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TOOLS AND THE SHOP => MECHANIC HAND TOOLS WE USE => Topic started by: stokester on January 19, 2020, 08:01:56 PM

Title: Picks
Post by: stokester on January 19, 2020, 08:01:56 PM
Before I started working full-time as an auto mechanic there were a few small picks in my hobby toolbox.

I realized quickly that this was going to have to change and pulling the cotter pin from my floor jack this weekend reminded me how much this particular back scratcher was used.  It is well designed with multiple angles and a good reach for pulling and prying.
Title: Re: Picks
Post by: slip knot on January 19, 2020, 08:19:26 PM
I finally bought a set of the longer ones a while back. Still kicking myself for not getting them sooner.
Title: Re: Picks
Post by: fatfillup on January 20, 2020, 12:29:56 PM
Some tools just make the job easier.  Its not that you can't get buy without  them but a good assortment of tools will lower the frustration factor and make projects go quicker
Title: Re: Picks
Post by: DeadNutz on January 20, 2020, 02:46:51 PM
Some tools just make the job easier.  Its not that you can't get buy without  them but a good assortment of tools will lower the frustration factor and make projects go quicker

And Phil just happens to have the tools for sale. :))
Title: Re: Picks
Post by: muddy on January 20, 2020, 08:32:39 PM
And after awhile (and a few visits to the Fatman's) you'll need more storage for said tools....

Sent from the twisted mind of the Mudman

Title: Re: Picks
Post by: goodfellow on January 20, 2020, 09:18:00 PM
And after awhile (and a few visits to the Fatman's) you'll need more storage for said tools....

Sent from the twisted mind of the Mudman



I'll vouch for that. Phil's place is like a crackhouse for tool freaks.
Title: Re: Picks
Post by: stokester on January 21, 2020, 01:43:10 PM
And after awhile (and a few visits to the Fatman's) you'll need more storage for said tools....

Sent from the twisted mind of the Mudman



I'll vouch for that. Phil's place is like a crackhouse for tool freaks.
Hope he has another get-together this year and I can make the trip north.
Title: Re: Picks
Post by: fatfillup on January 21, 2020, 05:09:38 PM
Commit to the trip and we'll come up with a date.  Can't be the third Saturday in March,  that is the rat rod show
Title: Re: Picks
Post by: bonneyman on January 21, 2020, 06:24:23 PM
And after awhile (and a few visits to the Fatman's) you'll need more storage for said tools....

Sent from the twisted mind of the Mudman



I'll vouch for that. Phil's place is like a crackhouse for tool freaks.

 :))
Title: Re: Picks
Post by: bonneyman on January 21, 2020, 06:27:58 PM
Commit to the trip and we'll come up with a date.  Can't be the third Saturday in March,  that is the rat rod show

Sorry I can't make this one - the Mrs will probably eat up the vacation budget visiting family up north. I'll have to drown my loneliness with pizza and scary movies!
Title: Re: Picks
Post by: muddy on January 21, 2020, 09:08:04 PM
Commit to the trip and we'll come up with a date.  Can't be the third Saturday in March,  that is the rat rod show
I'm gonna try and get down again. to that this year maybe

Sent from the twisted mind of the Mudman

Title: Re: Picks
Post by: fatfillup on January 22, 2020, 02:41:12 AM
Oops, that is the 3rd Saturday in May  :-*
Title: Re: Picks
Post by: stokester on January 23, 2020, 12:26:28 PM
Oops, that is the 3rd Saturday in May  :-*
I'm committed to a motorcycle rally at Natural Bridge that weekend so it's out for me as well.  That is what caused me to miss it last year.

What is your location again?
Title: Re: Picks
Post by: Uncle Buck on January 23, 2020, 10:22:28 PM
Just too far for me. Man, I so wish I could go.
Title: Re: Picks
Post by: fatfillup on January 24, 2020, 11:32:57 PM
Finksburg Maryland
Title: Re: Picks
Post by: lauver on January 28, 2020, 11:32:14 PM
Stokester,

I've recently added a set of looong picks  to my arsenal.  I had lots of the micro picks and a few improvised medium length picks, but no long heavy duty picks. 

Wow, are they handy and sweet!!!

I should have bought them a long time ago :)