Friday, October 17, 2008
The Week in Tools: Toolmonger Top 5
Toolmonger: "It’s been a busy week here at Toolmonger. If you’ve been spending time in the shop — you should! — and you haven’t had a chance to keep up with Toolmonger this week, we suggest you start with these posts, which our readers helped to select"
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This week in tool monger seemed to be ridiculous tool week. Ergonomic grips, gigantic nail guns, and fancy paper cutters. The fact that nail gun can hold sixty nails is impressive, and kind of frightening. Honestly, what are you ever going to build that you need sixty nails for that rapid fire? The nail rack practically doubles the size of the tool. Now onto the ergonomic brick laying tools. I always thought that ergonomics only became a factor when referring to large areas, like your back or whole arm, not just your hand. I could very well be wrong, but I honestly wonder how many bricks you need to lay before you even notice the difference in this thing.
The suction cup lathe attachment looked really cool and possibly useful when you need to quickly make an item, and don't have the time to patch up the marring. IT seems like a good idea, but I wonder how much suction is needed to keep a large piece of wood in place and keep it from moving. The ergonomic grip handles seem really cool, although they are on tools I don't use, they are handy. IT would be nice to see similar handles on other tools as well. The laminate floor cutter looks nice as well, and I wish i had some laminate floor to cut, but I will just need to wait.
vacuum lathe spindle? no thank you.
so many things could go wrong with this, just as the commenters on toolmonger's site said.
i wouldn't trust a tool spinning that fast with that much torque to be used safely with suction.
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