Ever come across a tool you forgot you owned

[6PTsocket]

The other day I was mounting something with hex washer head screws and my magnetic bit holder was not long enough and I had no extension. I ended up adapting to 1/4" drive and used the paper trick to hold the screw in the ratchet socket. Today I was sorting out all the 1/4 hex stuff and low and behold I find a several inch long long Vermot American magnetic bit extension. I swear I have no reccolection of buying it. Do you ever come across stuff didn't remember you had or even bought another one. Misplaced doesn't count.



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[TrailHawkZ71]

Yep. Was going through my tools at home one day and found SAE and Metric double box-end offset wrench sets. Got them on my first big tool purchase back in 2014 and totally forgot I had them. Had to borrow that type of wrench more than once at work...


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[Git]

All the time

I told my wife the other day - I don't know which is worse. Forgetting where I put something, or putting something somewhere it doesn't belong and I would never think to look for it there

 

[OccupantRJ]

Yes, just yesterday I was showing my son what Clecos were and found a micro-adjustable rivet countersink in with them that I forgot I had.

 

[crewchief888]

no, not really.

buy when i need a tool, very rarely i buy a tool "just because"

 

[pepi]

Could happen to a fat person, otherwise NO.

 

[Flybye]

Drunk tool buying: the threat is real.

 

[davethorik]

Drunk tool buying: the threat is real.

This one hits close to home

 

[JJ99SS]

Who needs to be drunk to buy tools? I mean, it may help, but only if you're feeling guilty for doing so. Which I do not...

 

[Strouty]

It isn't the drinking that gets me, it's the peer pressure..............

 

[larry_g]

Over the years quite a few tools came into my shop through auction purchases. At the time I was equiping a machine shop and a lot of the tooling that came in I had no idea at the time what it was, so it ends up in a box. Over time I've learned, will recognize a need and that I may have something that will work. So the hunt is on. During the hunt I find many things that I don't remember having.

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[JBradley500]

Drunk tool buying: the threat is real.

I have tool wants, but no longer have any tool needs. Now the only time I buy anything is when I’ve had a couple of oat sodas and my “wants” somehow become “needs”.

 

[danielbuck]

I do, but mostly because I have all of my Father's tools, so every now and then I'll come across something I hadn't noticed in a long time.

 

[Farleyfan]

It isn't the drinking that gets me, it's the peer pressure..............

I had to laugh out at that one....Thanks Strouty !

 

[tool_scrounge]

The worst I think is when you are at that Habitat for Humanity store in the tool section with your latest prize find. The you think it looks slightly familiar and realize you donated it to them in the first place.....

 

[DFB]

I just like refinding what I know I already got


Happened today found my Craftsman ratcheting screwdriver in a job bucket set aside mainly with plumbing tools.

 

[AL`]

Yeah. I had some tools from my younger days apparently left at my parent's house decades ago. After mom passed away, I was attending to the property there and found my old tool box. She had added a little to it and was using it as her own. I used the modest contents of that box more than once to fix my car on the side of the road. Also found a pair of 3 ton steel jack stands I'd forgotten about. A little rust on them I need to take off, but still serviceable.

 

[bert1913]

i was on a tool buying binge...maybe a year later i ordered a radiator cap adapter set, only to find that same set in my tool cabinet

they say your memory is the second thing to go...i can’t remember the first

 

[greg13]

I never know witch is worse, knowing you have that tool somewhere or where did that come from?

 

[lugnut71]

Funny thing is we have been drinking beers on our snap on truck for 20 years, good times

 

[tanukiboy]

I order a lot of tools from Amazon, and I really appreciate the handy little banner at the top of the screen that says "You ordered this item on XXXX/**/**". It's prevented me from ordering the same tool again more times than I care to admit.

 

[kctyphoon]

I buy tools the same way i order food for myself at a diner.. more than i could ever eat, only cause i want a little of everything.

 

[jeepinerdeep]

I order a lot of tools from Amazon, and I really appreciate the handy little banner at the top of the screen that says "You ordered this item on XXXX/**/**". It's prevented me from ordering the same tool again more times than I care to admit.

Yep!

