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Tools 9 years 7 months ago #106673
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I recently acquired some critical tools for the shop. A map gas torch a lifting eye a cherry picker and a 6" vice. So far the vice is my favorite. Which brings me to my question what's your favorite tool to have around the shop when your working on your fiberglassics or accessory?
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Re:Tools 9 years 7 months ago #106676
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Knowledge
 and a good source of what I do not know. Your in the right place.
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Re:Tools 9 years 7 months ago #106678
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I think my favorite has to be the vibrating "multi-tool" Seymour. I'm sure the pro level name brand variety would be much nicer, but the discount brand HF tool I bought serves my purposes well. Never new how handy they were to have around until I bought one, can't imagine doing without it now.
AND, Robert has a darn good point as well. Technically speaking, FiberGlassics is THE best tool in the "tool box"! |
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Re:Tools 9 years 7 months ago #106679
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And mine is will always be my Swiss Army pocketknife. I've had one in my pocket since my dad gave me one at age 13! I think I'm on about the 8th one. I find it handy on a daily basis. Working on an old boat, there are many times it is useful as it's essentially a multitool. Especially the toothpick function that allows me to clean the BBQ during a lunch break!
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Hello, World!!
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Re:Tools 9 years 7 months ago #106680
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One of the greatest tools is knowing that you don't know what you are doing and when to stop and research. and not being afraid to try.
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Re:Tools 9 years 7 months ago #106689
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You are very right this place is amazing when your stumped!! I made the mistake one of thinking I knew exactly what I was doing added another cheap easy floor to my boat so I could get it on the water. I took a sheet of plywood cut it to fit and screwed it in... Withouth seeing what I was attaching too. So I ended up with about 16 screws through the bottom of my boat. That I didint realize until I saw the fountains coming up at the launch. Too add to that outing I forgot the plug and that thing almost sunk in less then 5 minutes.
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Re:Tools 9 years 7 months ago #106706
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None of us ever did that I'm sure. I bet you won't forget your plug again. I know I won't.
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Re:Tools 9 years 7 months ago #106711
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Yea haven't done it since!! I'm just glad my boat was not nice yet
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Re:Tools 9 years 7 months ago #106736
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By far my favorite tool has to be my lathe. You wouldn't believe how often a lathe comes in handy for working on pretty much everything. From making spacers, to bushings, to truing things. I honestly don't know what I would do without one now. You don't need to spend a ton either to get a good machine. My current lathe is a 1910 Seneca falls star belt driven machine. I actually got it for free and it cuts very true.
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Re:Tools 9 years 7 months ago #106739
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My favorite is my DeWalt heavy duty planer...the expensive low profile one. I can plane mahogany to vernier caliper accuracy, smooth as glass.
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Mentor to the unenlightened! "Never allow logic to interfere with a boat purchase." - J. S. Hadley "Vintage quality beats new junk every time." - J. S. Hadley "Anything supposed to do two things does both of them half-assed." - J. S. Hadley "Success makes... |
Re:Tools 9 years 7 months ago #106748
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Wow, tough choice. I have quite a few, the Delta unisaw, Delta 15" thickness planer, I could go on and on.
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Re:Tools 9 years 7 months ago #106775
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I got a lota old junk that I make do.
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Re:Tools 9 years 7 months ago #106784
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I can tell you my least favorite "favorite tool", is my memory when i forget where i put this or that...like yesterday, spend all day looking for a bolt in the shed in the kitchen heck even went over to the rental house I'm working on looking for it, then last night, I sit down on the thrown open up my favorite motorboating magazine look down and there it was between the rug and the damn bathtub infront of me,
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Golden Rule number one; While working in the bilge, absolutely under no circumstances, NO FARTING!!!! Captn Shake aka Joe.
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Re:Tools 9 years 7 months ago #106796
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Yeah...old age sucks and it's not for sissys. I spent about 15 minutes looking for my truck in a mall parking lot one day last year. I was about to call the cops when I remembered that I had driven my wife's car. I must have walked past it five times looking for the truck. I need to find an assisted living complex with boat restoration facilities...and a good-looking chiropractress with long legs and big boobs.
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Website: NautilusRestorations.com
Mentor to the unenlightened! "Never allow logic to interfere with a boat purchase." - J. S. Hadley "Vintage quality beats new junk every time." - J. S. Hadley "Anything supposed to do two things does both of them half-assed." - J. S. Hadley "Success makes... |
Re:Tools 9 years 7 months ago #106804
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Favorite tools for working on fibreglass boats? My 4 1/2" right angle grinder and my 6" Chicago Pneumatic DA sander. Oh, and the old monster V-4 compressor to run the sander.
