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Which Of These Hand Tools Is The Greatest Invention?

dougw
dougw over 1 year ago

Most clever, most useful, most indispensable...

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How many of these tools do you have?

What other tools should be in this list?

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  • ralphjy
    ralphjy over 1 year ago

    Small metric nut driver...

    Now that I am older and have arthritic fingers I find that I can't handle the small M2 and M2.5 nuts and hardware that is used to mount small boards and sensors without using a nut driver.  Would not be able to build most of my projects without one.

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  • beacon_dave
    beacon_dave over 1 year ago in reply to ralphjy

    I find that the short 'Tommy bar' lever comes in handy with these.

    My set is over 40 years old now. No longer have the plastic cases they came in though. 

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  • kmikemoo
    kmikemoo over 1 year ago in reply to beacon_dave

    Take 5 Tommy.  I got this.
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    Laughing

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    kmikemoo over 1 year ago in reply to anniel747

     anniel747  Laughing  Because as beacon_dave says...     JoyJoy 

    beacon_dave said:
    Allows you to quick-change the nut driver after shearing its end off every time you use it.
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    kmikemoo over 1 year ago in reply to anniel747

     anniel747  Laughing  Because as beacon_dave says...     JoyJoy 

    beacon_dave said:
    Allows you to quick-change the nut driver after shearing its end off every time you use it.
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