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Klein Adjustable Screwdriver - $24
Klein's adjustable screwdriver has a different locking collar. Cull bottomward on the collar with your deride and cull the hex-shaped screwdriver shaft forward. Press the collar advanced with your deride and advance the screwdriver shaft aback into the handle. The shaft breadth adjusts anywhere from four to eight inches.
In addition, the shaft is double-ended. One end has a No. 2 Phillips head, while the added has a 1/4-in.-wide beeline head.
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Flugz Ear Plugs - $25
The Flugz (rhymes with plugs) appear in a little pop-top container. Break the allowance application the aluminum cull tab, bark off the top, again ample the alembic with baptize and put it in a bake oven for 30 seconds. Drain off the water, and aback the Flugz are dry, admit one in anniversary ear.
To do this, ability about the aback of your head, and cull your ear acclaim open, again admit the Flugz. Press the accent acclaim into abode and casting it to shape. Aback you're done, you accept a accurately applicable and well-sealing ear bung that has a babble abridgement appraisement (or NRR, see below) of 21.
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WD-40 EZ-REACH - $8
WD-40 is a abundant product, no catechism about it. The the botheration has consistently been accepting the actuality into aloof spaces. That little red adjustable tube that comes taped to the iconic can will alone get you so far. Alike the contempo accession of the Acute Straw, in which the tube was absorbed to the can on a pivoting head, was alone a fractional solution.
The aggregation solves the abiding abridgement of admission with its new WD-40 EZ-REACH. It's the aforementioned abundant multi-purpose adipose with an absorbed 8-in. adjustable harbinger that keeps its shape. Now you can bend the harbinger to aerosol about curves and corners and bear the actual bulk of the liquid.
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Stihl TSA 230 Cutquik Saw - $500
The TSA 230 Cutquik is the world's aboriginal cordless blow machine. Powered by a 36-volt lithium-ion array and a brushless DC motor, the saw cuts brick, beam tile, stone, concrete, able concrete, age-hardened concrete, steel, stainless steel, non-ferrous metal, and adaptable adamant pipe. Whew.
That's a lot of adequacy in a apparatus that weighs alone 12.4 lbs. It's not abnormal for gas agent blow machines to counterbalance added than alert that, and ample versions of these accoutrement can counterbalance as abundant as 28 lbs. The Cutquik's beef pushes the borderland of cordless accoutrement alike added durably into gas agent territory.
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Craftsman Extreme Anchor Atrium - $40
The Craftsman Extreme Anchor atrium belvedere is added like the abandon on your ability assignment than it is your accepted socket. The apparatus has moveable aperture that absolutely abutting about and bind in on the fastener's circumference, which is how it gets anchor on angled fasteners.
A five-piece Extreme Anchor atrium set costs about $40 (or $20 if you bolt it on auction at the Craftsman website). While that ability complete like a lot, it takes the abode of a 10-piece set. The set includes 7/16 in (11 mm), ½ in. (13 mm), 9/16 in (14 mm), 5/8 in. (16 mm) and 11/16 in. (17 mm) sizes.
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Klein Non-Contact Voltage Tester - $25
Klein Accoutrement are allegorical for their courage and reliability. That explains why they're so broadly acclimated by electricians, account linemen, and contractors—and why we were animated to apprehend of the company's new industrial-duty non-contact voltage tester. Costing $25, it's bargain abundant for a homeowner to own. About the admeasurement of a ample Sharpie pen, the apparatus can be a life-saver if you're accomplishing electrical work.
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Milwaukee Account Crimper - $2,200
The M18 Force Logic 6T Account Crimper is not for the amateurs—this is some austere pro gear. A crimper closes a metal connector, abutting two or added pieces of wire or abutting a wire to a fitting. In the case of this tool, we're talking high-voltage connections—the affectionate that linesmen accomplish aback alive on borough and automated ability systems.
This crimper's electronics and hydraulics are affiliated with a ambit the aggregation calls Predictive Force Monitoring. The tool's hydraulics assignment adamantine and fast to admit the crimp, again affluence up as the affiliation is completed. In the aftermost atom of a second, the collective is brought to a bendable close. The absolute time to coil a collective is aloof 3 seconds.
What will this engineering masterpiece amount you? A air-conditioned $2,200 provides the tool, two batteries, charger and aggregate abroad you need.
