What is your favourite tool?

[Northern Bill]

My favourite tool is my angle grinder.  Yesterday I had to cut a bit off an old handlebar so I used a thin cut off wheel and it only took a couple of seconds to cut it.  A few weeks back I was making some aluminium brackets to custom fit  the front fender on my T3 so I cut the basic shape out of aluminium plate, again using a thin cut off wheel,  and then I used rough flap discs to finish off the curves and smooth ones to give the bracket a nice finish. My next    task is to make a seat for my T3 so I will need to cut some aluminium plate to make the base.  Besides all the uses making motorcycle parts I also use it to cut pipe, nails, and even composite hockey sticks to proper size.

[Guzzistajohn]

Kind of a toss up between the BFH alignment tool and the board stretcher<shrug>

[oldbike54]

Kind of a toss up between the BFH alignment tool and the board stretcher<shrug>

 All this time I thought your favorite tool was a fork   

 Dusty

[Darren Williams]

All this time I thought your favorite tool was a fork   

 Dusty

No, really it's his BGE! At least when I visit him, it's mine!

[antmanbee]

Forum decorum does not allow me to say.

My second favorite tool though may be my angle grinder which I have removed the half circle protective cover I use it often for many non intended uses.

[Hymes Inc.]

Angle grinder is one of the best. Be hard to choose though.

[drdwb]

Currently a toss up between my Harbor Freight bike lift and my welder, I've had the lift for about 10 years or so but every time I use it I'm impressed. I just got the welder for Xmas but it's been a blast playing with it,just started welding Aluminum last week,wish I would have purchased this years ago.

[fotoguzzi]

my camera..

[kirkemon]

Fork and spoon

[Ncdan]

My leatherman pocket tool

[bmc5733946]

I have many favorite tools. Some just feel right to my hand, I like that. Many I have had for more than 50 years so they are old acquaintances and some are even friends. I speak to many of them as I use them, usually words of encouragement, some times I scold them but only when they deserve it. I have a special drawer in one of my tool boxes devoted to tools that were owned and used by friends who've now departed, I don't use those tools. Because I used my tools to make my living I probably have a different relationship to them than most people, I'm also kind of weird.
Odd tool story, while I was employed by the Michigan Dept. of Transportation they supplied all of our tools. We had a yearly conference/training session that lasted a week. Half of the mechanics attended the first 2 1/2 days then the other half. During the first session one year a mechanic Joe had a heart attack and died after meetings were done for the day. The facility we used was a state owned facility and the Michigan Sate Police were also holding a session and many of them helped as we tried to save Joe after he collapsed. After we all returned to our work locations three of the locations received different small tools that Joe had ordered, miss addressed by the supplier. Not a one of us would use those tools, you know dead guy tools and all that. That's where I started the special tool drawer for those that passed.

Brian

[Testarossa]

Renovating the new-to-us old farmhouse has been a wonderful excuse to buy new and upgraded tools. Much use this week of a tile saw, trowel and float, winch, finish nailer, table saw -- certainly not motorcycle stuff. Most useful tool of all has been the cordless impact driver -- I should have an open-carry holster for the thing.

[azguzzirep]

CASH.

Saves me time, no busted knuckles, no dirty or torn clothes, no swearing, no sweating. I use it all the time 😊.

"Of all the labor saving devices ever created, money is still the best"  author unknown

[beetle]

My favourite tool....

[boatdetective]

My favourite tool....

Aaaaah- the elusive red bellied Roper. Often heard long before it is seen, the Roper can be found (as pictured here) within a short distance of its favorite watering hole. He guzzles down nectar while fluffing his wings and chattering aimlessly about disassembly sequence, Bhuddism, and animal husbandry.

[tris]

'Ammer 

Claw, sledge (7 pounder!) or planishing - I like them all

[Guzzistajohn]

No, really it's his BGE! At least when I visit him, it's mine!

You're prolly right Darren. Forgot 'bout the egg. I dreamed about smoking a brisket the other night🌶

[Sasquatch Jim]

 My rhinestone studded belly button brush.

[Sheepdog]

My Smithmaster rebound spring tool for Smith and Wesson revolvers. Most folks use a screwdriver or even a Bic pen, but this tool is a great deal more elegant and gets the job done without having to search the shop floor for springs that escape the rebound block. My DeWalt tabletop 13" Planer is pretty cool also.

[azguzzirep]

My rhinestone studded belly button brush.

Oh!, You got one of those, too!😂😂

[Idontwantapickle]

It has got to be my double-grip 2 wheel mono-track gas/grin converter. It's a '72.

 

Hunter

[azguzzirep]

My favourite tool....

In defence of my good friend Peter, the question is 'what' is your favorite tool, not 'who'. Otherwise, I'd  have to agree!😂😂

Love ya, Pete!!!

[sib]

....Most useful tool of all has been the cordless impact driver -- I should have an open-carry holster for the thing.

I'll second that.  I acquired a cordless rattle gun a couple of months ago and now I can't understand how I got through my first 75 years without one.  When you need one, nothing else will do, and it's a mystery how anything ever got built or disassembled before impact drivers were invented.

BTW, the pic of our colleague explains a lot.

[Lannis]

My battery load-tester.

In a world where no one believes that a battery that reads 12 volts could possibly be bad, or that batteries are bulletproof and just can't fail if you spent a lot of money on them, and where no one else can be arsed to spend $100 on a tool to test a $150 battery ....

... my load tester has given me, among those who have had their bike problems solved with it, god-like cult status as a Wizard, Order of Merlin, second class.    I wouldn't swap it for anything ....

Lannis

[Lumpy Idle]

fave? hmmmm. it changes with the task BUT i have to say in general terms it would have to be the 10" knipex plier wrench.

http://knipex-tools.com/index.php?id=1023&page=group_detail&parentID=1368&groupID=1500

it acts like a pliers, it acts like a wrench - and does a nice job as a flare nut wrench too. because it has flat jaws i can also use it to bend or straighten small sections of sheet metal. its pricey, absurdly so, as all knipex tools are yet that tool has to be my fave.

[Nic in Western NYS]

"What" or "who"?

[oldbike54]

 After contemplating on this question over night , maybe the best answer is my mind .

 OK OK , some of you are laughing now , but I do the best I can with what I have 

 Dusty

[Demar]

My favorite tool is something that I hope to use every day......



It is the little things.

[Phang]

fave? hmmmm. it changes with the task BUT i have to say in general terms it would have to be the 10" knipex plier wrench.

http://knipex-tools.com/index.php?id=1023&page=group_detail&parentID=1368&groupID=1500

it acts like a pliers, it acts like a wrench - and does a nice job as a flare nut wrench too. because it has flat jaws i can also use it to bend or straighten small sections of sheet metal. its pricey, absurdly so, as all knipex tools are yet that tool has to be my fave.

The cam at the move able jaw multiply the clamping force tremendously and the jaw moves in parallel too.  I have two of them in different sizes 

[Antietam Classic Cycle]

Dremel.