In the Face Shield World of vision protection, the emphasis has always been on deflecting particulate matter flying directly at you. While typical industry-standard face shields do a good job at that, often the fine particulate remains airborne, finding its way around the face shield or sometimes through its vents, causing dust and debris between your eyes and the shield.
Bosch ROS65VC Vibration Control Sanders
Holding a random orbital sander while you progress through various grades of sandpaper looking for that final finish can be tiresome work. The vibrations transmitted though the tool, into your hand, wrist and forearm can fatigue tendons and muscles and require the taking of more frequent breaks. Thanks to a cool new Bosch-exclusive suspension system isolating the handle from the tool body, vibration transfer to the user is minimized, enhancing handling, user comfort and improving productivity.
The New Year is now upon us and soon, so will the New Products we’re excited about bringing you in 2012. That means doing a little early Spring Cleaning to make room. January is Inventory Adjustment Month and features a huge selection of automotive hand tools at 50% off, up to 60% off air tools, power tools at below cost, blow-out prices and a whack of unadvertised specials at all KMS Tools locations.
Whether you’re repairing a damaged thread or threading virgin material, there are a number of factors to consider and procedures to follow to produce the best job, with the least amount of wear and tear —and breakage, on your tooling.
Milwaukee Hackzall Cordless Recipro Saws
Definitely one of the coolest, most versatile tools that’s come about in a long time has to be the Milwaukee Hackzall. This somewhat bizarre hybrid of a jigsaw, a recipro saw and a power hacksaw, s versatile as it is unusual.
2011 was an amazing year with local and Worldwide events that will continue to add to Human History for many years to come. It’s been an amazing year for us at KMS Tools and Equipment as well and we have you, our valued customers to thank.You participated in our Show and Shines, attended and patronized our Annual Woodworking Shows and gave generously through our smokey sales and by donating your old tools for our Tools For The World program. We appreciate it!
Noses cheered and tastebuds tickled as people approached KMS Tools last weekend. The scent of smokies and onions could be detected from across the lot, coming from ‘neath a canopy by the entrance to the store. What could be better than a FREE smokie and pop while you shop?
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More than any other, the Swiss Army Knife of power tools has to be the Multi-tool. The key to this comparison being the variety of different attachments for the diverse applications it can perform. These unique and versatile tools are available from most of the major power tool manufacturers and at a number of price points.
Tools are an investment, to be sure, but so is the tooling that you need to operate it. Probably the most common type of tooling there is is the lowly twist drill used by just about very type of trade there is. We break them, we ask them to perform in extreme situations and we continue to use them even though they are screaming out and pushing back in their effort to indicate they’re just not working for us anymore!
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Is cleaning out the shed or garage on your “to do” list? Instead of throwing all those good old tools into the landfill, why not let them reach their full potential in the hands of those who need them most? Bring your good used tools down to any KMS Tools, and they’ll be sent around the world for community building projects.
If you don’t have any tools to donate, you can still help those in need by making a donation while you grab a FREE smokie and pop during KMS Coquitlam’s 3-day Christmas sale – December 15th to 17th! All donations will go towards sending the donated tools around the world.
Thank you for your generosity!
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