Hey folks just a question that might bring a smile to your face (Christmas is just around the corner and who doesn't love Brown Santa). I have my most needed / loved item and I was wondering what you folks thought. Now it can be from the smallest hand tool to a full blown paint booth.
The piece of equipment or tool you could not live without
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Dave The Sparky
Rebuilding my CJ8 very,very slowly...
- City
- Halifax
- State
- UK
Telescopic Magnet on a stick, that thing has saved me more than few times for routing round in engine bays (and engines themselves) retrieving dropped items.
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- Galivants Ferry
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- SC
Knife
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- Redding
- State
- Ca
My reading glasses! (3.0 power for working on the jeep) They are critical for me doing any detailed work on the Scrambler. Now that I am in my 60's, I have developed CSS Disease. (Can't See Shit Disease) That goes along with CRS Disease. (Can't Remember Shit Disease)
Headlamp comes a close second.
Headlamp comes a close second.
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- East Norriton
- State
- PA
Yep, first time I realized I needed reading glasses I was trying to reinstall a brake light switch on my old CJ7, on my back,propped up on some wood(on the floor boards)with my legs on a trash can( my brother took a picture of me like that, wish I could find it). I couldn't figure out why I couldn't see what I was doing 8" from my face
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- Dexter
- State
- MI
The JT Brooks Pro adjustable tire deflators.
jtbrooks.com
I got these for review in the magazine and did a series of tests/checks of the dialed setting and the resulting PSI and they work GREAT. I hate using anything else for deflating now. The lock ring and built-in scale work great.
I am someone who abhors the idea of pulling valve stems over and over to deflate, never liked that idea at all on a fundamental level as those are not made to be removed/installed over and over, so these are utter perfection IMO.
Dymo Rhino industrial label maker
For working on the Jeep, this is my answer. I fell into this for free from work (as a free marketing sample no one else wanted, not stolen!), but I would have bought one had I known how much I would use it. Pricey, but worth every freaking penny. The heat shrink tube labeling is KILLER for doing clean wiring.
J.T. Brooks
jtbrooks.com
I got these for review in the magazine and did a series of tests/checks of the dialed setting and the resulting PSI and they work GREAT. I hate using anything else for deflating now. The lock ring and built-in scale work great.
I am someone who abhors the idea of pulling valve stems over and over to deflate, never liked that idea at all on a fundamental level as those are not made to be removed/installed over and over, so these are utter perfection IMO.
Dymo Rhino industrial label maker
For working on the Jeep, this is my answer. I fell into this for free from work (as a free marketing sample no one else wanted, not stolen!), but I would have bought one had I known how much I would use it. Pricey, but worth every freaking penny. The heat shrink tube labeling is KILLER for doing clean wiring.
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- Dexter
- State
- MI
I have like three of different sizes in the garage, these are indispensable and I carry one in the Jeep.Telescopic Magnet on a stick, that thing has saved me more than few times for routing round in engine bays (and engines themselves) retrieving dropped items.
- City
- Charlotte
- State
- NC
I use my label maker for my toolbox drawer to help with CFS Disease. (Find) @gpassida
- City
- Easton
- State
- CT
Oh man, so many. . .
But in the "dark horse" category, it's probably my telescopic inspection mirror.
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Runner up is big surgical forceps. Gets into lots of places, holds tight - like 14" long needle nose pliers, but more dainty, and way easier to keep closing pressure.
Something like these:
But in the "dark horse" category, it's probably my telescopic inspection mirror.
like this:
Runner up is big surgical forceps. Gets into lots of places, holds tight - like 14" long needle nose pliers, but more dainty, and way easier to keep closing pressure.
Something like these:
Well some really cool answers. The one tool that after I use it I think to myself "my god that would have been a ball buster" My Skat blast cabinet. I think of all the pieces and parts that I have brought back from the grave with that thing. Not the biggest (40") but takes nearly everything I need.
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- Cobourg, Ontario, Cana
- State
- da
I bought the label maker after you told me about it. Use it on everything.
3 tools I can't live without...
Vernier
3d printer and my cheap laptop.
every part I make now, I draw in CAD, 3d print it to test then get it laser cut.
- City
- Ducor
- State
- Ca
- City
- Redding
- State
- Ca