Never have I expected to hear a grown man get giddy over a set of pin punches. It's endearing, but it's also infectious. You're gonna cost me a bunch of money, you realize....

I got so sick of ground clamping to my welding table i bought some female "Dinse Panel Sockets", and welded the stud end right to the table (or maybe i welded a nut that fit the thread), so i can just cam lock right to the welding table, i have a 6' regular ground clamp i can cam lock to the end of the ground cord if i need to ground directly to a structure/part/material. Life changing.

Yeah, return of the meatloaf, fab.

I hate this series. Every time I watch an episode I find all kinds of new issues with the tools I have and my bank account starts sweating. Keep up the good work, glad to see you back making meatloaf.

"Tool Snob" is an honorific. To be worn proudly, preferably on a shop apron so old and threadbare it needs duct tape to hold it together.

Very tasty Tom! glad to see you back. ATB, Robin

So glad to see you back! Already hit "like" but it's bedtime here in the UK so I'll watch tomorrow!

Sliding drawer liners drive me insane. Thank you for addressing this topic in this video.

Speaking of the ground clamp... my dad made a pair of jumper cables. He found some silicone sheath 4/0 copper cable. He bought 4 clamps. I now have a pair of 50' foot long jumper cables that will never wear out or burn out.

It's great to have you back! My subscription feed was missing the 'oooh! Oxtool' surprise videos. Keith, Stefan and Abom needed some proper competition for my attention ;)

Very glad you are back Mr. Lipton. Fellow viewers might consider the Hazet brand slotted screwdrivers that have a similar construction to the PB's, they are not priced as dearly and are more readily available (Amazon). They were the screwdriver when working on the now ancient Type 1 VW.

Thank you for the video! I think I saw Fireball Tool is making those hex key holders. I need to verify that, though. Making one is ok, too.

nice to have you back Tom you are one of the best.

Nice seeing the tools👍👍👍👍👍

Thanks! Nice ground clamp! Love that idea!

Welcome back, Tom And thank you. A lot of excitements.

Love the vice grip ground clamp! I was cursing at my crummy stamped one just the other day. I actually recently acquired a couple of old vice grips with worn out teeth in a collection of tools that might be able to find a new lease on life as ground clamps. I’ll send you the royalties if it works out!

I've been called a "Tool Snob" but I like to think of myself as a Tool Connoisseur. There's a difference between buying a tool based on the brand name vs buying a tool because you can appreciate the qualities that make it more enjoyable to use, especially if you use them all day every day. It may not make sense if you are just going to use them to change the air filter on the mower but when you pay the mortgage with them it makes all the difference in the world.

Thanks for meatloaf, my internet was down when I got off work wee hours tuesday, didn't get it watched last night. Been reduced to going to truck stop sunday evening and hoping the have meatloaf left from lunch. Big chunk, get a to go box, meatloaf monday night. Love wera and wiha tool, I get them mixed up. Knipex stuff is always good stuff. Favorite needle nose pliers are the short snooted snap on, craftsman also had them. Worked 14 years in food industry, repairing stainless belting tests needle nose pliers, almost shortened my channel lock needle nose. Knippex pliers are the Maintenance guys best friend, also the tool most likely to be stolen by sanitation guy. But been back in machine shop for over a year, Starrett punches are the best, working in die shop, punches get abused, get the bigger hammer, won't pull, drive it through. Working in food industry with outside technicians always observed their tool sets and bags or boxes. Then they would still borrow stuff from me, still think that one guy got my 17mm wrench. No big deal. I am happy in my die shop, sharpening and fixing dies, making oddball parts and trying to interpret the engineers minds. Tool and die guys in reality train good engineers ifin they pay attention. Ha.

Welcome back in the grove Tom. Missed seeing your videos. You were one of the first channels I began watching on a regular basic on here and enjoyed every video. Looking forward to many many moe to come. Stay safe.

Lovely to have another meatloaf.

I like the Vice Grip ground clamp. The forming of the copper looks great.

