Although it looks very much like their brick set, this floor chisel from Stanley has an entirely different purpose. You use a floor chisel, sometimes called an electrician’s bolster, to remove flooring. The long narrow blade is designed to get between floorboards, cut through tongues, and pry up the loosened boards.
More than the big contractor mobile tool boxes, the Stanley 033023R mobile tool chest focuses on the basics of life on the jobsite — that means you can haul it easily through the mud, and it holds a bunch of gear.
I’m often guilty of ranting on about the boneheaded policies companies enact, the products manufacturers get wrong, and the way things ought to be — I’m not really shy about it either — however I’m not enough of a snob that I won’t admit when things are right. This is my favorite tape, the rather low-rent Stanley 30-485 twelve-foot tape, and I love it.
Dynamite Tool Co. is selling this Stanley Adjustable Bullnose Rabbet Plane for $23. In addition to planing rabbets, this’ll come in handy anywhere you need a nice small plane that can cut close to the front of the tool.
Stanley Rabbet Plane [Dynamite Tool Co.]
Street Pricing [Google]
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All2ools.com is selling a set of two Stanley 45-711 Stair Gauges for $2.73. Along with a framing square, stair gauges will help you lay out the rise and run of stair treads — they’re handy little things to have in the toolbox!
Stanley Stair Gauges [All2ools.com]
Street Pricing [Google Products]
Via Amazon [What’s This?]
Another lesson I learned out at the race track was why aluminum jacks are a big deal. I’ve always maintained that nobody carries around a floor jack, so why does it need to be super-light or have a bunch of handles on it? This is why.
Stanley hosted a popular event at their booth at the Dickies 500 this year: lug nut racing. Even the most cocky guys that went up against the clock wouldn’t make it in the NASCAR pit. The best time we saw all day was eighteen seconds for one wheel.
Stanley invited us out to the Dickies 500 at the Texas Motor Speedway this past weekend, and since we rarely turn down an excuse to check out a major auto event, we accepted. We had a fun time, and Stanley arranged a few pit tours that we also graciously accepted.
Carry Stanley’s Mitey Knife on your keychain and you’ll always have a miniature utility knife with you. This lightweight knife weighs less than an ounce and measures 3-1/2″ inches when closed.
If the regular Fubar is the schoolyard bully, the new Fire/Rescue Stanley Fubar is the guy who beats him up and steals his lunch money — it’s a bruiser, beefier and pumped up in almost every area. First responders (police/fire/EMT’s) designed this new member of the Fubar fold for forcible entry, vehicle extrication, and extreme demolition.
Amazon is currently offering this twin-pack of Stanley folding sawhorses for $30 — which, using my amazing math skill, comes to $15 a horse! Rated for a maximum load weight of 1,000lbs, the sawhorses feature two sawing grooves and a built-in ruler on top. Rubber anti-slip feet on the bottom keep the unit stable. They fold flat for easy transportation and storage.
Via Amazon [What’s This?]
Folding Sawhorses [Stanley]
Street Pricing [Google Products]
As the quality of lumber drops, manufacturers respond by giving us tools to deal with these less-than-ideal timbers. Stanley designed their 93-310 board bender to help you handle twisted construction materials — if you need to straighten deck boards or joists, this is your tool.
This insulation cutter from Stanley isn’t a glamorous or expensive tool — just a simple piece of transparent plastic added to a standard utility knife — but it compresses the insulation batt as you cut, and at the same time it keeps your hand from coming in contact with the insulation.
Stanley’s insulation cutter costs somewhere between $6 and $10 and includes a utility knife in the deal.
Insulation Knife [Stanley]
Street Pricing [Google Products]
Via Amazon [What’s This?]
Stanley continues to keep its flashlight line fresh with the coming addition of the 3-in-1 tripod LED flashlight. Just from the look of it the new light seems more capable than its predecessors — it features better bulbs, each contained in a separate unit that can be removed from the master unit and carried separately.
Stanley’s four-foot folding square may not be the newest tool in the truck, but when you need it, this great tool does its job like nothing else can. If you want to check if that wall you framed is square, or make sure your floor tile isn’t out of line, you’re not going to pull out a 7″ layout square — you’re going to grab your folding square.
Anyone who carries a razor knife for work and pocket knife for everything else can appreciate the idea of combining the two into a single easy-to-carry tool. But most attempts to do so result in a bulky, uncomfortable product that doesn’t really address either need. The good news: Stanley recently updated their version, and it’s a dramatic improvement.
As you can see from the photo, it’s quite a bit smaller than most razor/blade combo knives, which means you can actually carry it in a pocket without everyone making “or are you just happy to see me” jokes. And its curved form fits your hand reasonably well in both razor and knife mode.
Look for a hands-on with the Sport Utility here soon.
QuickSlide Sport Utility Knife [Stanley]
Pre-hung doors make installation much easier, but what if you want to just replace the door blank without removing the casing and jambs? How do you get the door to line up properly? At least for the hinges, you can align them with a butt marker.
Stanley makes butt markers for 3″, 3-1/2″, and 4″ hinges. They make their butt markers from steel and finish them with a black baked-on enamel.
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