Your favorite/most useful tool?

[Daniel Brim]

Gator Grip Socket Accept no substitutes...

[Sean_330]

The 2 most important tools on my team.

1. First Aid Kit

2. Raid Flying Insect Killer

[FAKrogoth]

Most useful part: Threaded rod

"These arms don't stay parallel."
"Secure it with the small threaded rod!"

"What should we use as the axle for our lifting arms?"
"Threaded rod works well. Ooh, wow, that's bending a lot. Eh, good enough."


My favorite tool: Drill press. Yes, it's a LOT slower than a heavy person with a hand drill, but it drills straight.


I suppose our team could get access to the school's CNC mill and/or lathe, but they've been used by too many stupid freshmen (including myself, in the days of yore) to be of much use for actual part production. And, like all of the Fat Man's instruments, the motors suck.

[sanddrag]

Air compressor (although the tank is very small) and titanium drill bits. Allen ball drivers and a sawzall are usefull too. The drill press is good. Oh, and the bolt cutters, and chop saw. And the GRINDER. We never buy bolts to length, we just have long ones that we grind down. Vise grips are very useful too. Oh there's just so many wonderful tools to pick only one.

[157#1Driver]

As a machinist I would have to say...a hammer. Especially when your tring to program that CNC, but it doesn't wanna work.

[WernerNYK]

Leatherman. About 1/2 of team 190 owns a leatherman. They are our unofficial team tool of choice

[Rob Colatutto]

go horizontal bandsaw. we found one up in the , very useful machine

[ROJO]

Bridgeport Mill with digital readout and motorized x-axis. Unholy accuracy (5/10000"), but no CNC so you still get to do the fun stuff yourself!

[Austin]

My favorite tool(s) at our shop has to be the lathes. After making 20+ of those Delrin pullies for our new drivetrain, who wouldn't get attached?

Ahh...the smell of formaldehyde in the evening!

(Delrin is a plastic produced by the polymerization of formaldehyde, and when you cut it, all of the lovely smell gets wafted toward your nose, And oooh boy does it smell!)

Here are the pullies

[Daniel_H]

My favorite is paquimeter I don't know why, maibe for its several utilities

[David Hoff]

My favorite tool has to be the cordless drill.

[MBurr-Mecum]

Anything sharp and fast-moving, aka drills, saws and the drill press. My coach says this makes me frightening....

[ahecht]

Originally posted by WernerNYK
Leatherman. About 1/2 of team 190 owns a leatherman. They are our unofficial team tool of choice

Yes, the Leatherman Wave is definatly my tool of choice. I use it every day, even outside of the build season.

I really wish we had had a dremel tool though...

[IVIaxor]

I would have to say the folding allen key set. I don't think our team could have built a robot without them.

("Alright, where is the f***ing 1/8" allen key, it was right here a moment ago... nono, thats the 7/64ths key!")

[Austin]

Personally, i think that cordless drills are terrible. They have no power, whatsoever...so for my many heavy-duty drilling needs, corded is the ONLY way to go!