Tools set aside for one function

[toolaholic]

I keep a master mechanic 1/2 drive ratchet with koken 14mm socket to take blade on and off Honda gxv160 ariens pro mower. Likewise I keep a 1/2 stubby wrench and kobakt 1/2 ratcheting crossforce wrench to assemble handle bars on ariens pro mower. Also a Armstrong 19mm(3/4) 6 point wrench and a craftsman locking flex handle 3/4 ratcheting wrench to remove /installed edger blades on my ariens edger. These tools are kept near their respective power equipment . That way I have it ready and no need to raid tool box.

 

[derosa]

I have breaker bars and a 19mm socket in each car to avoid using a regular lug wrench.

 

[toolmutt]

I also have a breaker bar and appropriate socket in each vehicle. And I have a Blackhawk ratchet, extension, and universal for use with the cup style filter socket for my pickup (hard to get to) along with the correct socket for each vehicle's drain plug in an "oil change" drawer.

 

[gdocktor3]

I also have breaker bar/speeders in all 3 trucks with 22mm sockets. I also have extension/spark plug socket combos ready to go for my landscaping equipment.

 

[bczygan]

I keep a Q-tip by the bed........so I can clean out my ears......when I really want to hear what my wife is saying!

 

[toolaholic]

i keep a q-tip by the bed........so i can clean out my ears......when i really want to hear what my wife is saying!

rotflmao!

 

[crewchief888]

I keep a Q-tip by the bed........so I can clean out my ears......when I really want to hear what my wife is saying!

rotflmao!

good one..


as mentioned, breaker bar/socket for lug nuts, couple wrenches laying on various equipment in the garage, mainly quality replacement for the tin foil "tools" that are provided

 

[kctyphoon]

In my Honda I keep that 1/2" extending HF ratchet and an eBay set of flip lug sockets with a small extension. I also keep the cheap pistol grip Milwaukee led work work and a 2.0 battery. I don't have it in there now, but I use to keep a Milwaukee impact back there also. Not just for me, but I know what it's like to be stuck on the side of the road so I like to at least be able to help someone else.

 

[TheMadMech]

I keep one of the $14 Drill Master grinders with one of the HF wire wheels in my cabinet and it is strictly for cleaning and de-slagging welds. A co-worker turned me onto it and it's awesome. He said he gets about a year out of the grinders, I'll be using it a little less but in dirtier environments than he does. We'll see how it goes, but I figure for $14 you can't go wrong.

 

[malibu101]

There has been a Wiss straight cut tin snips in the kitchen junk/tool drawer for many years.
It's only use since brand new has been to cut open plastic clamshell packages.

Does it count that the plastic seat back reclining handle on my S10 truck seat broke and I've had a small Vise-Grip clamped on the stud for about 10 years?
Works perfect.

 

[Mike in Ohio]

I have breaker bars and a 19mm socket in each car to avoid using a regular lug wrench.

This, I also have a 3/4 and 11/16 combination wrenches in the backhoe for priming the fuel system.

 

[ssdave]

I have a 1/2 x 9/16 Plomb DBE in my truck console. To take off the camper shell clamps. Sometimes have to take off the top to load something.

 

[senlow]

I keep a Q-tip by the bed........so I can clean out my ears......when I really want to hear what my wife is saying!

So, you have never used the Q-tip?

 

[senlow]

In an effort to work efficiently, I keep dedicated hand tools with my power tools. For example:
My grinders and buffer all have dedicated wrenches.
My table saw has wrenches for the arbor and the blade guard.
The drill press has dedicated wrenches for the depth stop, drill index, countersinks, center drills, brush and dust pan.
The Sawzall has a dedicated allen wrench for changing blades. Yes, it's probably older than most of you guys.
The list goes on and on, but you get the idea. I'm too damn lazy to run over to a tool box every time that I need a tool. It may cost a little more to have dedicated tools at each workstation, but it sure increases efficiency.

 

[PJNJ]

I keep a Q-tip by the bed........so I can clean out my ears......when I really want to hear what my wife is saying!

That deserves two thumbs up.

 

[Mohawk Dave]

Williams S53 1/2 rat with SO deep 3/4 for mill R8 drawbar. And 17mm rat wrench near mill table for hold downs.

 

[MushCreek]

I have an old socket (7/8?) on a cut off extension that I use to start my old Gravely. I chuck it in a drill, and spin it up, as the old beast is SO hard to pull! Reminds me- I need to sell that old Gravely.

