Your favorite/most useful tool?

[soezgg]

id have to say ...hammer also..i mean i love instruments meant to bash things

[jzampier]

Originally posted by 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!

I think someone needs to introduce you to a 18v DeWalt Cordless Hammer Drill....

Screw all day, and never complain about the lack of power.

For the seriously hardcore, there is also a 24v
version available, two hand operation only tho.

[srjjs]

The brain is a tool, is it not?
I'd say it's much more versatile and powerful than the others mentioned.

[FAKrogoth]

The trouble with the brain, of course, is the difficulty involved in cutting stuff with it.

Believe me, I've tried.

[Onizuka]

favorite tool would have to be the cnc machine i used all season. and of course a 3/16 allen key.

[SkitzoSmurf]

My team seems to always be murdering eachother over the drill, rivet gun, and jig saw.
My personal fave would have to be the hacksaw, although I should make the tape measure a good friend too. . .

OOOOOOOPS!!!!

[Stephanie]

hmmm... not just leatherman, but *multi tool*
i have the buck-tool, which is my best friend even in the offseason. some of the other team members carry mini-lethermans on their keychains, while a select few of us have the much more useful full sized multi-tools

[Lauren Hafford]

Our team dubbed the leatherman the Pocket Jesus and even the mormon kid uses that name!
Also we named the short screw drivers Stubby Phil and Stubby Stan for phillips and standard (but i don't know if we made that up or not).

But I seriously think that the 4-40 nuts (especially the ones with nylon inserts) are just plain CUTE! They're tho iddy biddy and thweet!! does anyone agree with me?
lauren

[f22flyboy]

Unfortunately, my school district and its zero tolerance policy would have a heart attack and lock me away for all of eternity if I carried a *gasp* sharp object to school. But the leatherman is darn useful

[chellyzee93]

dremmel... *drools*

... "who says a drill press can't be used as a mill?"

OH! OH! My leatherman Juice! "Kt is not included.."

[dez250]

ok my fav. tools must be (not in any order)
-dremel (i like my own more then my schools machine shops')
-manual mills
-manual lathes
-cnc mills
-cnc lathe

and last but not least at school we have an industrial dremel, i sware it must weigh 10 lbs and its not a dremel company tool but it does the same as a dremel does, but at an industrial rate.

Also i love our sheet metal shear and brake, how else do you get a piece of lexan bent to 90 degrees by hand in 2 mins.

Dez
www.team250.org
Team 250 Dynamos: a 12 year team.

[kevin.li.rit]

Duct tape.

[Gobiner]

Our fearless leader found some really nifty wire strippers at a garage sale. 3 for $5. Super cool, and because I subscribe to the EarthBound style of naming, it's officially called the Deluxe Wire Strippers. They grab, cut, and strip small gauge wires with a single motion! Can even intimidate small freshmen!

[Hardwire]

i'd say that the most useful tools on our team this year are
1)7/16 wrench/wratcet of any kind
2)the 1/4 20 tap (man Gary could tap all day)
3)anything used to cut i mean anything (we have a pearing knife in the tool box) well not the band saw it don't cut straight so everything else
4)the dremel is cool (it sparks with everything)
5)we got this awesome angle drill geared way down man that thing got some power
6)i personally like the rubber mallet i can just smack thiungs with it all day and never get tired

[EIROBOTICS86]

Originally posted by sevisehda
10 pound sledge, for fixing bent shafts... and freshman.

I second that and suggest that a team gives them out at nats