Lost tools..
 

Which tools do you find yourself always losing or misplacing?

I find myself going through 1/2" -3/8" adapters like crazy. Meanwhile I must have about thirty 9/16 sockets. Dont know where they all came from

I always find...
 

that I lose the tools I need the most. My wife gets mad at me because I buy a new tool because I cant find the old one. So when I clean the garage(which is not very often)I come across the original ones. :). However a second Porsche would be nice as a backup:D. As the old saying goes, my wife doesnt understand me. :cool:

10mm sockets & wrenches. 3/8" drive ratchets...

I always try to put my tools away right after I'm done, but sometimes they still get lost temporarily.

I try hard to put each tool back in the proper place unless I am going to keep using it immediately. I spend more time looking for a tool that I put down in some stupid place than doing the work.

I had a buddy helping me during part of my El Camino engine swap. I could not have done the swap without his help and experience. He was only there for a couple of hours total but I spent a ton of time looking for sockets and open end wrenches. He would use a tool and put it down right there. It seems like most of my tools were out of the tool chest and on the floor. After he left I spent an hour just finding and putting up my tools.

Open end wrenches of all sizes. I go through em like crazy!

Phillips head screw drivers and pliers.

Phillips screwdrivers..... I have tools in in several boxes in different locations. The "good" phillips screwdrivers migrate all over my shop and glove boxes.

x2 on screwdrivers

No idea where they go, worse than socks in the drier.

I have to have at least 50 various screwdrivers strewn about, never a problem finding those.

I guess I missplace tools for a day, but for the most part I have tools that I bought back in the early 70s. I have lost very few tools in the last 35 years.

If I'm working on a long-term project my tools could be scattered around the garage for months.

The other day I found some screwdrivers in my paintball gun case. I hadn't used it in years. Score! It's like Christmas.

Just last night when looking in a tool storage cabinet for my dremel tool case, I found a "new still in the box" small triangular head detail sander I bought several years ago.

WTF is it with 10mm? I have the same problem. I've taken to buying two 10mm sockets at a time and placing one in my gun safe. My tape measure has evolved into a living being with legs and escape/evasion skills too.

I don't think I've seen my tape measure in years...

That's why I have 4 or 5.

I find that a lot of times my tools have gone missing because someone used them for a project in the house and didn't put them back.

That's my thinking for utility knives and tape measures. I found 2 utility knives in the same toolbox the other day and another on the bench. If course, I was looking for the 100 pack of blades for the other utility knife at the time. Still cant find the blades.

I lose my mini maglite all the time as well.

A few weeks ago I could not find a 1/2" - 3/8" inch adapter and I looked everywhere. Makes me so friggin' frustrated. Drove to town, bought a new one, come home, go into my shop and the first thing I see in my tool cart is a 1/2" - 3/8" adapter - right in plain sight.

I have so many standard wrenches between 3/8 and 5/8 it's a joke. But I can never find 13 mm or 1/2" sockets.

I spend too much time wandering around the shop looking for things, around and around, where is that? cuss cuss Where is it? And then I start blaming the wife and kids (to myself, of course).

My tape measure only reappears when I don't need it. It seems to know when to show up. I'd like to blame my missing tools on others, but I'm the only one who uses them. So I blame the tools.

I have a bad habit of crawling out from under the car with a tool in my hand and walking over to the work bench etc. to get/do something and slide back under the car to discover the tool i need is........missing. Spend a lot of wasted time retracing my foot steps.
Very seldom actually lose a tool.....just takes awhile to find it.