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what's your favorite tool in your toolbox?
me ^ | 8-8-14 | TZ

Posted on 08/08/2014 6:48:05 AM PDT by TurboZamboni

what's your favorite tool?

mine is a ratchet drive screwdriver with all the bits inside the driver head.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Hobbies
KEYWORDS: friday; tools; vanity
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To: Neoliberalnot

Mine’s a Bosch.


121 posted on 08/08/2014 8:17:33 AM PDT by skeeter
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To: TurboZamboni

Fender white medium pick.


122 posted on 08/08/2014 8:18:08 AM PDT by Eddie01 (Liberals lie about everything all the time.)
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123 posted on 08/08/2014 8:19:48 AM PDT by Rio (Proud resident of the State of Jefferson)
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To: mountainlion

Yup! With that tool, you can make anyone else do the work!


124 posted on 08/08/2014 8:20:23 AM PDT by SgtHooper (Anyone who remembers the 60's, was not there!)
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To: SgtHooper

Yup! With that tool, you can make anyone else do the work!

Or stop them form making you work!


125 posted on 08/08/2014 8:22:08 AM PDT by mountainlion (Live well for those that did not make it back.)
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To: Neoliberalnot

hahahahaha, yes, I bet they did!


126 posted on 08/08/2014 8:25:41 AM PDT by SgtHooper (Anyone who remembers the 60's, was not there!)
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To: Rio

Grew up on the farm with that baby. It was worth its weight in gold!


127 posted on 08/08/2014 8:27:12 AM PDT by SgtHooper (Anyone who remembers the 60's, was not there!)
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To: TurboZamboni
My favorite tool was a Craftsman ratcheting screwdriver I had bought back in the early 1980s. It had this great, heavy, solid handle (that would occasionally be used as a "persuader") and a really smooth ratcheting action. I had that driver until the mid 1990s, when someone stole my tool kit, and that's the one tool I really missed (even more than my Fluke 87!)

That style of driver was discontinued by Sears years before, and I was never able to find another one. I wound up replacing it with a Snap-On ratcheting driver, with a hollow handle for bits, and though I still have that Snap-On driver, it's not the same.

Mark

128 posted on 08/08/2014 8:27:32 AM PDT by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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To: TurboZamboni

My old shoeing hammer.


129 posted on 08/08/2014 8:31:16 AM PDT by Conservative4Ever (waiting for my Magic 8 ball to give me an answer)
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To: TurboZamboni

Unimat lathe.

Used ones aren’t cheap, but mine has long since paid for itself.


130 posted on 08/08/2014 8:34:46 AM PDT by Fresh Wind (The last remnants of the Old Republic have been swept away.)
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To: the OlLine Rebel
I also love having the Leatherman multi-tool.

I bought my first Leatherman back when they were first offered by Dillon Precision in their Blue Press catalog (a very long time ago). I wore that tool on my side for years, using it all the time.

Then one day, I made the mistake of using it on-site to fix a problem at a customer site, and the manager that needed to sign off on the ticket refused to do so, saying she wasn't going to pay for the service call, since I never even opened my toolbox to replace the bad modem in a PC that was always making noise from the speaker. She had a very bad attitude, so I went and spoke to her supervisor who did sign the ticket.

I never used that tool on-site again, without first pulling out a few tools from my box.

Mark

131 posted on 08/08/2014 8:38:55 AM PDT by MarkL (Do I really look like a guy with a plan?)
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To: TurboZamboni

132 posted on 08/08/2014 8:44:40 AM PDT by John 3_19-21 (First let me apologise for being white, and male.)
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To: TurboZamboni

The one I can find when I need it. Which isn’t often.
And I have at least 2 of each.


133 posted on 08/08/2014 8:48:54 AM PDT by TangoLimaSierra (To win the country back, we need to be as mean as the libs say we are.)
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To: TurboZamboni

It’s the Browning High Power I used to put in when we had a job in cra, er unsafe area.


134 posted on 08/08/2014 8:50:00 AM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: Lucas McCain

Alright, another proud Yankee owner. When my dad died a year ago, we were going through his stuff and I grabbed the Yankee. Actually, it may have been mine anyway from when I was younger.

I don’t really have a favorite tool, I always use the right tool for the job, unless something else will work better.


135 posted on 08/08/2014 8:56:58 AM PDT by cyclotic (America's premier outdoor adventure association for boys-traillifeusa.com d)
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To: TurboZamboni

Cat D5N, LGP undercarriage, PAT blade, winch, enclosed cab with screen package and limb risers.


136 posted on 08/08/2014 9:01:26 AM PDT by yellowhorse (6 good horses, 3 good women)
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To: red-dawg

I could not live in this world without a COMPRESSOR.
Air up your tires, remove bolts with an impact wrench, air ratchet works lots better with it,
paint anything in a hurry and then there are my three nail guns....””

Most of us aren’t thinking on that scale. I have a couple of compressors and two impact wrenches. I don’t paint, but you are absolutely right.


137 posted on 08/08/2014 9:03:00 AM PDT by Neoliberalnot (Marxism works well only with the uneducated and the unarmed.)
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To: TurboZamboni

Cynicism.


138 posted on 08/08/2014 9:04:17 AM PDT by discostu (Villains always blink their eyes.)
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To: TurboZamboni

My Kobalt Double Drive screwdriver. Use it all the time and love it.


139 posted on 08/08/2014 9:06:57 AM PDT by LivingNet
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To: JimRed

Sledgehammer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJWJE0x7T4Q


140 posted on 08/08/2014 9:11:26 AM PDT by TurboZamboni (Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.-JFK)
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