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The original was posted on /r/tools by /u/jynx18 on 2023-08-16 01:08:07+00:00.

I am looking to buy some esco jack stands. Does esco sell direct to people or only to businesses?

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The original was posted on /r/tools by /u/walkermly on 2023-08-16 01:07:39+00:00.

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The original was posted on /r/tools by /u/Impressive_Engine_64 on 2023-08-15 23:44:51+00:00.

The butyric acid answer is what I'm flooded with when looking this up, but in my case I don't think this makes much sense. Let me explain as I've only ever encountered this myself with 2 tools in all my life.

I first encountered this smell about a year and a half ago when I purchased a brand new set of chisels. It puzzled me then, and the answer I found predominantly online was it's the handles degrading and so I kind of settled with that. They still smell to this day, albeit not as pungently -- which does suggest it can dissipate and hopefully made to disappear (only with a half-life the likes of which is long enough to carbon date stuff).

Today I purchased a brand spanking new pillar drill, el cheapo like and on clearance but brand spankers nonetheless. I open the box and start unpacking it, and as I pick the manual up (wrapped in plastic), I get a nasty off-smelling whiff of something that my senses tell me is greasy, like a rancid grease smell. It's not like vomit, and it's not like feet, but it's hard to say it's far off the scale of either or both combined. I put the manual down, and proceed to casually sniff my fingers 'just to see', as you do; lo' and behold my fingers wreak of this penetrating, permeating smell. It 'travels' onto anything it comes into contact with, and even non-contact transfer of confined in the same space, such that the paper manual smells after having been unwrapped from the plastic. It will not simply wash off my hands, although there's no residue whatever.

This is a pillar drill. There are no decomposing screwdriver handles in sight, and generally the majority of the thing is made from metal. Although it does have plastic knobs for the lever and a guard. But that plastic couldn't possibly be old enough to be degrading, could it? And are the tool plastics even made in the same way these days... So I have my doubts about the acid being the culprit. It does have metal moving parts, though, and naturally these will be greased up from the factory process.

So my gut really goes with the grease has 'gone off', but is this absurd? Can oil go rancid under the circumstances?

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The original was posted on /r/tools by /u/NoLongerGage on 2023-08-15 21:26:57+00:00.

I bought a Craftsman Griplatch tool chest top and bottom about 20 years ago when i bought my first house. Over that time have just kind of been shoving new tool purchases where ever er there was room. I have old mechanics tools from when i used to be a mechanic but now its more homeowner, diy stuff, but also do woodworking as a hobby. My toolbox gives me anxiety now so trying to get some ideas on where you all put certain types of tools. I can’t find a website for this box anymore since Sears is gone but it basically this exact box (only google match for what mine looks like some auction site )

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Edit I made this post with generlisable types of tools i.e. "multimeters" or "tape levels" in mind, brand recommendations are good but not everywhere has the same availability and even the same needs to fulfill

I find I never have the tools I need for projects I want to do but I hate the idea of buying and most of all sotring and carrying around a miriad of tools.

Hence I love multibit screwdrivers and the like, hell I even eat with just sporks and bowls but ofcourse theres a world of tools out there I'm missing out on, are there any that serve enough purposes to be deemed "all in one" to you? e.g. the soldering irons of the world but for now needing 100 different types of saws (I might have missed really basic stuff I am a software developer not a hardware/physical projects person thus far).