Tool Thread - Post up your new tools!

[5Toes]

Cleaning my sockets today (craftsman set). half oil and half atf... I put some of them away wet and they got a little rusty :(

[M-technik-3]

I have a Mikita for junkyards. I use air tools in garage or normal hand tools. Craftsman hand tools with exception of some of their professional line is no longer made in the USA.

Tool companies are having a hard time with trade imbalance with China much like all other manufacturer's out there.

[Vtec?lol]

I have the crafstman impact wrench: http://www.sears.com/craftsman-c3-19...p-00917090000P and it works just like it's supposed to. I have no complaints!

But the word on the street is craftsman is shit when it comes to tool. 'you're just paying for a lifetime warantee

I wouldn't mind their lineup. They have some good pricing as well

[jaywood]

I have the crafstman impact wrench: http://www.sears.com/craftsman-c3-19...p-00917090000P and it works just like it's supposed to. I have no complaints!

[Vtec?lol]

who uses cordless impact drivers and clutched drills to work on there cars?

I want to piece together a niece kit for home and auto use but not sure between makita, dewalt, and milwakee.

[george graves]

Ha! Thanks! - There are kits you can buy, but they don't have the range this has. If you want something like this - you have to pay +$200-400 or build your own.

and.....made it on hack-a-day again. Apparently I'm putting out some good stuff.

http://hackaday.com/2012/08/21/building-a-resistor-substitution-decade-box/

You can see all the details of the build on my new (non-BMW stuff blog): http://www.digitalunderpants.com/

Otherwise bookmark redrocketlabs.com for the good e30 stuff.

[AndrewBird]

Built some tools a few weeks back I needed for a current project. Resistor substitution boxes.

That is badass! Was this a kit, or did you make it from scratch?

[enigmaticdream]

Just picked up a valve adjustment tool for the S14 off ebay for $100.

[jeffnhiscars]

Those of us who have been a round a while all have tools that have vanished and cannot be replaced with anything comparable. I had a Rockwell 3/8 electic drill that I think I struggled to pay $30 for. It had a polished aluminum housing and I remember using it once to bore a rather large hole in 1\4 steel plate. The plate was on the ground so I could put my full weight on the drill and it must have slowed to 100 RPM's, but that SOB kept turning and did the job. If only my e30 had that much torque :D

This thread also reminded me of my commercial salmon fishing days off the coast of British Columbia. We were often in and out of the village of Bamfield, which was a 4 hr steamer ride from the nearest paved road or you could drive 60 miles on private logging roads as long as you watched out for the 16ft wide trucks.

Bamfield had 400 people living in it and boat was the only way to get around the inlet. What I will never forget was the machine shop. Being the only facility in that section of coast it was very well equipped, but since the 40 ft trailer with the diesel gens that powered the town was fairly recent, the entire shop ran off a Ford flathead V8. The ceiling had jack shafts everywhere along with pulleys and huge leather belts hanging from it with swing clutches.

There were starter buttons for the Ford, which sat outside (not very well muffled) in several locations so when they had a job to do, they would fire it up, swing the clutch levers which tightened the drive belts and the entire ceiling started whirring and spinning, the belts wobbled back and forth and the machines, which were all monster cast iron jobs, went to work.

Talk about a kid in a candy shop :D

[george graves]

Built some tools a few weeks back I needed for a current project. Resistor substitution boxes.

[AndrewBird]

Got these recently:


Etalon, made by Tesa, same company that owns Brown And Sharp. Swiss made and very nice. Only $100 too!

[S62]

Good old Snap On

[$hane]

I had the same drill press. It belonged to my great grandfather. I just retired it. My boss wanted to toss our gang drill table to i took it home and sold 3 of the 4 drill heads and kept the table and one drill. Super stout.

[george graves]

That looks like it will serve you well. I'd rather have a 30 year old top of the line tool, than any of the cheap stuff today.

Some of you guys should take your girlfriend to garage sales on the weekend - they'll love you for it, and you can find some great stuff. If you find a widow getting rid of her late husbands tools, you've have struck gold.

[Fleksta]

Just picked this up off Craigslist; 1941 Dunlap Drill Press (Sears Roebuck)