Tools

[p0689109]

Tools. We have all got them. Tools for mechanicking, plumbing, decorating, metal working, gardening, etc.
I then thought out of all the tools we have which is the one if it wad taken away from you that you would miss most.
In my case it would be my metalworking bench vice. The amount of times you use it for all and many different tasks is massive. Yes, there are ways you can hold somethings with clamps etc. but none are as good or as easy than a good vice. I have just changed mine for one of those Clarke types that have a rotating head with different jaws and a rotating base so that you can position it at any angle you want. The only thing it has not got is the quick move lever to allow width changes to be done quickly.
What is your most favourite/important tool?

 

[ben8vgte]

I'd say my hands, followed very closely by the kettle.

 

[owas]

Angle grinder or welder .. cant do much without them

 

[cumbriasteve]

I have a hammer that's was my Dad's and must be 30 years old, it's actually a sort of panel beaters hammer and as daft as it sounds it's just a very nice hammer to use and the sentimental element of where I got it from makes it the most valuable 'to me' thing in my workshop.

 

[MattF]

It'd be a toss up between hammer, files or vice, I think.

 

[Rig Pig]

I would struggle to choose, I have spent far to long collecting and drooling over them! But the peach of the workshop has to be my Smart and Brown lathe.

 

[BrokenBiker]

multi meter, drill, screw drivers. basis of the majority of my work at the moment

 

[normspanners]

All the ones I have had nicked!!

 

[graffian]

Specs.

 

[norlander]

Triton superjaws.

 

[chunkolini]

It has to be this, gets used constantly

I was running a sculpture class one day and was asked and after we had used it to shear, punch, roll and edge bend flat strip "Iwas asked what would you do without it?" I thought for a moment and realised 'probably my old job'.
Otherwise angle grinders and welding clamps.

 

[brightspark]

a megger . for all the callouts faults and sh..ite wiring i get to test

 

[Kayos]

U gauge, not having it at work would be like forgetting my arm

 

[DanielW]

My hobbie lathe,can make small parts but I'd like a bigboy jobbie but no space for it really.

I could spend hours on a full size lathe and milling machine.

 

[Maker]

It would have to be my bench. My split, burnt, knackered wooden bench. God I need a new one

 

[julianthegypsy]

It would have to be the mig. I've been without one for a week and I'm tearing my hair out. After that, probably the anvil. It gets used almost daily at some point and it's irreplaceable.

 

[rory1]

10" bahco shifter, lives in the leg pocket of my overalls. Gets used for the things that it was designed for ..... And also many things that it wasn't!

 

[Maker]

10" bahco shifter, lives in the leg pocket of my overalls. Gets used for the things that it was designed for ..... And also many things that it wasn't!

When the problem is stuck, everything looks like a hammer.

 

[Jan]

All the ones I have had nicked!!

Time 3 for me. Working on replacing them all yet again!

 

[harryb94]

My socket set, probably had it the longest of all my tools and still gets used all the time