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What’s one tool you own but never use? We are asking e14 in our Join, Share & Win Competition

E14Alice

Hello Everyone! 

Firstly, I would love to wish you all a Happy New Year! 

We’re back with another AskE14 question, and this one’s all about your tool stash! We all have that one tool tucked away in a drawer, gathering dust because we never seem to use it, or maybe you bought it for a project that never happened, or it just wasn’t as useful as you thought.

Here's the question: 

What’s one tool you own but never use, and why?

Is it something you regret buying? Something that looked cooler than it turned out to be? Or maybe something you think you should use more often, but never do?

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Competition Details

You'll have to be a member of the element14 Community to join in and take part in this “Join, Share & Win” challenge. It's simple, all you have to do is:


1. You need to make sure you are  Register  or Login
2. Then answer the following question by adding a reply or commenting!

    What’s one tool you own but never use, and why?

The Community team will then select the best 4 answers to win the UNO R4 Arduino! 

Entries close 1st February, so don't wait! 

This month, we are giving away:

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UNO R4 Minima

Terms and conditions 

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The Winners

  

  

  

  

  will be reaching out to you soon to confirm contact details

  • I bought a small wire MIG welder and small tank of gas about 9 years ago and have never used it.

  • in reply to ralphjy

    That reminds me, I have some pipe bending springs stashed away since 2001, along with a blowtorch ready for that impending plumbing emergency. The bending springs haven't been used yet but the blowtorch was used in Dec 2015 to warm up some tinned soup during a prolonged power outage. I now have a camping stove stashed away for that next prolonged power outage...

  • in reply to colporteur

    I tend to collect unused screws / nails that have been dropped by trades people on my lunchtime walks to prevent injury to guide dogs/wheelchair tyres. The OCD problem is finding ones that match, when you want to reuse them...

  • A cheap tool, in fact every cheap tool. I never use it because it does not do it's function well or at all. 

    Bought a set of 'precision' screwdrivers at the dollar store once. I never ever use the flat head drivers because their flat head is so thick that they don't fit in most slotted screws. Disappointed

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  • in reply to colporteur

    Nope, but I am thinking about recycling a wooden pallet into some sort of sprung acoustic board project for my step dance practise, before I wear a hole in the kitchen floor...

  • in reply to scottiebabe

    I can't pass up a good slide rule even though I don't use them anymore. Every once in a while, I'll grab my old one to make a calculation to the amazement of the new engineers.  The look on their faces.  Which brings up another question:  Do you ever buy something that is totally cool, but you know you're never use it?

  • in reply to colporteur

    Ah yes, all those screws left over from "kit" furniture, or from toys that got broken but from which I kept some electronics and the screws holding them together...
    And when I need some of those, it's always that they are not of the proper quantity, like I need 4 and only find 3!

  • Here are a couple of tools I lusted after for years. I finally obtained them ..... and have never used them:

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    Bonus points if you recognize them....

  • in reply to colporteur

    With the copper semi rigid it's really hard to maintain the minimum bend radius without a tool like this.  Although we always used X-ACTO knives to cut the copper shield...

  • in reply to beacon_dave

    I remember learning the hard way that you can't use a propane torch with the cannister above the nozzle.  I was trying to repair my copper main line down in a narrow 2 foot deep trench.  I had to dig the trench deeper to use the torch.