I admit, I have a workshop tool addiction :-)

[holwellcourtfarm]

Having said in TAW (#58173) we should have a "self help group" for those of us with a serious workshop tool coveting habit I thought I'd start this thread.

My workshop may only be 15 feet square but it doesn't mean I don't hanker after:

A much bigger press
A box and pan brake
A rolling press
A bigger plasma cutter
More 3/4" drive sockets
1" drive sockets
An induction heater
Etc, etc.

There, I've admitted what @Mrs Holwell had said for years, I'm a tool addict.

Does anyone else share my secret? What tools are on your wish list?

 

[Bury the Trash]

A lathe ......but im not sure i would use it a great deal....
More likely to be a decent Tig welding set ...as i want to learn how...

 

[Mursal]

Just what we need, nothing more.
But we do like to have plenty of small consumables.
Loads of spanner sets, the cheaper the better .........

 

[holwellcourtfarm]

A lathe ......but im not sure i would use it a great deal....
More likely to be a decent Tig welding set ...as i want to learn how...

I have a retired self-employed agricultural engineer neighbor with an excellent workshop I can borrow in emergency including such delights as a large lathe, milling machine, bed grinder, MT4 geared industrial drill, blast cabinet etc. Without this my addiction would threaten bankruptcy

 

[Mursal]

We could all do with a neighbour like that ..........
Sounds like a dream

 

[Rossymons]

Just what we need, nothing more.
But we do like to have plenty of small consumables.
Loads of spanner sets, the cheaper the better .........

Me too. Ive been known to buy an additional set of spanners just to pass the threshold for free next day delivery

 

[holwellcourtfarm]

We could all do with a neighbour like that ..........
Sound like a dream

Too true! When I'm stuck he's always got an idea what to try. Priceless!

 

[ARW]

when i started i was always buying tools, slowly got there, not got much recently but im due a spend this winter. Fancy a big breaker bar, new socket set, more allen keys (loose them alot), bearing pullers, impact gun

 

[Hard Graft]

Dont talk it is dangerous this tool buying addiction

This week alone
1 paint spray gun
2 torque ratchets
3 heal bar / podgers
46 mm deep impact 1" drive socket for tines

on the shopping list is
100 by 60 ft workshop

 

[holwellcourtfarm]

Dont talk it is dangerous this tool buying addiction

This week alone
1 paint spray gun
2 torque ratchets
3 heal bar / podgers
46 mm deep impact 1" drive socket for tines

on the shopping list is
100 by 60 ft workshop

Me too, one day. Heated and insulated too.

 

[Bury the Trash]

.........and very well lit....

 

[ARW]

.........and very well lit....

No I much prefer a low dark building that you only just get a tractor in, stone floor, drafty, wet, with many places to loose tools and important parts

 

[holwellcourtfarm]

No I much prefer a low dark building that you only just get a tractor in, stone floor, drafty, wet, with many places to loose tools and important parts

A bit like my current workshop then ....

 

[Paddington]

Lots and lots of extension panels all daisychained together with neons that glow in the dark.

 

[Dave W]

A lathe ......but im not sure i would use it a great deal....
More likely to be a decent Tig welding set ...as i want to learn how...

You'd use a lathe far more often than you'd ever imagine

 

[Dave W]

This weeks stunning acquisition

 

[Hilly]

A press brake, guillotine, big set of rollers for rolling bends in steel.

 

[ARW]

This weeks stunning acquisition
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Oh that takes me back to Saturday's of my youth, getting the job of stripping old tyres off scrap rims, wire sticking out of the rubber, that really eggy smelly air, black wet muck, earning £10 a day, I was on top of the world!

 

[Dave W]

My current stock list.
Colchester lathe
Startrite mt3 pillar drill
600A mig welder
Welding bench with 1" thick solid plate top.
50ton press
Sheet steel roller
Steel bandsaw
3 ton lifting gantry
Trolley jack that creeps down on its own (handy for lining gearboxes up)
Propane bottles

Wish list
Er...
Not sure really.
Fancy a plasma cutter but not sure I'd use it much.
Ditto bigger radial arm drill.

Little bandsaw could do with being bigger but it's portable and wheels away into corner. A bigger one would take up too much space

 

[Dave W]

Oh that takes me back to Saturday's of my youth, getting the job of stripping old tyres off scrap rims, wire sticking out of the rubber, that really eggy smelly air, black wet muck, earning £10 a day, I was on top of the world!

£10/day?
For 2 days wages you could've bought that tyre changer!