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Benedict Arnold

Of all the tools, utensils, gizmos, and machinery you have at home or work, which is the most interesting?

Is there something else you'd like to have?

Posted - February 19, 2017
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  • It really depends on what your interests are.
    I mean someone from a country that isn't as accessible to firearms might find having a reloading press to be an interesting machine.
    If you mean actual mechanical tools then there is a basement and shed full of both modern and obsolete tools.
    I'd probably say some of the quack and archaic medical devices I've collected.
      February 19, 2017 6:51 PM MST
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  • Sounds like quite a collection. We've been living in the same house for 53 years and we haven't collected so much as accumulated. The time has come for us to clear it all out We'll probably give most of it to the charity shop.
      February 19, 2017 8:06 PM MST
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  • I've been kinda doing some of that in the past year.
      February 19, 2017 8:13 PM MST
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  • ...collected so much as accumulated.. .
    How true. . .
    Good one Mr D.
      February 20, 2017 11:41 AM MST
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  • 2327
    My beard trimmer. So I can maintain my neckline. It's a lifesaver.
      February 19, 2017 8:39 PM MST
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  • I also shave my throat. I get itchy if I let the beard grow on it. 
      February 19, 2017 10:12 PM MST
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  • A good knife ... it'll replace most kitchen tools ... cept a can opener ...
      February 19, 2017 9:20 PM MST
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  • Can't run a kitchen without one. I'm greedy: I use three, depending on what needs cutting up.
      February 19, 2017 10:13 PM MST
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  • Not greedy... just have the right tool
      February 20, 2017 12:25 PM MST
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  • 6988
    My homemade Norton clutch hub puller.  Made of steel pipe cutoff and some threaded rod stuff.
      February 19, 2017 9:46 PM MST
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  • Did you make it yourself?
      February 19, 2017 10:13 PM MST
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  • 6988
    yes.
      February 20, 2017 1:58 PM MST
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  • The bike you raced in the Nationals?
      February 19, 2017 10:38 PM MST
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  • 6988
    No, the national bike was a Honda. 
      February 20, 2017 2:00 PM MST
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  • 11103
    My wood spitting maul - sometimes I think the lumberjack Gods made it specially for me. I'v used a lot of different wood splitting mauls in my life but this one works so well it almost seems magical. Cheers!
      February 19, 2017 9:52 PM MST
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  • You've left me with an image of a very fit man, Nanoose. 
      February 19, 2017 10:14 PM MST
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  • Oh! Wood-splitting maul I understand...I have even used one of those!
    However...from an answer previous, a "homemade clutch hub puller," at first I thought it was a different language...
      February 20, 2017 12:14 AM MST
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  • LOL ... you're not going to believe it!! With all the tools I've used in my lifetime this is it!

     "Metal Roll Up Yardstick"


          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tcJKdaANxLs
      February 19, 2017 10:32 PM MST
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  • Different things for different people. :)
      February 19, 2017 10:47 PM MST
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  • 3191
    I have quite a few, a couple of examples:


    I have two vulcanizers, but a little older than this one, one swivels for easier mounting.

      February 19, 2017 10:34 PM MST
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  • 7683
    Me and my kitchen gadgets...( you asked....Didge;))
      February 19, 2017 10:46 PM MST
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  • They don't make 'em like they used to. :)
      February 20, 2017 11:54 AM MST
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  • 5835
    I have a rotary saw that is 40 years old and still works perfectly.
      February 20, 2017 12:05 AM MST
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  • Oh, thank heaven for Veena.K and her kitchen stuff!
    Yes Didge, as soon as I came out of homelessness into a real kitchen again, I began collecting exquisitely wonderful baking pans...
    Here is my 8-inch steel cheesecake pan, removable bottom, that I use to bake orange almond cake (no wheat at all, mainly almond meal and boiled oranges, plus six eggs), as well as Irish tea brack....relatively useless but oh so much fun!
    This post was edited by Benedict Arnold at February 20, 2017 3:00 PM MST
      February 20, 2017 12:26 AM MST
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