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Diablo Animate Demon Reciprocating Saw Blades - $15 to $18
The Diablo Animate Demon cuts blubbery metal, boxy metal such as aerial backbone alloys, and alike casting iron. At the Diablo web armpit you can watch a guy cut through a Boron-reinforced B colonnade from a junked car. That's appealing impressive.
The blades are expensive. Poking about on the web, we begin them affairs for anywhere from $15 to $18 apiece. Freud claims the blades bear 20 times the achievement of a accepted bimetal brand aback acclimated in these ambitious applications. Frankly, alike if one of these blades delivers bisected of that, they'd be account the price.
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Sharpdraw Automated Pencil - $7
The Sharpdraw by Speedtac is a automated carpenter's pencil that never needs sharpening. It works absolutely the aforementioned as a 9 mm account knife—the affectionate with the snap-off blades. Use the deride latch on the pencil's aback to augment a beginning allotment of No. 2 HB advance to the metal tip. You charge alone betrayal a tiny triangle of advance to mark a brittle line. As the advance wears, augment added advance forward. If you appear to breeze off the tip, augment added advanced and carve it to a nice aciculate point. The carbon fiber-reinforced advance sharpens easily.
The $7 amount tag is big-ticket compared to carpenter's pencils that amount 18 to 30 cents apiece, or about $3.50 to $4 for a 10-pack. On the added hand, the Sharpdraw is a apple-pie appearance apparatus with a abiding advance that will save you cutting time. In addition, its abridged blow agency you're beneath acceptable to lose it. And it makes a nicer band than a carpenter's pencil.
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Titan Straps - $7.50
Before the algid acclimate comes along, you ability appetite to get yourself a Titan Strap. Essentially, it's a big belt fabricated from a band of boxy but adjustable polyurethane with an accretion to advice it abide UV degradation. Aloof amplitude it about whatever you're activity to secure, whether that's a 50-ft addendum bond or a ladder to the arbor on your truck, again defended the band by band it aback through the stainless animate buckle. There's annihilation to it. If you can catch a belt, you can use one these things.
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RotoZip RotoSaw with Dust Vault - $100
The new RotoSaw With Dust Vault has a articulation and apartment at the tool's advanced that conceals a fan powered by the tool's spinning collet. That agency dust is fatigued off anon at the point area it's created. The fan moves the air beck and $.25 into a pleated cardboard air clarify army central a artificial case. The clarify accessories the debris, and the air beck flows out of a perforated artificial grille on the ancillary of the case, which snaps assimilate the apartment on the advanced of the tool.
Spiral saw SS560vsc-31 with Dust Vault costs about $100. The Dust Vault accent is a $40 add-on if you already own a circling saw.
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Ridgid's 2-For-1 Cordless Ability Apparatus Amalgamation - $280
Rigid's 18-volt bang assignment and its appulse disciplinarian are both bigger with brushless motors, and now they appear in a admixture kit with two 4-amp-hour batteries, charger, and bag for about $280. The accord is alike bigger aback you accede both accoutrement and their batteries are acceptable for life, including genitalia and service.
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Gearwrench Multi-Function Ratchet - $56 to $66
The Gearwrench multi-function ratchet is a abundant apparatus in its own right. What's alike bigger is that it comes forth this time of year: It's amazing usefulness, admeasurement and appearance accomplish it a absolute stocking-stuffer. Maybe it's a bit big-ticket by stocking crammer standards, but any mechanically absorbed actuality would be charmed to acquisition this one on Christmas morning.
The tool's architecture takes a acute idea, a double-ended ratchet, and adds two articulating heads, both of which lock into seven position with the cast of a lever. Combine those appearance with acutely attenuated arch geometry and an arc beat of 5 degrees, and you've got a apparatus that can bind or alleviate aloof about anywhere. If you can't get at hard-to-reach accouterments with this tool, again you're absolutely in a boxy spot.
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Generac iQ2000 Inverter Generator - $800
The Generac iQ2000 brings affluence of ability in a bunched 46-lb. package. It provides up to 1600 active watts. Like all inverter generators, it's acutely fuel-efficient. Its agent turns a DC alternator which inverts the accepted to AC by agency of a computer-controlled inverter module. The agent acceleration varies depending on the electrical load. The added the demand, the faster the agent runs.
Generac estimates that the apparatus will run for 5.7 hours at 50 percent of its rated load. At 25 percent of that load, its run time is rated at 7.7 hours. That's affluence of run time on a bit added than a gallon of gas. But you're absurd to run out of gas because the Generac is able with a agenda run time display.
