Hephaestus29
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For me i'd have to say it's my dewalt chop saw since it creates so much abrasive dust, & makes so much noise.
Whats the most dis-liked tool in your shop ?
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Jawn
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Loathed and loved... my $65 Craigslist special 20-gallon compressor. It leaks a good bit of oil out the side of the crankcase (bad gasket). Also feels like it has less compression on one of the two cylinders. I have a few projects lined up ahead of it, but I plan to try to find some suitable gaskets (probably reed valves too), take it apart and "freshen" it a bit. If that helps, I'll finally buy a belt guard for it and fab up some kind of intake muffler that clamps over the head's intake port somehow. Also making me loathe it, it's freaking loud (no intake filter to speak of, nor any convenient way to attach one), and it won't run on the only 15A outlet in my garage. I have to use a 20A circuit from the kitchen on a short 12/3 extension cord. On the bright side, it's a decent air supply. Does about 95% of what I currently have use for. The other 5% I can do, just intermittently.
Grumble grumble grumble... Also giving me a hard time is a Rockwell 3x21 handheld belt sander. Took it out of my late father's stuff, tried to use it, nothing but a grinding sound. Then I remembered him saying the gears were stripped (he replaced it with a HF cheapie). I took it apart (with some difficulty), gears were fine. Tightened the pulley on the gearbox input shaft, worked fine til halfway through the next job, then the drive belt broke. Pulley was in bad shape too. Busted that to pieces getting it apart anyway. Now awaiting parts (looks like parts from a current production Porter-Cable will fit).
Grumble grumble grumble... Also giving me a hard time is a Rockwell 3x21 handheld belt sander. Took it out of my late father's stuff, tried to use it, nothing but a grinding sound. Then I remembered him saying the gears were stripped (he replaced it with a HF cheapie). I took it apart (with some difficulty), gears were fine. Tightened the pulley on the gearbox input shaft, worked fine til halfway through the next job, then the drive belt broke. Pulley was in bad shape too. Busted that to pieces getting it apart anyway. Now awaiting parts (looks like parts from a current production Porter-Cable will fit).
Outlawmws
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The person that never can get tools back in the same place they got it from, followed closely by the guy that always wants to borrow tools, and is less than quick about returning said tool. (This would be reversed, but I rarely have the second variety around any more...)
wreckercologist
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The most disliked tool in our shop is/was named Daren. Thank goodness he got transferred out of state.
Now it's probably Tim the toothless crackhead.
Now it's probably Tim the toothless crackhead.
SpeedyGee
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Any of tools that cut wood. I hate saw dust, its gets everywhere 
jeffmoss26
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Ditto...whenever I cut something with a circular saw I have a mess to clean up for weeks it seems!
ptschram
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Coil spring compressors in all their incarnations.
sometoyotaguy
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I never quite trust those things.
Buckgnarly
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Evertime this question comes up, my answer will never change.....grease gun!
garboui
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usually one thats in my back pocket; that ive been looking around the garage for, cursing and accusing other people of moving my tools.
dmw56
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Yeah, the one I can't find! 
back2class
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Several I hate.
Shop Press, routers, Cordless tools...they are never charged when you need them and need upkeep. Pretty much have eliminated that category of power tool from my life for good. Keep one drill for situations where no power can be had.
Shop Press, routers, Cordless tools...they are never charged when you need them and need upkeep. Pretty much have eliminated that category of power tool from my life for good. Keep one drill for situations where no power can be had.
4x4gearhead
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Ours is our damn drill press, its a pos cummins tool special that is pretty weak. The other day I was using it and the press in part of the spindle that holds the chuck on just popped out. I slammed it back in with a hammer and some loctite 680 out of spite! was hoping that would be the last straw but the boss said fix it.
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ndnchf
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Evertime this question comes up, my answer will never change.....grease gun!
