Essential tools?
Magnet, - The one I got as a keyring from the scrappers, then broken microwave magnets, 3x stronger than a speaker magnet.
I also put my tools in a icecream container when I'm working on cars. Then I get another Icecream container & put some magnets in the bottom of it, then I put the tool container into it.
That way the magnets hold the tools inside the container & I can have the magnets stick the container to the cars body so It won't move & I keep my tools.
Axe, - Actually a log splitter head (1 square end & 1 axe end) with metal tube welded on as a handle & a gusset from head to handle, curved end on handle.
Great for smashing Ali parts up & hacking car dashes off & out.
Sidecutters, - Great for cutting wires under dashs & seats & thru car panels. Or Tinsnips. I keep loosing them....
Screwdriver,- The sort thats in car tool kits, double ended. At least two of them.
Loose em - find em. Easy.
Torch,- Great at night. I also paint all the tools with dayglo UV paint & have a UV LED torch too.
That way I can find the tools in the darkness. Bloody great idea eh?
However, I have stripped the wiring out of 3 trucks & more cars than I can remember,
IN COMPLETE DARKNESS.!!!
Cresant- Adjustable spanner, 6 inch. Small socket set from $2 shop. Handy. Maybe Allen (Hex) keys too.
Angle Grinder,- 9 Inch cutting off disc (on special @ NZ$3.50 at the moment). Need I say more?
Crowbar,- When I don't have the axe & have to carry my tools.
Plastic sacks,- used. White for Stainless, Dirty white for Ali, clean Orange for Brass, dirty Orange for (burnt) Copper.
I like sacks, I can put all the scrap metalscrap metalscrap metalscrap metal in them & carry it home 15 - 20 min walk, then clean everything down & sort into sacks.
Sacks don't weigh much so they don't take the weight into consideration when weighing the metal.
They take off a Kg for plastic paint pails... means a $9 loss with copper.
I try & cram as much Ali into them as possible.
When not full of Copper etc, I cut the sack down & make a handle on it too.
Sack Scale,- Its a hanging spring scale, goes up to 12 Kg. Accurate too.
To weigh more than 12Kg, I put the hook into one top corner of the sack & grab the other top corner & lift it up, level like, then double the reading, still accurate.
Bench Vise,- keeps thing where you put them.
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