 

[bczygan]

So, you have never used the Q-tip?

Read this to my wife..........and she says: I thought you actually used it to pack the wax in!!!

 

[bczygan]

Williams S53 1/2 rat with SO deep 3/4 for mill R8 drawbar. And 17mm rat wrench near mill table for hold downs.

Great idea!

 

[bcradio]

I keep a master mechanic 1/2 drive ratchet with koken 14mm socket to take blade on and off Honda gxv160 ariens pro mower. Likewise I keep a 1/2 stubby wrench and kobakt 1/2 ratcheting crossforce wrench to assemble handle bars on ariens pro mower. Also a Armstrong 19mm(3/4) 6 point wrench and a craftsman locking flex handle 3/4 ratcheting wrench to remove /installed edger blades on my ariens edger. These tools are kept near their respective power equipment . That way I have it ready and no need to raid tool box.

Nice

 

[Advan]

There has been a Wiss straight cut tin snips in the kitchen junk/tool drawer for many years.
It's only use since brand new has been to cut open plastic clamshell packages.

Now that's smart!

 

[Jim_No_Garage]

There is a Sear Plastic tool container on the shelf in my Dad's garage with an SK ratchet, socket, combination wrench and shear pins for the snowblower I "lend" him for his driveway.

I'll need to revise that kit as I'm switching the snowblower to a small 2 stage Ariens - 87 year old Dad can't muscle the mediocre MTD he's been using.

I bought a Plomb pebble finish wrench to use on the arbor nut of my Dewalt MBF radial arm saw. Of course I took apart the saw motor to replace bearings 3+ years ago and have not got it back together yet . . .

I have breaker bars with the appropriate socket in each car for tire removal/replacement as needed.

I have the hex driver in a drawer of my table saw base to adjust the Incra mitre gauge - I had to replace the hex key handle with walnut as the plastic handle was a POC.

That's pretty much it for job specific tools.

Jim

 

[bczygan]

Williams S53 1/2 rat with SO deep 3/4 for mill R8 drawbar. And 17mm rat wrench near mill table for hold downs.

I just did the same.

Told my wife I dedicated 2 ratchets and sockets to the Bridgeport.

She asked........"Should we have a ceremony?"

Bill

It is a great use for orphan tools picked up at garage sales, that don't belong to a set.

 

[Ole Slewfoot]

I keep a largeish hypodermic needle in my overhead console. It beats everything for removing pointy things from your fleshy bits.

 

[dr_clyde]

I keep a DBE wrench 3/4 and 7/8 on the mill for all the various tilt, nod and dovetail adjustments and tee slot strap clamp hardware.

The lathe has a custom wrench for the aloris toolpost and toolholders. I laser cut it special for it, 1-3/8 box end and 3/4" open end. I also keep a 10mm bit socket on a T-handle for the adjust-true chuck and reversible jaws, and a pair of bent, long needle nose pliers for removing long stringy chips.

The welding cart has an 1-1/8" wrench for gas cylinders.

The welding table has a 15/16" wrench for the receivers.

I'm sure there's more, if I can dedicate a tool to something to improve efficiency then I will.

 

[Gotcha640]

We have a drawer that contains an adjustable wrench, slip joint and needle nose pliers, small hammer, screw drivers, tape measure, and a utility knife, that my wife calls the Tool Drawer. I use that drawer to keep her out of the garage. Does that count?

 

[Rarified27]

There has been a Wiss straight cut tin snips in the kitchen junk/tool drawer for many years.
It's only use since brand new has been to cut open plastic clamshell packages.

Does it count that the plastic seat back reclining handle on my S10 truck seat broke and I've had a small Vise-Grip clamped on the stud for about 10 years?
Works perfect.

I did something similar with a vise grips on a sink handle at my in-laws place. The sink was so old finding new parts wasn't an option. It's going to stay there until I remove the sink this summer and replace it with one from this millennium.

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[Farmall 1066]

Pair of flex socket wrenches in 3/4 & 9/16 and same size ratcheting box wrenches that ride in my baler toolbox, for the knotters & shear bolts, and a Fleet 15/16 to telescope the hitch.

 

[jask]

So, you have never used the Q-tip?

Hasn't needed it ever since she said " I am leaving you".... and he said " yes, dear"

 

[jask]

seriously though...

binder wire and side cutters in the trailer box for load binders a couple mini screwdrivers in the box with all the batteries for toys and electronics.... otherwise I like to leave the tools I need for a job together... my oil change bin has a couple funnels filter wrenches and a couple sockets and a ratchet all sitting next to where the drain pan hangs... next to my shovels and garden tools- any oil that drips out of the emptied pan drips into a bucket of sand that I run my shovels and other garden tools through after I use them before they get hung back up.

