tools we love and wish list..

[God mode restorations]

I must admit..a baileigh industrial lathe and milling machine would be nice..and got me eye on a huge phase 3 bench grinder...wish list should be.I want I want I want

 

[CRB]

It would be cool to have a nice big stationary engine running a line shaft powering every tool

Born too late.

How did I forget my Fluke, it was one of the first tools I ever got, it's an old autoranging one given to me when I was 6 from a guy my dad works with called Mr Christmas (Seriously, how cool is that).

Careful, I hear Operation Yewtree at the door.

Tools I love:
Radial Arm Saw. Elu MOF177 Router. My Wadkin table saw. My van.

They were/are nice to use, soft start, simple controls that do not need thinking about.

 

[zzr1200]

All of my tools too many to list here, the most useful lately has been my 30 ton hollow porta power ram, absolute mustard at removing seized pivot pins that won't move with a sledge hammer...one of the best investment I've made...

 

[Gareth0123]

I am really impressed with both my R-Tec 250-I mig welder and my R-Tec P30C plasma cutter: one of their 200Amp DC tig welders is next on my list.

I wouldn't be without my Ryobi 18 volt One-Plus cordless gear............. I have a lot of it and some of it is used everyday.

I use daily a Ryobi 800 watt single phase, 115mm angle grinder. It is 5 years old now and is just used and abused and is the tool that spends the most time being used... clean up, weld prep, sanding, cutting, etc.

I have a 36 year old, 15" Adjustable spanner. On one side of the handle it says Snap-On, and on the other side it says BluePoint it was one of the first Snap-On tools I bought as a raw apprentice all them years ago, and it still gets used almost daily for cold setting.

I would really like a single phase "wet" sliding compound mitre 300 X 1.8 X 300 cold cut saw (if such a thing exists) that cuts up to 75 X 75 at 45*, and can be swung around to cut 50 X 50 at 60*.

 

[ukracer]

To be replaced by something bigger we can never have enough machinery...to much is never enough....half the battle is the room to put it all...

No I already have a bigger lathe..lol

 

[God mode restorations]

What would be nice is a dam good excuse for my misses wondering why I been 40 quid short a week on my wages for months and why there is a *** great lorry outside with a three wheeled forklift attached to it..and a grumpy chap outside waiting for a signature....

 

[Maker]

I have a 36 year old, 15" Adjustable spanner.

I've got an older one than that, a 1927 14" Stillson, I can't remember the make but it starts with an I and it sounds japanese. It's 88 years old and still far better than my Clarke "heavy duty" one.

 

[pedrobedro]

Something I want but don't really need desperately would be a big belt grinder with a decent size contact wheel and a tube bender probably hydraulic with dies up to 2" tube.

 

[God mode restorations]

I agree with you with on that on...two items on my list to...

 

[johnakay]

not so much tools but could do with a bigger garage.

 

[God mode restorations]

not so much tools but could do with a bigger garage.

Yes I agree..a garage the size of Sainsbury's to get it all in....

 

[500e]

How do people survive without a lathe & mill

 

[God mode restorations]

How do people survive without a lathe & mill

I have for many years lol...normally involves taking a diagram to a machine shop and spending half hour explaining to someone that ain't got a clue what your going on about....time consuming and very annoying...all be it.i understand that some of us don't talk in complicated machinist language ...but am busting for a mill and a lathe..next year I hope

 

[oddbob]

I love ALL my tools ...even the ones that scare me... but I have two that I'd say I like to the point of being sentimental over!

The first is one of those small, cheap pillar drills, made by Nu-Tool, that has sat in the corner of every shed and or workshop that I've had since the mid 80s. It probably hasn't been used for ten years or more, the belt guard is a bit bent from being moved time and time again, but it's plugged in and always ready to go... and sitting on a bench nearby is a 4" Clarke belt linisher, that I bought at the same time, that has probably been used on 90% of all that I've made over the last 30years, without ever missing a beat!

...and as for my wish list. I've promised myself that this is the year that I finally get that 3d printer that I've been threatening my wife with for a year or two!

 

[MattF]

How do people survive without a lathe & mill

By adapting. It's amazing what you can accomplish with some creative thinking coupled with basic cutting and shaping hand tools.

 

[God mode restorations]

I love ALL my tools ...even the ones that scare me... but I have two that I'd say I like to the point of being sentimental over!

The first is one of those small, cheap pillar drills, made by Nu-Tool, that has sat in the corner of every shed and or workshop that I've had since the mid 80s. It probably hasn't been used for ten years or more, the belt guard is a bit bent from being moved time and time again, but it's plugged in and always ready to go... and sitting on a bench nearby is a 4" Clarke belt linisher, that I bought at the same time, that has probably been used on 90% of all that I've made over the last 30years, without ever missing a beat!

...and as for my wish list. I've promised myself that this is the year that I finally get that 3d printer that I've been threatening my wife with for a year or two!

Haha...put ya foot down fella...you get that printer this year

 

[pedrobedro]

How do people survive without a lathe & mill

By having a mate with a lathe and a mill mainly.

 

[MrFluffy]

This is my favourite tool right now, I bought it for basically the price in scrap as a write off non runner and had lots of fixing and learning to do about the inside, but now its cool having my own personal thunderstorm in the shed. Have to admit cacking myself the first time I ran it under full power, most of that cabinet at the end of the video is massive transformers and control circuits and it needs feeding 3 phase @30amp on the supply...

This is something its done, thats a biro tip, and the material is 6mm thick 316 stainless...
Whats mind blowing is the tiny cut hole to the left of the main one was where part of my toolchain was in imperial and another part in metric, and it tried to cut a metric part 1/26th the size. And you can see the detail under a magnifying glass...

 

[oddbob]

This is my favourite tool right now, I bought it for basically the price in scrap as a write off non runner and had lots of fixing and learning to do about the inside, but now its cool having my own personal thunderstorm in the shed. Have to admit cacking myself the first time I ran it under full power, most of that cabinet at the end of the video is massive transformers and control circuits and it needs feeding 3 phase @30amp on the supply...

This is something its done, thats a biro tip, and the material is 6mm thick 316 stainless...
Whats mind blowing is the tiny cut hole to the left of the main one was where part of my toolchain was in imperial and another part in metric, and it tried to cut a metric part 1/26th the size. And you can see the detail under a magnifying glass...

That is an amazing bit of kit to be sure! ...er, what exactly is it?!

 

[CRB]

This is my favourite tool right now,

I am not surprised, flippin' brilliant.

That is an amazing bit of kit to be sure! ...er, what exactly is it?!

EDM or WEDM, wire electrical discharge machining, or like MrFluffy says a' thunderstorm in a shed'

It could be Electronic Dance Music...some on the TV in the background at the minute.