Hi Tom, Yep, agree completely with you. As you might recall, I moved to Germany to work for the Dutch Multi-Million Dollar Lithography Exposure Machine Manufacturer and the Engineer provided Toolkits issued to all their Engineers were filled with a good number of PB Swiss Tools and I can vouch for their longevity and toughness. The Rubber doesn't get shitti /squishi over time and they seem to shrug off oil / Grease quite well. Donning my Toolmakers hat, I concur with your recommendations: they are really good well made / designed tools, made out of darned good materials. I've had my sets since early 2000 and they are pretty much in close to pristine condition and have survived for 23 years for me and I'm tough on tools at times.Thumbs up also from me for the Knipex Brand too, I put my Snipe Nose pliers through hell for 23yrs and are still in very good serviceable nick.

This tool NUT enjoyed!!!, I modified the same vise grip with (sheetmetal) copper jaws, great purchase with no teeth abrasion ❤️

A little bit of spray adhesive on the drawer before you lay the mat down works pretty good too.

For your rubber drawer liner, just use a 1" wide brush of contact cement to the front edge. It's the weight/inertia of the wrenches that works it back when the drawers shut. My cousin got me a bunch of confetti rubber stuff they use as separators on pallets of paper rolls. It works pretty good, but has the same problem. You can laminate it to some aluminum flashing too which gives it some stiffness, but holy mackerel, they want a fortune for flashing anymore. I like that pig mat, I've got two new full size card catalogs file cabinets that need drawer bottoms to cover the slots, gonna check them out...thanks

Shout out from Tom on the east coast. Now that you’re a country boy with that big truck, you’ll be able to haul twice the meat loaf back to your shop..lol.🫵🏻👊🏻✌🏻

PB makes my favourite screwdrivers. Their fit in the screws work best for the philips, pozi and flat head. They last long too. I have them in the classic version, something nostalgic..

good video Tom..thanks for your time

Thanks, Tom. Welcome back!

When it comes to tools, I say “buy once, cry once” 😁

Glad you are back! Regarding hex storage, if you take your typical Bondus 2 tier plastic holder, and load the front tier (smaller sizes) upside down in their holes, you can grab whatever key you want without fiddling. You can keep them all with the short ends turned up and they will still fit in a shallow tool drawer. Much smaller/nicer than the round holder imo. Mcmastercarr also sells some interesting plastic holders for a few bucks.

Great to see that you're back in the saddle.

Please make a shop tour but where you go through every drawer and everything like Stefan :) The small shop tour is just a tease. So glad to have you back.

Yeeaaa!!!! Haven’t had Meatloaf in a long time

I Love the ground clamp Tom!

Meatloaf! I was getting hungry!

You have strong opinions on the hex L wrenches. My career demanded constant hex tools for SHCS hardware. No doubt the PB Swiss tools are very fine. I own every configuration possible in both standard and metric. Square end, ball end, short, long, L wrench, T handle, screwdriver handle, 1/4, 3/8, 1/2 drive. I have the stubby L wrench style as well as the stubby double ball end L wrenches. I have tried every major brand. Bondhus is an excellent performer for very moderate cost. I started out making some of my Allen sockets, but now the tool makers make versions that I couldn't find decades ago. My favorite brands for performance and value are Bondhus, Snap-On and Proto. MAC made some pretty good quality 50 years ago. I generally value premium tool features enough that I pay the cost of the premium tool. I am a retired hobbyist now, and I have too infrequent demand for improving my capacity for the PB Swiss. But they look very nice. I tried twist lock welding connectors for ground clamps when I was working. This allows swapping clamp styles with every job. You did a good mod on a Vise Grip style that I have never discovered any real world practical use for. I may go shopping for that style and make my version for my home shop. Good review on the Snap-On and Knipex pliers. I am a pliers nerd, but you have found some features that I don't own, but as an electrician, I opt for Klein linesman for everything you tout on the Knipex, but Klein still offers the thinner jacketed handles and a flatter hammer face. I love my Knipex tools, but I still praise Klein for this iconic design.

