Tools you have but never use.
 

5.5mm allen key (always reach for it thinking it's a 5 or a 6, but NO it's not). I can't think of ever needing a 5.5. Ever. It just gets in my way while I'm searching for other sizes and passively aggressively waste my time, mocking me in the process.

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This was in the bottom of grandpa's old tool box. A Ford branded wrench.

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Some antique Ford owner likely wants it, but it just hangs on the wall next to my dwell meter and Timing light. I do use the timing light if I have to pull the distributor on my El Camino to get initial timing. I have not used the dwell meter since I sold my 914 in 1996.

Pilot bearing puller. I have never used it for what it was made for. There are dozens of others.

I have several tools I have only used once, and not again after decades.

Not many I've never used, but plenty I've only used once:

Distributor wrench (used once on an old '72 Vette I had)

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Circlip (snap ring) pliers (used once on a riding mower back in the 90s)

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Spring compressors (Used once back in 1985; kinda scary to use, LOTS of spring tension :eek:)

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I'll happily trade any of y'all a pile of 16mm and 9mm sockets for some 10s or 13s :) , all mine are in mint condition.

Most of my SAE stuff is mint as well but I don't have much selection there.

I haven't needed this since I sold the 911:

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I've got loads of tools from different places that I never use; like a brace (and bits) and a Yankee screwdriver, some ancient electrical diagnosis stuff from my dad, one time tools from harbor freight like a radiator hose loosener, duplicates of combination wrenches that aren't needed...
Right now I'm in the process of building a bespoke travel tool roll - one that I don't have to "build" from my tool chests every time I take a long highway trip, and some of those duplicates are finding a new home.

A drift, a couple of slices of bread and a little time are all you need to take out pilot bearings!

I had no 16 mm sockets or open ends at all for many years of working on Porsches. Then I had to replace the high pressure power steering hose on my El Camino. It is a typical hose fitting, and I had to track down a Snap On truck to find a 16mm Crowfoot, line wrench. There is no other way to get to the fitting in the restricted area. The made it easy to get to the old line off, and the new one back on. I have not needed it since, but I keep that expensive tool in a safe place in the tool drawer.

The El Camino was built in the era when GM was changing to metric. Most of the car is metric, but the engine and all accessories are SAE.

I have an old 300 Amp stick welder I inherited from my dad when he passed . No idea how old it is but it's heavy . Copper inside it probably worth some money . I hang onto it because it was my dad's.

This forum is slow enough today, it would grind to a halt if I listed everything.

When my father died some 35+ years ago, my brother and I divided up his tools (he was a fleet truck mechanic). Then my brother left most of the tools he picked out with my mother, and eventually moved to Hawaii. When my mother died, he told me I could keep them. Now I have most everything my father used, plus the tools I've acquired.

This is really my wife's problem, not mine. She's going to have to deal with all this stuff when I'm gone.

Yeah, but I have the tool. Save the bread for something else. Was this thread titled "What can you use for a tool that you don't have?"

Maybe that should be a thread.

Lately, most of them. At age 79, I hire most of it these days. But once in a while I'll find a need for pliers or something.

One I'll probably never use again is a set of VIM triple square sockets...bought for something or other on the old 911S. Pretty much a German car thing.

I did give away the 911 specialty tools when the 911 left...13mm snap-on dizzy wrench, valve adjust feeler gauge, MFI adjust tool set, etc.

Yep, also have some of dad's old tools...plomb ratchet & wrenches, etc. Not gonna let those go even though never used.

Woodworking tools unless it is a chain saw. Wood “speaks” to me in a language I don’t understand

Like many others, I inherited a lot of tools from people who knew what they were doing with wood.

What my son didn’t want I gave to friends All gone.

Is that one of those fancy wine bottle stoppers?

Ok, I have used this once or twice but it hangs on a wall for years at a time

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A snap-on CIS kit. Needed it when I had a SC. Dust collecting now. Anyone???

lol!

I have a set of 36" tin snips that I never use.

And a 1950's x-ray machine...

My head.... Seems I do things without thinking them through first. :)

Oh, it is a stopper alright. ;)

It stops the whine until it all goes bad.

That is a beautiful wrench. Way too good to throw out - but perhaps not used a lot. I get it.

I've got some stuff I'll get pics up when I get back to the casa in the next several days.

I’m a fool for tools. It takes all my willpower to stay out of any tool department. There are times where I bought some thing that I thought I might could use down the road, only to find I have one already at home.😂

There are several tools that I’ve never used from my father and grandfather and other tools that I haven’t used in years, but did it one time.

It’s always nice when working on a project, to have the right tool for the job.

I’ve not had to synch a set of carburetors since my 240Z back in the 80s.

How many files does one need? Apparently my grandfather needed a lot and some have been modified for some reason.

I don’t know what the three sets of pliers in the bottom, right picture do, but my grandfather did.


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LWJ - You have a PM. I'm interested in that and local. I still have a CIS car and keep it tuned.

I have quite a few tools, some dating back to earlier than my grandfather. I do try to find uses for them, but many just sit in the toolbox. They do all get brought out and oiled once in a while. I'll see if I can get photos of the esoteric items...

Tools you have but never use these days.

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Some were legitimate, others were bastards.

When we were doing a lot of large crown molding about 20 years back for these restoration jobs, I looked for many efficient ways to install. Some of them were 8-9" wide and built up pieces were often part of the install to make them even larger. Then I saw a new tool, the Collins Coping base/foot for my jig saw, being the sucker for tools, I had to have it. It worked, well enough but we always seem to go back to the old ways of doing things. Then a light bulb went off in my head and we have been using a angle grinder ever since. Stable hands were needed. I have not install a large crown in a few years. My guys are pretty good at it by now. Where is the coping foot? In my jog saw box sitting way up in the shelf since the guys use cordless now.

This thing:

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My milling machine gets very little use (2 or 3 times a year maybe). When I bought it I had big plans.
Now it just sits there taking up room and collecting dust.

Also lately I haven't been using any of my torque wrenches. "Grunt tight" seems to be good enough.

At one time I was installing M1A and M1 Garand bbl every week, or so it seemed. So the bbl vice and action wrench just hang on the wall as well as the chamber reamers. I need to sell that stuff one day.

Is it really that important to you that he stays precisely on topic?

Just sayin'

dwell meter

I'll play.

I used this tool on an engine once in the mid-80s. Never needed it again.

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I bought one too. Like you it didn't work out as ideal. Somehow the cast piece on my Bosch jig saw that holds the foo split in two. I blame the Collins.

I have the bushing cutter for the rear spring plates. I hope to god I never need to use those again!

Most are >100 years old, some could be as old as 175 years
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its kinda fun, that with age and years of tools buying..

from time to time there is a job that needs doing.. that requires some really odd tool..

And you go
HOTDICKETY DAMN
I HAVE THAT TOOL

And I don't need to order anything, don't have to wait for it to arrive.
I can do this, right away, without having to screw around with ill fitting tools , cursing and swearing.


Its a 5 minute moment of victory
you then use the tool, and Minutes later its all over and done with.. and you move on to other crap that you need a new tool and cursewords for.