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Hacksaws, Handles & Blades Hacksaws are one of the most common hand tools.  Nearly everyone owns one, and if you don’t have one, you need to buy one.  Hacksaws are inexpensive and very economical to use.   But most of you never use it because the one time you tried to use it things didn’t go well.  You broke the hacksaw blade,  the blade kept falling out of the handle, or…

What is an Impact Driver? This is the perfect tool if you are going to drive a lot of screws, say build a deck or drywall a room.  An impact driver will greatly speed up a large construction project.  But they are not for everyone. There is a lot of confusion over the new impact drivers.  These cordless tools are not for removing nuts and bolts, but a tool for…

There are dozens of “kits” available from all the manufactures that have hex drive screwdriver bits in them. They work well in your screwdriver and fairly well in your cordless drill, but when you use them in your new cordless impact driver they don’t last long. The next thing you know, the bits are stripping out the screws. To fix this DeWalt, Milwaukee, and Makita have come out with better…

What is an Awl? Awl is simply a long pointed spike (2 to 6 inches) with a handle attached. An awl is a tool you can use to mark wood for cutting and drilling.  You can use it to scribe a fine line that you can follow when cutting with a saw or chisel.  Sometimes called a scratch awl, it is basically a steel spike with its tip sharpened to a…