What is it with old guys from Sarasota Florida?
I also have a guy, also on eBay, who tweaks Sirius radios for lifetime subs.
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I also have a guy, also on eBay, who tweaks Sirius radios for lifetime subs.
tineared
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Don't be silly. It's called a roach clip...
tineared
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If you are not a surgeon it's a roach clip
Sheesh. The internet isn't big enough for me to show you all my tools. Maybe just a taste. I'll list them by category:
Machine tools:
Lathe:
Mill:
Drill press (one of two):
Grinding station (L to R--cleaning and deburring, grinding HSS tools with aluminum oxide wheels, more cleanup, and grinding carbide tools with silicon carbide and diamond wheels):
Cordless tools:
Electronics bench tools:
Watchmaker tools (sorry for the extreme wide angle):
Mechanic tools:
SAE box:
Metric box:
Metrology and main bench (missing the Gerstner box which is now on the bench):
There are also categories for bicycle tools, woodworking tools, musical instrument tools, and categories I've forgotten I own, plus...
...let's just say the internet isn't big enough to show them all.
Rick "happiest when out in the shop" Denney
In my circle of friends the lathe and CNC discussions are often, and long. I’m into breaking the stuff they make so the details mean little to me
Didn’t think I’d see machinists tools on this forum especially from the tuba player (jk), well done!Don't be silly! Everyone knows roach clips belong in a different toolbox.If you are not a surgeon it's a roach clip
Some other repurposed tools which may have been used as roach clips.
tineared
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I also have some oxygen modification tools as well as some photon manipulation tools...
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Looks to have exceeded its Newtons and/or meters!
Agree, I have both Dewalt and Makita cordless platforms. I figure between those two I am pretty well covered for any cordless tool I need. They are both rugged and take plenty of abuse. I prefer the Makita circular saws but am very partial to dewalt drills. I have a corded Dewalt angle grinder, hammer drill, and sawzall and they are virtually indestructible. I have beat the hammer drill to shit and done things well beyond what it was intended for (5” hole in filled block - lol). Still going!There is no single tool manufacturer whose line is the best at everything (surprise)
Milwaukee makes excellent corded power tools, but their cordless line is not built to the same standard.
DeWalt makes very good power tools, both corded and cordless, but their drill bits and saw blades are generic and no better than no-names.
Bosch makes the best drill bits and saw blades, but all of their power tools suck.
All power tools from Makita are pretty much as good as it gets. There are a few high-end brands like Festool that I hear people rave about, but I have no personal experience with due to their high price.
In other words, tool companies are pretty much like audio companies. You need experience and research to figure out which company makes the best tool that you need.
If I were to show you my tools, I would need the next 15 pages of this thread to display them and it's more work than I am willing to do
The best advice I could give is for cordless tools, Makita and DeWalt will take the most abuse and have the widest assortment. I use Makita and they just last forever
Do yourself a favor and stick to a single brand for the sake of the batteries
I recently got some Williams (USA) combo wrenches and sockets and really like them. They aren’t cheap, but a lot less than the truck brands (snap-on owns Williams and the U.S. made wrenches/sockets are made in the same factories)
I have to say the HF Icon ratchets when on sale are pretty darn nice for the $$.
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Ok
Now I see. Very cool thing. The magnification loupes too, have an antique version of those made from bakelite with real glass lens. Use it all the time for micro work, and reading that damn small text sometimes.Reason I asked was I thought it was one of those pliers used to break glass after cutting. Microvice makes perfect sense. I need one
I’m a cyclist, built up a few bikes but have no idea what those are for….so please put me out of my misery…Forgot to post my disc rotor straightening tool, could only find my “trickstuff” tool in a quick rummage of my box. , I bought a set of the first trickstuff special brakes at stoopid expense (£1k+
Here’s a couple of what will be “rather obvious” tools to any cyclist - but these were two of my favourites to use and both used daily in the shop, I thought about some pics of suspension servicing tools, hub tools or even reaming/facing tools but that’d just be dickish.
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It's in the name, a disc brake rotor straightening tool, if a rotor gets bent then you can use this tool and attempt to straighten it.
And as for the two at the bottom?
The top one is used instead of a chain whip to remove cassettes, it acts much like a vice grip around the cogs of the cassette - this particular model is made by Pedros.
And the bottom one is a nipple spinner, very useful for attaching to the head of the nipple as you place it in the rim to spin it up the spoke thread, an essential tool to have when building up sets of wheels
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The vise grip tool can also be used as a cup wrench for certain kinds of bottom brackets and headsets. The offset driver is, as mentioned, for rapidly winding up spokes just to get them taut when building a wheel, and I probably need to add one to my kit.
