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Love your attention to details!!  Great job!

Not a tool buy, just something to hang in my workshop.
A couple stills of the Duke from Sands of Iwo Jima.


They're just a couple of old repops and not original as far as I know, but they're still cool and the price was right at Goodwill.

I have had the opportunity to see UP4014 twice while it was traveling across Nebraska.  It is an amazing feat of engineering and an even more incredible restoration!

Got to see the magnificent machine on July 2nd! I rode a train that lead 4014 from nesqhoning to Reading. Got to see it pull up beside us several times.

Great experience I'll not soon forget. It spent almost a month in Pennsylvania my social media is flooded with 4014 pictures and videos and I'm absolutely loving it!!!

Today the largest stem engine in the world went over the largest stone  bridge (rockville Bridge) in the world! I wish I could have been there!

Jafe got me back in!!!!

Those are a bit easier to use, they're just not as low profile as I want.

If this little aluminum disk doesn't hold up very well I'll try to make a more durable one out of a washer, or try brass.

My inspiration was these 2 aluminum Easco 7219 speeder disks I have.

I didn't even know they existed until I acquired them in a couple NOS Easco sets I bought on eBay, so I have no clue if they made them in 1/4".
Probably not because I've only ever seen these speeder disks in 3/8, and mostly in crappy bottom of the barrel homeowner sets.
These days those sets still included them but they're blue plastic now instead of stamped steel.

Quote from: Hickory n Steel on Jul 05, 2026, 06:22 PMAnother tool I wanted that nobody seems to offer, so I had to make it.



I don't know why nobody currently makes a low profile thumb disk like this for a 1/4 ratchet.
Lots of cheap 3/8 sets used to come with one , and I have a couple made by Easco that I like, but there's nothing low profile like this for 1/4.

GOOD JOB,,, Now that's thinking outside the box!

Your simple gadget made a fool of my SnapOn purchases...

Another tool I wanted that nobody seems to offer, so I had to make it.



I don't know why nobody currently makes a low profile thumb disk like this for a 1/4 ratchet.
Lots of cheap 3/8 sets used to come with one , and I have a couple made by Easco that I like, but there's nothing low profile like this for 1/4.

Quote from: OldCarGuy on Jul 03, 2026, 05:47 PMYears ago there were no regulations on pumping the septic tanks. Five years ago our County insists pumping very two years with a total inspection each time.

That's absolutely ridiculous.  Someone on the Board of Commissioners or something knows someone in the business and that's how that happened!