+1
Grease gun is either empty, leaks or has the wrong tip for what I'm doing. No matter what, I ALWAYS end up with grease all over my hands
dailydriven1
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Coil spring compresser for sure... never can trust them. I always stand behind it when I use it, its about the safest "feeling" spot haha
Chadro
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Tire tools (for big trucks).
binkcat16
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1in torque wrench torquing a 100 lugs to 500ftlbs can get lod quick
american lockpicker
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Chinese/Indian ones.
nicholasbailey1993
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1/2" wrenches. No matter how many you have, they're always lost somewhere and you can't find them.
The most disliked tool in our shop is/was named Daren. Thank goodness he got transferred out of state.
Now it's probably Tim the toothless crackhead.
Good one !!!!
jtfc
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We have this 1" gun for tires I don't know what brand it is but it is a very powerful gun with a crappy body it is constantly falling apart it randomly seizes up after using it for even half a day your arms are jello . when you pick it up and the handle is already loose and you have to change out a whole set of trailer tires suddenly your day just went to ****. Oh and tire soap that **** gets everywhere
wreckerman5357
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Waterbug pneumatic wetsander. To start off with you are ready pissed because you have a paint problem to fix. Then you have to fill the ******* up with water. Then pump up the water tank. Then it pisses water all over the front of you. And to top it off, when you are done buffing the waterbugged panel, there are pigtails in the thing to sand out and rebuff that the waterbug put in there. The hatred I have for this tool is epic.
Adam McLaughlin
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The most disliked tool in our shop is/was named Daren. Thank goodness he got transferred out of state.
Now it's probably Tim the toothless crackhead.
You sir, are a funny guy! Funny like a clown!
LOL HA HA HA
Adam
wreckercologist
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Good one !!!!
Seriously, I can't stand that 'effin needle scaler they got in paintshop. It's a kickass tool that takes off rust, mill scale, paint, or anything else you want taken off right down to bare steel, but it's so damed loud! Especially on thinner metal. It's like 1000 evil, demented monkeys with ball peen hammers beating on a empty 55 gallon drum.
That and everyone else's air hammer. I know my PH3050 is loud enough to wake the dead, but at least it gets something done in a reasonable amount of time. The other guy's have cheapie hammers that just rattle and make noise. It goes on, and on, and on, and on..................
Torch strikers. They do an excellent job of lighting a O/A torch and nothing else. There are no other pieces of shop equipment at work that require a striker, and yet, some how, the striker is never on the torch rack. Remember that Daren guy?
The gland nut wrench. Used to tear down and reassemble hydraulic cylinders for those that don't know. About the time you get it set up and start leaning hard on it, it slips out of the pin holes.
If I ever use it again, it will be too soon..............probably end up using it tomorrow. *sigh* I hate myself........shoulda' went to college.Now it's probably Tim the toothless crackhead.
You know Toothless Timmy too?
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Gotta be air hammers and air drills - the cheap ones.
NinetyTwoFifty
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Believe it or not, my father's mechanic was a toothless, long haired guy named Timmy.......
Macneil
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My 3/8 air ratchet. So very loud, 70 ft/lbs of torque so it's pretty useless and did I say it's so loud?!
It's more of a tool box ornament then a useful working tool.
Used a mac 3/8 air ratchet that's older then I am and loved every minute of it!
It's more of a tool box ornament then a useful working tool.
Used a mac 3/8 air ratchet that's older then I am and loved every minute of it!
fflintstone
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dewalt planer, never worked right, and broke down early on.
all Volkswagen specialty tools. particularly that little box shaped one you need to compress the caliper pistons. I had never actually thrown a tool (or ANYTHING) out of anger in my whole life. until i worked on my first vw which will also be my last.
Guess you've never owned a Kia!!
I can tell you some horror stories about working on an 2004 Mercedes-Benz C230 Kompressor. You've got to be blessed by the ghost of Karl Benz to replace the headlight housings (it involves removing the front bumper cover among other things).