mic-tools.com is where to go to buy one of my new torque multiplier lug wrenches for your truck. If you’ve ever had trouble removing stubborn and overtightened lug nuts from your big truck with regular hand wrenches, you will be amazed. It works exactly as show in this video. With a ratio of almost 60 it will multiply 40 ft-lbs of power on the crank side into over 2000 ft-lbs of power on the socket side. Maximum capacity is almost 2400 ft-lbs of torque..! Most 1″ drive air impacts cannot make this much power. I have yet to find a lug nut on a truck that this tool cannot easily remove. A 10 year old kid can remove lug nuts with this tool that a strong man couldn’t budge with a hand lug wrench. Why spend about $1500.00 on a impact, a 2-stage air compressor big enough to run it, air hoses, regulator, and sockets when this tool will do the job just as well? Even better, you can take this anyplace you go. Your big impact and compressor will sure do you a lot of good back at your garage when you’re out on the road someplace with tire problems, right? Just put this torque multiplier in your truck, and have it ready when you need it the most. I have 2 sets of these available. The difference is the socket sizes. I’ve owned an Isuzu NPR truck for several years. Isuzu puts some HUGE 41mm lug nuts on their trucks. I would always have to run back down to the tire store to have “Bubba” loosen them up so I could take the tires off. If I had a flat on the front end, I would be totally …

This month we will be looking at chisels and marking and measuring tools. A few years ago now for another magazine I did a test of all of the brands of chisels available in the cabinet makers bevel edged pattern. The objective was to find the best branded chisel for apprentice cabinet makers. In doing this I found out that although chisels vary enormously in the quality of their grinding, the shape and the quality of the handles. However most of the manufactures are using a very similar grade of steel so the edge holding capacity of certainly European made chisels were very similar. What we did learn at this time was that if you move away from the European kind of chisel to the Japanese chisel it was possible to gain an edge holding capacity that would outlast the European chisel by 4 or 5 times. The disadvantage of going to Japanese is that they are made from a slightly more brittle steel but if one is careful in the way one uses them this wouldn’t seem to be a too great a disadvantage. However a slightly more serious disadvantage is the fact that re-sharpening a Japanese chisel takes a good deal longer than sharpening a European one. This is because the edge was made from a much harder steel and requires much greater care in sharpening.