Tools you have but never use.

[LEAKYSEALS951]

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.

go!

[GH85Carrera]

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






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.

[Zeke]

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

[GH85Carrera]

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

[Robert Coats]

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

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



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



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

[aschen]

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.

[herr_oberst]

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



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.

[herr_oberst]

Originally Posted by Zeke

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

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

[GH85Carrera]

Originally Posted by aschen

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 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.

[rfuerst911sc]

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.

[M.D. Holloway]

[rockfan4]

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.

[Zeke]

Originally Posted by herr_oberst

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

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.

[pwd72s]

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.

[Seahawk]

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.

[craigster59]

Originally Posted by M.D. Holloway

Is that one of those fancy wine bottle stoppers?

[matthewb0051]

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

[LWJ]

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

[pwd72s]

Originally Posted by craigster59

is that one of those fancy wine bottle stoppers?

lol!

[1990C4S]

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

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