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Re: Tools you can't live without
Most of the good ones have already been mentioned. You already have two bandsaws, set up one for aluminum and the other for steel, post the feeds and speeds chart on the wall by the saws. If you only have benchtop saws, get a good-sized floor-standing model. I prefer an offset vertical saw, mine is a Parma Work-a-Matic, it gets used more than any other tool in the shop.
If you have been drilling lots and lots of holes in thin material and then hand-deburring them, its time to get a benchmount deep-throat punch. Get a good one like a Roper-Whitney.
Get ...
1.a McMaster-Carr catalog.
2.another heat gun, they seem to disappear
3.complete metric and imperial drill set, drills seem to disappear
4.a complete metric and imperial hex key set, ditto
5. locking cabinets
6.if you have a mill or lathe, get
a. collet tray/organizer which mounts to the machine or wall
b. machinist's vise for the mill
c. last word indicator and Indicol for truing the mill
7.a complete set of wire cutting and crimping tools appropriate to your wire and connector sizes, keep them separate from the general-use toolbox.
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