favorite tool?

roch

Member
What is your favorite tool when working on your layout or trains that you use the most and just can't live without?

Mine is a flashlight. No matter how careful I am or how many lights from different angles I have going I always manage to drop something very small that never lands where I thought it may have. wall1 I keep it in my pocket so as not to step on lost whatever while trying to figure out where I put the flashlight. :mrgreen:

Roch
 

Russ Bellinis

Active Member
In my case it is always a tool that I have and need, but can't find at the moment. Of course, if I go out and buy a replacement tool, I'm guarranteed to find it right after the new tool is purchased!
 

roch

Member
In my case it is always a tool that I have and need, but can't find at the moment. Of course, if I go out and buy a replacement tool, I'm guarranteed to find it right after the new tool is purchased!

I hear that loud and clear. :eek: That is why I found the brightest flashlight I could and am going over every square inch of my work area looking for lost parts before I shop vac it. I am most certain that I have a missing rail car sucked up in the vac and a bunch of tiny parts. wall1 The car I will look for. The others are in railroad purgatory. :mrgreen:

Roch
 
N

nachoman

Right now it is rail cutting pliers. Another favorite is my set of jewler's files (that are getting dull :()

Kevin
 

tetters

Rail Spiking Fool!
I just got a pair of spiking pliers. Oh my goodness...I cannot tell you how much easier these suckers have made my life when spiking rail. So nice.
 

roch

Member
A fully stocked fridge with a bottle opener built in. Behind the bar of course. aussie

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But seriously, glue of some sort, paint and everything involved with that.

I know that is more than one thing, but what the heck.

Roch
 

roch

Member
My new favorite tool is something most people are born with. Also pretty dificult to misplace. :mrgreen:

My fingers! sign1
Great for just about everything. Best thing I have used to spread plaster with. Cleanup is a snap. he he he
 

MadHatter

Charging at full tilt.
Milktart, cookies, Coca- Cola, Friends...

I don't have one favourite tool, but I hate not being able to go on because I don't have a certain tool etc...
 

roch

Member
Milktart, cookies, Coca- Cola, Friends...

I don't have one favourite tool, but I hate not being able to go on because I don't have a certain tool etc...

Go on, enjoy and list all you want. My favorite tools change from day to day. Have fun, this is a happy thread. :wave:

Roch
 

nkp174

Active Member
I have a 30+yr old craftsman kit waycar kit. The instructions read:
"I'm not even going to begin to give a step by step procedure. This kit is not for beginners. Should troubles arise, an advanced modeler might want to consider switching to the harder stuff".

So, it's even called out in some instructions to have your bottle opener handy!
 
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