What is the one tool that has eluded you?

[Exceller8]

What is the one tool that has eluded you for whatever reason. For me it's a Wilton baby bullet vise. I either find one that is way too expensive or the condition is very poor. I've been trying to buy one for over ten years now and I'm beginning to think this is the one that will elude me for life!

 

[ATC]

A vise, and an anvil.

The vises are quickly snached up, or cost a fortune by the time I hear about them.
Anvils are things that no one ever gets rid of. If they do, the owner knows what they are worth and they go for several hundred bucks.

Maybe one day...

 

[CNGsaves]

A vice, and an anvil.

The vices are quickly snached up, or cost a fortune by the time I hear about them.
Anvils are things that no one ever gets rid of. If they do, the owner knows what they are worth and they go for several hundred bucks.

Maybe one day...

Black Jack / Jim Walker / Bacardi . . etc are the Vices that have eluded me lately . . . . because I can't afford them !!

Now for Vises . . . . I too have found them elusive . . . I've been unable to find me a Wilton baby bullet !!

 

[Hafen_Kafer]

Hazet Valve Adjusting tool for aircooled VW's.

 

[blackz26]

1/4 drive 1/8 and 5/8 deep and shallow. Parts store or sears don't carry them. Tool truck brands are too expensive. No one sells them used that I have seen. Add 6 and 7 deep for 3/8

 

[91bronc300]

Belt grinder.

 

[Kurn]

A mag drill.Coulda used one zillions of times.New ones are stupidly expensive,and used is almost impossible to find,and in the event you do find one,it's worn out and still commands big bux.

 

[wornoutoldman]

Snap-on OEX8 ~ 1/4 inch, 12 point, standard length, underlined script, combination wrench. See sig line below.

 

[ATC]

Black Jack / Jim Walker / Bacardi . . etc are the Vices that have eluded me lately . . . . because I can't afford them !!

Now for Vises . . . . I too have found them elusive . . . I've been unable to find me a Wilton baby bullet !!

Ya got me!

 

[bcradio]

So far that I really want:

-thermal imager
-laser level

 

[fflintstone]

affordable english wheel, box brake, AC tig.

 

[eborcim]

15 mm Proamerica combo wrench

 

[theoldwizard1]

Older Delta or Craftsman 6"x48" belt sander with 9" disc.

I keep drooling about this one from Grizzly, but I really don't need it at $400+ !

 

[bobcatdan]

2 ton or larger compound arbor press. I missed a dake with stand for $200 a month ago about 30 minutes away. It is my own fault, it was on there for 3 days. I went back on forth because it is truly a want, not a need and have been trying to be more money wise. When I finally talked myself into it, it was gone.

 

[billymade]

TSLF936 Snap-on 1/4'' speeder ratchet

 

[ranger302]

The 1/4' flex ratchet from Craftsman, just can't do it for $40.

 

[lugnut71]

Vise-grip 9bn, 9" bent needle nose. Don't make anymore and guy on ebay wants 100 bucks for a pair.

 

[Southern]

I've the same problem as ATC regarding vises. Seems like every day someone posts about how they scooped up a chas/athol/columbian etc for a few bucks at a garage sale or something.

Every vise I come across is either super expensive or has a line of people around the block trying to get at it.

 

[kazlx]

A Scotchman cold saw with pneumatic vise. I can never seem to find them reasonably priced. Either too much $$ or too far away. I'm ready to throw my dry cut saw in the trash.

 

[upndown]

A Brain.. But on a bigger scale a Backhoe!

 

[rusty65]

I have been looking for a 3/4 drive and a 7/16 black hawk free wheels so far I have 2 1/2ins and a 3/8s and Also a arbor press.

 

[justanengineer]

A baby ironworker and/or an old iron planishing hammer that was reasonably priced (<$500). Ive been to sales where they were reasonable, but they either seem to be monstrously large, broken, in pieces, or a million miles away when I didnt bring a trailer.

Now that Ive said that and bc Im currently out of room, one of each will probably pop up right down the street.

 

[egnorant]

Blackhawk freewheeling ratchets. If one turns up I might get it.

The ones that irk me the most are the ones that "slip away"!

Went to an estate sale and one of the first things I see is a huge anvil, about 30 inches long and 14 inches wide by 12 inches tall...marked $75.00.
Being a heavy beast and having lots to look at I walk to the back of the shop, across the back, take a peek out the side door at the trailers, mowers and such and come back inside...7 minutes tops...just in time to see a fellow walk up, put his hand on the anvil and wave someone over. He paid for it...I stood there feeling lame.

