Topic: The most pristine tool in your toolbox

[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.