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Love all my VIM tools. Their 1/4" bit ratchets (made by High-5 in Tiawan) are great for tight spots. Spring loaded crowfoots for stubborn power steering line fittings. Locking extensions, brake bleeder wrenches, all good. I have a couple of their distributor wrenches that are old enough to have...

Harbor Freight used to have these hex keys on a keychain. I bought several sets of them, take the keys I need for a specific machine off, put them on another keyring, and hang from something on the machine. There's similar sets on Amazon.

Been getting into these KD "Convertible" saws with the 3 inch blade:

I have the 24" long version. The flex head is too floppy on mine. It's pinned, so there's no screw to tighten to take up the slop. It wasn't too bad when I first got it, but it's really floppy now.

Some kind of signal generator. A very small scope, and a very large voltmeter. I want to get the scope up and running at some point. The meter has stickers on it indicating it came from Boeing.

Just dusted off this Bell & Howell Nixie tube multimeter. I suspect this was made back when they owned Devry for some sort of correspondence program. It was made by Heathkit. The glow from the tubes is mesmerizing, I think I could watch the digits count up and down all day...

AC Delco engine analyzer. This was working 20+ years ago when I got it at a garage sale. There's little lights on the side of each bar on each meter. When you select a particular test, the appropriate lights light up. It has a port on the back for leads so you can use it as a regular volt/ohm...

Did you guys know? L.S. Starrett's first invention was a meat chopper. Starrett survived a hostile takeover attempt in 1964. And one of their plants was literarily raided by the feds in 2002:

John Deere used them as well. The cylinder in the center of the Type A was to help the driver 'self center' when using a power driver on an assembly line. The screws were intended to 'lock on' to the screw with a 'clutch like connection' - eliminating the need for a screw holding screwdriver...