Those who do know shit about tools

[Glenn McCarthy]

What you got that you added to your collection lately?

I'd much rather stop what I'm doing, get the right tool even if it requires a trip to get one, and do the job with ease.  McGiver-ing with the wrong tools sucks.  I'm always buying tools, adding to the collection, and just picked up this 100+ year old 4" pipe vice, cleaned it for 2-1/2 hours removing caked on layers of oil, and sprayed it, mounted it on a base with (3) 1/2" lag screws -

 

[SloopJonB]

100? Wow - that thing has had a good life.

What's the point of starting a project that doesn't require any new tools?

 

[Grande Mastere Dreade]

What you got that you added to your collection lately?

I'd much rather stop what I'm doing, get the right tool even if it requires a trip to get one, and do the job with ease.  McGiver-ing with the wrong tools sucks.  I'm always buying tools, adding to the collection, and just picked up this 100+ year old 4" pipe vice, cleaned it for 2-1/2 hours removing caked on layers of oil, and sprayed it, mounted it on a base with (3) 1/2" lag screws -

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the new GM dick compressor..   kinky...

for me

 

[El Borracho]

Is this new tool fetish just compensating for a lack of skill?

 

[bmiller]

2' Smith 5 laminate I bought at least 35 years ago and a 4' from the same company I got about 3  years ago.

 

[bmiller]

Things of beauty......but I always preferred the cheaper ones that I could adjust....

I wore out a 4' Velander mahogany in my bricklayer days. Now I see them on ebay sold as vintage. Does that make me vintage?

 

[Ed Lada]

2' Smith 5 laminate I bought at least 35 years ago and a 4' from the same company I got about 3  years ago.

What the hell do those things do?  Are they useful?

 

[Black Sox]

I wore out a 4' Velander mahogany in my bricklayer days. Now I see them on ebay sold as vintage. Does that make me vintage?

Are you thinking for parts or as a working unit?

Prices will vary depending on age, usage, abusage, carefulness of owner, whether ridden hard and put away wet.

Among other factors.

 

[Bus Driver]

I admit to having wasted an enormous amount of time watching folks who have an enormous amount of time to do restorations.

Videos.

(not Void Ho)

 

[White Lightning2]

It's not the tools, it's the storage. Lately I've been finding old cabinets, large ones, and converting them into rolling tool bench/Storage units. Nice to finally get all the crap organized!

WL

 

[DA-WOODY]

What you got that you added to your collection lately?

I'd much rather stop what I'm doing, get the right tool even if it requires a trip to get one, and do the job with ease.  McGiver-ing with the wrong tools sucks.  I'm always buying tools, adding to the collection, and just picked up this 100+ year old 4" pipe vice, cleaned it for 2-1/2 hours removing caked on layers of oil, and sprayed it, mounted it on a base with (3) 1/2" lag screws -

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I have a BEAVER if you do Not wanna mess around threading pipe

or wanna make a lathe

 

[DA-WOODY]

2' Smith 5 laminate I bought at least 35 years ago and a 4' from the same company I got about 3  years ago.

useless w/o all the sharpie writing to show the bubble to use for this

and the one to use for that

and up or down

 

[Mrleft8]

Not criticizing, but..... Aside from the pipe clamp jaws on a regular 8" bench vise, why would anyone need a pipe clamp?

 I have one, which I have never used, but I never really understood the purpose, unless you did a lot of black iron gas fittings in a shop, or had it mounted on a 1 ton flat bed work truck.

 

[Ishmael]

the new GM dick compressor..   kinky...

for me

I have a fancy miter gauge I inherited from the FIL that I'm going to be selling.



I suppose I could actually try using it before I sell it off...

 

[Waiex191]

The purpose of the hobby is to buy tools.

For hobby, fill in as appropriate.  Sailboats, airplanes, motorcycles, cars, and so on.

I think the last major tool I bought was a sewing machine.  My son and I also bought a mig welder not too long ago.  I have a sawzall I bought when I was 16.  My hangar is filled with my tool collection, the largest being an 8' tennsmith sheetmetal brake.

 

[Mrleft8]

I have a fancy miter gauge I inherited from the FIL that I'm going to be selling.

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I suppose I could actually try using it before I sell it off...

Don't bother. They were crap when they were made, and they're crap now. Sell it and get what you can. Try for $30 and take $15.

 

[Que]

"Relics of a bygone age" that I couldn't pass up on craigslist, even though I will only use them once every 2 years or so...

 

[valis]

Recently got this Pick and Place machine (for putting surface-mount components on a circuit board).  The next step is "reflow soldering" in a software controlled infrared oven.





This video is from a test when I was figuring out how to make it all work.  In actual use there would be perhaps 25 reels of component carrier tapes.

First is normal operation, then some slo-mo to show how the component carrier tape is advanced, a part picked up by the vacuum nozzle, and the rotated to the proper orientation.  That bright light is the inspection camera that is used to fine-tune the placement coordinates if necessary due to an offset pick-up.

One hell of a tool that saves me about an hour when building a board.  Before I used tweezers and a stereo microscope.  Those parts can be *tiny*.

 

[SloopJonB]

"Relics of a bygone age" that I couldn't pass up on craigslist, even though I will only use them once every 2 years or so...

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Brake rotors are basically no longer turnable - that's why the machine was on CL.

I was talking to my guy about that - a brake job is always new rotors now when I used to get one and sometimes two turnings out of them in the G.O.D.'s. I figured they had lightened them up but apparently It's the lack of asbestos and more aggressive pad material that eats the rotors faster.