OTHER TOOLS

Stop wrapping duct tape around your vise, and protect delicate material the right way with this pair of hard-rubber, ribbed pads made to cover the jaws. The pads have (2) rare earth magnets embedded inside the rubber. Made for a 4" vise, they measure 4" long x 1-1/8" high x 3/8" thick with a lip along one long side. The rubber is 3/32" thick.

Not often, no, but in the case of this staple gun, all sizes fit one. The Superbonder® will accept any brand of heavy-duty staples at 1/4", 5/16", 3/8", 1/2" or 9/16". This means you can go to the hardware store and not have to call home to find out what size staples the staple gun you forgot to bring with you takes. Drop-in loading. Includes 3/8” staples. This is a formidable tool. Even holding in your hand feels good.

The Easy Search Tool Bag combines the best of a tool box with the convenience of those bucket liners, where you can see all your most-used tools at a glance. In heavy, water-resistant gray and black poly-canvas with a rubber bottom, it measures 16” x 10” x 11” tall with a gazillion pockets. OK, (13) inside, so your pliers don't get lost at the bottom, and (25) total covering all four sides for the stuff you reach for most; including (2) hook and loop closed pouches. Pat says it's cut his tool-searching time by 70%, and his cussing has decreased by at least (5) words a day. Heavy-duty (the bag) with canvas handles and a hinged top so it will unzip and stand open like a Gladstone bag. Man, this thing is nice.

Handy 3-pack of syringes, 10ml, 20ml and 60ml, perfect for squirting glues, greases, lubes, paint, whatever you need to squirt. And if you use them as squirt guns, you didn't get the idea from us. Small ones are graduated in 1ml increments; the big one in 2ml. All come with caps, so you don't dribble.

Small, but mighty useful if you need a tiny tap and die set for threading wire or stripped screws. The micro set has a 3-1/4" long die plate and 14 taps (sizes 7 through 20 -- read 0.7 mm through 2.0 mm), and a mighty attractive price. A little oily in its vinyl storage pouch -- but it's all steel, after all, and has to safeguard its complexion.

The interior decoration version of the Krummlauf gun (just groogle it, OK?), this 2-1/2" wide polyester-bristle paint brush has a semi-circular ring as part of its handle so that it swivels 90 degrees right or left, and front to back. Tightens with a thumbscrew clutch on the 6-1/2" long handle. Remove the handle and it's a 5-3/4" long brush on a ring. Jim dandy handy for painting behind fixtures, inside bookshelves, anyplace with limited access.

Or bag something else in this olive drab unwashed 100% cotton canvas mechanics tool bag with webbing carry handles. Bag measures 11" x 7" x 6" with a zippered middle compartment, which is wide open with (8) interior side sleeves to hold pencils, tire gauges and items like that. Also has (2) double-zippered side compartments, (1) adorned with cool-looking orange printed tech info about the bag. Firm bottom permanently sewn in. It’s a sturdy, handsome little bag, no two ways about it.

Could be what you do if you’re buried alive, or if you want to dance your life away, but most likely it’s a description of the machinist’s friend. This tap & die set cuts straight, clean threads and includes a 1/8” to ¼” tap wrench, and a tap & die in 6-32 NC, 8-32 NC, 10-24 NC, 10-32 NF, 1/4 – 20 NC and 5/16 – 18 NC. In drop-forged, heat-treated steel coated with titanium nitride. Titanium tools!

Shove these down the throat of your bigger bottles or tubes and clean up. Measure 16" long over all, with 4" long x 1-1/2" dia spiral nylon bristles on a stainless steel handle and a small, but bendable, metal nub on the bottom.

Permanently mark soft metals, plastics, leather and wooden items with this excellent 38-piece punch set. Imprint 1/8" characters -- 26 uppercase letters, numbers 0-9, a period and an ampersand, and a spring-loaded 6-1/2" long punch , all stowed in a permanent, molded-plastic storage case.

These lights have COB LEDs in a 3-2/4” x 1-1/4” lens that rotates 250 degrees out of a red and black triangular housing. Two magnets in the base make them perfect for shedding light down on a locker shelf or workbench, or as a work light stuck on the underside of a car hood or trunk lid. Also has (6) LEDs on one end, so it will also function as a flashlight. The push-button lights the lens and flashlight in sequence. The housing measures 5” long x 2-1/8” on a side. You add a quartet of “AAA” batteries.

If your knot-tying skills are a clove hitch short of Eagle Scout, you'll want this set of CamJams, cord-tightening carabiners. In sturdy black plastic with stainless steel gates, there are (2) ways to use them, a loop or fixed-end system. Anchor the carabiner to any hook, D-ring, or loop and feed your cord through, then pull firmly until the cam locks. Sounds ridiculously easy, does is knot? Works with 1/16" to 3/16" diameter cords. 

A 2-1/2" x 1-5/8" plastic-framed mirror swivels on a ball-joint mount at the end of telescoping handle that stores at 8" long and extends to 31". The contoured rubber-coated handle makes those double-shift inspection days a little easier.

From Morris Products, this heavy-duty plastic resin toolbox is lightweight and both weather- and impact-resistant. In gray and yellow, it has lid snap locks, a hasp for a small padlock, and an interior removable tray with a handle. The top has a fold-down handle, (2) slide-out lidded storage containers, plus a 20-slot driver-bit keeper. Measures approx. 16" x 10” x 7” deep.

Looks like the key to the city but works like an extra finger for these Covid times filled with things you'd rather not touch. Measures 3-1/4" x 1-1/2" x 3/16" thick, made of a copper-plated zinc alloy with a smart-device soft tip. It's a phone/pad/pod stylus and elevator button-pusher with a curved door and drawer puller, and box opener, on a keychain/ring. As a bonus, it opens beer bottles when you get back home safe and sound.

Like a 300-lb Labrador for the shop. Our ceramic lift magnet is mounted in a metal housing with swivel that will attach to a standard threaded broom handle or painter's pole, and lift 20-25 lbs.

Manual liquid transfer system. Push the plunger and siphon…well, whatever you need to siphon, we don't ask questions around here. Also functions as an air pump. You get the pump, (2) 50" long hoses and adapters for a beach ball and a standard Schrader air valve. Pump itself is 7-1/2" long and the inlet and outlet are both 1/2" ID.

Hang on to your widgets, screws, bolts, pins and assorted teeny tinies while you're taking things apart. This indispensable 6" dia x 1-1/8" deep magnetic stainless steel dish from Omaha Tools holds all those parts and saves you from crawling around on the floor later, when you're putting things back together.