Favourite tool/device?

[monzer]

At work we have always used a bosch angle finder for setting end plates on to steel rafters. They need to be pretty precise.

A while back bosch tweeked the design and now I hate using it. It rocks about and there's certain bits of it that will catch and produce a false reading.

Bought this on amazon and I love it.

Perfect for the job and much more accurate than I thought it would be.

£12 or so makes it the best thing in my tool bag by far.

What's yours?

 

[Johnnygooner]

You are quite correct....My tool is my favourite device....

 

[EuroTrotters]

bosch electric driver. Use it every day . Even better is the angled chuck

 

[donkey]

I think Bosch have lost their way, many items now made in Taiwan. I have a Bosch hot glue gun, thought it would be a quality product. No thermostat, no light to let you know it is up to heat and will not stand up when not in use. Horrible thing.

Geoff

 

[Charlie696]

My hammer. 24oz estwing leather bound.

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[tonyidle]

Metalwork lathe followed by pillar drill.

 

[HugoBNB]

Festool orbital sander and plunge saw. Both are effortless to use and produce great results.

 

[monzer]

Metalwork lathe followed by pillar drill.

Pillar drills are so handy. We don't have one

 

[monzer]

Festool orbital sander and plunge saw. Both are effortless to use and produce great results.

Don't know what they are but they sound cool.

 

[HugoBNB]

Don't know what they are but they sound cool.

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[Podney]

My bicycle pump.

 

[Sheddy]

I have one of they, recently used it for fitting skirting boards to my not so quare internal Westbury built walls, converted well to the power mitre saw.

 

[Silver-Fox]

Me, as all my other kit is useless without me

 

[Spanner]

A compact bright led torch and a swivel head inspection mirror, indispensable for very small cost

 

[monzer]

A compact bright led torch and a swivel head inspection mirror, indispensable for very small cost

Agree with the LED torch. Good shout.

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[monzer]

My bicycle pump.

Can you expand on that?

 

[SpitzTM]

My Black & Decker workmate passed onto me by my Dad, so its one if the old cast alloy ones. Love every time I use it.

 

[Steve and Denise]

At 65 years of age! Anything that makes the job easy is a winner for me

 

[Dazzlin]

Leatherman wave multitool.
Expensive for a penknife, but bought in USA for cheaper, and it has a lifetime guarantee. Been sent off a couple of times for a replacement blade and service etc.

 

[BillyKontiki]

A pair of footprints, don’t know why there called a pair ? but they’ll get you out of all sorts of trouble.

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[Bart]

Deffo my multimeter , use it so much

 

[Mixyblob]

In my pocket, Opinel No6 knife. Use it for everything from peeling oranges to cutting toe nails.
In my shed, angle grinder and MIG.

 

[simsy56]

Footprints. Wouldn’t be without them.

Craig

 

[TOAD on Tour]

Google and YouTube! I can barely change a light bulb!!!

 

[Richard n Ann]

I have so many, it's impossible to pick a favourite... The one I use most though is my Olight H1R headtorch

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[Revolvor]

Leatherman wave multitool.
Expensive for a penknife, but bought in USA for cheaper, and it has a lifetime guarantee. Been sent off a couple of times for a replacement blade and service etc.

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My son bought me a Leatherman Charge + TTi. I love it. Never go away in the van without it.

 

[Stealaway]

Footprints. Wouldn’t be without them.

Craig

As a newly qualified electrician I wired the new house of the MD of Footprint tools in a posh part of Sheffield.
Only the dining room had a ceiling light, every other room had only wall lights.
This was about 1970 and I still have a pair, they will last a lifetime but they are a bit rough

 

[Detnor]

A good magnet on a length of string, recovered dropped things, fished out items, kept removed fastenings together and even secured instructions in front of me just in case I cheat and read them.

 

[Jev88]

Fast Forward button on my remote control

 

[Arnside037]

Bodging tool. Home made device, made from an old screwdriver sharpened to a point on the bench grinder.

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