How/When do You Buy Tools?

[Bull]

Is it on impulse? Constantly because you love them and can't help yourself? Only when you are planning to do or are in the middle of a job and find that you need a certain tool?

I go in spurts. The only thing that stops me from being something every day is the fact that I am not rich.

For the past few weeks, I've been searching eBay ******** for wrenches...a nice offset box set, for example since I don't have a full set of those, just a few Frankensteins. Then I decided to buy a matched set of metric combo wrenches, since I have a pieced together mismatched set. Hopefully I will stop myself before it is too late since the mismatched wrenches work just fine and there are other things to spend my limited money on!!

But oh, would a nice shiny set of matched Bonneys or Armstrongs or Protos or SK Superchromes be nice

 

[Diesel-Mech]

Re: How/When do You BUy Tools?

Is it on impulse? Constantly because you love them and can't help yourself? Only when you are planning to do or are in the middle of a job and find that you need a certain tool?

Pretty much all of those plus a few more.

 

[krusty the clown]

Re: How/When do You BUy Tools?

Is it on impulse? Constantly because you love them and can't help yourself? Only when you are planning to do or are in the middle of a job and find that you need a certain tool?

both.....i need my weekly tool truck fix and there are things i need to finish jobs as well.

my collecting has been put on the back burner until things get better though.

 

[GTO]

Re: How/When do You BUy Tools?

I'm rich, I buy tools everyday.

J/K

 

[Bull]

Re: How/When do You BUy Tools?

I'm rich, I buy tools everyday.

Well, it's good that you are so open about it, I suppose.

 

[autoace]

Re: How/When do You BUy Tools?

both.....i need my weekly tool truck fix and there are things i need to finish jobs as well.

my collecting has been put on the back burner until things get better though.

LOL I was looking at my Tech Credit statement today, I spent 5k on what???????????? and I owe the truck account also. Damn scanners etc....not many chrome beauties to look at for my expense.The darn tool truck shows up every monday for me. Good thing only one truck shows up.lol

 

[Merkava_4]

Is it on impulse? I go in spurts.

I'm not even gonna say anything.

 

[autoace]

Bull, sometimes I get mad at myself. I bought a set of 7 thru 19 mm, 3/8 drive, 12pt. shallow sockets last week. I could have bought Cman, but no, they were staring at me in the blue steel tray, like the money I could be saving at Geico, and I had to have them............................next thing you know I will need Cornwell extensions to eclipse my Cman ones, etc..etc.... argh!

All those tools on the truck, the sensory overload........................can't look and not buy anything

 

[wantedabiggergarage]

Is it on impulse? Constantly because you love them and can't help yourself? Only when you are planning to do or are in the middle of a job and find that you need a certain tool?

I go in spurts. The only thing that stops me .....

Yes to all.

and to finish the sentence ..... is I run out of money for the supplies needed to finish some jobs. So it is tools, or finish the projects. I go in spurts to.

 

[GTR Lover]

I no how you fill i o snop-on $8675.39 my self tools are lick a good drug lol

 

[toolnut]

I just want to buy everything made in the USA before it is all gone....before it becomes a thing of the past!!
and than everything else I need!!!!

 

[GTO]

I no how you fill i o snop-on $8675.39 my self tools are lick a good drug lol

 

[HandyManny]

Usually I buy a tool only when I need it or will plan on needing it real soon. Sometimes though on occation when either at a harware store, tool store, or online, if I see a special tool I will buy it for no other reason than it's something that will likely come in handy in the future.

 

[speed bump]

I'll buy tools that I would of liked to have on previous jobs when I find them for the right price, Misc tools at the right price on impulse and even once in a while tools I just have to have because either the job requires it or I really really really like it.

Examples
Bought an air nibbler because I found a CP one for $20 and I would of really liked to have one a while back.
Bought a Airco Super Hornet (Miller Big 40 rebadge) engine driven 300amp water cooled welder because I found one for $200
This last category I dont run into that much anymore but it would probably be some Norseman 1/8" drill bits because the bit I had on hand sucked for the material I was drilling.

 

[Lookin4'67Galaxieconv]

I'll buy them if I see a good sale, good deal on Craigslist, or happen to go to a pawn shop I frequent. If I haven't bought something in a while, I'll probably be craving a "fix"!

 

[Stick Figure]

really who needs a real reason? My biggest problem right now is buying duplicate stuff..... i seem to get really irritated when i'm working on something at home and the perfect tool for the job is locked in my box locked inside a shop i can't get into. Sometimes i can wait, sometimes i go out and buy a second version of something i all ready have. I figure this is probably a better solution than quitting my job just to horde all my tools at home where i have 24/7 access to them.

 

[caper]

really who needs a real reason? My biggest problem right now is buying duplicate stuff..... i seem to get really irritated when i'm working on something at home and the perfect tool for the job is locked in my box locked inside a shop i can't get into. Sometimes i can wait, sometimes i go out and buy a second version of something i all ready have. I figure this is probably a better solution than quitting my job just to horde all my tools at home where i have 24/7 access to them.

That's why I won't work for any shop I don't have keys to.When I'm doing a side job on the weekend I sometimes need something from my work box and I hate having to go buy some crappy duplicate tool when a professional version is already in my work box.That said I'll usually try to find a good version of the tool at a decent price later to keep in the home box.

 

[yogitech]

I have all the above problems mentioned. Can"t really see an end to the dissorder either...

 

[rsanter]

tough question as it varies upon the circumstances at the time.

sometimes when I find a killer deal on something I dont have I will buy it. sometimes if its a killer deal and I already have one I will buy it anyway.

when I am trying to get a job done and need a tool for that jop, I will buy it if the tool costs less than paying to have it done. sometimes if the tool costs more but I think I will use the tool again I will buy it verses paying someone.

bob

 

[TruckTech]

Im fairly new as a tech. For a few months I was just buying a ton of stuff that I needed for everyday jobs I do. Since then Ive settled down a little. I bought a KRL1022 thats eating most of what used to be my tool budget, so I only buy what I can either get a crazy good deal on or I absolutely need. A good example would be the SHLF80 I just got off the truck last week for $60. My dealer gives really good trade in prices if I play the whole, "I dont know......" card.

Ive got my eye on some Instinct screwdrivers and few wrenches once I get my MAC truck paid off in a few weeks. Or maybe that should go towards groceries?




Nah...

 

[greenreese]

Well, the SO truck comes on wednesdays, so that's usually the day.

 

[jwitt]

I don't use my own tools to make a living anymore so most of the stuff I need I already have. Mainly what I buy now is stuff that is a real good deal and old tools that I collect.

Jim