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My monthly giveaway for March will be a DeWalt DW660 Cut-Out Tool. DeWalt DW660 Product Page
To Enter The Giveaway: Post a picture or video of yourself using your favorite tool that you own, along with a reason of why it’s your favorite tool.
The point of this giveaway is to share your favorite tool, so even if you can’t use it and win, then pass it along to another TIACREW.
Place the responses in this thread
I will use a randomizer to chose a winner on March 31st
I will also pick my favorite story, and give a mystery prize.
Good Luck Crew – Looking forward to seeing your posts!
Thanks for doing the giveaway
Yup! Thank you Wig for the giveaway!
Win or loose……the TIA contest are fun. Thanks Wigwag
Sounds awesome!
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Wig wag that’s awesome dude! Can’t wait for the full details
Nice give away, you get the Milwaukee rotary yet?
Jimbo
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You like the suspense dontcha? Lol
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JimboS1ice wrote:
18 minutes ago, JimboS1ice said:Nice give away, you get the Milwaukee rotary yet?
Jimbo
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not yet, but hopefully pick it up next week. read a bunch of good reviews on the scale model forums, blows away the cordless Dremel.
WigWagWorkshop wrote:
not yet, but hopefully pick it up next week. read a bunch of good reviews on the scale model forums, blows away the cordless Dremel.
I turned mine on it has some serious power to it, I think the cordless dremels only in the 7 volt range as well
Jimbo
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My favorite tool is my Gearwrench tap & die set, and the only way I can do a video is to grab a piece of scrap and tap holes into it. That’d be kinda boring to watch I think…
How long do I have, I’m about to hit the sack so if there’s time I’ll do it tomorrow after work
Kato wrote:
34 minutes ago, Kato said:How long do I have, I’m about to hit the sack so if there’s time I’ll do it tomorrow after work
End of the month, no hurry its a random drawing on the last day of March.
Kato wrote:
40 minutes ago, Kato said:My favorite tool is my Gearwrench tap & die set, and the only way I can do a video is to grab a piece of scrap and tap holes into it. That’d be kinda boring to watch I think…
If it’s your favorite tool, please share. The giveaway is random, just wanted to inspire the crew to share their favorite tool.
Sounds good, I’ll do it
I still have to take my picture but before I do, I just want to say that this is really cool of you WigWag.
This is extremely cool. That is a very nice giveaway.
First thing, count me out of the giveaway. I already have the cordless M12 rotary tool and a corded Dremel and dremel Trio. I just like sharing my favorite tools. My favorite (well one of) is my new Proto slide hammers. Why? I love when I have to beat things to pieces to accomplish my task.
I have to say awesome giveaway, now as for my favorite tool? I can not pick one because I share the love with all the tools the same….lol
if you asked what tool I wouldn’t want to have it would be the band saw….here is a short clip some of you may have seen it already but here it is anyway…..
Cool giveaway Wig,I’ll have to come up with something.
comp56 wrote:
23 hours ago, comp56 said:I have to say awesome giveaway, now as for my favorite tool? I can not pick one because I share the love with all the tools the same….lol
if you asked what tool I wouldn’t want to have it would be the band saw….here is a short clip some of you may have seen it already but here it is anyway…..
excellent song choice for the vid Comp.
Kato wrote:
On 3/1/2016 at 6:35 PM, Kato said:My favorite tool is my Gearwrench tap & die set, and the only way I can do a video is to grab a piece of scrap and tap holes into it. That’d be kinda boring to watch I think…
I have this kit too. Just take one of your awesome pics for it.
Ok I came up with something,my most favorite and most used machinist tool.
My trusty Brown and Sharpe 6 inch dial calipers with black face. Super accurate,Swiss made,doesnt need batteries,im not a fan of digitals but they are good for woodworking because of the dust. Hard to do a video but here’s a decent pic:
Fazzman wrote:
Cool giveaway Wig,I’ll have to come up with something.
This as it really got me thinking ……unlike GJ you guys really care about your fellow man.
Thank you for allowing me in ….[emoji12]
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Stercorarius..I don’t think you got it hot enough, it didn’t burn through the bench. Also, wouldn’t a standard gear puller work just the same? And…where’s your extinguisher, gloves, and hot work permit???
Comp, I didn’t have the sound on when I watched your vid, so I didn’t know if you were explaining what you were making, but through your whole vid I kept thinking “What the hell is he making?? What the hell is he making?!?!?”. Pretty damned cool results, and I’m stealing the idea. I just have to figure out how to do it with a jigsaw…
Fazzman, you don’t know me well enough to know how nutso in the head I am, but I took some photos if it a long time ago, mainly because it’s so damned pretty and I was probably bored at the time. My obsession with photography means that any time I want to shoot something, I’ll grab the most off-the-wall thing to photograph, just so I can have a camera in my hands. Here’s the set sitting in my lightbox…
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Took me forever to look through my Flickr albums to find the photos I shot way back then…2011, seems like an eternity away. I love this set, and surprisingly I use it a lot more than I thought I ever would. I bought a set of adapters for it so I could use extensions on it when necessary, and while I bought those more as a whim purchase, I’ve used them a lot. You’d be surprised how often it comes up that you have to tap a hole that’s deeper than a standard tap set will reach.
