What do get when you put wheels on a belt sander, mini grinder, circular saw our any other powered hand tool? Well, if you are in Columbus Ohio, you have the Ohio Power Tool Races.
What makes an efficient carpenter is having the right tool for the job close at hand. Unfortunately this means that you probably have one of every tool. To keep your tool collection organized and quickly within reach, Occidental Leather has come out with the 5588 Stronghold Master Carpenter Case.
I came across an interesting tool called a Push-Pull saw that is available in Europe by Bosch. It is unique in that it is almost like a cross between a table saw and a radial-arm saw. I know those tools sound like an impossible match, but Bosch managed to bring the two tools together.
Rockwell was one of the first to come out and compete in the oscillating tool market, but it was so long ago that their current oscillating tool was starting to show its age. I was just thinking that Rockwell needed to come out with an update, and what do you know, they give us four updates.
We have seen a couple of combination miter/table saws now enjoying freedom in the U.K., one from Bosch with a table mounted on top of a miter saw, and one from Makita that flips to transform. Now it is DeWalt's turn to join in on the fun with their very own flipping combination transformation miter/table saw.
All to often I see news reports about tools that are stolen from a jobsite. These tools are required for a person in construction to do his or her job, and a loss of tools can be very damaging. Below I have put together a list of tips – some obvious, some not – on how you can prevent tool theft and how you can recover stolen tools.
A few weeks ago I posted on Facebook about my super simple method for growing hydroponic tomatoes with no electricity; and though this is not tool related, enough people seemed interested about it that I figured I would write up a full article explaining my Kratky hydroponics setup.
We have seen circular saws used as table saw replacements with the Eurekazone tracksaw system, and now there is a new system from PUPS (Portable Universal Power Station) that can turn a circular saw to an accurate miter saw.
