Topic: The most pristine tool in your toolbox

[Redman]

  I have a 19/32 box wrench and socket that have never seen a nut or a bolt. One of these days I`ll find something that they fit.

[bill440cars]

  I have a 19/32 box wrench and socket that have never seen a nut or a bolt. One of these days I`ll find something that they fit.

      Ha! Ha! I hear ya. Isn't there also another one, like maybe a 25/32 too?          

[Markcb750]

  I have a 19/32 box wrench and socket that have never seen a nut or a bolt. One of these days I`ll find something that they fit.

I use mine for a lever on my 3/4 combination wrench when loosening the bolts on my wheels put on by some moron with an air wrench.


The socket has seen lots of use driving in 5/8 od lip seals and bearings.

[BlindJoe]

the one I polish every night   , how do you think I lost my eyesight

[754]

my 15mm combination wrench..

 That and a tool I made to take the Indian Gas and Oil caps off a 101 Scout tank.. no sense in buggering the knurling.. worked perfect..

[mark]

I don't think the 9mm sockets/wrenches have seen much use.

[RustyOlive]

Best tool in my box!! never leave home with out it!! lol

[Redman]

You guys are a riot. I did read somewhere that this size would fit the oil drain plug on a Crosley. Maybe they would fit the valve cover nuts on an old y-block.

[myhondas]

  I have a 19/32 box wrench and socket that have never seen a nut or a bolt. One of these days I`ll find something that they fit.

You could always use it as a hammer or pry bar like the rest of us do. 

[HavocTurbo]

My 1" drive impact gun and socket set.

Not sure why I even bought them. 

[kghost]

My Boxes (plural as theres a roll around metric box and a Standard box) are a mess.

My tools are worn and used. Sometimes theres grease and stains on them.

They are not all name brand or shiney.

But my bikes are clean, pretty, and run perfectly

[Stev-o]

Best tool in my box!! never leave home with out it!! lol

Are you saying you never use 'em!?!

[bucky katt]

7mm combination wrench. it's never been used.

[CycleRanger]

The 24mm socket I bought to remove the bolt holding the harmonic balancer on my Nissan truck engine.
I used it both times I changed the timing belt. 

[Steve F]

That brand new circuit tester that has the aligator clip on one end and a needle tip on the other.  Seemed like I could use it someday and that was 5 years ago.  Just HAD to buy it.

[Terry in Australia]

My new 200 amp AC/DC Tig welder. I got it for my 50th birthday last week and haven't taken it out of the box yet because I bought another CB750 on Saturday and I've been trying to get it back on the road. No biggie, it'll still be there when I need it........ 

[Grnrngr]

Not in my box, but I bought a tile cutter about 10 yrs ago when we were thinking of tileing the bathroom floor...never did and the cutter is still in the wrapper....got some air tools not quite as old, still in the pack, that I bought right before the compressor crapped out...

[754]

I am just waiting for one of the girls to make a joke about their "toolbox".........................................

[bucky katt]

I am just waiting for one of the girls to make a joke about their "toolbox".........................................

so i'm NOT the only one 

[Jonesy]

7mm combination wrench. it's never been used.

Ditto here. Also someone gave me one of those bendy allen wrenches for adjusting the dwell on a GM V-8 distributor... never had the occasion to use it.

[Kframe]

I've got a metric socket set that has some half sizes.
I don't think I've ever found anything that takes a 5.5, 6.5, or 7.5mm.
Weird. 
-K

[Laminar]

I bought a set of ratcheting wrenches a while back. I keep trying to use them but normal wrenches are so much more handy and compact.

[Bob Wessner]

My left-hand screw driver. 

[754]

Kframe, them are probably for ignition work, you know those sproingy things.. That or for electronics..

[domer]

a god damn $30 oil pressure sensor socket. something like 23mm, but has rounded corners.it never made a full turn on the wrench, and will probably never see the light of day again... #$%*in prelude...

[CycleRanger]

a god damn $30 oil pressure sensor socket. something like 23mm, but has rounded corners.it never made a full turn on the wrench, and will probably never see the light of day again... #$%*in prelude...

Ha! I forgot, I have one of those too.  I bought it probably around 1988 to remove the oil pressure sensor from the 302 in my '69 Econoline.
I installed a true pressure gauge and have never used that socket since. 

[david 750f]

My Snap On torque wrench. Its too shiney, I use my old one instead. 

[Kframe]

Kframe, them are probably for ignition work, you know those sproingy things.. That or for electronics..

Who knows, but if it ever comes up, I've got 'em by golly!
 
-K

[syth82]

All my standard stuff, except 5/8 because I lost my 16. And 9mm.


I know 5.5 is for ford ignition. Donno about any other half sizes...

[754]

6.5mm will fit 1/4 inch nicely...

[CycleRanger]

Every odd sized metric corresponds to an SAE size.  At least close enough.

[Don R]

Can't think of any except those Barcalo 15/64 and 25/64 or whatever it is, never been used that I know of. Mom got em for me when I was in grade school with green stamps.
She must have thought it would keep me out of dads tool box.

[Really?]

I bought a set of ratcheting wrenches a while back. I keep trying to use them but normal wrenches are so much more handy and compact.

Love my ratcheting wrenches.  I grab those first.

I have a ton of drill bits that never get used.  I got that big box of em.  Finally threw away an old weber rebuild kit, it sat in my tool box for over 20 years.  I will never see one of those again.

[Laminar]

I bought a set of ratcheting wrenches a while back. I keep trying to use them but normal wrenches are so much more handy and compact.

Love my ratcheting wrenches.  I grab those first.

I think if I got some nice ones I'd use them, but these were pretty cheap and therefore bulky and awkward.

[Really?]

Since I no longer turn a wrench for a living, I got mine at Lowes.  On the smaller side, work well and were not al1 that expensive.  I have not broken any yet.  Just a thought for ya.

[Raul CB750K1]

I also bought a set of ratcheting wrenches a while ago. The logic behind was that they would be useful to tighten -or loosen- bolts or nuts in those confined places where you don't have much turning angle and you keep turning and re-placing the wrench on the head 10 times in order to make a full turn of the nut or bolt.


The two or three occassions I could have needed, I couldn't use them. In one of them, the wrench head -with all the ratcheting mechanism- was too big and couldn't fit the nut in the confined space. In other ocassion, the allowed turning angle was so small that it was not enough to cross to the next tooth in the ratchet, if you catch my drift, so I was turning the wrench back and forth and it moved but the nut didn't.

And in another occassion, once the nut got loosened, it was so loose that the wrench was turning it back and forth, being the ratchet mechanism tighter than the nut.

When the nut or bolt is exposed, I just use my socket and ratchet. or regular wrench.

[754]

Make sure there is enough clearance for the bolthead and wrench on it, or you will be cutting the bolt..

[Really?]

I have not had an issue with the wrenches.  Maybe I just have been lucky.  I will use these instead of a ratchet cause they come of my wall in the rack they came in versus going to three drawers pulling out different tools.