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Must be regional. I've also always known them as a 4-way. Or just "tire iron" too.
Dont know if you'd call it new, but new to me...
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Found yet another X wrench at the junkyard. This one is pretty good. Have like 8 of those now, 5 of which I've found at the junkyard

A 4 way? Lol
You boys are from way up north, but Ayden is from another planet it's called New Mexico. That's a weird place? Grin.
 

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Ok I'm going off memory from a few months back but I think it was, @AyWoSch Motors & @wanderinthru that were talkin' about Bauer tools. So this past weekend I was using my driver. I can't tell you how many screws I've driven with this thing, but I maintain the farm with it and have done roofs with it, built small sheds, and then put a 3/8" socket connector in it, and used it for equipment repair in the farm. It's been dropped, left out in the rain overnight, and saturated in chicken coop mud. Here are a few pics. IDK, I bought it when bauer tools were first appearing at Harbor Frieght, and the batteries lasted until last fall. I guess it's around 5 years old. I've also got a drill and several other bauer tools. All have held up well.

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Dont know if you'd call it new, but new to me...
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Found yet another X wrench at the junkyard. This one is pretty good. Have like 8 of those now, 5 of which I've found at the junkyard
every new vehicle should come with one
 

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every new vehicle should come with one
Never had a new vehicle, haha.

But I agree every car should have one. Way better than the cheap L-shaped lug wrench POS they all come with.
 

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Ok I'm going off memory from a few months back but I think it was, @AyWoSch Motors & @wanderinthru that were talkin' about Bauer tools. So this past weekend I was using my driver. I can't tell you how many screws I've driven with this thing, but I maintain the farm with it and have done roofs with it, built small sheds, and then put a 3/8" socket connector in it, and used it for equipment repair in the farm. It's been dropped, left out in the rain overnight, and saturated in chicken coop mud. Here are a few pics. IDK, I bought it when bauer tools were first appearing at Harbor Frieght, and the batteries lasted until last fall. I guess it's around 5 years old. I've also got a drill and several other bauer tools. All have held up well.

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Thats awesome. Those are great guns. I have that exact same impact. I've had mine since November, and I've put it threw hell and its held up great so far.
 

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Ok I'm going off memory from a few months back but I think it was, @AyWoSch Motors & @wanderinthru that were talkin' about Bauer tools. So this past weekend I was using my driver. I can't tell you how many screws I've driven with this thing, but I maintain the farm with it and have done roofs with it, built small sheds, and then put a 3/8" socket connector in it, and used it for equipment repair in the farm. It's been dropped, left out in the rain overnight, and saturated in chicken coop mud. Here are a few pics. IDK, I bought it when bauer tools were first appearing at Harbor Frieght, and the batteries lasted until last fall. I guess it's around 5 years old. I've also got a drill and several other bauer tools. All have held up well.

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Believe you were correct in your memory. Yes, Bauer so far has proved themselves as good tools to me as of now. Have a porta band and 7 inch grinder, both fine tools, so far. Use alot of grinders, found it more efficient to just get a 4 1/2 inch, or a 5" Makita grinder for each operation. Ie, light grinding, wire wheel, cut off wheel, polishing/flapper wheel so have several small grinders. My old Dewalt 4 and a half" grinder that I wire wheeled with quit the other day, went to Northern Tool in Amarillo and decided on a Milwalkee to replace it with 130 bucks, good grinder, get to looking at it the other day. Made in China! Be getting Bauer replacements as needed from here on. Hell believe the 2 Bauer products I have were made in Tawianne.
 

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I despise the WalMarts and Harbor Freights of the world differently than I despise the American brands that built their reputation and brand on American manufacturing and then outsourced to fourth world communist countries but still charge US prices.

The only saving grace that Harbor Freight has is that they charge Chinese prices for Chinese products.

Walmart singlehandedly destroyed manufacturing in America and they have no saving grace. [/RANT]
 

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Believe you were correct in your memory. Yes, Bauer so far has proved themselves as good tools to me as of now. Have a porta band and 7 inch grinder, both fine tools, so far. Use alot of grinders, found it more efficient to just get a 4 1/2 inch, or a 5" Makita grinder for each operation. Ie, light grinding, wire wheel, cut off wheel, polishing/flapper wheel so have several small grinders. My old Dewalt 4 and a half" grinder that I wire wheeled with quit the other day, went to Northern Tool in Amarillo and decided on a Milwalkee to replace it with 130 bucks, good grinder, get to looking at it the other day. Made in China! Be getting Bauer replacements as needed from here on. Hell believe the 2 Bauer products I have were made in Tawianne.
No Northern tool stores in my area. Thought about ordering from them online a time or two, but never did. Before we had Harbor Freight in the and for a little while after there was a store called Western Tool Supply. Western tool supply was geared mostly at wood working and building tools, so you wouldn't find automotive related stuff there at all. I bought a table saw from them about 25 years ago that I still use regularly. Like with Harbor Freight they had some good stuff and some not so good stuff.
 

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No Northern tool stores in my area. Thought about ordering from them online a time or two, but never did. Before we had Harbor Freight in the and for a little while after there was a store called Western Tool Supply. Western tool supply was geared mostly at wood working and building tools, so you wouldn't find automotive related stuff there at all. I bought a table saw from them about 25 years ago that I still use regularly. Like with Harbor Freight they had some good stuff and some not so good stuff.
The only Bauer product that I wasn't 100% satisfied with, was the 20v battery grinder. It does work, but its nothing compared to the reglauar plug in one. It does this weird thing where if you put more torque on something than it wants, it just shuts off. And that level isnt very high. Some sort of circuit break I guess.
I dont often use it, because given the choice of a regular one or the battery one, I know which one I'll pick.
I really only bought it for going to the junkyard, and it works very well for that, so I'm still happy. Perfect for what i got it for. Still a good tool, just not as awesome as the drills and impacts have been.
 

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The only Bauer product that I wasn't 100% satisfied with, was the 20v battery grinder. It does work, but its nothing compared to the reglauar plug in one. It does this weird thing where if you put more torque on something than it wants, it just shuts off. And that level isnt very high. Some sort of circuit break I guess.
I dont often use it, because given the choice of a regular one or the battery one, I know which one I'll pick.
I really only bought it for going to the junkyard, and it works very well for that, so I'm still happy. Perfect for what i got it for. Still a good tool, just not as awesome as the drills and impacts have been.
Good tip. I do not have their coreless grinder and will keep it that way.
 

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Love my tool box so far.
I have no complaints about it.
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That's the color I plan to go with, I love the green. My coworker has the 44" box, I wish it would work for me but I need a little more box than that and I like that there's more variations of drawer depth on the 56".
 

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Never had a new vehicle, haha.

But I agree every car should have one. Way better than the cheap L-shaped lug wrench POS they all come with.
I think my favorite factory lug wrench is the one that came with my Duramax, its a straight hex shaped bar with a lug socket on one end and it uses a crude ratchet to turn it.
 

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