Didn’t need YouTube for these
Rick “no disk brakes in the fleet but understands their value” Denney
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Speaking of tools, and inspired by @rdenney "Rdenney" Rdenney's post above...
My son in law used a too-short driver bit in his 1/4" impact tool one day and got it stuck in there.
He and I tried a few approaches to remove it, but failed.
He took it to a machinist he knew, who demurred, saying "send it back to Milwaukee".
At that point, he bought another one and gave me the old one, saying "let me know if you ever figure out how to fix it!" (or, you know, words to that effect).
June, 2020 -- COVID era... one day I got bored and motivated enough to tackle it yet again.
Vice grips. Aye, laddie, that's the secret.
Note that that's a gen-u-ine Vice Grip brand pair of vice grips! No cheap-o knockoff!
Mind you, I had tried this approach before, but not decisively enough.
Needless to say, I was very proud of myself.
And, to this day, I have a nice 1/4 inch impact driver at my beck and call.
My son in law used a too-short driver bit in his 1/4" impact tool one day and got it stuck in there.
He and I tried a few approaches to remove it, but failed.
He took it to a machinist he knew, who demurred, saying "send it back to Milwaukee".
At that point, he bought another one and gave me the old one, saying "let me know if you ever figure out how to fix it!" (or, you know, words to that effect).
June, 2020 -- COVID era... one day I got bored and motivated enough to tackle it yet again.
Vice grips. Aye, laddie, that's the secret.
Note that that's a gen-u-ine Vice Grip brand pair of vice grips! No cheap-o knockoff!
Mind you, I had tried this approach before, but not decisively enough.
Needless to say, I was very proud of myself.
And, to this day, I have a nice 1/4 inch impact driver at my beck and call.
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Re: bicycle discs/rotors. They must be made of very different metals from what I am familiar with.
I have various motorcycle discs/rotors. None of which could/should really be straightened if warped. Would assume that this is true for cars too.
Got several types of racing discs too...High mu cast iron (which rust!), plus various vented from Brembo. (Suitable matching brake pads being critical.)
[Edit : My motorcycle discs are "floating". The rotor is mounted on a carrier. Most likely different from a bicycle disc.]
My favourite tools are miscellaneous Britool. Sockets, ratchets, spanners etc. 1/2 and 3/8 drive. Mainly as I bought them almost 50 years ago, when I got my first motorbike. Only lost one 10mm combi spanner so far. (Lost on a beach in France in the 80s.)
PS. Wow. My vote goes to Mr rdenney for most awesome and comprehensive tool collection thus far. (Plus corresponding knowledge thereof.)
V impressive indeed.
I have various motorcycle discs/rotors. None of which could/should really be straightened if warped. Would assume that this is true for cars too.
Got several types of racing discs too...High mu cast iron (which rust!), plus various vented from Brembo. (Suitable matching brake pads being critical.)
[Edit : My motorcycle discs are "floating". The rotor is mounted on a carrier. Most likely different from a bicycle disc.]
My favourite tools are miscellaneous Britool. Sockets, ratchets, spanners etc. 1/2 and 3/8 drive. Mainly as I bought them almost 50 years ago, when I got my first motorbike. Only lost one 10mm combi spanner so far. (Lost on a beach in France in the 80s.)
PS. Wow. My vote goes to Mr rdenney for most awesome and comprehensive tool collection thus far. (Plus corresponding knowledge thereof.)
V impressive indeed.
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Park tools ROCK!
Ironic that the Asiancopycat troll for bicycle tools calls themselves RockBros. 
I should take a picture of my tool trove for bikes (two of them, one w/motorcycle and another for bicycles) and post them.
Ironic that the Asian
I should take a picture of my tool trove for bikes (two of them, one w/motorcycle and another for bicycles) and post them.
The HP54622a uses a raster CRT with high resolution horizontally, 265 vertical by 1000 horizontal. 8-bit amplitudes are shown bit for bit, and the horizontal resolution makes high frequencies more readable without having to reduce the size of the visible sample. It took the modern budget DSOs many subsequent years to do better. I have a Hantek cheapie that was 640x480 and probably at least a dozen years newer.Yes, you can get an old eBay Tektronix CRT scope at good prices... but just because the page states 'confirmed working'...
The opposite is my problem: I stared at those phosphorescent (green) old CRT screens for so many years, that they give me the heebie-jeebies to this day.
The HP display also has 32 intensity levels, which gives it an analog look when looking at signals with fast flybacks.
It’s green but a very different look than my Tektronix T934.
The Tektronix 2xxx series is of similar vintage to the HP, and those are great budget scopes, too, though a bit pricier on the used market. But I really like the HP.
Rick “audio techs of 25 years ago felt lucky to own one” Denney
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