Never enough tools

[Chicken lights]

Anyone else? It always seems like there’s always a wish list. Those tools you use twice a year but glad you owned them when you needed them. Scratching your head trying to figure out how to take something apart wishing you had “X” tool

I get annoyed with 12 point bolts. Really? Can’t use a 6 point? Necessitates owning sockets useless for anything but those bolts

6 point box wrenches? Yup, PITA for anything except when you actually need one

I just ordered a few things off Ebay to fill in some holes, it just never ends it seems

 

[YYCHM]

Tell about it LOL.... I just got a gear/pulley puller I will probably never use again. I have three staplers going that all take different staples

Ratchet box ends are the latest thing to grab my attention. I have one, and it's metric but just happened to be the right size to torque down a nut on a very hard to reach bolt on my lathe motor mount.

Godda have a set of those now.

 

[Johnwa]

I got a set of ratchet box ends about a year ago. You need one to change the rear shocks on a RAV4. Mine are perfectly straight and they’re a bit awkward. I think I’d prefer the ones with the swivel heads.

 

[Chicken lights]

I can’t stand flex head wrench’s or ratchets. They always want to slip off or you can’t torque on them enough

But I own some of them for those once in a blue moon where they are needed

 

[Chicken lights]

Before I bought the big truck I thought I was pretty set for tools.
Changing the power steering box I needed a 1/2” drive 5/8” Allen socket. Broke my puller trying to pull the pitman arm off

I had wrenches up to 1 5/16”, one nut needed 1 1/2” wrench, broke a pair of water pump pliers trying to loosen it

I had sockets up to 2”, one pinion nut needed a 2 1/8” so now I have up to 2 1/4”

Working on my little truck last weekend it was the opposite, I needed lots of metric tools, 6 7 8 and 10 mm

I probably have fifteen 7/8” sockets. Shallow, semideep, deep, extra deep, chrome, impact, 6 point, 12 point. Helping a buddy with his fuel tanks on his Freightliner the regular deep impact socket was too short. Grabbed the extra deep and snugged it up. It’s that ONE time a year you need it that makes it worth owning

 

[YYCHM]

He was even hiding some stuff from her. I think that it will be same with my wife.

Trust me, that doesn't work LOL. Been there, Done that.

 

[Tom O]

I don’t know I walk through Princess Auto now and it does nothing for me ... it’s like being in Canadian Tire!

 

[Chicken lights]

New sockets added to the rest of them

 

[Tom O]

And then you find that you only use 4 or 5 out of a set. I don’t know how many of those complete gray Craftman plastic sets I’ve bought over the years That come back missing pieces or not put back.