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Kato wrote:
Stercorarius..I don’t think you got it hot enough, it didn’t burn through the bench. Also, wouldn’t a standard gear puller work just the same? And…where’s your extinguisher, gloves, and hot work permit???
Yeah a standard gear puller would have worked also, but, like I said, work is a lot more satisfying when stuff shatters into pieces in a climactic manner. Where’s my what? Please tell me a hot work permit isn’t a real thing.
Stercorarius wrote:
Yeah a standard gear puller would have worked also, but, like I said, work is a lot more satisfying when stuff shatters into pieces in a climactic manner. Where’s my what? Please tell me a hot work permit isn’t a real thing.
Yes it is. Our company gets contracts sometimes for new hvac equipment at air force bases or army bases, etc and you can’t light a torch without a hot work permit for doing solder work. Oh and we had to get one everyday, couldn’t just get one for a week or however long we were there.
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Hot work permits are very much a real thing, we use them at work. Any time we weld, or use the propane torch for a decent amount of time…anytime sparks will fly, we have to fill one out. We also need a second guy to hang out with an extinguisher, just in case something catches fire. It’s not really a big deal, just one of those little at-work hassles we have to deal with.
Tap and die sets aren’t cheap for good ones, but if you only use them once in a great while, and you know how to do it, you can get away with using cheaper sets. Or, just buy a good set of tap and die handles, and only buy a tap or a die when you need it. I can put a video together showing how to use them if you want, no problem. I have some scrap flat bar that I can play with. If your needs are small, like repairing threads on a bolt or threads in a hole, look at thread chaser sets and thread files. Cheaper than a good tap&die set, and still will accomplish the same thing on existing threads.
Looks like the tap video will have to wait, the camera has to charge and the charger isn’t in the drawer where it’s supposed to be. So, until I find it we’re at a stand-still.
PROTOOLNUT wrote:
11 hours ago, PROTOOLNUT said:
Yo Kato, loving your tap and die set pictures. I’ve been wanting to get a tap and die set for the rare times when I need to tap a new hole for a bolt, or to fix a stripped hole. I would love to see a video of a tap and die set being used. And I would like to know if there is a good tap and die set that I can get for only 20 bucks?
For tapping holes First you must use the proper size drill,for that you referance your handy chart http://www.brokenbolt.com/images/starrett-inch-metric-tap-drill.pdf For instance a 1/4-20 thread requires a number 7 drill,but you can also use a number 6 or a number 5, a couple thousands isnt gonna hurt anything and the thread strength will still be there and its easier on the tap.
Drill hole straight,preferably using a mill or drill press,can be done by hand,then lube up tap making sure it stays straight and go to town. a die is kind of useless for cutting new threads unless some threads already exist. Most tap and die sets you find around are carbon steel which arent that great but if you dont use them often work just fine. HSS is preferred but you will pay more best for sizes you use most.
To fix stripped threads you need Helicoil kits of the proper size,they come with what you need. just dont try and use the helicoil tap also known as an STI tape to tap your regularholes or you will be hosed.
The gearwrench tap and die handles are awesome i have a kit of those and many other styles. The Gearwrench die stocks hold hexagon dies,there are round ones too so be wary of that. Ive tapped and threaded and rethreaded thousands of holes over my career,more than happy to help.
Here’s a vid i found on youtube for you:
Perhaps we should start a new thread for this so wags giveaway stays on topic 🙂
Start one, I’m cool with it, I’ll add info to it
Kato wrote:
32 minutes ago, Kato said:Start one, I’m cool with it, I’ll add info to it
Tis’ done 🙂
Protool, go here for the tap discussion
You’re welcome. Well he was using the GearWrench tap handle kit. The handle for threading dies is called a die stock.
The gearwrench set has die stocks for hexagon shaped dies.
I made a post in hand tools section ^^^^ Thanks Kato.
I thought I would put a little video up of my favorite tool and hopefully you can understand why it is. I’m double dipping with this tool for jimbos giveaway too, because it is my most valuable and my favorite, so there you go.
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Awesome video Carl! And awesome laser level your making me want one man!!!!!!! 😉
Thanks guys, I keep it with me alongside my ridgid torpedo level with graduates on it so i know how much slope to put my pipe at, as well as putting a fitting on at a 45 deg angle. The two together are all i need to rough in a house.
Some great posts so far! Only a few more days left!
Lately, my favorite tool is the Milwaukee 2704-20 brushless hammer drill. The thing is a beast, everything it runs into it destroys! Here is a video of is running lags and not even breaking a sweat! Count me out of the cut out tool though! Cant wait to see who the lucky winner is!
Man that’s super beasty Jimbo!
Few more hours left in the month lol, I want to say a big thanks to everyone that has posted so far. It’s been fun to see all the posts of your favorite tool.
I have tons of favorite tools…my track saw, Powermatic planer, sds max rotary hammer drill. All of those put a smile on my face when I get to use them. The one tool that would be very hard not to have would be my Fein omt. Great tool and so useful in many ways on the jobsite.