A few weeks back, an apprentice of a contractor doing some work at our soon-to-be house (which is undergoing extensive renovations) asked to borrow the “drill” I was using in an adjacent room on another project because the battery on his had just died. When he returned the tool a few minutes later, he said … Read more
Hangin’ out at my local Lowes the other day while the wife shopped for new shoes or something, I noticed them really pushing the Porter Cable line with end-cap displays all over the place. Naturally, I just had to play with some of the new tools, so after some cooperation from the Lowes tool guy (thanks, … Read more
Introducing SpotCheck, from GarageSpot. There’s a lot of stuff that comes across the workbench here at GarageSpot each week. And while much of it is pretty cool and certainly relevant to our audiences, there’s either not enough to make a full story of it, or we just don’t have time but do want to share. To that … Read more
If ever there were a time to grunt like Tim “The Tool Man” Taylor, this is it. I mean, just look at how badass this thing is! While it’s been out-of-stock basically since its release late last year, the Nemo Special Ops underwater cordless drill is one of those things that few of us need, … Read more
You read that headline right: a semi-automatic screwdriver. It’s the WORX® SD Semi-Automatic Power Screw Driver and it’s pretty cool. Given its name and that it sort of resembles a handgun, it’s only fitting that the WORX SD uses a slide-action lever to quickly advance one of six bits, stored in an interchangeable cartridge within the tool … Read more