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Post by sachbvn on Nov 1, 2009 21:37:55 GMT -6
I love tools - all sorts of tools. I love my tools, I love your tools. I love looking at tools, I love browsing tools I already have.
Wrenches, screwdrivers, sockets - power tools, stationary tools, miter saws, sanders, tool boxes - flash lights, all sorts of tools - I love love love them.
If I were to come to your garage/shop - I'd wanna see all your tools. I'd want you to show me every drawer in your tool chest. I'd want to pick up your power nailers and see how they fit in my hand. I'd pull out the tape of your tape measure and let it slide back in.
That is my confession.... I love tools. I LOVE auctions because you can find tools that you just KNOW have had an entire lifetime or more of use and are still good to go.
I am proud of my tool collection - I love to show it off. When I get them organized good and plenty - I like to show my girlfriend. I love good tools, hand tools made in the USA - I love old hand tools too.
Channel Lock, Craftsman, Gear Wrench (though Gear Wrench is actually not made in USA I don't think) - old Stanleys, Wright, Klein.... good stuff.
I also love tool belts!!
.....is it just me?
Zac
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Post by Stretch on Nov 1, 2009 21:54:02 GMT -6
No. ;D
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Post by admin on Nov 1, 2009 22:00:02 GMT -6
It's not just you, although I prefer owning tools over just looking at 'em.  |
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Post by TDHofstetter on Nov 1, 2009 22:01:30 GMT -6
I've gotta' admit... I'm a tool voyeur myself. I've got tool catalogs everywhere around here - machining tools, woodworking machines, hand tools, electronics tools... I've even got a Moore Medical catalog for the tools in it (scalpels, forceps, all that stuff). I love the feel of a well-thought-out tool and the sharpness of freshly-honed steel. I like the patina of old rust gone black & brought back, the shiny wear spots where a hand has worn a rough surface smooth. My wrenches are almost all cheapos, though. SnapOn is beyond my comfortable grasp range.  |
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Post by sachbvn on Nov 1, 2009 22:12:27 GMT -6
Ya know.... I always thought that I would forever stick with standard box wrenches.... open one end - boxed other end - perfect, last a lifetime.
I bought a set of Gear Wrench, angled head, ratchet wrenches.... they are the kind that have a little switch that switches direction - but the head is angled and locked into place.... those are my favs. that GW makes!
I needed an 11mm for my table saw to remove the blade guard.... well - a regular wrench worked, but it was such a tight space, it was a PITA - so - I was out to Sears to by the one wrench I needed....they had a sale..... something like $14 for the wrench I needed....or $30 for a whole set..... duh - I got the set. Man - those ratcheting wrenches are the bees knees!! The kitty's meow! They also have a "full polish" look to them, if that matters to ya.
Zac
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Post by TDHofstetter on Nov 1, 2009 22:22:51 GMT -6
I do like that shiny finish - it's a lot easier to wipe the oil offa' than a matte finish. The one thing I dislike the most, though - and it's kept me from buying Craftsman wrenches all my life, although my father always swore by 'em - is those blasted ... "outserts" in the sides where they stamp the manufacturer's name & the wrench size. Leave my wrench bodies SMOOTH, don't gimme something that hurts my hand when I crank on it!
I may hafta' take a peek into those GearWrench thingies one of these days, since I've now heard a positive review. They may come in handy sometimes. Not always, certainly - too many times I've hadda' work a nut or bolt head with clearances so tight I've had to grind a little metal off the box end of one of my wrenches just to get it to fit. Carburetors used to be that way, lotsa' times.
I've even got a couple of those schticky "one size fits everything" wrenches that got sold like hot shaving cream dispensers and the Propel Pocket Fisherman... with the floppy head & the goofy-shaped box. They DO WORK, and they'll sometimes grab stuff a normal wrench can't... like a nut that's rusted & all six corners knocked off.
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Post by fredbelknap on Nov 2, 2009 5:51:27 GMT -6
Me mucho tool junkie. Those wrenches Zac got are the cats meow in certain situations but if you are going to do a bunch of reefing best to use a boxin. At auctions I been known to buy a hole box of junk just to get one little tool in it. Toolbelts i have been through many just like the one that Norm wears but I like suspenders with mine. I got a Occidental Leather one that looks like tool bags on a motorcycle. Gotta be tough to walk around with that full of nails or bolts. ;D
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Post by lexrex on Nov 2, 2009 11:03:48 GMT -6
tool-aholic here. reporting in again.
