The month of October actually serves as a great season for do-it-yourself-ers who also happen to be Halloween festival enthusiasts. Think about all of those homemade haunted houses and creative yard displays you’ve seen over the years, all the plywood, drill-driving, sawing, and gluing. Some communities even hold competitions between homeowners to judge whose ideas are the most creative.

All of this activity doesn’t even include costumes, the most indispensable of Halloween celebration gear. Plenty of people make a project out of their costumes alone. How-to guides, tips, and ideas can be found most anywhere this time of year for just about any costume idea you can think of.

Take this “How to: Make a Chainsaw Arm” article on instructables.com, inspired by the chainsaw-armed Ash Williams of the Evil Dead and Army of Darkness movies.

Their article provides steps for imaginative zombie slayers to build their own (pretend) gore-apparatus out of simple materials like an empty orange juice container, a dowel, some wooden board, paint, and a bike chain. In light of chainsaw safety, we appreciate this kind of advice as opposed to trick-or-treaters wildly swinging actual chainsaws over their heads out of holiday and/or cinematic zeal. Other suggestions for chainsaw arms simply recommend adapting a toy chainsaw for the costume.

Some quick search engine searches will reveal ideas like wobbly walkways for trick-or-treaters, pvc pipe-stuffed bodies, creepy optical illusions, and even hydraulically-powered, corpse-ejecting coffins. Most of these projects will require a power tool or two.

Whatever your endeavor this October, eReplacementParts.com offers its tool and machine parts services to its customers, keeping those power tools running great during this or any other DIY season. If winning that costume or yard competition means that your power tools and machines are in good order, we hope you get first place.

eReplacementParts.com is pleased to announce that our new video, “Replacing Bad, Cut, or Damaged Power Cords” is now available on our YouTube Channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/eReplacementParts

At present, we have 23 videos with topics ranging from, “How to Remove a Drill Chuck” to the brand and model specific video, “How to Change the Blade Clamp on the Milwaukee Sawzall.” In order to provide customers with the best information available, most of our videos have articles with written instructions that are easily accessible on our website at: http://www.ereplacementparts.com/power-tool-articles-c-8873.html

As we continue to grow, so will the amount of information that we have available through our blog, our website, and our YouTube Channel. We welcome your comments and suggestions! Please let us know if there is an educational  power tool video or article that you would like to see us produce.

Find the part or accessory you need on the diagram and its matching number on the parts list, enter the quantity that you want to have and add it to your Shopping Cart.

Once you are finished shopping, click on Proceed to Checkout. Here you will be able to create your eReplacementParts.com account. By creating an account at eReplacementparts.com, you will be able to shop faster, keep up to date on your order status, and keep track of the orders you have previously made.

Please remember, we are here to answer your questions! You may send us an email 24 hours a day, 7 days a week at info@ereplacementparts.com.

]]> http://www.ereplacementparts.com/blog/2009/05/how-to-place-your-order.html/feed 0 http://www.ereplacementparts.com/blog/2009/05/tool-and-equipment-categories.html http://www.ereplacementparts.com/blog/2009/05/tool-and-equipment-categories.html#comments Mon, 18 May 2009 16:05:27 +0000 Lisa http://www.ereplacementparts.com/blog/?p=253 Our latest web site addition is the area we call Tool and Equipment Categories. Our Tool and Equipment Categories page provides alphabetized descriptions of the tools we carry parts for. Have you ever wondered what a bench grinder is or what a nibbler is capable of? Check out our Tool and Equipment Categories page, click on the category description, and you will find your answers.

Once you find your tool’s category, click on it. In the box located above the category, enter the model number of your tool. From here, our site will take you to the parts and accessories available for your particular tool.

We hope you enjoy this addition and we welcome your comments and suggesstions.

We currently offer parts for lawn mowers manufactured by Poulan, MTD, Murray, Homelite, and Weed Eater.  This is a great initial selection of parts but many more brands will follow.  As an online parts supplier we want to offer our customers a comprehensive selection of parts for their lawn mowers.  Our parts offerings will include both lawn tractor (riding) mowers and walk-behind mowers.

We hope to keep customer’s lawn mowers running well into the future by being the one stop shopping location for every mower part and accessory.  Mowing blades, filters, collection bags, and much more will be available on every compatible lawn mower.  In addition to these common parts, and to be consistent with the other parts listings on eReplacementParts.com, we will also offer every available replacement parts for every lawn mower on the website.  From cylinder rings to specific screws and bolts, every part will be findable and purchasable online.

