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New Craftsman Mechanics Tools Introduced

Just over a year and a half ago, Stanley Black and Decker (SBD) bought Craftsman from Sears. Since then they have been busy lining up retailers to sell the tools as well as developing the products. At the recent Craftsman Media Event, they announced over 1200 new tools. New Craftsman mechanics tools make up about […]

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New Klein Folding Jab Saw

Klein Folding Jab Saw Enables Safer Storage and Faster Cutting July 10, 2018 (Lincolnshire, Ill.) – Klein Tools (www.kleintools.com), for professionals since 1857, introduces the Klein Folding Jab Saw, which folds smartly into its comfort-grip handle, enabling safer storage and eliminating puncture holes in tool bags. Additional features include triple ground teeth to cut on […]

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Milwaukee New Product Symposium 2018 Highlights

Milwaukee New Product Symposium 2018 Highlights Last week we had the privilege of attending Milwaukee Tool’s annual media event (past highlights) where they show off everything coming out for the coming year. This year definitely didn’t disappoint. With the huge introduction of the new 18V High Output batteries in 6.0 and 12.0 Ah configurations. These […]

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Metabo HPT – Hitachi Power Tools Announces Name Change

Metabo HPT Last month when we traveled to visit the folks at Hitachi Power Tools they made a big announcement that we couldn’t share until today. Hitachi Power Tools is breaking away from the Hitachi Group and renaming themselves to Metabo HPT. Last year Hitachi bought the German tool company Metabo which left many of […]

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Hilti Cast In Place Firestop

Hilti Cast In Place Firestop In multi-story commercial structures, the safety of the building occupants is one of the primary concerns in the planning, construction, and operation of the structure. One aspect of safety is fire safety. A commercial structure has active fire systems such as smoke detectors, auto-release fire doors, and sprinkler systems. There […]

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Skilsaw Heavy Duty Worm Drive Table Saw

Skilsaw Announces Heavy Duty Worm Drive Table Saw New tools come out seemingly every day. Many of them are complete redesigns over previous models but sometimes they are incremental improvements that fix the issues with the previous model. We reviewed the Skilsaw Worm Drive Table Saw when it first came out. The sheer power and […]

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Promoting The Trades

EMNARI Youth Remodeling Career Day In August of this year, we, at Toolboxbuzz, were approached by the Eastern Massachusetts National Association of the Remodeling Industry (EMNARI), to see if we would be interested in participating in the second annual Youth Remodeling Career Day at the Bolton Fairgrounds.  At Toolboxbuzz we know that there is a huge […]

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Hilti DSH-P Integrated Water Pump System

Hilti DSH-P Integrated Self-Priming Water Pump When I hear the name Hilti, the first thing that comes to mind is a leader in the world of concrete tools and fastening.  We recently had the opportunity to attend Hilti’s 2017 media event.   At the event, Hilti released their DSH-P Integrated Water Pump System.  The DSH-P […]

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Tool Box Buzz Survey

  Hey Guys, We’re big on continuous improvement here at Tool Box Buzz. We want to deliver content that’s timely and relevant to the work you do. Quite often we have discussions amongst ourselves about what is going well and what we could do better. There are three areas that help enlighten us for these […]

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Build America An Ability Experience

Teaching Tool Safety What is Build America? The Build America team starts off with twenty-two Pi Kappa Phi college fraternity students submitting their application to join Build America 6 week journey on their summer vacation.  These students are required to fund raise $4,000.00 each, which will be used to fund the program. The first two days […]

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