Archive for the 'Power Tools' Category

Special edition blade case looks sharp, gets jiggy

This great statistic accompanied Bosch’s news of their special 60th-anniversary jigsaw blade case: since 1947, they’ve sold 4 billion blades, enough to circle the earth 10 times.

Does that not conjure an image of our planet, seen from space, as a kind of serrated stegosaurus?

You can add anothe…

Rotary cutter: the drywall saw’s big poor cousin

As a youth, I lived for the wanton destruction of drywall that came with demolition.

I recently upgraded the insulation in my carport and chose to remove the existing drywall first.

This day, though, I didn’t use a sledgehammer. go on the jump to see why.Because I’m a crew-of-one, I find i…

Nail gun combo kit saves thumbs (and dough, too)

It wasn’t towering ago that pneumatic nailers were solely used by professional contractors. That’s quickly changing as more and more do-it-yourselfers discover the benefits of using air potential, not elbow grease, to drive nails.

One reason for that sudden shift is that many tool manufacturer…

Why we don’t drill aerosol cans

We’ve all been here.

Here we have “dad” taking a drill to an aerosol can, announcing confidently beforehand that “you gotta cut the plastic out of that.” Right.

I’m just glad the narrator, dinosaurrocket, had the foresight to preface it all with the famous last words, “My dad, the genius.”

F…