happened. When I opened the drill, the first thing I told my Dad was “Daddy, we have to find Santa…he forgot to give me drill bits.” Since then, my dad and I have had a joke about drill bits.
awesome stories so far….. less than a week to go still time for some that haven’t got a story entered
Hey Comp, I have another sweet story about a 50% off code if that helps my chances of winning! [emoji48] [emoji117] [emoji90] [emoji173] [emoji24]
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Hey Comp, I have another sweet story about a 50% off code if that helps my chances of winning! [emoji48] [emoji117] [emoji90] [emoji173] [emoji24]
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lol………
So I was on this tool forum and I got this 50 percent off code for the tape measure. Did you know it’s made in the USA. Not only is it the best tape measure every it builds my projects for me it’s so accurate. But I can’t find it anywhere… Last I heard it got a 50 percent off code bought some more tape measures and is assembling an army to fight all the assholes on the tools in action forum making fun of the poor guy that has no life and time in his hands to find 50 percent off codes and share it with total random people especially on tool sites despite his lack of love for tools.
Jimbo
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Sonuva…
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Bumpity,one more day.
HERE IS MY STORY:
I grew up around power tools and all the men in my family being able to fix everything on their own without having to call anyone. It has taken a while I guess to actually really get into tools and actually get an addiction lol. But the first sense of pride that I took in a job I had done was replacing the kitchen faucet hose and spray nozzle. Now I’m not going to lie. It took almost all day. I didn’t have the right tools and I was determined. Finally I borrowed some wrenches and channel locks from my neighbor and was able to get the piece loose enough to get off and see what I needed to buy. When I went to HD I picked up the new hose and spray nozzle and walked passed the power tools. Did a double take on the DeWalt drill set and decided I didn’t need it just yet. Then I walked into the hand tools section and picked up my own set of Husky crescent wrenches and some plyers. Finally after hours of work I completed the job. Got a rush of pride and realization. Thus beginning my love of tools and the awesome feeling of being a DIYer.
Happy birthday comp!
Not midnight here yet but I’ll give it you know, happy birthday dude!
Jimbo
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Damn time zones. Well it was past midnight here lol