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Significantly disabled veteran (US Army 11/89 - 11/95). Avid RR history reader, hoping to one day build an around the walls N scale layout. LONG time youth & HS wrestling and football coach. Lifelong, highly educated automotive, lt-med truck, equipment & marine technician/mechanic although physically incapable of working due to significant physical disabilities although still involved with furthering my education, volunteering to speak to HS Vo-Tech students to impose on them the absolute necessity of taking math, science and public speaking VERY seriously.
During the very small time of the year when I physically feel as well as I am going to (HOT/HUMID & STABLE weather) I continue to do everything I can as I truly enjoy diagnosing/repairing vehicles & equipment as well as building resto-mods for myself and helping friends build their own. I also do as much bass fishing & ATV riding my body allows (limited to mid May through mid Sept) as well as teaching kids the joys of fishing.
During the very small time of the year when I physically feel as well as I am going to (HOT/HUMID & STABLE weather) I continue to do everything I can as I truly enjoy diagnosing/repairing vehicles & equipment as well as building resto-mods for myself and helping friends build their own. I also do as much bass fishing & ATV riding my body allows (limited to mid May through mid Sept) as well as teaching kids the joys of fishing.
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Reviews (12)
Sep 30, 2020
Worth reading
Interesting book that is well written and informative. The only reason I didn't give it 5 stars is because I thought it could be a little more in depth than what it is. Regardless, definitely worth a read!
Oct 05, 2023
Great product, excellent seller.
I've been using this exact socket for 30 years and bought this one to replace my VERY worn one as I never see a Snap-on rep/truck/salesman in my area, period! I guess they only care about the massive accounts in cities and the rest of us? Too bad!
Anyway, yeah, this is a little rusty. SO WHAT! It is in like new condition otherwise and after a number of uses, there won't be any rust left on it as there are some of these transverse engine that make physically getting your hand within 6-10" of that spark plug and wire is physically IMPOSSIBLE when you're built like me, a short power-lifter with massive forearms/arms and THICK hands. I HAVE TO change plugs like this using extended reach pliers to remove the plug wires and then tools like this double swivel socket in order to remove/replace these plugs. I honestly can not recall how many engines with difficult to access spark plugs came to me for a misfire with 1-300k on the clock only to discover that NO ONE EVER changed the worst to access of these plugs yet I guarantee they billed for doing them! Just one more reason why this industry is in DIRE NEED of licensing to be able to do ANYTHING, just as Electricians. MAYBE then we'll begin to be paid what we're worth and no longer hear of top tier technicians making 20-something an hour. My toolbox won't be unlocked for a penny under $65/hour to me. I invested years of my life in a technical college education (joined the ARMY to pay for that), continuing, never ending education, countless (as in dozens) of OEM certifications and I still find myself in classrooms at night for a minimum of 2-3 dozen nights per year and despite nearly 40 years of experience and education I know maybe 25% of what I WANT TO KNOW!
Anyway, highly recommend the double swivel spark plug sockets from an awesome seller!
Apr 11, 2019
Mandatory item in every tacklbox!!
I’ve been a diehard Susquehanna River rat since my parents 1st allowed me to cross Wyoming Ave when I was 11, though I snuck across plenty earlier than that. As the eldest child with a 15 month younger brother, along with my best friend who just happened to live within 100 yards of “the ave” getting there was easy. We lived maybe 300 yards to the west in Exeter, Pa, just over the railroad track embankment.
None of us came from $$$. We always had what we needed, but if we wanted anything we had to figure a way to make a few bucks. We were picking beans, tomatoes, corn etc down the farms that were adjacent to the best stretch of river on Earth! We’d often “get lost” during work long enough to whack a smallie or two or even a walleye on occasion. When the farmer caught us we learned lots and lots of curse words..... which ironically we all got blamed for teaching each other and plenty of beatings and ate lots of soap when our parents would hear one of our “farmer” mouths and proceed to beet the snot out of the one who said the words and the rest of us for teaching them. We got $1.00 for filling a 5 gallon bucket with beans, $.25 for a basket of tomatoes, corn, bell peppers etc. regardless my best friend and I worked our asses off and averaged $75-90/week.. Back then, during “Reaganomics” all of our working lower middle class families struggled (Thanks Ron!) and our parents took a majority of what we made. We’d usually have $15.00-25.00 afterwards. My brother was ALWAYS brilliant (literally has a 168 IQ) but hard work and Brett are worse than oil and water. They not only don’t mix, they fight each other and anyone who intervened damn near to the death. There’s no doubt the three of us were, by FAR, the roughest of everyone near our age for miles around!
As soon as we had what was left of our money, we’d sneak off on a 1.5 mile bike ride to Carey’s Sporting Goods ( I truly miss those Mom $ Pop sporting goods stores!!) and quickly plop down at least $5.00 to $10.00 on our “tabs”. Mr. & Mrs. Carey were great to us kids
I used to fish between 12-25 tournaments per year until my disability (thanks to Uncle Sam & the VA for “losing ALL of my medical records since I became violently ill in 1990....28 years of fighting has gained nothing to date and cost me my business, health and now I live in agony 80-90% of the time)..
Now I fish several 4 hour tournaments and 1-2 8 hour very small water tournaments when my body will cooperate with most being on my favored Susquehanna River. I still win more than I should out of the same spots I grew up fishing. I always have a white Fat Albert tied on a rod. You can’t fish these wrong !! I’ve landed everything from every freshwater species of bass ( largest was 6lbs 2 oz in a tournament) . Some MONSTER Walleye and even a 46” Musky that when it hit had me convinced I just won the tournament (Susquehanna in the Exeter/ Wyoming/ West Pittston Area) and had the world record smallie on my line. I can’t stand ANY line on a spinning reel over 8 lb test due to losing too much casting distance and an inability to throw the 1/8-3/16 jigs (and lighter tube jigs with 1/0-3/0 hooks from an expensive custom mold I had machined) so I knew I had to chase whatever I hooked with the boat, and due to the severity of arthritis in my facet joints, having had osteoporosis and all hammered discs from l5-s1 up to l1/2 I cannot work a foot operated trolling motor without causing excruciating pain. Amazing how you can ignore pain when you think you have a potential state record fish on your line (I already figured I had the tournament won in the 1st 100 minutes as I had just under 14 lbs which is a MASSIVE haul on the river as the bass grow long but light as they’re always battling currents, and this was late July, long past the spawn)....45 minutes later I desperately tried to get this musky into my boat for a quick picture. It would not fit in my net, not even close! I had mr rider man the boat and I jumped in to hoist the pig up for a pic. I have a 17’ V hull boat so it sits a couple feet above the water. I have to be the ONLY guy with a 17’ V with a jet. It sure isn’t fast but on plane will go through water as shallow as 4-5”, though I beat the hell out of the hull. It’s.110 aluminum and where I run it is either river stone, pea gravel or sand with some small silted in mud spots, and after 19 years I haven’t so much as dented the hull. I would kill for a 15’ Jon style boat with at least an 80” beam, but I can barely afford to pay my outrageous county & school property taxes that have quadrupled in 23 years and being I had to sell my top rated business due to being hospitalized 52x for over 600 days since ‘04 there’s no chance in hell.
I can’t emphasize how effective these Fat Albert lures are. My color is white on the river and even some lakes, but green pumpkin, black, all are awesome!
Buy a bunch today! Kirk