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Bosch 12-Volt Jigsaw - $120
The Bosch JS120BN is a baby (3.3 lb.) but absolutely congenital 12-volt saw with appearance that speaks to the company's institutional attention and ability with the jigsaw.
This affair is not cheap, but because all it can do, it's not alien either. The new saw by itself costs $120. That makes it a abundant fit for owners who accept already invested in Bosch's well-regarded 12-volt system. And if you were attractive for a 12-volt belvedere to advance in, this would be a abundant choice.
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Klein's Handy Amalgam Pliers - $46
Klein's able-bodied new babbler plier (J207-8CR) is a amalgam of a stout linesman plier, a wire stripper, and a babbler plier. For abounding jobs, the Klein would acquiesce an electrician to backpack one plier instead of three.
The apparatus cuts cable, strips 10-18 solid aqueduct wire and 12-20 stranded. The abandoned cable designations are listed on one ancillary of the head, the solid are on the other. Two microburst holes cut No.6 and No. 8 electrical screws (32 accoutrement per inch). Like some linesman pliers, this one has a abundant crimping die at the abject of the arch to abutting non-insulated connectors, lugs, and terminals.
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U.S. Army-Grade FirstLight Torq Flashlight - $89 to $99
Getting bent in the aphotic of a algid winter night after a reliable flashlight can ambit from annoying to deadly. That's why we're animated to see the newest military-grade flashlight from FirstLight, the Torq ($89 to $99).
This is a ablaze that's becoming its stripes. Its architect food U.S. Army catchbasin crews and medics with flashlights, acceptation its appearance and asperous architecture are accurate and battle-tested, not the artefact of a absurd architecture team. For example, the light's hinged array alcove closes with a pivoting wire blow that latches so tenaciously you charge a screwdriver to disengage it. Annihilation is activity to get by it. The on/off switches are additionally well-protected with elastic boots.
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Worx Switchdriver Acute Cordless Assignment - $120
The Switchdriver is a cordless drill/driver with two spring-loaded 1/4-inch chucks, one for a assignment bit the added for a drive bit. Click in whatever hex brand bit will do the job, drill, again artlessly about-face the adenoids accumulation to the abutting bit and drive. It's a abundant abstraction that demonstrates beginning cerebration about how to handle this accepted two-part chore.
The 20-volt apparatus comes with two batteries, a scattering of bits, and a 5-hour charger in a soft-side accustomed case. It costs $120 at Lowe's.
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Dremel Abstraction Builder 3D Printer - $1,000
We're entering the home centermost era of 3D printing. It does assume affectionate of aberrant to anticipate of this adult technology actuality awash abutting to lumber, pipes, toilets, and knick-knacks, but there it is: Ability apparatus architect Dremel is affairs its $1,000 3D printer Abstraction Builder at The Home Depot.
The 20-pound accent is almost the admeasurement of a baby bake oven. Central it is an extruder that heats and places the artificial on a left/right and front/back axis. Its movements are controlled by a 3D architecture agenda book you download to the printer. Dremel offers dozens of CAD files that you can download to accomplish toys, domiciliary altar such as a terrarium, art objects, or alike commonsensical items such as clips for drawer dividers or an insulator sleeve for cardboard coffee cups.
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Bosch's 12" Dual-Bevel Slide Miter Saw - $549
Bosch's CM12SD is a lot of saw—65 lbs. of sliding bifold bend capacity, to be precise. Its cut accommodation is prodigious, acceptation this apparatus has a approaching with remodelers, kitchen chiffonier builders and installers, appliance makers, accouter builders, amount builders, and trim carpenters. The Bosch has a 14-inch ability at 0 degrees and at 3-1/2 inches thick. Not that you'd appetite to, but that affectionate of ability would acquiesce you to cut two 2 x 12s at a time, or fizz through big pieces of engineered lumber. You can acceleration through trim carpentry because the brand acme aloft table allows you to cut 6-3/4-inch abject abstraction continuing on bend and 6-1/2-inch acme adjoin the fence at a 45-degree angle.
The $549 saw is powered by the affectionate of motor you would apprehend to acquisition in this chic of machine, with 15 amps and 4000 rpm. That should accord the user added than abundant power, abnormally for blubbery pieces of hardwood, engineered barge or burden treated.
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