Favourite / most wanted tools

[BassAddict]

Just curious what tools people have that they think are most essential / favourite / wanted ?
My favourite is my cebora mig welder,
Other ESSENTIALS have been having 2 grinders (one with cutting disc, one with wire brush!), hammer, spot weld drill
Next purchases will be a DA sander, and getting the plasma cutter serviced so I can give it a go (not been able to get it running since I bought it off ebay)
Also bought a pipe bender recently that does upto 3" diameter but not had a chance to "play" yet !!!
Rich

[Mark D]

check the pic in my gallery, absolutly essential when doing shows with Daz W, its wasted on some people tho

Mark D

[nominous]

Leatherman. It isnt big and heafty, but I use it without fail at least once a day for something or other.

Big hammer :D Its a multifunction tool :lol:

Pipe bender ? Crush bend I assume ?

[BassAddict]

Pipe bender ? Crush bend I assume
Its one of those thats basically a bottle jack and a load of different sized "formers" of thats what you mean ? 16ton hydraulic :)
Rich

[Spag]

Camera!

Great for 'remembering' ideas & details of things that you see, and for sharing your own monstrosities with others.

Hmm, perhaps the interweb or something 'putery would have been better ?

Argh buggerit I'll go with the FBH (fairly big hammer) everytime :-)

[PaulC]

My most wanted would be a f#@k off big workshop which of course would be heated in winter and air con in summer :D

Oh and a 4 post ramp!!

Paul C

[Spag]

4 post ramp?

Get yerself a caravan & mod it a little to make a nice trailery ramp thing :shock:

http://www.spagweb.com/gallery/trailer_02/images/19_tilted_small.jpg

http://www.spagweb.com/gallery/trailer_01/
http://www.spagweb.com/gallery/trailer_02/

[Mini1380]

My favorite tool name. Long Dong. There is also a Super Long Dong. These are items used for climbing. Almost bought one for a friend just because of the name. There are a lot of other climbing tools that have really funny names as well.
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B0000AMKTS.01-A2RS6Z4HKBA2G7._SCLZZZZZZZ_.jpg

[DaveCoxon]

Halfords Ratchet Spanners!

(Available over in the US for $40) - that's £20ish at the mo!!! :lol:

theres a machine electrician where i work ( recognised as the best), and all he has is a leatherman and a terminal screwy, i must spend a lot on tools for the fun of it.
i have a safmig 200 amp 3 phase weld set which i modded to work on 240, its not up to it, anyone know a reasonable 240v price mig set capable of about 200 amp?.

and all he has is a leatherman

leatherman tools rule! i have 2, and a victrinox. invaluabe for the sorts of stuff i do at weekends (but none of you would be interested, so i won't bore you with the datails)

steve

[BassAddict]

Saw a decent 185amp 240v cebora on ebay earlier today - £85 at the time ! :)

[nominous]

Pipe bender ? Crush bend I assume
Its one of those thats basically a bottle jack and a load of different sized "formers" of thats what you mean ? 16ton hydraulic :)
Rich

Think so, the bends end up being smaller diameter than the straight bits yeah?
Im making a downpipe :D

[BassAddict]

Dave coxon had some good advice on using these kind of pipe benders - pack the pipe full with sand first and temporarily weld a cap over each end (obviously make the pipe a bit longer than needed!), then bend it and it doesn't crush - not tried it yet though but it sounds like it should work :)
Rich

[mikeb]

it does work when bending pipes ,ive used this method a couple of times before .