top ten tools - Page 4

nz_aj · 03-14-2005, 10:52 PM

Top 10.
Battery drill
Eastwing 22oz claw hammer
Mig welder
Angle Grinder
1/4", 3/8", 1/2" sockets, power bar, pipe, spanners, screwdrivers etc.

Top 10 useless tools:
EZ out
Glass cutter with small diameter wheel
Anything not metric, i.e. measuring devices, spanners, sockets, bolts.
Brace & bit
Chinese adjustable spanner where the jaws do not meet parallel
Chinese vice grips where the pressed female thread section is not welded to gether
$3 40 piece socket sets
Carpenters hammer with a tubular steel shaft
A 150W 6" bench grinder
A stand for converting a hand drill to a bench press

Rockwood · 03-15-2005, 01:41 AM

get a grinder stand for the 6" bench grinder, turns that thing into a very useful tool.

and take off the stupid guards, just wear a face shield and gloves.

Will · 04-27-2005, 07:39 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by DEAD SE-RIOUS

GEAR WRENCHES!

I dont know how I ever did anything without these little gems.

bud15637 · 05-22-2005, 12:38 AM

my hands and fingers

Juiced · 05-24-2005, 08:16 PM

Impact Swivels, Impact Gun, Air Compressor, Dremel, Vacum Bleeder, And the 2 way wrachet Wrenches, $3 40 piece Socket Sets i go trough atleast one of those a weekend (all i seem to lose are the 13mm 15mm and 17mm) but it's better than loosing my Snap-ons.

SUPER"FAKA"MAN · 05-26-2005, 03:40 AM

some of the tools that i use to work on my car or if my friends come over to work on there cars.

not in any particular order:

1. screwdrivers
2. vise grips
3. hammer
4. sockets & ratchets
5. pry bars
6. gear wrenchs
7. jack & jack stands
8. drain pan
9. case of heineken
10. a lot of chicken for the bbq

Steve-O · 05-26-2005, 12:32 PM

soon to be my engine hoist and stand, dremel, my entire craftsman tool set, the microwave and fridge in the garage, and the retarded amount of rolling rock in that fridge

Jaketips42 · 05-26-2005, 11:20 PM

I wouldn't know where to begin. They are all just so useful.

WOT2000 · 06-24-2005, 06:08 PM

Late response, but have to chime in. I'm not mentioning sockets & wrenches & stuff, cause those a are a given AFAIC.

0) Garage with ample space. http://xxiii.com/~wcox/garagepix/
1) DeWalt 12V drill. Don't use on the car that often, but probably my favorite all-around tool. Enough ass to run a spade bit through thick wood, and small enough for tight car stereo work. Perfectly balanced over the trigger-finger spot. Beautiful Engineering

2) Metric Tap & Die set. Didn't see this mentioned before. Has saved the day on many a job when threads became problematic. ~$50 @ Sears Hardware.
3) Air Ratchet, 3/8" mini - saves time & bloody knuckles in tight SR20 engine compartments.
4) Air Impact, 1/2" - gotta have to blast off the big stuff.
5) Epoxy Floor - makes everything easier and neater, don't even use my creeper any more, just slip in & out. Speeds clean up.
6) Blasting cabinet - for cleaning up parts.
7) Good lighting, stationary & portable.
8) Hardly a necessity, but damn nice: my DIY powder coating equipment.

-Wayne '93 SE-R / '93 NK2k / '90 Miata

altima02 · 06-30-2005, 07:07 PM

Im gonna have to go with my top 3:
1. Recipricating Saw to cut a little bit.
2. Extension pole to hold hatch.
3. Matic to serve as roll cage.

I don't know where I would be without them.

philipn126 · 06-30-2005, 08:21 PM

probably doin the same thing you are in that pic. nothing.

Fonque · 07-01-2005, 01:24 PM

1. 50 piece or more rachet set
2. Dremel
3. Torque wrench.
4. magnet grabber extender thing, to help fix the "oops"

with those you can do almost everything on our cars, Since i live in an apartment got to keep it to the essentials.

NX$paniard · 07-01-2005, 01:59 PM

I want my own tool midget.

Think how cool it would be to be under the car installing, say exhaust or susepnsion and just , "Hey, tool midget, bring me a 22mm open end wrench" and then the little midget hobbles to your tool chest and brings you the wrench.

Think about it, its great work opportunity for midgets who are discriminated against by the normal workforce and we can put them through a little (no pun intended) tool academy so they know their tools. And if you pay extra, you can get a midget that knows his sh*t about cars. They would be trained by giving them magazines to read when you put them back in their cage at night, so they can read sport compact car, turbo, etc etc and be brushed up on all the current stuff so you can have a conversation with them while theyre not handing you tools.

Who wants in ?

STRATTON · 07-10-2005, 11:16 PM

just discovered my new favorite tool. the impact screw driver. lol. watch now i wont come across any ceased screws.

NX$paniard · 07-11-2005, 12:47 AM

no youll just bust the heads off way faster or ruin the gripping surface so bad (way faster) to where you have to use my favorite tool

vice grips LOL

STRATTON · 07-11-2005, 12:50 AM

lol. the vice grips let me down yesterday. i had to use a hammer and chisel. long story lol.

SE R Madness · 07-31-2005, 02:30 PM

[quote=NX$paniard]I want my own tool midget./QUOTE]

We can get that little guy from "Cat's Eye" For those who remember that movie.

honkeybizkit · 08-01-2005, 04:11 PM

funny thing about midgets, there was a restraunt downtown that had midgets with huge sombreros that would walk around that had salsa in the middle and on the rim of the hat, chips. i guess other midgets made a stink about it, but the midgets that worked there didnt care because they were getting paid over $20/hr and tips. im not sure if the restraunts open.

NX$paniard · 08-01-2005, 04:16 PM

Id so go to that restaurant all the time.. all the hippie liberal midgets probably screwed that away... just like theyd screw up my tool midget idea...