What's your favorite and/or most used tool in your garage or shop?? I personally have 3 huge Snap-On tool cabenets loaded with goodies however, my favorite and most useful tool is my Leatherman Wave multitool. I use it on average about 10 times a day,, No Kidding! It makes me sick when I cannot take it on the plane with me. I guess you could consider a multi-tool to be more than one specific tool but that's my pick. Other than that, my Snap-On cordless impact kicks ass too. Anyway, what "instruments of distruction" can you call your best friend in the garagre?
Bring It On!
Adam

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Current Stable:
01 ML55 AMG
92 500E (a few mods)
87 300E (lots of mods)
00 Chevy 3500HD Diesel Box Truck
68 18' Donzi Marine
06 GT i-Drive7 1.0 Mountain Bike (with GPS!)

PREVIOUSLY OWNED:83 300SD, 87 420SEL, 88 420SEL, 90 420SEL, 86 560SEL, 86 190E 2.3-16V AMG, 94 E320

Your a lucky man to have all of that.....

I find you can never have enough tools....but then this comes from a guy without enough tools.

A leatherman is about the greatest thing since sliced bread however, I agree about that.

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1971 280SE W108
1979 300SD W116
1983 300D W123
1975 Ironhead Sportster chopper
1987 GMC 3/4 ton 4X4 Diesel
1989 Honda Civic (Heavily modified)
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Howdy All,
My most used tool is my Leatherman.

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Frank X. Morris
17 Kia Niro
08 Jeep Wrangler 4 door unlimited

When I lived and worked in Alaska just about everyone carried a Leatherman. To this day I feel naked if I'm without it. Those were the pre 911 days and when I flew up there I just threw it in my carry on with the rest of my tool belt (pliers and Buck knife). I can't imagine that happening anymore.

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1983 300-D turbo
1985 300-D turbo
1959 Harley Panhead chopper
1929 Ford coupe restored
I hang out with Boneheaddoctor at Schuman Automotive OBK#5
All liberals are mattoids but not all mattoids are liberal.

Nowadays, my favorite tools are all software. Back in the day, it'd be a toss-up between my Sun LS2000 DSO and my scan-tool laptop.

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1989 300 SEL that mostly works, but needs TLC

I *really* hope to have a huge snap-on cabinet someday, but for now i'll have to settle for my 50 pc husky metric set. Does everything i need it to do, and for little odds and ends i use my allied set(HUUUUGE peice of ****, dont ever use the sockets for anything with more than 5lbs of force or they will snap in two). Allied has a pretty good warranty program though, which i know alll too well.
Ryan

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83 300SD.......sold
96 integra SE....sold
99 a4 quattro....sold
2001 IS300.......sold
2002 330i.........current.
2004 highlander limited....current.

I am in the military and have carrried a Leatherman and a Swiss Army knife on my belt since 1985. I just don't leave home without them. If I have to fly I put them in my checked luggage. If I am in dress clothes I carry them in my puter bag. As far as big tools I love my cutting torches, mig welder, cut-off saws and my big wood working tools. Tools and guns...ya just can't have enough. The cordless drill has to be the best invention in the last 50 years.

My kids help me keep my tools out in the lawn. They're easy to find if you set the mower low enough.

B

I guess right now it's my air compressor. It of course, powers my tools that are being used in the process of stripping out the interior of the bus, as well as working on parts that I'm trying to restore. What the air tools can't do, the ol' crowbar makes up for. The destruction of course, is always the funnest part.

In the garage, my favorite and most used tool is a 24oz ball peen hammer. Yeah, I know it sounds stone age. But when ya work on older cars, so many things need a little "encouragement". You can tap lightly when needed or you can wail on whatever when really needed.
Case in point: leaking rear seal on 4spd auto trany on 4x4 suburban. Finally got to the seal and it's kinda buried up in the back of the trany. Has a snap ring holding it in there. Expensive machined aliminum case all around it and equally expensive output shaft thru the middle of it. No way was I going to be able to just pluck it out with my seal removal tool. But a small punch and the hammer and I had a nice hole in the middle of the seal. I slipped the hook of the seal remover into the hole and out popped the seal with nary a scratch to the case or the output shaft.
I suspect we use hammers so much, we don,t even realize we are doing it. For the record, I do carry a Swiss Army knife with me all the time.

This is one of my fave tools lately...I use it at work.
You can cut all kinds of stuff with these snips. I have a second pair that I use at home. Tough little tool.

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09 Jetta TDI
1985 300D

Yeah, right! That's a KLEIN! You aren't priviledged enough yet to have a KLEIN. Stick with your Jameson!

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84 500SEL EURO 101K ( JUST LIKE MY 1ST WIFE. GLAD TO GET RID OF HER! )
85 300D 310K (sold)
90 350SDL 184K sold
83 300D 118K (sold)
88 300E 153k (sold)
93 400E 105K (sold)

Yesterday, my favorite tool was the 5 lb. sledge. I had to remove the idler arms from the Dodge Van, and these idler arms were on there since 1989.

I never would have believed that the idler arm could withstand the pounding of a sledgehammer for 20 blows.

Finally heated the arm up in an attempt to get it to release. Took an additional 20 blows, as hard as I possibly could, right on the face of the nut, to knock it loose.

Of course, the nut would not come back off the threads after that episode.

So, the favorite tool immediately became the oxy/acetelyne torch.

Oh I bought a pair of Kleins before the Jamesons came in. Besides, the Klein cable knife is waaaay better than the Jameson*. The Klein is actually sharp

*In my opinion (just incase some tool wants to sue me)

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It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so. Robert A. Heinlein


09 Jetta TDI
1985 300D

Just look at the Jameson knife, and then the Klein knife....You can clearly see the difference. I don't need to point out which one feels better in your hand.

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It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acquires the political power to do so. Robert A. Heinlein


09 Jetta TDI
1985 300D