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Unread 02-03-2003, 01:54
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DIKEM and a scribe. With this and my eyes I can get to within .002 on a Dewalt Mitre saw with a wood blade. (and that was at 2 in the morning!)

Also, that reminds me I like that saw too with the carbide tipped blade. It will zip right through anything except steel but we have a cutoff blade for that.

Also really handy sometimes is my butane pencil torch. Built in igniter, and a fine tip flame up to 2000 degrees F. Not bad.


One really annoying tool is the propane torch without a built in igniter. It is kind of old so it doesn't burn so clean anymore. Our barbeque lighter was out of gas so that option to light it was out. We turned to the good 'ol bench grinder (another great tool) and a piece of steel angle to try to light the darned thing. We turned the gas all the way up and made a shower of sparks bigger than you could imagine but the thing still wouldn't light. Time for a new torch I guess.

TOOLS TOOOLS TOOOOOOLS!!!!!
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Unread 09-03-2003, 15:25
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a WIRE STRIPPER!!!

Actually, last year my freshmanly fascination with this tool is what gave the team its name...
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Unread 09-03-2003, 16:41
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Most useful tool? Our giant wrench and our "fart dispersal unit" (a plug-in fan).

But seriously, we really found some good uses for plastic zip ties.
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Re: Your favorite/most useful tool?

The Slide Hammer . We tap the ends of our drive axels and use this to yank them out or shove them in. Works great and it is tons of fun.

last year my favorite tool was the dremel because it saved my arms from a lot of the "freshman go file" times
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Unread 20-02-2004, 02:50
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Re: Your favorite/most useful tool?

needle nose plyers to pick all the metal shards out of my hand

i think i have a total of 33 cuts / gashes now
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Unread 20-02-2004, 07:27
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Re: Your favorite/most useful tool?

Well, ever since I've been on the Technokat's I have dispised our cordless drills...they could barely cut through plastic!!! Much to my delight, we recently picked up a good ol' 1/2" Makita M-Force 18V cordless drill...now this has to be my favorite tool. You can cut through anything with this drill...and it never bogs down! it's amazing. Just the other day I popped in a 1-3/16" bit(though the top of it is 1/2") for comedy's sake...but it fit! Ooooh yeah. Spins like a charm. Oh yeah, and it's got NiMH batteries...not those annoying NiCd batts that anger me.
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Unread 20-02-2004, 10:06
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Re: Your favorite/most useful tool?

Milwaukee cordles Sawzall, Milwaukee cordless Drill + Craftsman carbid bits, my 40 year old set of end wrenches, my 30 year old bearing puller, my new pnumatic tubing cutter (hey stick your finger here), and finally a Craftsman Lathe from 1953 that I had to make parts on. Lets not forget a piece of 3 foot pipe for "convincing" stubborne bolts when needed.
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Re: New tool

My favorite tool is the lathe that has a plaque on it that says " Conforms to the wartime measures act of 1940. For all those who are not Canadian that act was abolished after WW2.
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Re: Your favorite/most useful tool?

Deburring tool.
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Unread 20-02-2004, 12:42
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Re: Your favorite/most useful tool?

My favorite tool is a two-liter bottle of Mountain Dew Code Red. Really kicks the coding part of my brain into high gear!
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Unread 20-02-2004, 12:44
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Re: Your favorite/most useful tool?

I love this 7/16 and 3/8 hex driver I aquired from a verizon guy... Its sorta like a double-ended nut driver. Who needs rachets?
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Re: Your favorite/most useful tool?

Welder, and my new flowery screwdriver i got for my birthday from a mom from 1115. lol
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Re: Your favorite/most useful tool?

Its gotta be the heat gun, I mean there are so many good uses; Heat Shrink, press fitting stuff, warming food, melting/melding/bending lexan and a ton of other things. But a very close second is the set of hex ball drivers. They smoke normal hex wrenches.

Oh yeah, 5hp Air Compressors are fun...
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Re: Your favorite/most useful tool?

can anyone say angle grinder...oooo....sparks :-P
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Re: Your favorite/most useful tool?

my favorite tool would have to be brut force
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