Regarding lineman pliers... After a lot of years in the trade, I moved from the traditional US New England style to the European style. For everyday use I prefer the lighter weight. Knipex changed my everyday carry though when they came out with the 13 72 8 stripper pliers. They have almost completely replaced lineman pliers as my everyday go-to tool. They're not cheap, but I love them. They cut better and with less effort than linemans, strip better, can ream conduit, but still have large enough jaws to twist a decent number of wires in a bundle if I need to. The only thing you can't cut is any kind of steel, but I have 9-in dikes for that.

Thanks! I needed a Meatloaf fix. Glad to see you back.

I have to salute you for using the word "whap".

Tommy here I love using vgripground clamp for 2dec. Love all you guys content.

Again Nice to see you back in the saddle. Time to start thinking about some heat for the shop.... Probably coming with the insulation... All the Best! Chuck

Thanks for sharing! good to see the old meaty claws back in action!

and the wallet sheds some weight again, thanks Tom! 😆

Looking great buddy glad you're settled in and back to show us the bozo!

Again, Thank you Tom

this really should be a standard for ground clamping. good project.

So great to see you back!!! Love the new shop!!

Nothing like a good meatloaf to get going again! Hope the flooding doesn’t affect you. From the sound of things the next project may have to be be an ark for tools. If so, I know you will choose wisely.

Magswitch makes the best ground clamps, at least for any regular steels.

Thank you for the meatloaf!

Great to see you back Tom

Great ground clamp Tom. You are definitely right about the Kaizen drawer treatment reducing the capacity of said drawer by a factor of 3 at least! Some of the drawers of the vidmars at work have more liner than tools in the drawer.

Tom, thank you - a great night for fresh meatloaf. A blizzard is blowing in here in Colorado, and I’ve settled in to hear about great tools. A favorite subject. I’m interested to try something from PB Swiss Tools, maybe their ratcheting screwdriver… hummmmm.

Now that meatloaf is back, I have fealing that this year will be better than last one :) Thanks Mr. Lipton! You are the best!

Great to see youre back! You have too many pliers - there, Ive said it! 🙂

My dog thought I turned into a vegetarian, but tonight he finally got meatloaf for supper! Best wishes Tom!

Good to hear the rain - you guys need it in CA.

I think I’m gonna make a ground clamp for my plasma like that. I always have the hardest time getting that thing to hold. Great idea!

👍👍😎👍👍 thanks for all the tips…… added your ground clamp design to my list of projects

Cardboard is my favorite drawer liner

Quality tools make a big difference hands down..🔧🪛🔧🪛

I m pushing the thumbs up befor i start watching

I am not an advocate of Swiss tools, but they also make a cool allen set that is not bent 90 degrees but it is bent 100 degrees, and has a short stickout. I had a lot of allen set cut because the space to put the key in the socket was to narrow. For exactly this they made that tool.

What I wonder... I STILL wonder... who gonna STOP the rain? (Da du, du du daaa duuuuuu.)

because of 15:00 I can tell you one thing Tom: the form of the tool under the handle is there for two reasons, you can get similar punches like these without the grip as well and so that they won't roll off the table or workbench too fast you got these edgy grip areas sticking out (because they are full length under the grip) and the second one is to keep the handle from rotating on the punch as well while using it by the way the sizes are the single numbers behind the part number after the dot on the handles (2 3 4 5 6 and 8) in millimeters (for example the "PB 758.2" is the 2mm version) greetings from Austria

Loving that you are back with meatloaf! That Williams adjustable crow's foot was patented in 1948 in US 2,600,617.

Glad to hear you are feeling better and getting back. Like your ground clamp. I understand as I have the same type of arthritis issues. I went to a magnetic ground and so far love it. Thanks for sharing.

That vice ground clamp is a great idea, it really grinds my gears when my ground clamp pops of. For the next revision I'd recommend adding a ground wire of sorts between the jaws. Otherwise with a bad ground on the copper you might weld the hinge joints stuck while the clamp is in the locked position. Looking forward to the next meatloaf :)

Thanks for a update. Have been concerned Danny

Amazon has the PB Swiss hex wrench set... Glad to see you back Tom!!

I've been drooling over one of those Veto pro bags for a while. Love Knipex and PB swiss tools

Thanks for the meatloaf Mr. Lipton. These episodes are always a treat, and never fail to leave me wondering, “why don’t I have one of those in my toolbox”. Knipex, here I come!

