Lost tools..

[VINMAN]

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

[recycled sixtie]

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. As the old saying goes, my wife doesnt understand me.

[redstrosekNic]

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.

[GH85Carrera]

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.

[HHI944]

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

[stomachmonkey]

Phillips head screw drivers and pliers.

[Tim Hancock]

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

[VincentVega]

x2 on screwdrivers

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

[HHI944]

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

[GH85Carrera]

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.

[Head416]

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.

[Tim Hancock]

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.

[Rick Lee]

Originally Posted by redstrosekNic

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.

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.

[HHI944]

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

[masraum]

Originally Posted by Rick Lee

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.

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.

[VincentVega]

That's why I have 4 or 5.

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.

[redstrosekNic]

I lose my mini maglite all the time as well.

[Burnin' oil]

Originally Posted by VINMAN

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

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).

[Rick Lee]

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.

[pete3799]

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.