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Re:Tools 9 years 7 months ago #106805
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I like my national Detroit da sander....used it daily in a bodyshop for 20 years...replaced lower bearing once, and a set of vanes once...still use it in my retirement...john
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Re:Tools 9 years 7 months ago #106806
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favorite tools for werkin on my boat is a telephone...call tim whatsamatter. ron:
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Re:Tools 9 years 7 months ago #106817
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Ahh yes the phone a friend option very handy! I am also a fan of the website with a bunch of boat nuts called fiberglassics everyone is nuts but really friendly and willing to help.
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Re:Tools 9 years 6 months ago #106855
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for me it has to be my multi tool alo,but if you do alot of upholstery,a electric knife is a must
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\"too soon old,too late smart\" my pap
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.“ ---Mark Twain |
Re:Tools 9 years 6 months ago #106879
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i should of mentioned gibby too...console and steering wheel...
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Re:Tools 9 years 6 months ago #106880
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oh and frank too...trailer re-wired and led pole lites..
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Re:Tools 9 years 6 months ago #106882
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i think mt. dora gary (gary simpson) had his hands in it too.
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Re:Tools 9 years 6 months ago #106883
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and how can i forget houston, (mark genaux..at silver lake , re-installing my bow thingie that pulled out when my winch let go at 60mph.
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Re:Tools 9 years 6 months ago #106886
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yep some tremendous friends made thru FiberGlassics..and let me add not one of them would take a dime...ron
FGNE was a real tight group in the early years. sure do miss it. : John Gibson Mark Genaux-houston Rich -Discocurly Tim Calmes Frank Alguire-pc1000 Dave Albertson-cc1000 Bob Beers Jim Sgrignioli Myself |
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Re:Tools 9 years 6 months ago #106887
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I have been accused of being a tool, but I'm not sure what they meant!?!?
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Re:Tools 9 years 6 months ago #106914
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That's an EASY answer
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Re:Tools 9 years 6 months ago #106918
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Bruce Gerard wrote:
Thats the one I was waiting for! That and a notepad to write down what you SHOULD be doing! |
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Re:Tools 9 years 6 months ago #107060
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The best tool in my toolbox is information. Here I am combining a mac, a vintage manual and my feeble brain to put this old dock-crasher back together.
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Re:Tools 9 years 6 months ago #107065
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Appreciate the picture posted a few days ago crawling under the bow. Question is...who pulled him out??? I've been there a few times and had to make sure there was something handy to pull myself out. Even to the point of setting up a rope attached to the transom to drag into the bow. Hate to be in the embarrassing situation of having to call the admiral for help.
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Re:Tools 9 years 6 months ago #107071
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Don,t quite remember. I think he got out on his own. To this day I,ve never been under there. Ron..
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Re:Tools 9 years 6 months ago #107091
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Headly I am. Earing the point of updating my laptop so I will wipe my old one and use it in the shop like that. Where is the best place you have found to get all the merc manuals on digits?
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Re:Tools 9 years 6 months ago #107092
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By far, the tool I use the most>>>>
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Re:Tools 9 years 6 months ago #107096
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Better keep repairing it because they have been out of business for about a year.redfishpirates wrote:
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cool runnings Mr 88
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Re:Tools 9 years 6 months ago #107107
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www.maxrules.com/mercwireindex.html
MasterTech Marine has a ton of free info. Bill Kelly has amassed a large amount of catalogs, parts, pics and information. I have even used him, for a very low fee ($20.), to advise me on technical issues. I pinged him online and he called me in 15 minutes. Check out his site if you haven't seen already. Great guy, sweet site. 
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Re:Tools 9 years 6 months ago #107115
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He sure does some nice looking restorations on those Mercs. And like Joe Poole as well as a lot of our members, always a terrific source of information about keeping 'em running.
I just can't narrow down what tools I like best. The list and my toolbox keep growing. I like the luxury of multiple choices, like 1/4, 3/8, 1/2" socket sets and accessories, and having something like a 9/16 wrench in box, open, flare nut, box ratchet, stubby, etc. It just makes the job go easier. And don't even get me started on power tools Recent purchases were a heat gun and a benchtop drill press, my new favorite. Can't cross JB Weld and a 3 lb sledge off the list either, but not for boat work. 
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