Favorite tools

[bwaysteve]

For what it's worth to newbies doing a total teardown and restoration these are the tools I found most helpful in no particular order:
Sawsall
multitool
compressor
airdrill
air rachet
5lb sledge hammer
blind rivet removal tool
several grades of wet sandpaper
wire welder
2000lb. jack!!
bottle jack
hand brake
2 4ft.angle iron and clamps for bending aluminum
wire wheels for drill
screw drivers, ratchet set,marking punch,measuring tapes,T-square straight edge
table saw ,jig saw,sharpie pens

[Splitrock]

I'd say the most handy for me are:
1. Check book
2. Savings account
3. Credit card
4: IRA

[cclarkego]

Sounds like everything you'd need to build a plane from the ground up. I don't think I could even match up all the tools to their names. Multitool, I know that one. Just another name for a Cuisinart....

[Aage]

I have a "club hammer" (small sledge) I like to use to remove stubborn items.

I find I rarely have to go back and use another tool, once I have had a go at it with the club hammer.

Very satisfying tool...

[Jim & Susan]

1 Water
2 Cereal grains
3 Hops
4 Yeast
5 Certain amount of aging

Jim

[SilverHoot]

Which brings to mind another couple of important tools. Bottle opener and corkscrew.

[cclarkego]

I thought he had bottle opener on his list already... Isn't that what a bottle jack is?

Carol

[mello mike]

Good list Steve. I'd add...

1. Tin Snips
2. Air Rivet Gun
3. Dremel Tool
4. Quality Respirator
5. Olympic Rivet Shaver Tool
6. Center drill head for removing rivets

[cclarkego]

Steve, it does look like a great list. Sorry for teasing so much.
For the work on the AS that I can handle, I better stick with the screwdriver, measuring tape and sharpie pens, though I do have tin snips in case I get really frustrated...

Carol

[Grad67]

Originally Posted by cclarkego

I thought he had bottle opener on his list already... Isn't that what a bottle jack is?

Carol

Maybe a bottle of jack D

[funkill]

Bottle of tylenol. Barkalounger. Box of matches. Oh, that's my home repair tool list... though almost the same.

Laura

[GCinSC2]

Originally Posted by Jim & Susan

1 Water
2 Cereal grains
3 Hops
4 Yeast
5 Certain amount of aging

Jim

Jim, Have we had a Beer appreciation thread yet?

I really like a hand crafted IPA, Great Lakes Brewery, Cleveland OH was it the Burning River Pale Ale? been a bit too long. Darn fine IPA and their Edmond Fitzgerald Porter, nice desert beer. Siera Nevada makes some good stuff and Sam Adams also.

Tools, lets see, how about a complete wiring diagram that matches the real layout of YOUR trailer!

I think a decent digital VOM is a must have.

The correct fitting to blow out the water lines and I made a hose nozzle extension that sprays into the HWT drain plug and gets the nasties out of it, scale & crud.

[bwaysteve]

Originally Posted by mello mike

Good list Steve. I'd add...

1. Tin Snips
2. Air Rivet Gun
3. Dremel Tool
4. Quality Respirator
5. Olympic Rivet Shaver Tool
6. Center drill head for removing rivets

Most important!Respirator! Using Aircraft Stripper without one cancels out ever having to buy the beer again!How's it going Sailor?I will be rolling before the next Vintage Restoration Rally.

[bwaysteve]

PS.For all you beer lovers.Spending time in Belgium in my 20's I know what great beer should taste like.For some of you it won't matter,but try anything by New Belgium Brewing in Ft. Collins Fat Tire ,Tripel.Skinny Dip.They have it down.
For a real treat find Tripel Karmeleit.It is brewed in Belgium and sent to France to be bottled like a champagne would be!

[driftless]

I live by the old adage, even the best shop is always one tool short...

[gutsgolf]

cash and a lot of it:d

[cclarkego]

Women's tool kit:

Lipstick, hair brush, short dress, pained expression and a handful of any old tools.
Stand at side of trailer with hand on hip, screwdriver with ice cubes in other hand.
Wait for help.........

[bwaysteve]

Originally Posted by cclarkego

Women's tool kit:

Lipstick, hair brush, short dress, pained expression and a handful of any old tools.
Stand at side of trailer with hand on hip, screwdriver with ice cubes in other hand.
Wait for help.........

I would stop!

[cclarkego]

That is exactly how I got a giant truck tire changed for me in Death Valley. My girlfriend and I were actually going to attempt it but then we got giggling about the instructions on how never to do this on an incline when in fact that is where we got the flat tire, in a canyon on a 4WD road

[WILDRTEXAS]

The AIRSTREAM FOURMS is by far the best tool.