/diy/ - Do It Yourself

[Anonymous No.579743]

What are your top 5 favorite tools in your entire arsenal?

For me it's:

1. Dremel - cordless

2. X-tronic soldering station w/ hot air and power supply

3. My custom version of "helping hands". Made with heavy duty alligator clips, gooseneck tubing, and hard drive magnets for a strong magnetic base.

4. 4 1/2 angle grinder with a bunch of attachments (cut off, wire wheel, diamond blade, etc.)

5. 12v Milwaukee M12 impact driver

Whats yours?

[Anonymous No.579752]

I don't do any big projects, but I do enjoy scratch building parts for models. So my top five tools would be:

1) X-acto knife, that thing is awesome and can be used for anything

2) Needle files

3) Dremel

4) Micro punch set

5) Miniature needle nose pliers

[Anonymous No.579766]

>>579743
Single-speed Rotary Tool (Dremel)
Resistance Solderer (DIY)
Crosscut Saw (Ace brand)
Hand Drill (antique)
Bench Sander (HFT)

Those are my most used items that are not screw drivers, hammers, or pliers.

[Anonymous No.579819]

1)ratchet/box set

2)crowbar

3)measuring tape

4)sledgehammer

5)18v Bosch impact drill

[Anonymous No.579870]

Whats the best ratcheting screwdriver, /diy/?

[Anonymous No.579878]

>>579870
Wiha makes some that actually don't suck.

[Anonymous No.579896]

>>579870
My friend bought a snap-on ratcheting screwdriver when he was 15 (he's 29 now) and he says it's definitely one of his favorite tools

[Anonymous No.579907]

1. DeWalt radial arm saw (1970's)
2. Buffalo Forge drill press (1950's)
3. Makita 1/4th inch die grinder
4. Evaporust
5. No-name socketed screwdriver

[Anonymous No.579938]

>>579870
Check out wera
It's gud shit

1. Ratchet hammer
2. Mig welder
3. Blasting cabinet
4. Vernier gauge
5. Magnetic laser level

[Anonymous No.579965]

1-5 Army swiss knife.

This stuff is just perfect for small scale amateur woodcarving

[Anonymous No.579980]

>>579743

1) oscope
2) logic analyzer
3) bench multimeter
4) soldering station
5) engineering paper

[doctorfag No.579983]

1-5 Swiss army knife.

This stuff is just perfect for small scale amateur woodcarving

[Anonymous No.580018]

Klein lineman pliers
Dremmel
Multi-bit precision screwdriver
olfa blade
Sog powerlock multitool(Is that cheating? If so, than i guess a good pair of side cutters)

[Anonymous No.580020]

>>579743
>1. Dremel - cordless
Dremel & cordless, not either for me.

My list:
1. X-Acto type knives + various blades. Have 9 or 10 by now, built up over the years. Very handy not to have to change blade but just reach for a new handle.
2. Needles files, conventional and diamond.
3. Variable speed motor tool with speed control in the brick, not in the handpiece. Was temped to put this first because of all the stuff that I can ONLY do but I use the knives and files more and there's plenty I do with it that can be done by hand, just more slowly.
4. Box of bits of all kits for the motor tool including cutoff wheels, grinding heads, burrs, silicone rubber tips, buffing & polishing wheels.
5. Diamond plates, use them for sharpening my craft knives and my kitchen knives.

+ shoutout to my SAK, which I've used much over the last 30 years.

[Anonymous No.580069]

1. Tosense 3-in-1 Plasma/tig/arc welder (Not great, but gets the job done. Saving up for a Weldanpower)
2, Angle Grinder- I bought 4 on sale at China Freight so each one could be a dedicated device (i.e., one is solely a wire-wheel, one is solely a grinder, etc)
3. "Pony" Vice
4. Ball Peen Hammer
5. Leatherman Wave (For when that screwdriver/pliers is just too far away...)

[Anonymous No.580115]

1. wrench set for car maintenance
2. my trusty small phillips screwdriver used for electronics disassembly
3. soldering gun
4. a pair of combined pliers
5. WD40 lol.