We’ve been working hard at eReplacementParts.com adding brand new parts sections to the website.  In addition to our constantly expanding selection of power tool parts, we are working to add lawn and garden parts as well.  This entirely new section will provide our customers with parts for lawn mowers, small engines, string trimmers, tillers, and much more.

We are very excited about the addition of the Briggs and Stratton parts line to the website.  Briggs & Stratton is established as one of the top names in small engine manufacturing.  If you have a gas powered machine in your garage, there’s a very good chance that the engine was built by Briggs & Stratton.  These engines are reliable but they do require maintenance such as replacement of air filters and fuel filters and oil changes.  We carry the parts necessary for regular engine maintenance as well as for larger repair projects.

While Briggs and Stratton is an engine builder, they also manufacture complete lawn mowers under the Murray name.  We have made sure to expand our parts selection not only to Briggs, but we offer Murray Parts as well.  We think this will be an effective pairing with the existing Briggs section that should provide customers with a more complete selection of outdoor equipment parts.

Friday’s Top 10

We hope you enjoy this new feature of our blog! Every Friday, eReplacementParts.com will post a Top 10 list to help get you started on your weekend and to give you ideas for the future!  From seasonal projects to reasons to use a drill, we hope you will find something that inspires you to break out those power tools and have fun! Please let us know what you think and feel free to share your ideas and comments.

As eReplacementParts.com continues to grow, our content is constantly being updated and we add additional resources more often than most folks blog! In the coming weeks you can expect more videos with slide shows, new and updated articles, and more blog updates with news you can use!

Here are some reminder links for your information and exploring pleasure:

• Power Tool Articles
• Tool Repair Forum
• YouTube Video Channel

When it comes to fixing power tools, there are tools everyone needs to have and some they simply should have to make their lives easier and avoid causing damage to the power tools they’re fixing. Aside from your basic screwdrivers, hammers, pliers, and wrenches there are some tools we recommend you keep on-hand if you are the fix-it-yourself type:

Adjustable Spanner Wrench – Used for changing grinding wheels. This wrench is adjustable, which means you won’t need to buy different sizes for different grinders.

Bearing Puller – Very useful for removing bearings and even gears from just about any tool.

Bearing Separator – When a bearing is flush against another part, like an armature bearing against the commutator, you will need to use the bearing separator to create space first, then you can get the bearing puller’s jaws behind the bearing for removal.

Torx Driver Bits – A majority of manufacturers are switching to torx screws, so it’s important for you to stock a collection of torx driver bits. These bits are extended so you can reach the screws that are deep inside a tool’s housing.

Folding Torx Key Set – These are useful when you can’t get in a good position with your driver bit to remove a screw. Set includes sizes T10, T15, T20, T25, T27, T30, and T-40

6-piece Snap Ring Plier Set – Features two-way adjustable pliers that are good for helping you easily remove retaining rings, which can be very difficult without the right tool.

7-piece Drive Pin Punch Set[/url] – Knocking out roll pins, bearings, and whatever else needed won’t be challenging with this set that has all the sizes you will need.

Ten-in-one Screwdriver – A handy tool to have around because it has flat-head, phillips, and torx bits easily accessible and it is also a ratcheting screwdriver.

Here is a video we made illustrating the tools listed above:

Tools for Tool Repair Video

These tools usually cannot be found in your local hardware store, that’s why we decided to make them available for you at our website. They are in the Power Tool Accessories section of our website under General Accessories, listed as Tools for Tool Repair.

The following power tool replacement parts are now available at eReplacementParts.com:

Ridgid Plumbing Tools and Vacuums

We already have a great selection of parts for various Ridgid Power Tools, and with our newest additions you won’t have to go to different places to find the Ridgid parts you need.

We now carry parts for: Piping Tools, Pipe Threading Die Heads, Drain Cleaners, Rodder Machines, Roll Groovers, Vacuums and other Miscellaneous Tool Parts.

Dremel Power Tools

Dremel invented the first high speed Rotary tool over 75 years ago and has become well-known in the Rotary Tools industry. Their popularity is why we now offer genuine Dremel replacement parts.

Parts are available for these tools: Corded Multi-Tools, Cordless Multi-Tools, Grinders, Moto-Flex Tools, Routers, Sanders, Scroll Saws, as well as other Miscellaneous Parts.

RotoZip Power Tools

RotoZip specializes in tools for cutting materials such as drywalls, ceramic wall tiles, and floor tiles among many others. RotoZip is part of the Bosch Tools Corporation, for whom we are a trusted parts distributor.

We currently have parts available for RotoZip Routers.

Fein Power Tools

Fein has been producing power tools since 1895. They specialize in power tools for specific tasks, but have a wide variety available on the market today.

We have parts available for most Fein Power Tools.