If You Could Go Back 20 Years.....

[supersteve]

..what tools would you buy that aren't available anymore? I found myself wondering this the other day. Myself, probably would load up on Peterson VGs.


And just for more fun, how about 30?

 

[panknuckshovel]

I don't think there are any tools I would buy but I would definately buy Apple and Google so today I could pay someone to use their tools.

 

[logikal]

^^^^Agreed

But if I had to choose it would be every stahlwille porsche tool from the service catalog. **** is hard to find. and an extra 944 belt tension gage.

 

[gtermini]

Snap on 4 way angle wrenches in Flank Drive Plus new off the truck. Damn I wish they'd bring them back.

Oh yah, and a brand new 12V Cummins off the lot. Plus a bunch of other stuff I can't think of at the moment. lol

Greyson

 

[T45]

My own experience has been that modern manufacturing has basically compensated for declining quality of raw materials and qaulity control. So we might get a wrench with less quality of some part of production, and better quality in other parts. "Generic Flank-drive" wrenches and sockets have made a huge difference to the budget DIY. There are still differences at the very top end of the 1-100% spectrum, but its alot easier to get to 80 or 90% performance for a modest cost.The rest of the goodstuff from 20 years ago...hmm...I bet those that are not chiming in are hunting for it themselves on eBay

 

[MacMcMacmac]

I would have bought myself a degree in mechanical engineering and saved all the character building.

 

[gtermini]

I would have bought myself a degree in mechanical engineering and saved all the character building.

I bought one of those and found it pretty useless. Maybe if you enjoy rotting at a desk in front of a computer.

Greyson

 

[Tronyadorable]

I'd look for an unused Millermatic 200 gen. 3 or earlier. Then I'd buy about 5.. Seems like it was 89-91 when the 200 went to ****.
Mine has a 60% duty cycle at 200 and will run all day long at about 160 amps tap 3 and 6 1/2. Max output was about 280 I think.
Then the 250 reared it's ****** head. Miller and I parted ways at that point.

 

[beatcad]

the orig question was about tools.
back then my favorite local M&P hardware store carried S-K tools.
i bought some. they stopped selling S-K maybe 8 or 10 years ago.
i wish i bought more.

 

[nieuport17]

Whats up with all u guys wanting to go back in time?

 

[geojag]

I would have fought harder / bought my grandfathers tools that the family sold at an estate sale. I am still only an amateur, and at the time I was just beginning to get into it, but they sold the lot of it at an estate sale. He had worked on everything from cars to combines and even worked on trains for 10+ years, and was all about quality. The few tools I have of his are snap-on. I am sure the family got a grand or so for his tools that had cost him 20X that.

I also would have kept a couple of cars that I sold and probably kept a few guns I have traded off in the past.

 

[supersteve]

Whats up with all u guys wanting to go back in time?

I ask these questions because I'm trolling to try and trap someone into admitting he has a time travel device. I'm actually an alien who was stranded on your crappy planet when my neutronium convertor went on the fritz. If I can get back to 1994, I can obtain a new convertor before the Clinton Administration secretly orders research halted because it's too dangerous.


There, happy you caught me now?

 

[bonneyman]

I'd take out a second mortgage and buy up all the Bonney stuff I could find.
They went under 1994.

 

[ganymede]

Those Craftsman Pro -screwdrivers- in safety orange.
A morherload stash of ratchet rebuild kits that aren't made now.

 

[Whitworth]

Record woodworking vises.

 

[bcradio]

probably a few more tools to work on my bike as I'd be only 9 then.

 

[mopar01]

Id be 6. If I could go back ten years to when I was 16 id buy alot more tools then I did. I would have tried to save more money to go to school than I did.

 

[cheechi]

I would have bought myself a degree in mechanical engineering and saved all the character building.

I bought one of those and found it pretty useless. Maybe if you enjoy rotting at a desk in front of a computer.

Greyson

I bought one of those and I promise you, it is worthless without the character building. That said, still one of the best decisions I've ever made and I can only think of one degree that would be a better choice, Physics. Some would say Chemistry or Chem E, and you might not be wrong for you but for me it would always be one of those two.

20 years ago I would have been 11, but if I could go back in tool-related time I would have bought less **** and more good stuff. There have been a handful of times a disposable tool has been really nice but I can tell you it would almost have been even (amortized) if I had just bought the nice stuff I want now instead of a lot of the cheap stuff just to get by. I would have come out ahead in several ways.

 

[colin39]

I wouldnt have bothered wasting my time watching the back to the future trilogy. Lol

 

[bobcatdan]

Climbing on a Mac truck in 1994 would be a real treat. A mb1700 and the matching top would be high on the list.

 

[TDLMOMOWERS]

I ask these questions because I'm trolling to try and trap someone into admitting he has a time travel device. I'm actually an alien who was stranded on your crappy planet when my neutronium convertor went on the fritz. If I can get back to 1994, I can obtain a new convertor before the Clinton Administration secretly orders research halted because it's too dangerous.


There, happy you caught me now?

I have a good used neutronium converter for sale. Is yours straight or reverse polarity? If you get you star cruiser repaired, please take me away from this cursed planet and all the imported junk.

 

[tbaggz]

What if you could go forward 20 years in time?
What tools would you buy?
Antique harbor freight composite ratchets? Good old chinese craftsman,not the made in afghanistan kind of 2034? If we could only predict we would all be busy collecting todays classics.

 

[Wakefield]

I'd take out a second mortgage and buy up all the Bonney stuff I could find.
They went under 1994.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

 

[supersteve]

i have a good used neutronium converter for sale.

coo?


ETA: Hahahahaha, just kidding guys, I don't really have a star cruiser. I'm just trying to get one of you guys to cough up a vintage Snap-on neutronium convertor so I can chop it up and turn it into a shop sink.

P.S. send me one with the roll-up door in the front so I can really screw this up.
_______

 

[plinker]

coo?


_______

Shouldnt that be WOO? (world of origin)

 

[peterbilr98]

probably nothing a lot of the snap on stuff i have now is way better than what i had in 1982 when i went to diesel school still have some of it

 

[BFHtime]

black handled Stanley screwdrivers, they are similar to instinct, but had a nice clear black handle.

 

[Coolabah]

Shouldnt that be WOO? (world of origin)

Nah mate ,that would be "POO"










....Planet of Origin LOL