What are your (?) favorite tools?

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Hey guys. I figured you all like tools as well as knives, so why don't we share and get a good discussion going. Name up to 10 of your favorite tools from your garage or work area.

1. Bosch ps21 cordless driver
2. Ingersoll rand w7150 cordless impact
3. Ingersoll rand 2135 quiet ti max
4. Gear wrench ratchet set
5. Lisle spill free funnel
6. Innova 3160b scan tool
7. Craftsman handi cut set
Can't really think of any others. Go!
 
machinist's parallel clamps
wooden hand screws
cabinet maker's hand scraper
machinist's combination square

Ric
 
Simple.

  1. hack saw
  2. Vice grips
  3. Flat head screw driver
  4. Clamp
  5. Pencil
  6. hammer
  7. Sharpwerks pry buddy XL (never leave home without it haha)
 
The hammer given to me by my dad when I was five years old. I still use it for everything.
Couldn't do most projects without the table saw. It's a Craftsman from about fifteen years ago.
Gotta love the Klein tools for electrical work. Wire strippers, cutters, pliers.
DeWalt drill.
 
I love my Baldor Buffer. I would be lost without it.

I have various hand tools that are favorites.

I have a drill, impact driver, and flashlight from Milwaukee's "M" 12v series. Those little tools pack a punch, and are very handy. I throw them all in a small tool bag, and can take them just about anywhere.
 
My Mitutoyo calipers and my vintage Lufkin mics. Use them almost every single day.
 
glennbad said:
I love my Baldor Buffer. I would be lost without it.

I have various hand tools that are favorites.

I have a drill, impact driver, and flashlight from Milwaukee's "M" 12v series. Those little tools pack a punch, and are very handy. I throw them all in a small tool bag, and can take them just about anywhere.
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How do you like the milwaukee stuff? Have you been able to compare it to other cordless tools?
 
My measurement tools, starrett steel rules, mic set, mitutoyo calipers. Also, my vintage lead holders or drafting pencils (I have a small collection). Without good measurements and accurate marks you cannot to precision work.


-Xander
 
Well, when Sandy happened, my most used tools were:

Hammer
Shop-vac
Knife
Screwdriver
Crowbar ( for floors/ tile if you're wondering)
 
I repair and refurbish bikes for fun and profit, and I've often said I couldn't do it without my Dremel. The wire brush removes rust and crud, the cut-off wheels take care of frozen bolts and such, and the sanding drums get a lot of use as well.
I also make cigar-box guitars (and other instruments), and the Dremel gets a lot of use there, but I depend on my ancient Craftsman drill press a great deal.
 
1. dremel (I have a Dremel Stylus, and a bigger, off brand one) easily my most used tools.
2. ryobi one+ impact driver - 1/4" hex rattlegun, the best thing ever made for driving screws
3. Ryobi one+ impact wrench - a 1/2 drive cordless rattlegun - best thing ever for changing tyres, and undoing bolts.
4. Pelican 9420XL RALS kit - a 5ft tall Cordless LED worklight - excellent for working at night, or in poorly lit areas
5. Sidchrome Socket set my parents bought me - every man should have a good quality socket set
6. Sidchrome Ring spanners - my inlaws bought me something useful for Christmas - again, good hand tools are essential
7. Bench - I built my own, and it's setup perfectly for me, at 6'6" most benches are too low, this one isn't, and it's built properly, the way I want it.
8. Warren + Brown deflecting beam torque wrench - I don't own one yet, I keep borrowing my fathers, but it is a beautifully made, very accurate and abuse resistant torque wrench.

I'm out of tools to list, everything else is "meh" ,tools I own and use but don't really love.
 
My favorite tools are a few things I always keep in the truck. Keep in mind I'm all thumbs so I don't do any real construction or anything like that but I do have a couple of apartment buildings and things are always needing to be tightened or hammered back on, etc.

1. A pouch with a leatherman, flashlight and screwdriver with a reversible phillips\standard tip.
2. claw hammer
3. small loppers for trimming branches, hedges, etc.

These things can be used for all sort of little fixes while I'm at the apartments that doesn't require any particular skill, but if you don't have something that can do the job, its a real pain. I've used the leatherman to cut stuff, the pliers to pull stuff apart, etc. I even used the file to file down a door strike plate a tiny bit so that the latch would work. With the file, it was a 10 minute job, without it, I wouldn't have been able to get the door to stay closed.
 


A couple of crisis intervention tools.

Someone beat me to hammer..so bigger hammer.

Best.
 
I've got a full set of Iwasaki carving files - they are the best files/rasps I've ever owned and make shaping wood a breeze.

TedP
 
Edge pro Apex is amazing as is the Spyderco sharpmaker.
I have a "thing" for Klein tools, particularly their linesman pliers.
I really like Milauke brand power tools.
Fluke makes the best digital meters for my money.
Just for the sake of mentioning it, since I am sure no one else will: The Khiro Nut-buster. Its an excellent piece of kit and damn near indestructible.
 
I like chainsaws ever since I was a kid. They are loud, do lots of work with little effort and are satisfying to use. Gasoline powered sword power. I have a 67cc Jonsered with a 20 inch bar, perfect for cutting the 7 cords needed to keep the oil truck away during the heating season.
 
Another happy sidchrome socket set owner here.
My father's old automatic centre punch and his screwdrivers and pliers (he was a telephone engineer originally)

Mini Mole grips. The Mole gripis a British kind of vise grip and this is a small one, about 8" overall. Not been made for years and the jaws of mine are a little worn but still incredibly handy.

A pair of long-handled kilner needle holders. these are surgical forceps with an offset handle. If I have dropped a small part like a nut or a spring into an inaccesible place (as happens from time to time) I reach for these. The beauty of the offset handle is that your hand doent get int he way of looking at the thing you have dropped.
 
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