Specialty tools

[Ghoste]

Just for fun, at what point do you pull the trigger on buying a specialty tool?  I typically find that if I have to borrow one from somebody more than three times within approximately a 24 month period I will usually buy one for myself.

[elacruze]

I was always a professional mechanic, so for me it was purchase after the second time I borrowed one.


OTOH sometimes nobody had what I needed, so my box is full of tools I paid $80 for and made $60 with one time.

[Fred]

Tools are worth there weight in gold. They improve the job at hand 100%. I never skimp on them. I need it, I buy it.

[tan top]

 just bought  what i need  over the years !!  have everything   in the garages at home !  should the need arise
can do anyjob .
apart from  engine machining  / chrome plating /  wheel balancing / tire fitting  ,  

[A383Wing]

I usually buy it after 2 times on borrowing one....and I have done that, never to use that tool again

Bryan

[69rtse4spd]

Most the time nobody has what I need, so I either buy it or make it. But through the  years have gotten about everthing I needed. Now I am building engine run stands & all the other stuff I do not really need but something to do. More than twice is the limit.   

[Chryco Psycho]

I am the guy people look to for help so I have very few people to borrow from so if the tool is needed I buy it , I may not make much on the first job but it will pay back on the 2-3 job .

[John_Kunkel]

I am a confessed "tool freak", even if I don't anticipate a lot of usage I'll still buy the tool; the exception is when the tool is really expensive, then I pause.

[Cooter]

IF the tool is cheap enough, I buy it. If it's expensive and looks to be fairly simple, I buy it, take it to one of my buddies with CNC, get it "Copied" and return it.

[bull]

If it's something I'm pretty sure I'll only use once I usually won't bother unless it's dirt cheap. A lot of the time I can cobble something together and get it to work as long as it's needed, but other times I've had to cave in and cough up the dough.

[Silver R/T]

I always buy tools that I know I'll use more than once.

[68X426]

Just for fun, at what point do you pull the trigger on buying a specialty tool?  I typically find that if I have to borrow one from somebody more than three times within approximately a 24 month period I will usually buy one for myself.

You already have lots of hammers, why would you want a specialty hammer? 

[Ghoste]

Sometimes you just need a newer shinier one with frickin lasers on it. 

[Tilar]

I used to figure the cost of the tool vs the labor I would lose by not having it. Now if it will save me a busted knuckle it's in one of my tool boxes. If I had all the money i've spent on tools over the course of my lifetime I could easily buy another house.

[Fred]

or at the very least a shed.

[Tilar]

or at the very least a shed.

lol yeah... One with a concrete floor, plenty of insulation, heat and big enough to put my cars in. 

[JB400]

I am the guy people look to for help so I have very few people to borrow from so if the tool is needed I buy it , I may not make much on the first job but it will pay back on the 2-3 job .

Just don't loan them out to anybody, they don't come back.

[Fred]

I am the guy people look to for help so I have very few people to borrow from so if the tool is needed I buy it , I may not make much on the first job but it will pay back on the 2-3 job .

Just don't loan them out to anybody, they don't come back.

Boy have I learnt that lesson.

The two things you never lend to anyone, your tools and your Mrs. because they're guaranteed to ome back f****ed! 

[JB400]

I am the guy people look to for help so I have very few people to borrow from so if the tool is needed I buy it , I may not make much on the first job but it will pay back on the 2-3 job .

Just don't loan them out to anybody, they don't come back.

Boy have I learnt that lesson.

The two things you never lend to anyone, your tools and your Mrs. because they're guaranteed to ome back f****ed! 

Then there's that possibity of neither one coming back:-)

[Fred]

I am the guy people look to for help so I have very few people to borrow from so if the tool is needed I buy it , I may not make much on the first job but it will pay back on the 2-3 job .

Just don't loan them out to anybody, they don't come back.

Boy have I learnt that lesson.

The two things you never lend to anyone, your tools and your Mrs. because they're guaranteed to ome back f****ed! 

Then there's that possibity of neither one coming back:-)

I'd be really upset if I didn't get my tools back. 

[Tilar]

I am the guy people look to for help so I have very few people to borrow from so if the tool is needed I buy it , I may not make much on the first job but it will pay back on the 2-3 job .

Just don't loan them out to anybody, they don't come back.

Boy have I learnt that lesson.

The two things you never lend to anyone, your tools and your Mrs. because they're guaranteed to ome back f****ed!  

Then there's that possibity of neither one coming back:-)

I'd be really upset if I didn't get my tools back.  

That sounds like a guy I used to work with. He had a friend, and they used to go out fishing a lot.  His wife ended up running off with his fishing buddy and he used to tell people "My wife ran off with my fishing buddy, and I sure do miss him."  

[Ghoste]

Do any of you guys own Chrysler specialty tools?  That is to say the ones the dealerships were forced to buy back in the day such as torsion bar removal tool.

[Cooter]

Do any of you guys own Chrysler specialty tools?  That is to say the ones the dealerships were forced to buy back in the day such as torsion bar removal tool.

Funny you asked this question about T-bars Ghoste, as i just swapped my first ever set of upgrade T-bars. i never cared before, but since driving my factory BB Charger, I decided to upgrade the challenger's bars to the .960 Bars from MP.
I made my T-bar removal tool based on what I've seen out there. I did have to buy the Ball joint sockets.(Both). A friend said he could make me a set like he had, but never came through.

[hemi71x]

Do any of you guys own Chrysler specialty tools?  That is to say the ones the dealerships were forced to buy back in the day such as torsion bar removal tool.

I have 1965, 66, 68, 69 special tool kits that i purchased from time to time, in the past.
A few of those tools have saved my ass in many a repair.
But some of them i never used, and most likely never will.

And the official Miller Special Tools, torsion bar removal tool, in the last pictures.
Ya, that one has been beat on quite a few times, removing some very stubborn bars.