What’s Your Favourite Tool?

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  1. dreitopf

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    #21 dreitopf, Jul 24, 2020
    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.
     
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  2. JtC

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    #22 JtC, Jul 24, 2020
    Case, meet point. :p
     
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  3. JtC

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    #23 JtC, Jul 24, 2020
    Yikes!
     
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    #24 JtC, Jul 24, 2020
    You're entitled to your beliefs and I wouldn't dare accuse you of having false security.:rolleyes:
     
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  5. Hobnail

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    #25 Hobnail, Jul 24, 2020
    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.

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  6. DCS222

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    #26 DCS222, Jul 24, 2020
    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
     
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  7. Don the Don

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    #27 Don the Don, Jul 24, 2020
    Great stuff, I still have one I made at school as well, small world
     
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    #28 BATEBY45, Jul 24, 2020
    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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  9. Judd Dredd

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    #29 Judd Dredd, Jul 24, 2020
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  10. Dartplayer

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    #30 Dartplayer, Jul 24, 2020
    A Lafet stamper used by wives? o_O
     
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    #31 Dartplayer, Jul 24, 2020
    I love my adjustable magnet, has saved me with dropped items many times.

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    although my compressor is the most useful
     
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  12. MartyWilson

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    #32 MartyWilson, Jul 25, 2020
    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.
     
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  13. MartyWilson

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    #33 MartyWilson, Jul 25, 2020
    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.
     
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  14. Sandi T

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    #34 Sandi T, Jul 25, 2020
    My favorite tool.... ;)

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  15. MartyWilson

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    #35 MartyWilson, Jul 25, 2020
    "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? :)
     
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  16. Thripster

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    #36 Thripster, Jul 25, 2020
    I took that picture of the sky through my granny's legs.
     
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  17. DCS222

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    #37 DCS222, Jul 25, 2020
    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
     
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  18. Tricky-Dicky

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    #38 Tricky-Dicky, Jul 25, 2020
    These followed by this.

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  19. Helmut Visor

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    #39 Helmut Visor, Jul 25, 2020
    My TRX
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  20. dreitopf

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    #40 dreitopf, Jul 25, 2020
    we call this stoneage tool Frenchman ore Englishman...:yum:yum:yum
     
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