The one tool in your shop you can't live without?

[Expensive Date]

matco is is like owning a fountain, vs snap on is like owning a cig....

Did you vote in my poll yet?:26:

 

[YoungPerformance]

I have a small pair of diaganol cutters that are a true flush cut. I bought them to cut tie wraps so there would be no piece left hanging out to cut you to pieces. They work awesome. They cut a tie wrap to where the thing is so smooth....no more bleeding in customers boats. They also make excellent nail clippers, splinter removers, etc. Made by Snap On.
Eddie

 

[phragle]

I have a pair of those.

 

[cuda]

I'm in the low rent district, so I have the harbor freight book...

I have the same book. I use it to buy tools I only need once.

 

[cuda]

My torches! they will fix anything!

second... compressor...

I've been know to us Mr Bluewrench a time or two.

 

[cuda]

i keep the snap on catolog in the master crapper.. i like to look at stuff that i will order and never use.....

You never use them because you need to be 10% smarter than the tool. :sifone:

 

[Ratickle]

i keep the snap on catolog in the master crapper.. i like to look at stuff that i will order and never use.....

You never use them because you need to be 10% smarter than the tool. :sifone:

But he is a tool.:sifone:

 

[Slick02]

My mechanic,,,,,,(and yes he is a tool) but he's damn good at what he does.

 

[phragle]

If anyone mentions vice grips, they should immediatly be banned.

 

[Ratickle]

If anyone mentions vice grips, they should immediatly be banned.

Okay, you're banned.

I can rebuild a complete engine with "them" though.

 

[phragle]

using armstrong torque specifications?

 

[Ratickle]

using armstrong torque specifications?

Of course. Headbolts are two arms with a foot-brace.

 

[phragle]

another odd factoid, the flywheel on a vw bug is something like 225 footpounds...

 

[FULL FORCE]

I have the same book. I use it to buy tools I only need once.

II have to say, there have been a few tools there like impact sockets that have held up! I have had 2 of the sets for 4 yrs now, never hurt one yet, I and I am hard on them, used on parting out Mustangs weekly.

 

[Audiofn]

Stec is the bigest tool that I can not live with out.

 

[cuda]

using armstrong torque specifications?

The calibrated elbow.
My dad said the proper torque for headbolts was as tight as I could get it, then two more turns.

 

[cuda]

another odd factoid, the flywheel on a vw bug is something like 225 footpounds...

Another one. One side of the old bugs had left handed threded lug bolts. A fact I learned after breaking a breaker bar with a six foot piece of 4 inch black iron pipe, BEFORE twisting the head off a bolt.

 

[cuda]

II have to say, there have been a few tools there like impact sockets that have held up! I have had 2 of the sets for 4 yrs now, never hurt one yet, I and I am hard on them, used on parting out Mustangs weekly.

I have a set of the same impact sockets. I needed one deep socket, and it was cheaper to buy the whole set there, than the single socket at Sears. I've had them for five years now, and have yet to break one. I did break a Craftsman deep socket. It seems they aren't designed to be driven on with a smaller socket, after you've rounded off a bolt. It didn't hold up when struck by the BFH.

 

[MOBILEMERCMAN]

The calibrated elbow.
My dad said the proper torque for headbolts was as tight as I could get it, then two more turns.

Who is he Dr. Torquenhiemer?

 

[BOJOE2]

Shes about 5'6' 105 lb's don't know her name it changes week to week.