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A Wera Sale You Don’t Want To Miss!

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Up to 47% off some Wera best sellers! Until the end of 2018, select Wera tools are on sale and you do not want to pass these up. Some high quality classics are included in this sale including the Kraftform Kompakt 25 “James Bond” screwdriver for only 29.99!

Deals can also be had on Zyklop 1/4″ speed ratchet sets, a ratcheting pistol grip screwdriver, a precision screwdriver set and even the Wera star magnetizer and Wera bottle opener! These deals are only available for a limited time so don’t miss out! And stay tuned… Black Friday deals are just around the corner!

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KC Tool Precision Stands Back In Stock!

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Good things come to those who wait! It has been months since they were in stock, but we are happy to announce that the KC Tool bench top stands for precision tools are again available for purchase. For those of you who don’t know, a few years back KC Tool set out to make a precision screwdriver stand that was simple and affordable, without sacrificing quality. We did just that, making it the ideal stand for a wide range of screwdriver brands including Wiha, Gedore, Witte and more.
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It’s NOT An Insulated Ultra Diver (but it’s close)

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Wiha tools came out with their Ultra Driver over a year ago and it has been very popular in the trades ever since. It was so innovative at the time, that it won the prestigious Red Dot award for design. The pop-up bit holder in the handle holds reversible bits specifically designed for the Ultra Driver. This makes for 26 different tip styles, creating a very handy all-in-one tool.

Though the exciting news is that the original Ultra Driver is only $19.99 until the end of 2017, another variation of the tool has the potential to create a buzz as well. Because of the way the bit holder in the original is designed, it would be almost impossible to create an insulated version of it (for now, anyway), but Wiha has done the next best thing. They have created an insulated insert bit holder with the carousel, pop-up handle of the Ultra Driver.Read More »

KC Tool Visits Gedore in Charleston, SC

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This past weekend a group of us at KC Tool were treated to a weekend on the town in Charleston, South Carolina. Gedore Tools is based in the “The Holy City” and they wanted to show us a good time by flying us out to see Gedore Headquarters, among other hot spots on the Charleston scene. We were enamored by Charleston’s beauty, history and charm. We were also in awe of some VERY big wrenches! Many thanks to Gedore for a fun weekend! Check out the photos below to see how the weekend looked.

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Introducing Staff Pick Screwdriver Sets!

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We at KC Tool spend all day with the great German tools you have come to know and love. We also have very different opinions and aren’t afraid to voice them. Our weekly meetings always go way over the time allotted. For a while, I personally was the butt of the joke because I called a special meeting about a specific YouTube video we were working on and the meeting took two hours because we all had different views on it. For as long as that freakin’ meeting was, it was great that we work in an environment that welcomes opposing viewpoints and allows us to share them without prosecution.

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We Are Self Conscious About Our Great Reviews

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At KC Tool, we are proud of all the great reviews we get. That said, our products very rarely get a bad review. When we browse our own website and see that nearly all our tools have five-star reviews, we feel self-conscious that it appears fake. How could we have all stellar reviews? I don’t recall any other websites where all their products have four and five star reviews. With all the five-star reviews on our website, one might get suspicious and think that we are doctoring the numbers, so-to-speak. We aren’t, we promise.Read More »

Building A Tube Headphone Amp, A Learning Experience

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I’m a music junkie – I’ll freely admit it. And I’ll also admit that I’m old school. I love listening on the couch, in a “sweet spot” perfectly situated between the two speakers. When I reached a point of owning my own house I was ready to invest in a decent way to play my music – and I quickly found out how much this could cost. However, I also discovered whole groups of folks online building their own equipment, experimenting and tweaking. I also discovered that this could cost a whole lot less! Being a tinkerer by nature, I was hooked, and by the time I was done I had built a tube preamplifier, solid state amplifier and speakers, tweaking parts and wringing the best sound out of components I had built myself.

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What is a DIN number?

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There are various sets of standards in the tool world.  In America we have The American National Standards Institute or ANSI for short.  On a global level, there is the International Organization for Standardization, or ISO.  Since this is a blog about specifically German made tools we will look at the German version: DIN.

DIN stands for Deutsches Institut Für Normung or German Institute for Standardization in English.  They have been operating for literally 100 years and have always been highly regarded in the standards community.  Though the name implies an exclusively German operation, the DIN standards have been adopted across the world and influenced many other standards organizations including the ISO.  The best example of this is the DIN standard 476 from 1922 introducing the A sizes of paper which would later become ISO 216 in 1975.Read More »

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Jon Roesch wins $50 to spend at KC Tool

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Each month we give $50 KC Tool store credit to one of our customers who left a product review in that month. Individuals are automatically entered when you leave a review with your first and last name (we have to figure out how to find you in our system). Once the winner is announced they will already have had their $50 prize applied to their account.  Shop at your leisure.

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