j 1985 chevy
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Have the same one love it
What tool out of everything you have do you regard as your best investment.
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j 1985 chevy
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Me and my dad mad me one
Me and my dad made one for my truck cad and unloading my flat bed
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j 1985 chevy
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Me and my dad mad me one
oxy acetylene torch is the best thanking iv used my dad has one grate for more than just cutting stuck bolts cutting of bearing it done right you won't cut the shaft bending thick steel and a impact when you get a impact you will never be able to live with out one
someotherguy
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Tough question. Hard to quantify because what does "best investment" mean? Something you've used many times over the course of decades, and it's paid for itself dozens of times over? That's good - but it's not useful advice to anyone today, because that item is no longer available and its modern replacement is very unlikely to deliver that same performance.
If I was really pressed to decide I'd say it's probably my Craftsman 3/8" electric drill. I bought this thing in 1988. Made in USA. Some of you probably weren't even born yet.
I initially bought it and a Skilsaw (also still own and it works fine but I don't use it nearly as often) to do a quickie plywood bed floor install in my '61 Apache fleetside. Drill has seen better days, chuck slips if you don't tighten the hell out of it and the teeth are worn down. Cord outer insulation is cracking all over. That drill has been abused for decades and still hasn't given up. Mind you when I did my recent flip kit on the '93 dually I mostly used my SnapOn air drill, but every now and then to give my compressor a rest, the Craftsman came into play. If it crumbled into dust this very moment, it owes me nothing at all.
As far as modern items that are super useful and a good deal? Probably my BAFX Pro OBDII bluetooth code reader. Connected to vehicles that the cheaper generic blue elm327 reader wouldn't, and has got me out of plenty of jams, paired with Torque Pro for reading the codes. That's a $30 investment that has paid for itself multiple times right away. I've got a Launch CRP123 reader for more involved stuff (gmt800 air bag sensors for example) but it's still an entry-level piece and didn't cost much.
Richard
If I was really pressed to decide I'd say it's probably my Craftsman 3/8" electric drill. I bought this thing in 1988. Made in USA. Some of you probably weren't even born yet.
I initially bought it and a Skilsaw (also still own and it works fine but I don't use it nearly as often) to do a quickie plywood bed floor install in my '61 Apache fleetside. Drill has seen better days, chuck slips if you don't tighten the hell out of it and the teeth are worn down. Cord outer insulation is cracking all over. That drill has been abused for decades and still hasn't given up. Mind you when I did my recent flip kit on the '93 dually I mostly used my SnapOn air drill, but every now and then to give my compressor a rest, the Craftsman came into play. If it crumbled into dust this very moment, it owes me nothing at all.As far as modern items that are super useful and a good deal? Probably my BAFX Pro OBDII bluetooth code reader. Connected to vehicles that the cheaper generic blue elm327 reader wouldn't, and has got me out of plenty of jams, paired with Torque Pro for reading the codes. That's a $30 investment that has paid for itself multiple times right away. I've got a Launch CRP123 reader for more involved stuff (gmt800 air bag sensors for example) but it's still an entry-level piece and didn't cost much.
Richard
I seem to remember when you put that thing together - always nice to have one handy!
My favorite tool(s) is/are my son's, I tell him what I wanna do and he brings the tool(s), plus, I didn't have to pay for them.
The most versatile tool I own is my table saw and jigs I've made through the years. I have it dialed in to a couple thou straight and square
12" Atlas/Clausing lathe. I make all kinds of cool parts with it.
It might not be her fault.
Like everyone has mentioned, it could be the tire tread.
But, if she drives the same route that residential contractors drive she could be getting "Tailgated"
Thats where at the end of the day framers and drywallers and any body else in the nailing or screwing industry chucks there toolbag in the bed of the truck and all of that hardware drops on the road because the tailgate is bent.
The tailgate on any truck that has ever been on a jobsite is bent.
Does she work at a restuarant or hotel or motel or any other place that sees frequent construction customers?
Or even drive past a place like that?
Construction trucks shed hardware all over the place.
Back in my pumpkin days I wrecked an entire load of my wifes clothes because I was welding at a pharmacuetical plant and we had to to pick up all of our rod stubs.
I put them in my pocket and chucked those carharts in the washing machine.
And added a bit of bleach.
Skipping chemistry class in high school really bit me in the ass that night.
Does she work at a Casino or drive past a casino?
We have been involved with quite a few seismic retrofit and structural modification and remodel jobs at casinos.
We have a "tire budget" built into our bid.
Just like the plumber has a "sabotage budget" built into his bid.
It is really common for some dope to get drunk, loose his rent money, and dump a box of screws in the parking lot on his way out.
Dirt friggen common.
If we have a forklift onsite, we have magnets on the bottom of the forks to pick some of that crap up.
My plumber had to unseat 4 toilets while the place was open because some loon went out to his car and strung together several boxes of paper clips into little round balls and flushed them down the toilets.
T-shirts, little airplane booze bottles, panties, poker chips. needles, crazy ****.
I think that the flat tires are not your wifes fault.
I think it is more likely something to do with the route she has to drive.
Big ass air compressor
A lot of great tools here - some that I'd love to have. When I was thinking this over though, there was one tool that comes up for me again and again across all kinds of work: the dremel rotary.
Not as good for putting things back together, but sometimes indispensable in taking them off.
Not as good for putting things back together, but sometimes indispensable in taking them off.
Once you use a REAL die grinder, you'll spit on Dremels. NO torque at all. One step above "toy".
Their attachments--rotary files, sandpaper rolls, mounted stones for "grinding"...that crap might work for "crafts", but for automotive use, you might as well flush twenty-dollar bills down the toilet.
My die grinders are air-powered, but there's decent electric ones, too.
My oldest/most-used die grinder is the Mac Tools private-label version of this one. I got it in the mid-1990s, it was HEAVILY used for five or six years, maybe more. Then moderate use for another six, and then hobby use for more than ten years. Fairly certain Mac doesn't sell this one any more, but it was their "top dog" when they did.
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