What tools?

It would depend on what you are doing. Perhaps you should use the search feature. This has been answered many times for many different types of scrappers.

Basic, regardless would be a pair of side cutters or tin snips and a small sledge hammer. Then, like Jim said, it depends on what type of stuff you intend to scrap. I use a cordless drill for screwdriver bits, a grinder and Sawzall a lot. But I also use a tractor with forks and bucket a lot, too.

You can make a free cordless drill. (its handy to have several with different bits in each)

By using a old ones & connecting up a car battery to the inner contacts in the drill.

Normally they die & get thrown out because of the dud rechargeable battery.

Old garden loppers are great for cutting thru copper wire & tubing, just regrind the sharp edges with a grinder to sharpen them up, don't use much 'side force' (twisting them as you cut) & they last for quite a while.

To break Ali tubing & or extrusion, make a nice sharp cut with a hacksaw or file where you want to break it, just 1 mm deep is enough, now bend it at the cut so the cuts on the outside of the bend.
It'll snap there quite easily.

Here's the one's I bought for doing computer and other e-scrap, the blue one seems to last longer on a charge. $19.95 each, the blue one I got from Menards, the other Ace hardware. You just push a button and you twist it for getting into tight places. The 6" bits are real handy for taking screws out of tv's and monitors. Be sure to read up on discharging a tv before attempting a teardown.

Originally Posted by High Voltage Processing

It would depend on what you are doing. Perhaps you should use the search feature. This has been answered many times for many different types of scrappers.

Originally Posted by Mick

Basic, regardless would be a pair of side cutters or tin snips and a small sledge hammer. Then, like Jim said, it depends on what type of stuff you intend to scrap. I use a cordless drill for screwdriver bits, a grinder and Sawzall a lot. But I also use a tractor with forks and bucket a lot, too.

^^^^Why didn't you back him up? considering this members first thread, H.V.P had the perfect response IMO..

Originally Posted by Torker Man

^^^^Why didn't you back him up? considering this members first thread, H.V.P had the perfect response IMO..

Nothing against HPV and I sometimes also say to do a search. In this case, I simply felt like giving a direct response - he'd already gotten the "do a search" response. No use in "piling on".

Originally Posted by Mick

Nothing against HPV and I sometimes also say to do a search. In this case, I simply felt like giving a direct response - he'd already gotten the "do a search" response. No use in "piling on".

T'is the Season after all.

And don't forget to yourself a magnet. It'll become your best friend in this biz.

Originally Posted by skylinejackjr

And don't forget to yourself a magnet. It'll become your best friend in this biz.

Top Shot !!!!^^^^^^ +1
This is a definite "must have"

Depending on the job the option of a bring along vice would be very helpful. Great thougt putting on a hitch so you can secure it with the receiver. Mike.

One guy at our local yard has an old pipe vise mounted on the bed rail of his truck. You can clamp some odd shaped things in one to disassemble. Something a plumber used to use. Top one.