Surprisingly useful Amazon Tool Purchases

[beast556]

Also have Harbor Freight nearby and they have a lot of stuff. Nothing there is a lifetime buy but it can get you through a project.[/QUOTE]


As long as you know this harbor freight is great.

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As long as you know this harbor freight is great.

Yup. Also know there is a risk vs. reward ratio in there somewhere.

For example, when I stick this...

https://www.harborfreight.com/18-inc...net-37187.html

...in a header, pull up, and the magnetic is gone... I spend three hours looking for the magnetic afraid it's in the engine. Scoped every nook and cranny. All the holes were plugged.

Still don't know where that thing is.

[brutal]

I just bought one on Amazon. And a bunch of other magnets and magnetic stuff.

[meatman]

I've only used it a couple of times so far, but the rivet nut setter I bought on Amazon is pretty slick.

https://smile.amazon.com/dp/B003TODX..._t1_B073VK3B7S

[Grant H.]

Honestly, the impact feature doesn?t really engage. When it has... I feel weird saying this, but my dulling and breakage rates seem about the same. I am mostly a Harbor Freight and eBay drill index buyer, though, and backfill broken bits with quality.

Like I said, it's a personal preference thing. I'm coming from a metal fab/production mindset (we manufacture steel products for our industry) and drill bits have a way they like being treated, especially in metal, and LOTS of ways they don't. For the home shop? This is probably 100% good to go. Honestly, most cordless drills spin too fast for drill bits in their high range, but that's where most people use them. Extra heat, poor chip production, no lube, etc all leads to dead drill bits.

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Grant the Bosch daredevil spade bits love being run on an impact and are much less likely to catch on a knot in a floor joist and smack you in the face like running them in a high torque drill.

For wood, I see less of a problem, so that's good to know. Especially since we are adding radiant floor heating to my brothers house and putting the coils into the joist bays means drilling a number of holes.

[colorider]

The harbor freight composite ratchets are fantastic.

[Not_A_Llama]

Some others I use:
Decibel Meter
Pinch Weld jack adapter
Lil Brass hammer
Threaded inserts (makes modular/takedown furniture making reaaaally easy, esp. with my CNC router)
1-2-3 Blocks (guys that have taken them to metrology labs have found them surprisingly accurate - good deal even for just calibrating calipers)
Cooking thermometer (sorta not really a tool.. but sorta)
IR Thermometer
Stainless "Keychains"
"Free Rims in the hood" adapter. Never worry about locked lugnuts again. Actually not that useful, but for a couple times, but super invaluable then

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Some others I use:
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"Free Rims in the hood" adapter. Never worry about locked lugnuts again. Actually not that useful, but for a couple times, but super invaluable then

I put one of these in the trunk...

https://www.harborfreight.com/14-inc...nch-95932.html


So many times I've tried to help people and they either don't have the right wrench, or don't even know where it is!!!

[Irving]

Got my sideways screw driver thing in the mail yesterday. Ceramic knife sharpener rod should arrive today

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Look at what I found this morning!

Weeks after spending hours looking, completing the work, and worrying that was still somewhere in the engine!

I need to talk about my worries more on here. It really does solve problems.