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Post by tscheel on Nov 2, 2009 12:29:27 GMT -6
At times I have bought tools I forget about. I now I have a rule that I will only buy what I need.....
After about eight routers, you have to draw the line....
Hand tools are a different story. I suppose you can have to many planes, but I am not there yet ;D ....
-tyler
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Post by admin on Nov 2, 2009 12:47:30 GMT -6
Tyler, how do you know every tool you'll ever need? Stopping your buying may leave you badly undergunned if you ever have to mechanic your way out of a tight spot. No sir, I'll stick to my plan, if it looks like it may have a use, even if I'll never use it, buy it so I'll have it when I need it. Be Prepared.  |
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Post by lockman on Nov 2, 2009 13:47:42 GMT -6
Tyler, how do you know every tool you'll ever need? Stopping your buying may leave you badly undergunned if you ever have to mechanic your way out of a tight spot. No sir, I'll stick to my plan, if it looks like it may have a use, even if I'll never use it, buy it so I'll have it when I need it. Be Prepared. I AGREE!! As far is I am concerned you can never have too many tools, no matter what kind they are. |
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Post by sawduster on Nov 2, 2009 13:55:31 GMT -6
I don't know, I think there comes a saturation point, a point at which your shop (and all available space you can add to your shop) is so full of tools that you can't even move around to work on a project. I'm sure I've got a number of tools, (even a couple hand planes that I had to have) that I have never used, and many that I have forgotten that I have.
Now, when it comes to wood, you can never have enough. ;D
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Post by sachbvn on Nov 2, 2009 18:13:08 GMT -6
Hey guys - don't forget about your cars, trucks, boats, etc.... you may need a little tool kit in that!! Hehe - heck, if you hit a good auction at the right time, what's another set of wrenches at a steal of a price - I'm sure you can find a use for them at SOME time....or - those could be your loaners! Zac |
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Post by Ruffnek on Nov 3, 2009 10:52:31 GMT -6
Zac, I think it's primarily a guy thing. I love to look at and handle tools. I also like to look at and handle guns and knives. Perhaps it's the lethal quality about them but whatever it is, I'm drawn to it.
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Post by TDHofstetter on Nov 3, 2009 10:58:07 GMT -6
Guns and knives... are wicked attractive to me for a very different reason than tools are. Guns and knives are (or at least LOOK) usually REALLY NICELY made, with terrific fit & finish; they'd be just as neat if they did nothing at all in anybody's hands. In the case of guns, there are all those nice tight swivel points, and ground-invisible rivets & pins, and smooth sliding surfaces, and fine timing & balancing of pressures & inertia, lots of little parts that fit well together. Knives (the ones I like to see & handle) are prettily hollow-ground with a fine double bevel alla' way down the blade - nice & even - and nicely polished (or at least brushed to a matte) surfaces, and curvacious shapes. I'm not much impressed with crudely beaten-together guns or knives.
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Post by Leo Voisine on Nov 3, 2009 17:10:49 GMT -6
No Sir - I do NOT have a problem with tools.
No I do NOT.
I also do not drive cars or trucks
I walk 35 miles to work ONE up hill both directions, in the snow, no shoes
No Sir - I do not have any obsessions with tools
OK - now I gotta go take my pills.
Leo
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Post by sachbvn on Nov 3, 2009 19:39:16 GMT -6
Leo - you're fibbin' nose poked right through the computer!!
Zac
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Post by TDHofstetter on Nov 3, 2009 20:19:09 GMT -6
No Sir - I do NOT have a problem with tools. No I do NOT. I also do not drive cars or trucks I walk 35 miles to work ONE up hill both directions, in the snow, no shoes No Sir - I do not have any obsessions with tools OK - now I gotta go take my pills. Leo Yeh, yeh, YOU... who have been driving around on a hand-steered foot-controlled rear-engine gasoline-over-hydraulic powered rear-pivoted bucket loadin' rear-tippin' FUN MACHINE all dang day! Didja set it up on its tail? I always liked to do that - it'll rest right there on its tail if ya set it there nice, then with a little practice you can set its front wheels back on the ground like dusting off a feather. |
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Post by imahic on Nov 3, 2009 20:25:17 GMT -6
Whew! And I thought I was the only one with this problem. Good thing my wife doesn't get out in my shop much. I've got a few new ones out there I'm planning on using soon. Woodcraft and Rockler stores are like a kid's candy store to me.
Mike
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Post by Doug B on Nov 3, 2009 23:48:28 GMT -6
Nope And I feel exactly the same way about wood...maybe even moreso about wood than tools...tough call. |
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