What’s Your Favourite Tool?

In the sixties I was working for Otis elevators and we had a nail gun cal 9mm to shoot 50mm long nails through 10mm steel 40mm into the beton...sometimes it was big fun to shoot a nail trough co-workers shoes or tool boxes.

 

Case, meet point.

 

Yikes!

 

You're entitled to your beliefs and I wouldn't dare accuse you of having false security.

 

The whispering hacksaw solves many a problem.

For me, when I need it, the tap holder my father made in school, or the tap holder I made in school.

 

I’ve a set of tools like that I made as an apprentice... but rusty because I didn’t oil them up before being stored for a few years as I changed careers

 

Great stuff, I still have one I made at school as well, small world

 

I sold garage tools for 17 years and always bought two of every new one that came out, one for sale and one for my box. Since retiring I have sold most of the oddball items that I collected, I don't have a favourite but a 3/8" socket set with an enormous range of accessories meets most needs nowadays.

 

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A Lafet stamper used by wives?

 

I love my adjustable magnet, has saved me with dropped items many times.



although my compressor is the most useful

 

Hmmm my favourite tool has to be my big hammer. No idea what it's supposed to be called but I call it a demolition hammer. It's a sledge hammer design with a thick fibreglass shaft, bloody big head that weighs about twenty pounds and has a flat head on one side and an axe shaped head on the other side. It will knock down a brick wall with absolute ease (used it for that very purpose numerous times over the years) and gives you a serious workout at the same time. Funny thing is it cost me pennies as it had sat in a hardware store for years. I think folks picked it up and decided they would never be able to heft it so put it back down.

I guess it's more of a therapy/anger management tool than a proper work tool.

 

Oh I don't know, as a former Radar and Telecomms engineer, many many moons ago, sometimes when a piece of equipment wasn't 'playing the game' my favourite hammer was the ideal solution. The hammer has often been the only answer to the problem well that and ordering a replacement for the offending item.

 

My favorite tool....

 

"Every time I got overly phyiscal with someting it turned out to be VERY expensive. ...J.D."

I believe that that includes marriage does it not?

 

I took that picture of the sky through my granny's legs.

 

I’ve a huge list of tools that’d it like to get too... TIG kit, quality compressor and windy-gear, I’d love a set up big enough for a mill, lathe, band saw, pillar drill... maybe when the kids move out

 

These followed by this.

 

My TRX

 

we call this stoneage tool Frenchman ore Englishman...