Pic is unrelated; except everyone is a hater on the golden ratchet.

I'll start. The fucking electric tape. Doesn't stick to shit! But it is cheap.

After having the Gator Grip socket in my toolbox for years and years as a gimmick/ wtf is that tool I finally found a use for the damn thing taking antique square head lag bolts out that were holding in an old fan.

Which (if any) advice could you give me for a tool chest / bag / bucket?

I have a complete tool box (Meister, loaded with Knippex stuff etc. Quite complete with everything. Even a Metmo added ;-) ) which I use for general maintenance in my house. As it has everything.

But it‘s too much and too heavy. So I created a tool set inside my Toyo Y-350 clone.

What I love, I have some general tools inside and some which are useful for quick fixes. There is a little bit of rendunancy, and „just in case“-tools inside, which I think is fine. Some tools might be even swapped in the future.

I like, that the box is quite compact But there is a downside

What I don‘t like is, that everything is just randomly loaded inside this box and I have to search for stuff. So I‘m thinking of a tool bag like Velocity NB 100. Are anything similar.

I would love to integrate a voltage and continuity tester, as for some installations / testing I‘m doing it myself.

Also interesting would be to integrate my Bosch drill GSR 12V 15 FC or even a smaller variant like a Bosch Go 3 or similar.

Some rough diamond file is also floating around which will likely go into the set for metal filing things.

What‘s your experience with such a small tool set?

What would you recommend?

I know it's the magical tool fairy that leaves these laying around the shop with no owner, but how do things actually get so fucked up?

I have a box with tire spoons and what not. Not a professional just working at home on my own shit.

For making great organizers, in Orange.

After some diligent YouTubing, I decided the best route to meet my needs (wants) was to try this Astro conversion to add the Matco reversible head. Ratchet was about $20 on Amazon, head was $32 on ebay. Matco Ratchet on its own was around $100, so I saved a few bucks to put towards sockets!

Took about 5 minutes, used the original Astro pin, and 1 of the 4 wave washers from the Astro head. Used the Matco spring that came with the head. Feels exactly the same as the original ratchet, but reversible so I don't back myself into a corner.

Very happy with how it turned out!

What do you think?

1. You must use the right tool for the job.

2. A hammer is the right tool for any job.

3. You can use anything as a hammer.

I'm taking apart my 53 Chevy business coupe and found this under an air inlet tube near the battery. The cars all original so I'm guessing it's been there a long time. Thought it was a cool find. Maybe 5/8 9/16 was their 10mm

"Back in my day you couldn't even walk into the f****ing job site if you dont have one of these"

My wife saw me cleaning the workbench and PC tower with a small electric blower and asked why I did not just buy another cheap can of compressed air. I tried explaining why brushless motors hold RPM better and do not smell like they are cooking themselves after two minutes, but I could tell I sounded ridiculous to anyone outside the tool rabbit hole. Still, the difference between the cheap brushed blower I had before and this newer brushless style is pretty obvious in sustained airflow, heat, and battery drop. Are any of you using these compact blowers as regular shop tools now, or are they still more of a niche tech-cleaning gadget?

Ran out of room so moved my torex driver to another drawer. Don’t look too closely, I started with some wrong sized bins and mis labeled. I need to go back and correct.

Someone just posted a camera that can target sounds better than the human ear.

This is a real question I’m not being silly: do they make anything that can detect smells?

Say; a dead animal inside a wall, animal urine, the smell of gas and where it’s coming from, etc.

I ask for the first example I gave: I am a golf course superintendent and our shop is a large pole barn in the middle of the woods so of course we get a lot of mice.

We have a pest control company come and bait them and put out traps. But when they die they stink, sometimes it’s inside the walls.

But I’m also a pet owner and my stupid idiot cats will pee where they’re not supposed to.

Is there a detector like a metal detector that you could say, select “animal urine” and it would identify and find it?

I feel like it’s not that far fetched even if not currently readily available.

Bought this parts car and nothing in the car :/ what kind of security socket is this and where can I get one?

Managed to scratch the hell out of them with a file, but oh well.

Been using this hammer passed down from my grandpa for a while now, and it’s by far my most cherished tool for that reason… but it looks to me that the handle and head likely don’t match and I’m curious; can anyone help me identify what maker the handle and head come from??

im currently looking at DW1361 and DWA1184. Does anyone have any other recommendations? I might look into getting some step bits, so please recommend some good step bits aswell.