 

[Handyfarmer]

I have done that with speciality tools, did not remember doing it before, and reordering a puller or a gauge, or ordered a tool thinking I would need it and never using it the first time, then needing it, and buy it again, it has not been to many times, but more than I would like to admit to, I think three times, now,

I got a ball joint press and the attachments, that was in 2006, I thought i had the basic kit, but when i got it out a few days ago, it was the master kit, and did order the addition kit for it, (I guess now I have spares if it is damaged). I guess I should have dug it out first,

 

[kctyphoon]

I have done that with speciality tools, did not remember doing it before, and reordering a puller or a gauge, or ordered a tool thinking I would need it and never using it the first time, then needing it, and buy it again, it has not been to many times, but more than I would like to admit to, I think three times, now,

I got a ball joint press and the attachments, that was in 2006, I thought i had the basic kit, but when i got it out a few days ago, it was the master kit, and did order the addition kit for it, (I guess now I have spares if it is damaged). I guess I should have dug it out first,

How many other people are guilty of ordering something, and THEN looking for the one you know you have somewhere? I’m guilty..

 

[anndel]

Lisle fan clutch tool. I was replacing a water pump on a 1991 Toyota pickup and remembered I had the tool at home.

 

[anndel]

I buy tools the same way i order food for myself at a diner.. more than i could ever eat, only cause i want a little of everything.

or it's there when you need it.

 

[PFSard]

Frequently since I started buying tools at estate sales. Plus my memory is not as sharp as it used to be!!!

 

[Magnum440d100]

Bought a 36mm socket for an axle job. Years go by and I have never used it since. I needed a 36mm, bought a front end service kit from Harbor Freight. Got home, found my 36mm in a cardboard box in my living room. No idea how it got there.....

So now I have 2 36mm’s.....

 

[PartsGuy]

A couple of years ago, I got a phone call from a former employer, telling me that a customer had brought back the timing light I had loaned him. I had NO recollection of it (it had been maybe a year between the loan and the phone call), until they told me who it was.... Thank you for being honest, Larry, cuz I clean forgot all about it! My old job even dropped it off at my new place on their delivery route!

 

[LXCam]

All the damn time


But I don't remember what they were





What are we talking about again??

 

[speed bump]

I needed a metric tap for the first time in forever about a year ago. When I pulled the set out of the drawer I found about 10 big taps underneath the case that I had forgotten I purchased from Cripe about 5 years ago.

 

[jeepinerdeep]

I needed a metric tap for the first time in forever about a year ago. When I pulled the set out of the drawer I found about 10 big taps underneath the case that I had forgotten I purchased from Cripe about 5 years ago.

Reminds me, I gotta hit Cripe and see if they have more **** I don't need.

 

[JUNK-MAN]

The other day i found a 13mm craftsman socket in my bolt drawer, i don't know how it got there or were it came from as the one from the set in my box was still present. When i was moving 2 years ago I found a flat rate box under my tool box full of my great grandpas tools. I'm not sure why i put them there and cannot remember when or why i stuck them there. It surely was a pleasant surprise though...

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[Mick56]

I occasionally find not only tools, but other things I had forgotten I even had.

 

[cderalow]

Just had it happen this evening. Was thinking I needed a 6-point ¼” Drive deep sae socket set.

Turns out I had an old us made kobalt set sitting in a hand box that I must have brought to some project but never put back.

Also had some old Stanley black & yellow us made screw drivers and a glass cutter in it.


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[lbhsbz]

I have the opposite problem. I'm always looking for that one obscure tool that I know I have, I've seen it before, and I really need it right now, but it's not in the logical place and I have no idea what I've done with it.

 

[Gmonkee]

As needs reduced every rediscovered tool of past jobs hits the sales bag.


There will be more as time passes. Most resell easy at the shop I used to work at.

Less clutter.

 

[zendriver]

I just found electrical circuit breaker-outlet detector set up still in the package, i've had for at least three years

I probably could've used it three or four times in that time.


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[pcmeiners]

"It isn't the drinking that gets me, it's the peer pressure.............. "

Good excuse I like it, I need every excuse I can get