[Anonymous No.580126]

>>579743
TIG/Stick/plasma and mig welders all count as one because i said so
metal lathe
milling machine
thermoplastic welder
Milwaukee portaband

[Anonymous No.580265]

>>579743
> 3. My custom version of "helping hands". Made with heavy duty alligator clips, gooseneck tubing, and hard drive magnets for a strong magnetic base.

care to post an annotated pic of that, sounds interesting

[Anonymous No.580280]

Gooseneck tubing harvested from cheap usb led lights (ebay)

Magnets from old hard drives

alligator clamps from digikey:
http://www.digikey.com/product-detail/en/BU-48B/314-1029-ND/304593

Tech tip: Don't use JB weld on the magnets. It's ferromagnetic due to the iron in it. It wont stay put, It gets sucked to the magnet. Fun to play with a glob of it though.

[Anonymous No.580449]

>>580280
Good bodge, TVM. Gives me a few ideas on how I'd like to build my own.

[Anonymous No.580495]

Say I got a dead Dremel battery

And gutted it and put a step-down transformer to 12V into it

Do you think I would die?

Or would it work off the mains?

[Anonymous No.580538]

>>580495

That battery is 12 volts DC (if it in fact is 12 volts). Putting 12 volts AC into that motor is probably not a great idea unless its a universal motor. I don't know if it is or it isn't or how to tell without ripping it apart.

You can always rebuild the battery, thats not hard. Either way you'd be better off getting a real corded die grinder and stop messing around with this hobby level stuff.

[Anonymous No.580632]

1. Tesa Dial caliper - 0.01mm graduations. Still only accurate to 0.02 like every other caliper, but easier to read.
2. Blake Co-ax indicator - makes clocking up holes in the mill quick work
3. 10" Crescent
4. Thor #2 copper/hide hammer
5. Etalon 0-25mm Micrometer

No prizes for guessing my occupation.

[Anonymous No.580677]

I guess if we are talking about hand tools

1. 8" Mitutoyo IP67 digital caliper
2. Calculator
3. Brown and Sharpe .00005" dial test indicator with noga mag base.
4. 0-12" Mitutoyo .0001 mic set
5. 0-6" Mitutoyo .001 depth mic.

[Anonymous No.580699]

>>580632
Cobbler? Candle Maker? Hot air balloon mechanic? What are you?

[Anonymous No.580708]

CNC Mill
CNC Lathe
Laser Cutter
Computer
3D Printer

[Anonymous No.580718]

>>580699

Professional cock assessment clerk

[Anonymous No.580736]

>>580677
>imperial

absolutely disgusting.

[Mule No.580748]

>Fluke 187
>WESD51
>19.2V 1/4" impact gun
>Bluetooth-to-OBDII/CAN interface
>Carb cleaner

>Not really a tool, but I'd also have to add McMaster, DigiKey, and ExpressPCB.

Pic kinda related, my bucket.

[Anonymous No.580752]

Why do jigsaws get no love?

[Anonymous No.580764]

>>580708
Your order is wrong.

Computer
Low end 3d printer
CNC mill (3 axis)
Band saw (horizontal)
Welder (manual, wire feeder)
CNC lathe (live tooling, bar feeder)
Forklift
Laser Cutter (4kw)
CNC mill (5 axis)
Welding robot (6 axis)
3D metal printer


Sprinkle some casting, vacuum forming, powder coating and filament winding gear in as you see fit.

[Anonymous No.580812]

>>580752
cause they have a "funky" name, and tend to cut wildly.

[Anonymous No.580880]

>Band saw
>heat gun
>orbital sander
>5-in-1
>kukri

[Anonymous No.580885]

Block plane.
Engineers square.
Combination square
Portable table saw
Vice

[Anonymous No.581021]

>>580752
dont worry anon, i love my jigsaw.
>>580812
came with two 'speed' and two 'clean' blades. cleans cut like shit because i can never be bothered waiting and end up put too much pressure on it

>>580885
>vice
closest thing to clamps in this thread which are essential btw

[Anonymous No.581024]

>>580764
i agree with the comp, but no to the 3d printer

[Anonymous No.581028]

1)3 pound dressed cross-peen hammer
2)250lb anvil
3)tongs
4)chisel
5)slitting chisel
Pretty much ass I use actually, except for some sanding and grinding to finish a rare knife or two.

[Anonymous No.581554]

lincoln ac225
harbor freight angle grinder
hi lift jack
dewalt drill
harbor freight sawzall

[Anonymous No.581564]

my arsenal isn't that big but honorable mention goes to my autoshutter weld mask.

Also digital caliper saves sooo much time.

[Anonymous No.581581]

1. Corded Dremel
2. 60w Soldering Iron
3. 600/1200W Heat Gun
4. A ton of varying AC ad DC power supplies
5. Overhead LED light so I can see everything.