Good ole 8 Mile. They cleaned it up for the movie. Ironically there was a party store on 8 mile that wouldn’t serve me because I was white.
Was the band the MC5 related to Outlaw MC? that was about the same timeframe.
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No, the MC5 started as the house band for the Detroit Artists Workshop, started by John Sinclair and Alan Van Newkirk. First time I ever got baked was at their house. My girlfriend was Van Newkirk’s sister. 1964.
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I finally found the TC connection. Pun Plamondon was the adopted son of a TC couple. 
MikeR. and Dave actually the majority of my hand tools were selected out used at garage sales “Tools”; flea markets; Pawn Shops; and out and out used tool stores like once-was Teds Tool Shed in Portland Or.
My standard was Sears Craftsman. Sure I saw Proto, some MAC, some SnapOn and priced as such. I even bought some Plumb branded made things. Pre-SnapOn I am told.
Most was US odd-brand, store brands. Or the down-line China made junk.
I have good Craftsman imprinted as Made-in-USA (in two different imprint scrips from two different US contracts forge companies), Made-in-Japan and then not labeled.
I got my big SnapOn 1/2" drive torque wrench from a pawnshop 1/3rd the price of new. Got my 1st quality SnapOn adjustable advance timing light from a different pawnshop.
Got my best design in the world MAC brand pull-off/press-on power steering pump (and old Chrysler alternators) pulley remover tool set from a still different pawn shop. Good: it is now copy-made available from Harbor Freight.
Air tools like any 2-stroked engine I always have bought new. They can be quick trashed by crappy inputs of air and fuel-oil allowed. My working air tools were mostly all cart end rack hung by their air fitting and got a squirt of premium air oil the beginning of each day. Lunch time end of day before locking up. The drawers use seldom air tools always got a shot of air tool oil before each use. And another shot after each use.
Electronic hand held testing equipment I learned the hard way to always buy new, in a sealed box.
Sure as has been said when you are professional shops working and the tools truck come weekly you will buy off of them to nose-in just keep working. Just make sense if you are in-control, and control your impulses.
And sometimes they are the best source for an odd very specialty tool like my no-rubber touch-less spring-finger-retainer made-in-Germany Gedare brand spark plug sockets.
Going into auto parts store I aways look over their tools wall display racks. Gotten many one-of-a-kind specialty tools from NAPA, Car Quest, Pep Boys, Shucks/OReileys, Advanced Auto Parts and others.
Good tools are were you find them. And then what you make of them.
Just like good friends.
The best of pets-pals.
A life-partner.
Live a hybrid-vigor life as I do for reasons.
Use a Ford, GM, Chrysler/Dodge or any other as it suits your true real needs and will serve you best.
S.U.
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Thought this may be useful if you don’t have drums with lids. Cut low on the rolled lip of a regular drum, then you could make a band to seal. Wife wanted a drum for manure tea( swamp water)
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I like the handle.
Aerobic bacteria and microorganisms are typically better for plants and it smells better. Anaerobic bacteria are responsible for locking up nutrients and a number of plant diseases. She may want to aerate that before applying it to restore the aerobic bacteria with something like this:
You can substitute stuff in and out, and after he says something like that is the end of the Elaine Ingham of “soil food web” recipe, you can stop there. I think the rest is he was just throwing in stuff that was sent to him for free ie product placement. And he is incorrect, when he says it replicates the mycorrhizal fungi. It does not. But it does spread it out so it is applied evenly. Mycorrhizal fungi is great stuff because it attaches to the roots of most plants and gives them up to 20x more surface area, and trades nutrients and water for carbon with the plant. There are 1000s of species of it that have adopted to your area, which is why they encourage grabbing some from a forest or a compost pile with the white threads in it (the white threads are the fungi)
If you are growing grasses, there is a bacteria called azosprillium that fixes nitrogen similar to rhizobia bacteria for legumes.
Anyway, it gives her a rabbit hole to go down, and it isn’t that hard. And that will save her about 30 hours of trying to track down information. There are newer folks that explain the whole thing better but she has the right idea. Feed the microorganisms, because they feed the plant. You just want to encourage the right ones for a healthy soil.
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Removing broken exhaust manifold bolts. I’m not sure from my experience that most of these will work with the engine or the heads in the car. Not so hard when you are sitting right in from of them with the engine on a stand.
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couple little tricks in my video from yesterday working on trailer wheel bearings
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I like it Al, great idea, I think it will work on a gasifier too.
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I’ve been watching this guy. Probably everybody has. He has 760K subscribers. A lot of useful stuff and some not so much.
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I hope you never need to use this trick cause it means your working on a ford, but after an hour of swinging a tire hammer the last resort came out to remove this stuck wheel
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I hear you, Been there done that! 
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Here I thought you just sprayed it with penetrating oil, put the wheel back on with hand tightened nuts and drove down a bumpy road.
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Personal rig yes I have done that before, company rig they frown upon activities like that specially Department of Transportation
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Perhaps to make it easier for next time a guy could drill and tap two holes through the rim? Perhaps weld on nuts if the rim is too thin? But it might look kinda weird.
Rindert
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Last fall I had to change the brakes on my wifes Nissan Rogue. Car only logs about 5-6 K a year and the wheels had never been off in 7 years. I guess they were glued on with some rust. Usually a couple of kicks to the tire will break a wheel loose. I beat on all of the tires, inside and out with a sledge to no avail. Finally had to heat them up to get them to break loose. I cut a piece of weed cloth to put between the wheel and the disk before I put the wheels back on.
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THAT sounds like a winner-of the week for kicks and tricks.There aint no shortage of salt up here in michigan-NICE ONE.
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The drive around with loosened lug nut as Marcus clearly said out on ROADS is dangerous. And Illegal.
Here’s how to do this.
Air down the tires for more rolling resistance drag.
Back off the lug nuts. Lightly retighten. Only then loosen a set amount like one-turn. Maybe two turns.
Slowly do your counter reversing circles turning in a driveway; on a frozen or drought dried lawn; a shop parking lot. Just as soon as the wheel does pop loose then you must STOP; re-tighten to get it back into the shop.
Any length of driving loose WILL damage your lug studs. Damage your wheel nuts. Damage your wheels nuts pocket holes.
Cussing the roads departments bowing to “the people” who insist on snow melted clear roads will at least let your anger out.
Now salty water coastal . . . gonna curse God?
Accept the fact if you do not have those wheels off-and on twice a year to be wire brushed and surfaces sprayed you-the-one who was slacked off.
Buying and using a good separate set of winter snow/ice wheels and tires give you this twice a year excuse.
Front and back wheels and tire rotation to keep the all-wheel-drive power systems happy is another good reason to twice a year on-and-off your wheels to clean and respray.
S.U.
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I toltally agree-That actually sounds safe enough to do without like said damage the wheels and studs- maybe a real short dirt road by my house one drive way over- then carry a lug wrench when the wheel pops loose from rusted on,THAT is much safer than the crazy police chase reckless driving episodes.
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MY wire feed welder quit on my old snap on- mig welder ya212 machine–The circuit board inside i think quit because i bypassed it with a 24 volt same as my wire feed motor-DC pwm type motor speed controler- and it seems to be working better and more steady than what my old controler was working before it quit working.
when i get a 24 volt gas vaulve solinoid in mail along with a 24 volt inverter- i will hook all back together without extra wire for mig gun trigge for the bypass i have hooked up to a battery charger running the wire feed motor.
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