Index

Every guide, by section

Ten guides are live. Each follows the same anatomy — the job in front of you, the fork that decides the purchase, an evidence table with a source column, the safety file, and a numbered sources ledger. The method behind the evidence grades is on How We Source.

Garage

• Air Ratchets: What the Spec Sheets Say Before You Buy — the compressor, not the ratchet, is the real purchase.
• Drill, Impact Driver, or Impact Wrench — three mechanisms, not three sizes.

Garden

• How to Choose a String Trimmer: The Evidence, Audited — line class first, brand later.
• Sizing a Generator: The Wattage Arithmetic, Shown — running watts, starting watts, and the carbon monoxide file.

Welding

• Choosing a TIG Welder: An Audit of the Specs That Matter — the AC/DC fork, duty cycle per IEC 60974-1, and the OSHA shade chart.

Power tools

• Angle Grinders: The Numbers That Keep the Wheel Together — rim speed, not RPM.
• Picking a Cordless Battery Platform: The Lock-In Audit — the $99 kit that is really a decade-long contract.
• Brushless vs Brushed: What the Premium Actually Buys — one rubbing contact removed, one controller added.

Starting out

• The First-Home Toolbox, Bought in the Right Order — buy for the repair that arrives first.

Craft

• Where Hand-Tool Craft Is Still Taught — folk schools, ABANA's network, and the Cooroora Institute.

Not yet rebuilt

An older site at this domain carried pages on sump pumps, paint sprayers, wet/dry vacs and more. Those addresses point here until a guide worth reading exists for each. Until a guide ships, its address stays dark — we would rather publish nothing than publish a page without its receipts.