Show us your Ridgid tools and tool boxes

[Smokeshow69]

Well, the Milwaukee guys have their own thread and I'm sure the Dewalt guys have their own thread as well, but I see no love for the Orange team. Time for us to change that with this thread.

Feel free to post up any of your Ridgid Power tools, hand tools, tool accessories and tool storage items! Heck, if you have a Ridgid themed garage or work van, feel free to post that as well. If its from the Orange, Black and Gray, it belongs on this thread!

 

[Smokeshow69]

I'll go first, with a cooler I just got for my birthday. Pro 2.0 cooler is big but feels well constructed and for the price I couldn't say no! I'm going to be starting a handyman business so this will be spending time with me in the work vehicle and I wanted something large and tough. I think this will be a really nice addition.



Also I just bought this tiny 6" older pipe wrench this weekend. It was in too nice of shape to pass by

 

[four.cycle]

All I have are some dumb ol' pipe wrenches.

 

[willf650]

I have tons of Rigid stuff as my father was a plumber as was his father. I have a bunch of "war period" pipe wrenches as well as other stuff.

Also have a ton of brands of tools from companies that no longer exist.

Here's some that I bought in the 90s when I became disillusioned with Klein Phillips screwdrivers as I swear I would wear one out every 6 months. Switched to Craftsman "Profesional" and "Industrial" Philips screwdrivers and saw these. They were obviously made by the same OEM but had a soft grip handle.

I think this still is the complete set as they never made it out to a jobsite and were always in a wall rack in my garages.

 

[KnurledNut]

I have tons of Rigid stuff as my father was a plumber as was his father. I have a bunch of "war period" pipe wrenches as well as other stuff.

Also have a ton of brands of tools from companies that no longer exist.

Here's some that I bought in the 90s when I became disillusioned with Klein Phillips screwdrivers as I swear I would wear one out every 6 months. Switched to Craftsman "Proffesional" and "Industrial" Philips screwdrivers and saw these. They were obviously made by the same OEM but had a soft grip handle.

I think this still is the complete set as they never made it out to a jobsite and were always in a wall rack in my garages.

They did these in hard handles too.
Here's a couple speed drivers.

 

[niget2002]

I have two rigid tools. One is a palm router. The other is a 12" miter saw. The MIL bought me the miter saw in return for me installing hardwood floors in her house. It was on sale at the time and I knew nothing about it. It's ran well for me for nearly 18 years now.

 

[willf650]

Honestly I don't think most of the new stuff posted thus far is actually a Rigid tool but a Rigid branded tool. Home Depot pushed them as a house brand and seems wanted to use a known name for that purpose so I'm assuming there is some licensing agreement.

My dad was born in 1922 and had me when he was 50. He was from an era before all thread and to hang pipe you used steel rod and threaded the last few inches yourself. I don't know if these are made anymore but I have a complete bolt die set from 1/4" to 3/4". It uses a baby length threader handle. You also only had flat head screws, square nuts and used star "drills" to drill holes in concrete. It must have been miserable, how is a chisel called a drill?


These are old school tubing cutters. I've never seen these aside from the ones I have.




These are a selection of pipe wrenches from 8"-24". Some are mine but most my fathers. The aluminum ones are mine as my dad was too old school for that ****. He's from an era of doing 8"-10" screw pipe and told me stories of using big compound action and chain wrenches but I've never seen one in person. I do come across a jobsite that will have some big screw pipe. The stuff still in service will generally be steam or sprinkle piping.

I'm assuming Ridgid may have been an OEM for many brands as there may be some Reed, Toledo, Fuller and Superior brand wrenches mixed in with some of these and you couldn't tell the difference unless you looked at the name cast in the handle. The really old ones are raw steel and it's quite apparent they were never painted. The casting shape is also different to the current production wrenches. I'm assuming they are from the 40s.

These are my purchases and some seldom used any longer tubing benders I used to use for instrumentation tubing. A major portion of tubing is now plastic. They'll do hard copper but not so great for stainless. These are probably only 20 years old.

 

[Jgaz]

I have some of my Dad’s old Ridgid tools that I’ll post when I get home but following the theme in the OP’s post I’m going to show a mobile tool box I put together.

I purchased this case during the 2025 Xmas sales for $29. I figured if I went in a different direction I wasn’t out much. I’ve posted this elsewhere on this forum but figured I’d cross post it here.

Overall view of case


LH tray holding magnetic screwdriver and 1/4” drive tools


Mics bits and 1/4” sockets. These are held in magnetic holders that are secured to a steel plate that is mounted to the bottom of the case on stand-offs.


I cut the dividers out of the provided tray and custom fitted aluminum pieces.


Pliers are contained in a cut down Earst holder. The pouch has misc. 1/4” bits and help to hold the pliers in place.


Center tray holds various tools with magnetic pieces or various custom holders.
The green SK box hidden under the Allen wrench set hold little things that used to get lost in tool bag pockets.


Pegboard mounted on standoffs to the case bottom holds more tools.


Case outside top and bottomNone of the added fasteners interferer with mounting other boxes, at a least on the top

 

[dnschmidt]

Which Ridgid? The real deal Ridgid or the ersatz Home Depot Ridgid? When HD first introduced their Ridgid many of their grinders and sanders were in fact made by Metabo in Germany.

 

[KnurledNut]

 

[dr_clyde]

I have quite a few pipe wrenches and other pipe working tools from them, as well as the odd adjustable wrench or something.

The only “cool” thing I have is the unkillable, legendary 535 threader.

Shown here being modeled by a good friend of mine and former employee.





Anyone who has ever worked in a pipe trade has seen one of these. They last forever, are loud, heavy and oily.

I bought this one at auction for $380. Best money I’ve spent in a long time.

 

[gleman]

I have quite a few pipe wrenches and other pipe working tools from them, as well as the odd adjustable wrench or something.

The only “cool” thing I have is the unkillable, legendary 535 threader.

Shown here being modeled by a good friend of mine and former employee.





Anyone who has ever worked in a pipe trade has seen one of these. They last forever, are loud, heavy and oily.

I bought this one at auction for $380. Best money I’ve spent in a long time.

I hated that thing when I started working in a steel processing center.

After about two months I spent a Saturday cleaning it and organizing everything, it became my favorite tool.

380 was a steal.

 

[gleman]

I bought a Black Friday drill/driver combo a few years ago and have been adding to the collection ever since.

I haven't had any real duds and I'm pretty **** about registering everything for the LSA.



The standouts for me are the SDS



Subcompact impact



Blower.

 

[terrific]

It took a lot of work and may have compromised the weather seal, but that is genuinely impressive. I've always disliked those goofy boxes. Maybe I was too narrow-minded.


Terrible picture, but I have one of their strap wrenches. Pictured in front of the insert which shows you how to thread it (actually very helpful, thanks Ridgid!)

 

[Jgaz]

It took a lot of work and may have compromised the weather seal, but that is genuinely impressive.

Thank you. Yes, right now, it’s not completely water proof. When I’m get closer to a final configuration there are several things that I can do to help with that.

I worked out of a service case for years at work. I found I really disliked searching thru a tool bag for a particular tool that was buried.