 

[CGT80]

Does a drill index and set of number and letter bits for the most common tap sizes count? I made the index from solid stock and tube and keep it in the same drawer as my tap wrenches and misc. taps.

I bought a HD 3/4" end wrench for the spindle on the RF30 mill and tig welded a socket to the open end to fit the column bolts. A husky ratcheting end wrench in 7/8 is great for the clamps for the t slots.

The peg board over my bench has two cheap end wrenches to fit my Cman straight shaft die grinder so I don't have to use the stupid sheet metal wrenches.

The grinder bag has a large crescent wrench for an arbor adapter for buffing wheels and for a wire brush. In my punch and chisel drawer is a chinese made nail set/punch that I ground to make and extractor extractor. Yes, a tool to remove the extractor from my XD 40 competition pistol.

A few tools have been moved from the garage to the reloading benches so I don't have to leave the bench and go looking for the right tool. The big press takes a 1/2" ratchet and 15/16 socket and I don't change the tool head often, so I just get them from my tool box instead of having a dedicated set and I don't want to leave part of a full set in a different location.

 

[txlch]

I keep the two sockets and a ratchet together for oil changes along with a breaker for my lugs in the trunk.

 

[928'er]

I keep a ½" breaker bar, a 19mm deep socket, a ½" HF torque wrench, and one of those HF "racing jacks" in my storage unit for swaping wheels and tires before and after each autocross.

 

[Sh40674]

i have a wrench, can't remember the size, i ground down on the sides so the box end is much thinner than normal. did my neighbors shocks in his ford and discovered that some new shocks there isn't much room on the welded nut, especially working room under the rear of his truck. it fit nicely there. kept it in the tool box. i've used it several times since then for the exact same purpose.

 

[Brad54]

In an effort to work efficiently, I keep dedicated hand tools with my power tools. For example:
My grinders and buffer all have dedicated wrenches.
My table saw has wrenches for the arbor and the blade guard.
The drill press has dedicated wrenches for the depth stop, drill index, countersinks, center drills, brush and dust pan.
The Sawzall has a dedicated allen wrench for changing blades. Yes, it's probably older than most of you guys.
The list goes on and on, but you get the idea. I'm too damn lazy to run over to a tool box every time that I need a tool. It may cost a little more to have dedicated tools at each workstation, but it sure increases efficiency.

I do this too for my grinders, sawzall, etc.

On my auto rotisserie I have a 3/4-inch ratcheting wrench on a hook for the bolts that lock the rotating head. The car that's on it hasn't been touched in several years, and we recently moved it down into my other building (after moving all my tools to my new house--so no tools on site). We needed to rotate the body the other way to get it up against the wall, and when my son asked about where we were going to find a wrench, I said "Right here" and pulled it off the hook and went to work.

The look on his face as he was in awe of my advance planning was priceless.

A drawer in the welding cart has a wrench for the regulators on the bottles, and another wrench for the wire or the tip or something... I don't remember what, becuase I don't use that wrench very often.
-Brad

 

[Gmonkee]

I have been in shops where the walls have now random wrenches for a lathe on the wall where a lathe had once been. The floor was usually refilled with random stuff.

A few times the owner told me his dad had worked that machine and after it was sold the memory stayed on.

The extra machines seemed to be the health insurance fund.

 

[2oolhound]

Does it count that the plastic seat back reclining handle on my S10 truck seat broke and I've had a small Vise-Grip clamped on the stud for about 10 years?
Works perfect.

This fix is the 1st thing that came to mind when I saw this thread. My Jimmy has the same fix and it's been there for about the same amount of time. Every time I notice it I kind of snicker to myself.

 

[ovilla]

I have breaker bars and a 19mm socket in each car to avoid using a regular lug wrench.

I did the same thing for my kids car.

 

[bwringer]

A 1/4" HF swivel ratchet with a 10mm deep socket. 10mm will be needed multiple times on any motorcycle or automotive project, so I just keep one mounted up to save time and frustration.

 

[Provincial]

The heavy equipment mechanic I knew that had a big block (390) Ford engine in his pickup. One exhaust manifold was held on by four vise grips because the bolts had broken off and he wouldn't take the time to fix it right.