What is your favourite tool?

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#312756 14-May-2024 17:11

As in the title. This is a survey thread. Nearly everyone has a favourite tool, be it a kitchen knife, sewing attachment, or chain saw. What is yours?

Mine at this moment is a great little Ryobi hedge trimmer/grass cutter. It is a one-handed battery tool that I have been misusing to clear horribly overgrown weeds and vines from my property. It has really been a lifesaver. I don't know what I would have done without it.

My other favourites are the Ryobi electric drill, which I mainly use as a screwdriver, and the Stihl battery chain saw.

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#3230449 14-May-2024 17:16

Ooh, there are a few so hard to pick one. I mentioned the impact screwdriver in another thread but I think the cordless impact driver is my favourite. Confusing terminology - impact screwdriver and impact driver are completely different tools!

Honorable mentions go to multimeter, circular saw and clamps of all kinds.

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#3230453 14-May-2024 17:24

Good question , hard to answer when you have so many.

I'll go with a CK posidrive , number 0 or something. It's little, for doing delicate electronicy things. It was issued to me on my first day of work as a grown up and somehow I've managed to hold onto it for the last few decades.

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#3230454 14-May-2024 17:27

My hands!

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#3230465 14-May-2024 17:59

First ever favorite tool was a rear shock adjuster

.. it was a revelation compared to precisely applied manual contortions

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#3230467 14-May-2024 18:03

Definitely tricky to pick just one, sorry OP. Here are my top 5 instead:

Pedestal drill press (older model, no link sorry). When you need it you just need it.
Laser cutter (also old)
Cordless brushless hammer drill ("just" a PxC, but I love it)
Love my original TS100 soldering iron, but looking at an upgrade.
Xiaomi precision screwdriver set. A pleasure to use. Looking forward to trying the electric version.

If we were counting meat tools, yep hands, eyes and a somewhat functional brain would be my top three.

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#3230474 14-May-2024 18:20

Work would be my Knipex side cutters and Bosch PLP100 solder gun.

Home would be Ozito PXC impact driver and Scheppach track saw.

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#3230483 14-May-2024 18:45

Uniball Signo 0.7mm gel ink pen and A4 paper (recycled). I use that to plan all the things I make with the other tools.

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#3230494 14-May-2024 19:15

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#3230496 14-May-2024 19:27

Fluke 83 DMM I bought in 1990.

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#3230507 14-May-2024 20:21

First one that came to mind is my favourite 6 inch / 150 mm combination square. Just an Empire branded one from Bunnings so hardly anything fancy, but I use it all the time, and given it isn't super premium don't handle it with kid gloves.

But hard to pick just one, especially if you're a member of this forum! And I'm probably forgetting something obvious...

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#3230510 14-May-2024 20:31

neb:

Uniball Signo 0.7mm gel ink pen and A4 paper (recycled). I use that to plan all the things I make with the other tools.

Respecfully disagree. Unipin Fineline 0.5mm blue on 120gsm recycled paper is the world's finest writing experience. I will also accept a Bic 0.7mm HB#2 pencil on a scrap of plywood.

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#3230520 14-May-2024 21:13

My set of good quality drill bits 1-6mm in 0.1mm steps (I also have a 1-13mm in 0.5mm steps)

Sharp, accurate, very low/no run out and just a joy to use...especially when I compare them to the junk ones at work...ew.

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#3230533 14-May-2024 22:44

mdf:

neb:

Uniball Signo 0.7mm gel ink pen and A4 paper (recycled). I use that to plan all the things I make with the other tools.

Respecfully disagree. Unipin Fineline 0.5mm blue on 120gsm recycled paper is the world's finest writing experience. I will also accept a Bic 0.7mm HB#2 pencil on a scrap of plywood.

Ugh, that's a fibre tip isn't it? Nothing flows like gel ink. And I find 0.5mm too narrow to give a smooth flow when writing, 0.7mm is the perfect width.

I agree with the pencil though, I used to do everything in #2 pencil until age caught up with my eyes.

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#3230613 15-May-2024 08:11

sir1963:
My set of good quality drill bits 1-6mm in 0.1mm steps (I also have a 1-13mm in 0.5mm steps)

Sharp, accurate, very low/no run out and just a joy to use...especially when I compare them to the junk ones at work...ew.

A friend had inherited a case of drill bits with the yellow titanium? coating so I thought why use my drill bits while helping put a gate up. Any strain on these bits and they'd shatter. I only had normal safety glasses with me so went back to my usual collection.

Most of my favorite tools spoil the experience with the cost of replacement blades. The one that impresses every time is a cheap pill chopper that produces 2 even halves.

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