6" Wilton bullet vice that I failed to notice walking one way down a swap meet row. But noticed it on the second pass when someone was paying $50 for it.

Bruce

 

[woody 73]

Belt sander & 12 inch jointer single phase.

 

[Fastbird]

Snap-On BJP1. EVERY time I get comfy enough to plunk down on one, SOMETHING crops up and nixes the idea.

 

[crewchief888]

Older Delta or Craftsman 6"x48" belt sander with 9" disc.

I keep drooling about this one from Grizzly, but I really don't need it at $400+ !

that doesnt cost me an arm & a leg, and possibly a nut.....

 

[MJB24]

1/4 drive 1/8 and 5/8 deep and shallow. Parts store or sears don't carry them. Tool truck brands are too expensive. No one sells them used that I have seen. Add 6 and 7 deep for 3/8

1/4" Drive in 1/8"
SK 41904 is deep 6 Pt.
SK 40904 is standard 6 Pt.
Proto J4704 is standard 6 Pt.

1/4" Drive in 5/8"
Westward 10E864 is deep 6 Pt. $2.72
Westward 10E862 is standard 6 Pt. $2.98
Proto J4720A is standard 6 Pt.
Westward 10E871 is deep 12 Pt. $2.72
SK 40920 is standard 6 Pt.
Westward 10E866 is standard 12 Pt. $1.71

3/8" Drive in 6mm
Westward 1EZX8 is deep 6 Pt. $5.12
Proto J5006MH is deep 6 Pt.
SK 8406 is deep 6 Pt.

3/8" Drive in 7mm
Westward 1EZX9 is deep 6 Pt. $5.12
Proto J5007MH is deep 6 Pt.
SK 8407 is deep 6 Pt.

You can get cheap Westwards in all of these except the 1/8 but the SK or Proto wont be tool truck pricing

 

[wannab20hatch]

mid rise lift. don't really like any of the used ones I see and everytime I get the money saved up the kid or wife seem to have other plans for it.

 

[e30bradley]

power steering pulley puller.

 

[cowboy73]

Black & Decker rotary shear No. 7975. Cuts metal, carpet, linoleum, paper. My dad has one. It'll cut corrugated and standing ridge metal like butter. They were taken off the market in the mid 1980s because people were stupid and cutting their damn fool fingers off!

 

[Exceller8]

I also seem to always miss a 1/2" Snap-On combination wrench that I need to complete a set. I can find just about every other size used, but for some reason the 1/2" has eluded me.

 

[AStrahota]

****, I saw an anvil on craigslist for free last Sunday... Now I wish I would have grabbed it. Didn't think much of it until it was too late.

 

[Exceller8]

****, I saw an anvil on craigslist for free last Sunday... Now I wish I would have grabbed it. Didn't think much of it until it was too late.

Free! WOW!!!

 

[cmandp]

Husky CB-54 flex head ratchet. Don't need it but really like the look for some reason.

 

[bluesboy]

Mig welder and since my 30yr. old Lincoln 225 was under 4 ft. of salt water I think now is finally time .

 

[theamcguy]

KM Tools sure wish I could find these:

J-1644 – Rear Wheel Hub Puller
J-22385 – Oil Pressure Sending Unit Socket
J-22881 – Pinion Oil Seal Installer
J-1434 -- Guide Pins
J-9233 – Pinion Seal Remover
J-22697 – Pinion Bearing Installer
J-23197 – Piston Ring Compressor
J-23774-01 – Metering Valve Release Tool
[FONT=&quot]J-9584 – Control Arm Bushing R&R Set [/FONT]
J-7167 – Spreader (Upper Control Arm GTO)
J-7022-3 – Support (Upper Control Arm GTO)

 

[ganymede]

A 1" Brown & Sharp heavy micrometer. They were made a little thicker for measuring hot metal and working in abrasive environments.
Made from at least the teens into the 50's .

 

[BK13]

This is sorta pathetic, but a Milwaukee M18 Fuel 1/2" impact wrench. Every time I get close on the money, something comes up that needs to be paid for. And the divorce isn't helping the funds any.

 

[lilscorpion]

Probably a bench vise of some sorts. Never want one when I don't need one because I value my space but then I need one and wish I had one...only to use a machinist vise to get by instead (gasp). Maybe someday but probably not, I've made it nearly 20 years without thus far.

 

[toomanytoyzz]

Millermatic 200. It's my white whale. I thought I had my unemployed buddy locked down to get his for $500 a couple months back, but the fool wound up getting a damn job before I coud seal the deal. Got a nice Airco unit instead, but I've always thought the MM 200 was the workhorse of welders in that size and amperage range.