Most value for money tool in the tool box.

Draper part nos M302

It's a mirror on a long bendy spring and red handle. Cost me £1 at the
market.
Just earned it's keep again to find out where the pipes run when putting
in a new bathroom.

 

If it moves, and shouldn't - Gaffer Tape
If it doesn't move, and should - WD40

And both for a couple of quid each - what more do you need? You can
even use the WD40 to wash your hands afterwards...., it can't get any
better. Oh yes it can - in a real scrape you could drink the WD40....
maybe not.....

I know these are not exactly "tools", but their elevated status in
usefulness is without question!

 

Mick Whittingham wrote

A mirror-on-a-stick is fine but within that particular family of tools
the magnet-on-a-stick is the truly unbeatable one, as anyone who has
ever actually had cause to use or witness one in use will tell you.

 

Mine was(1) a 14mm plug socket that fitted perfectly inside an old
ex army lorry plug spanner. Just the right combination of length and
twist to get most any bike plugs out.


1. I lent it to a Brazillian. It's gone now.

 

In

Oh yes!


In a similar vein a Snap On extended grab thingy (non TM) has proved
useful in the past when a rubber seal/ o ring etc has dropped down a cam
tunnel.

--
Steve Parry

http://www.gwynfryn.co.uk

K100RS SE
F650
(not forgetting the SK90PY)

 

Oh yes!

In a similar vein - a magnet on a telesccopic stick thing - like an old
car aerial, has proved very useful for grabbing dropped sparkplugs out
of deep sockets.

 

<Mark W>

Pah! You could fabricate a grabber, with Duck Tape and the little red
plastic bit from a WD40 can.

</MW>

 

HooDooWitch wrote

A welding rod and blu-tac

 

Yeah, they're so bloody useful when the stainless washer that's dropped
down the crevass is teetering on the brink of falling into the depths of
the engine but beyond reach of the grease on a screwdriver .....

.... oh so fucking superb. I'm so glad I've got a toolbox full of them.

 

Turd on a stick. Both a plaything and a weapon of terror as the situation
demands.

 

sweller wrote

My big screwdriver/chishel/crowbar is magnetic enough to lift a small
washer. Or at least it has become so over the years.

 

is the beers http://www.toocoolkits.com/prod-toocool.htm

 

Using the patented Mavis Beacon "Hunt&Peck" Technique, flashgorman

You've been to Nairobi then? Favourite trick there amongst the local
beggars is to come up to your car window with one hand out, and the
other full of shit. If you pay up, the shit doesn't come in through the
window.

You soon learn to keep the windows shut and the doors locked...

 

steve auvache wrote in

always kept a range of screwdrivers on a magnet in the tool cupboard for
retrieving those bloody e rings [1]that Xerox insisted on using during
copier/printer assembly

[1] sure they make assembly quick but make a mess of the photoreceptors
when they get into the wrong place after the inevitable e ring bun fights
that bored assembly workers have

 

Yorkshire actually.

Same trick. Different shit.

 

But probably not a non magnetic stainless one ...

 

you.

Comes a close second to the 3-grabby-prongs-on-the-end-of-a-stick
in my armoury.

--
Cammo
VT500 Rat
GSX750SE Katana
GT250-X7
GT380
http://cammo.webs.bikers-engine.com
cammo at bikers-engine dot com

 

BFO adjustable wrench.

Undoes anything and if it won't undo, batters it into submission.

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, Chris H#2 said:

The petrol pump ones are nice as well.

Worth keeping the URL for when I (finally) get my new place.

Cheers

 

Oooooooh... nobody said it yet... my turn! my turn!

Angle grinder