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| Lew_Merrick_PE:
My Victornox Champion (and its two successors) that lives on my belt. It is rare for me to go 48 hours without using it to fix something or another. As lousy as each tool on it is, it is right there within reach when something needs fixing. Back in the 1960's (my Mountain Rescue days) I even cut a person out of a wrecked VW bug with the hacksaw! My close runner-up is the small (ø12 mm X 100 mm long) LED pocket torch. An amazingly bright light the lives in my left-front pocket. It does a really good job of high-ligthing small parts that dive to the floor and the like. It makes Machinery's Handbook text visible to my aging eyes. And it is always within reach! |
| Brass_Machine:
I have a few things that I like. But like Lew, it has to be a little tool I carry everyday... a Gerber Curve. I got it as a Christmas gift a year ago. I pretty much use it for one thing or another at least once a day. |
| Fergus OMore:
I've a tool that was presented to me-perhaps 50 years ago, maybe more- to be used responsibly. I've used it almost everyday and it is as sharp as it has ever been. In fact it is so good that I have never had to use another tool for 37 years. Enough to say that it is a Sheaffer pen. Norman |
| sparky961:
So hard to choose, they're all so fun.... but I'd have to say my dust collector. It's the unsung hero of the shop. It makes working with the brown stuff much more pleasurable plus when your workshop is in the house if keeps the mess out of the rest of the house. This keeps the missus happy, which keeps me happy, so everyone's happy just because of a little dust in the right place. Now why can't they make a metal swarf vacuum? Maybe they already do? |
| Stilldrillin:
Have to agree with Dec, and John..... 44 years ago. Mrs. Drillin cost 7/6d. :thumbup: If I remember rightly, she also paid the fee! :) David D |
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