Topic: Odd tools you can't live without

[Jeff.Saunders]

IV Stand - useful for hanging aux gas tanks, mercury sticks, test meters and lights.  The combination of curly hooks on the top, heavy weighted base with free moving wheels, and adjustable height make them a great tool - they also double as a coat rack for the leather jacket...

Rubber automotive freeze plugs - avaialale in many different sizes - useful to plug gas caps, intake ports and much more.

[Vbled1]

not odd, but ratcheting end wrenches save time and are awesome in tight spaces.

[chrislib]

Bulldog clips and/or a bic pen... for holding timing belts in place when installing them so it doesn't slip/fall off of the sprockets before you can get it fully routed and tensioned.

[FrankenFrankenstuff]

I keep a magnet on a telescoping rod in my shop apron. I must use it 20 times a day. Also my Leatherman Skeletool CX.

[ekpent]

IV Stand - useful for hanging aux gas tanks, mercury sticks, test meters and lights.  The combination of curly hooks on the top, heavy weighted base with free moving wheels, and adjustable height make them a great tool - they also double as a coat rack for the leather jacket...

Rubber automotive freeze plugs - avaialale in many different sizes - useful to plug gas caps, intake ports and much more.

Jeff I like your style. I have a riding mower slave tank hanging in a bird cage frame that I have done the first start up many times with on a new bike project ,Honda,Kaw, Yam, etc. and have said everyone needs one. Thought a good thread someday would be "Show Me Your Slave Tank" sometime. Big + 1 on the plug thing also. Can't work or clean a gas tank,especially if its original paint if its pissing out everything. Every shop needs at least one poster also--- Show me yours.

[Spanner 1]

A hanging gas tank is a great thing when adjusting carbs... consider this tho'. Most temp. hanging tanks are mounted well above the level of an actual tank on a bike. After carb work, especially leaky float valve problems  are seen to be cured IMHO the temp. tank needs then to be lowered to the actual tank's level to 'prove' the float valves are o.k. at the real 'head' pressure as provided by the stock tank ( about 6'' ! ).
What I'm sayin' is that a temp tank at a higher level will shoot fuel much faster into the carb bowls and shut the float valves tighter than normal.... drop tank, drain bowls,  re-fill with gas at 'actual' level 

[ekpent]

Think I can understand what your saying Spanner but have never had issues before between the slave and the real deal.

[Spanner 1]

Yeah, it's kinda' opposite of what ya would think IMO. A higher tank making a bigger pressure on the float valve  and proving it's leakproof-ness. Actually fuel supplied to the float/valve at a much reduced level ( as with the stock tank on the bike ) is the only real test to prove the float valves are working under a much smaller pressure of fuel ....

[754]

 Honda generator tanks are excellent for that...