Show me your Tools…..
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EckyH
Senior Member
- Location
- Nottuln, North Rhine-Westphalia
mickle
innit
- Location
- 53.933606, -1.076131
Oh gosh. I've got three toolboxes just for plumbing, one for leadwork tools, one for replacing sealant, one for tiling, one for general handyman shoot, one for general cycling tools and a separate one for tools that live near to and require the use of the vice (freewheel and cassette tools, chain whip etc). I've got two toolboxes of woodworking hand tools, a box for my cordless, a box for my SDS, a box for masonry tools. Then I've boxes and boxes of spare plumbing fittings, screws and one for just for PPE. And ... a couple of boxes for decorating tools and random boxes for random tools like heat gun, glue gun, Dremel, soldering iron, Oxy/acetaline torch. Strangely, and especially for someone who loves cars, I have zero car tools apart form the usual jump leads, jack and wheel-nut wrench.
fritz katzenjammer
Der Ubergrosserbudgie
- Location
- Canada eh! Your land of back bacon.
Naw… the bench is outside the picture, it’s got another tool cabinet, a wheel truing stand and a drill press on it but still sports enough room to work, although it does become a bit of a pigpen during winter
now I just need my espresso machine out there
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Smokin Joe
Squire
- Location
- Bare headed cyclist, Smoker
I've got a Halfords advance toolkit, every device you'll ever need to put a bicycle together including a truing stand and a tool chest crammed with every type of hammer, chisel, screwdriver you'll ever need plus various special tools like oil filter wrenches, clamps, stud removers, torque wrenches and the odd one off for special jobs. I only recently got rid of the U shaped spanner for adjusting the valve locknuts on my long departed Pinto engine Capri.
The only ones I am likely to use now are from the small multi bit driver I keep indoors for household jobs.
The only ones I am likely to use now are from the small multi bit driver I keep indoors for household jobs.
We are not worthy!
fritz katzenjammer
Der Ubergrosserbudgie
- Location
- Canada eh! Your land of back bacon.
(50+ years of bicycles) + (40+ years of motorcycles) + (30+ years process and quality engineering in the automotive industry) + (a father in law who was a machinist/inspector and left you his fine instruments) = a lot of good tooling to retire with.
and now we build bicycles for Trek part time for fun.
FrankCrank
Old layabout
Glad I'm not the only one with a cluttered workbench 
fritz katzenjammer
Der Ubergrosserbudgie
- Location
- Canada eh! Your land of back bacon.
An important part of any tool/shop/garage wall is the “wall of shame”. This is where you hang the bits and pieces of machinery you’ve worked on which have died with their boots on, often violently ( ie: chucking a rod at 9000rpm )
Ahh, 'specialist tool', that's the expensive catch - !
Marchrider
Well-Known Member
Fanny in a Scanny badge - do you get many european trucks out in Canada
and what is that underneath it?
fritz katzenjammer
Der Ubergrosserbudgie
- Location
- Canada eh! Your land of back bacon.
After General Motors bought out SAAB all of the cars shipped to North America wore those badges front and rear. My Dad loved SAABs but figured that GM would ruin the make pretty quickly so as soon as the buyout was announced he ordered up one last car. GM imported a ton of SAABs to Canada in 1991, far more than this market had ever consumed before. They also didn’t have a dealer network set up yet. So roughly 2000 new SAABs sat in fields until the dealers could be established by which time the 1992 models were inbound so some really good deals could be had on those 91s. Especially as my Dad got GM executive pricing because of a business relationship he had with the company. Basically he got to choose the car he wanted and someone drove it from the storage area in Oshawa to our local dealer about 150km away and my Dad payed the price of a used car for it.
the big round thing below the crest is the back brake plate from an old Jawa motorcycle. It tore its torque arm out and tried to lock the rear wheel of the bike up, destroying the brake assembly and the rear wheel hub in the process. If that sounds bad consider that it pulled that self destructive little stunt without any warning while I was steaming down the middle lane of a very busy expressway at about 110kph with my girlfriend on the back and a big American sedan tailgating me and heavy traffic on both sides. It briefly locked the rear wheel twice but we got away with it although it was a very close thing for a few moments. There would have been no surviving it if we’d gone down.
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