I've really missed these videos

good to see you again!

I've missed your videos. I've gone though the same process - on a much smaller scale, as the largest tool in my garage is an air compressor, followed by a drill press (I have a weaker strain of TJV, or tool junkie virus) - and I moved from a 2 car garage in the suburbs in CA to a three car garage in the exurbs in TX. But even so, it's taken me a long time to get things organized in the new space. On the plus side, I found things which have been lost for over a decade.

Love the ground clamp, I’m steeling your idea. And I find it really funny that right after that segment at 51:33 over your right should we see a crappy one! Replace that thing too and make a video! please! Also, I think it would be cool for meatloafs if you not only showed stuff, but also completed quick minor tasks on video for us. Something like adding the sticky back pig mat to that drawer. Would be much more satisfying to me!

Glad you’re back Tom. PB tools are great and no problems with the handles on the screwdrivers. Have them in use for years now.

Nothing against PB Swiss, they have a stellar reputation - but I personally just can’t handle tools in bright colours. I want them in shades of steel, black and/or wood, I have way more fun using those. Silly, perhaps - but it really makes a difference to me. I’d happily trade the PB Swiss pin punches for the Starrett ones.

I got a magnetic ground clamp and it works ok but it's not ideal for all applications, yours design is genius! I will have to fabricobble one for myself. Thanks for another great meatloaf, I always learn something useful or interesting (even if my wallet suffers with all those cool tools)

Thanks Tom

I wrote you off a couple weeks ago. It's good to see you back!

Glad to see ya' back doing meatloaf. Love some of the stuff you come up with.

Thanks for the video

I wasn't expecting meatloaf today but boy I am hungry for a new episode!

Glad to see someone out there that shares my inability to abandon a bunch of tools, batteries and chargres for a different battery system.

Howdy Mr. Tom, I am glad you're feeling well and getting settled in there, hopefully the wife's honey do list is getting shorter! It is nice to have you back since I don't watch many other machining/tool channels anymore. You have stood the test of time for me. Thank you for the review on the band saw, the high school FRC robotics team I mentor for could use one, I just haven't decided which one to get them yet. Be well until next time!

Glad to have you back, I've got one of those adjustable crow's foot deals from Snap-On, it's pretty handy.

When you first opened the top drawer of your box I was very impressed with your collection of adjustable wrenches, but the pliers had me gasping! DUDE ! You are truly an aficionado of tooling. The punches, I think that if you can justify it the Starrett are top shelf. But the new ones are too pretty to get mauled by a BMFH. Wowzer. European tools are in another league. Great to see you are catching up with the new shop. First real cabinet was lined with carpet, now dollar store shelf liner is my go to. Perforated rubber like material ( think expanded metal decking like) that stays put. You can also use E6000 blobs on the corners and spots as required to defeat the shipping curls. Weight it down for drying and if or when you need to replace you can peel the blobs off.

Marvelous to see a new Meatloaf Tom, really glad to see you back!

good stuff! i like the ground clamp

I also love them Knipex pliers!! Ones to definitely give a try; The Knipex TwinGrip 82 01 200 (or with the comfort grip 82 02 200) and the Raptor 87 41 250, I guarantee you will love them!

Welcome back Tom!

Great stuff. I've got a set of the PB Swiss punches, they are a joy to use.

That little bandsaw! I have the Milwaukee M12 (because I didn't want to change batteries) and these are tiny saws, with a very narrow throat, and are perfect for anything that fits. I think my Milwaukee has a 2"x2" throat and depth. In my hobby shop that pretty much handles any kind of bar stock or tubing that I am likely to use, and it is truly a one hander. We have the bigger DeWalt at work, and that makes cuttting conduit without a clamp or vise a two man job, at least I can't cut straight with it with one hand.

I'm really glad we're finally getting some rain here in California, I just wish it wasn't so much in such a short period of time. I hope you're not having any flooding issues up there.

Meatloaf my favorite

Wow , Tom you hit a home run. Thanks for sharing.

I absolutely love veto bags! I have 4 different bags and a few side pouches. Really well built