How do you deal with your stupid tools?

[volunteers]

Everybody has some stupid tools, how do you deal with it?
throw it away? but you spent some money on it.
keep it? but you hate it and it's hard to organize.
give to friends? give the thing you think bad to others?

 

[fr0mastaj]

Thats what the bottom drawer aka the catch all is for.

But if it's really stupid, like a bad HF purchase, it just goes in the trash.

 

[Boiler]

scrap, yearly garage sale, ebay, or shitcan.

If I waste money on something that turns out to be a P.O.S. I might get annoyed but i'm not going to put myself out just because I spent money on it. Win some, lose some. Just win more than you lose and you'll be fine...

 

[Gary S]

If a tool doesn't work for me, I am not going to deal with it anymore. Junk needs to be put where junk belongs.

 

[Grogan14]

I hate my stupid tools. I live on the edge of a 40' cliff, and sometimes I just want to throw them over. But then, I take my meds and all's well.

 

[kc-steve]

I'm assuming "stupid" means tools that are poorly designed or not worth the money paid.

I give them away or throw them away. Thanks to GJ I haven't had much bad luck though. Back in the 1980s my Dad's wife (step-mother) bought some cheap tool set from late night television. I guess her heart was in the right place, but first time I put a socket on a nut the socket spread like a $2 street-walker. I gave it to a friend who had full knowledge of the problem. He probably threw them away.

Steve

 

[Provincial]

According to my wife, all my tools are "stupid", and I never throw anything away.

Some of the most stupid ones go "missing" and I'm not sure where they went. I have to go out and get more.

 

[woody 73]

Funny I rarely throw anything away but just last week I did toss a chinese pos leather punch tool in the trash can; the head would move out of alignment and it would ruin the leather I was working on.

 

[dmw56]

Swap meet and if it doesn't sell then Goodwill, Salvation Army, or Animal Humane thrift shop

 

[Straightgrain]

I deal with bad tools like I deal with bad tobacco; life's too short to smoke bad tobacco so I toss it.

 

[toolmaker1]

Just made up a box of usable but light duty import tools that I had no use for and gave them to a friend of mine's 9 year old son. You would have thought it was Christmas morning

 

[93sr20det]

I threaten them they are going back to china on a barge with a bunch of aluminum cans...

 

[Big Gus]

scrap, yearly garage sale, ebay, or shitcan.

^^^^^^this^^^^^^

Hell, I've even done this with ****** tool truck tools. Example, I used to own a Mac torx bit socket set. I kept breaking the stupid bits out of the things, so off to e-bay they went and a brand new set of Snap-Ons went in their place.

 

[jim_rush51]

I usually keep them and give them to the newer gs's. If they dont have anything it might be better than nothing.

 

[NJHandyGuy]

you'ld be amazed how many sockets can add up in scrap weight

 

[dodge610]

I am with NJ handy guy I scrap on the side so at least i feel good about maybe they will get melted down and get turned into something useful. And I recoup some of my loss so i can catch the matco guy or another toool guy and replace it with a smart tool.

 

[Kev442]

Basement corner of shame. Strangely, the POS sockets are now used on my press, some of them hadn't seen the light of day in 20 years until I bought it.

 

[Davi]

They get kept to be welded to something or modified for a usually destructive but needed purpose.

 

[DrkMtnDew]

repurpose them for other projects or tools.

 

[oldtools]

I modify them for other uses.

 

[idubvdub]

If I can't modify it as oldtools stated. They become the tools I lend out.

 

[jeffmoss26]

Scrap some of them, give them to buddies, or donate/garage sales.

 

[Hammer1963]

They become gag gifts for tool snobs like myself, at least that what my wife calls me.

 

[suss427]

I don't hesitate to throw **** tools away. Recent tools filed in circular file: worn out terminal crimper, tire pressure gauge, a few of the shops HF sockets and wrenches, lisle T25 bit. It is really frustrating for me to have to do it, but it is not worth my time to pursue any other course of action for a cheap *** Chinese tools.

The lesson is learned, buy nicer tools that are rebuildable, easily warranted, or work well and don't break in the first place.

 

[Gtamazing]

I hate my stupid tools. I live on the edge of a 40' cliff, and sometimes I just want to throw them over. But then, I take my meds and all's well.

nice avatar. og Vanishing Point

 

[Machobuck]

I slowly destroy them like a psychopath with a torch and a hammer

 

[jarren]

give away or shitcan

 

[larry_g]

All of my tools are stupid until I put a hand on them, then they are as smart as me.

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