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What is your oldest and best tool?
40 years old.....BF whacker, cheater bar. From my uncle, RIP.
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Used to use the phillips screwdriver from my 356 tool kit to work on computers... Nice joke about a $100 screw driver.
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Not my oldest tool....
One of my first purchases after I bought my house was an Estwing English pattern claw hammer. Used it for my renos, garage, fence building etc. Then the dumb ass tile guy I hired decided it would be fine to bust up concrete with my hammer. What a dickweed. Took the polish off of it and generally screwed it up.
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01-10-2016, 03:18 PM
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I have some pretty old tools - 100 year old hand planes come to mind as a favorite. Just used an old floor scraper the other day. I enjoy well made, old tools.
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Lost a couple mini swiss army knives to the TSA. My bad. Still not in Guantanamo yet.
First one had a light and tweezers. Scissors were strong enough to cut through toenails. Blade can open any plastic packaging with ease. Grandfather's hammer.
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01-10-2016, 03:39 PM
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What is my oldest and best tool?....
I've had it since birth. At adolescence it was obvious that it would give me no peace so I resolved to give it no rest.
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The Yellow Pages. Whenever I have a really tough job, I pull out the old Yellow Pages.
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I have one that is 57 years old.
I can't use it like I could when I was in my 20's. |
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Besides the obvious, it would be my Vaughn 24oz framing hammer. Built my first garage with it and many other projects. Both tools have pounded home a lot of nails, still have the original warranty.
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Not my oldest...sold my work horses when I left CA in '08...bought new last year.
Floor standing drill press & an 8 inch jawed Wilton vice. Hard to imagine not having either.
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01-10-2016, 06:56 PM
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My metric socks set and socket wrench is a set I bought in 1970 and bought my first car. I broke the 14 mm socket so it is the only one that has been replaced. Those socket are the ones I use anytime I need just a standard socket and not a deep or SAE socket.
The sockets are a Japanese brand made in Japan.
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01-10-2016, 07:07 PM
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I've wanted a caliper. spreader vice for a while so I had an old boss pick it up for me when he went back home to Germany. This thing has been used for a ton of stuff besides brakes.
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01-10-2016, 07:15 PM
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I forgot...I still have my Craftsman/Sears 1/2" - 3/8" drive socket set, metric & SAE in its original metal box from 1971.
Never replaced any sockets so far...have disassembled both drives for cleaning & lube. The set has a 1/2" drive 10 mm socket. 
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 This was my grandfathers push drill from when he was a carpenter in the 40s & 50s. Great tool to use when I'm repairing some stuff at my buildings.
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01-10-2016, 10:20 PM
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The vice that I have mounted to my workbench is from my maternal grandfather. It was in his garage from the days I was a little kid.
Many times I have thought about getting a bigger vice but this one is the only tool I got from that grandfather. I have a wooden tool chest from the other grandfather that my dad used to dig into when he was a little kid. I believe it was from my great grand father. It is made with hand made nails. It was covered in sheet metal long before I was born. It is rather beat up but I got it in that condition. I would love to have an expert look at it and tell me more about it. I doubt it is worth much if any money but I would not sell it anyway.
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Pretty much all my tools were bought new around the time I started driving. Dad is hoarding all the good old tools in his shop still!
Probably the oldest tools are in the toolkit in my 944, and that's an '86! |
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Still have a 'John-Deere' 9/16" double box / starter wrench for removing the inside bolts on early seventies inline diesel 6's. It looks like an exaggerated "S"with 2 different angles on opposing ends. I cannot tell you how many times I have used that in other, almost impossible situations over the many years. I bought it when I was a Junior in high-school, working at the local JD tractor dealer.
If you worked there, you could buy anything (almost) as an employee, get a substantial discount and they would deduct it from your check spread-out over as many weeks as you wanted. I remember working for peanuts and had them split the cost of that wrench over 2 paychecks!
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1983 Porsche SC
1983 Porsche 911sc Cabriolet 3.0
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1986 Porsche 944 2.5l
