UpLula mag loader.

Reading Glasses

Dyson Cordless Vacs. I bought a V8 a few years ago that was a really good deal. Purchased a V10 the next year during a black Friday sale. I love having one on each floor.

Bought my Dad a V10 for Christmas. He looked it up online and then promptly chided me for spending so much money on him. He didn't even take it out of the box for a month. He called me to tell me that he finally unboxed it and loooooves it. I visited him in the summer and he had already bought a second one.


Most recent: a set of hose removal picks (automotive) caught my eye while walking though Lowes so I bought them on a whim thinking they might come in handy. Fast forward to the Fall and I am winterizing my boat. I've done this routine for the last 15 years. I always pull off all the hoses to make sure that the water is drained. usually takes my about 30 minutes and I always lose a little blood. These picks made it a 5 minute job and not a single bloody knuckle.

A good head light. As I get older, I need more light to see good. Some jobs require two hands to do, and a "drop light" never had the light exactly where I needed it. This really helps my "senior eyes" get a job done with less frustration.

quote:

Originally posted by GT-40DOC:
A good head light. As I get older, I need more light to see good. Some jobs require two hands to do, and a "drop light" never had the light exactly where I needed it. This really helps my "senior eyes" get a job done with less frustration.

What do you use? I'm always on the lookout for a great headlamp. My favorites are the Milwaukee ones. I've got a three led rechargeable version for work and a cheaper 2 led one for home. Both have a wonderful color and are very bright without being harsh.

Two computer monitors. I have had two for a while, actually, but one was small. Now I have two largish ones (not large by CAD drafter standards, but I mainly word process).

Two monitors are the best. You can't imagine how much better two are than one.

I took Mother to the fabric store one time a few years ago. She is now 96.
At the store I glanced at a fabric cutter with a little wheel like a mini pizza cutter. Hmmmmm? I thought.
I bought it and use it to cut saran wrap and tin foil on an old cutting board.
It beats fing with the stuff and the cutter strip on the box.

Oh yeah. Me too on the two monitors and the Uplula

A bigger gun safe. I had a 24 gun safe prior to moving and now have a 48. I didn't realize how much I despised the 24 gun safe because it was so small until I got the larger safe.

A horse sweat scraper I bought at the feed store for under 2 bucks, makes a great extended shoe horn.

Two weeks ago I bought a wireless endoscope by Depstech 5.0MP HD 16.5 feet long to look through my daughter's 1950 Ranch house bathtub drain to see a blockage before I cut out some pipes. Worked wireless with my android cellphone. Great tool, and fun looking inside my mouth and my ears. (I can hear the comments coming where else I should look or not look).

Cheap plastic mason jar funnel for canning that we got at walmart for about $3. It's awesome. Makes canning 100% easier, way less mess, and I use it to get all kinds of other bulk food items into containers as well.

quote:

Originally posted by Oz_Shadow:
Dewalt Oscillating Tool. I don’t use it often, but when I do, it’s usually something it makes much easier.

I'll have to go along with this one, only we got the Bosch tool because we are already heavily invested in the Bosch 18v battery system. I poo-poo'd them for the longest time, as a gimmick, until the wife insisted she needed one for some work she was doing on her RV. The Starlock blade change system makes it much more versatile, and Bosch has a wide selection of blades. I pick it up all the time, now, for all sorts of odd tasks.

Bosch Oscillating tool for tight spaces and/or unusual angles of attack.

Milwaukee Hackzall; smaller, one-handed Sawzall. Very useful for obvious things, and a nice limber/pruner with a pruning blade installed.

Knipex mini adjustable pliers. Super handy.
Oh... And I bought this little tool from County Comm that has a very fine but unsharpened blade. Its used to open those sliding compartments on electronics that house the batteries. Also super handy.

This message has been edited. Last edited by: YooperSigs,

This is kind of ridiculous, but the "quick shift" on my new Triumph Tiger.

Been riding motorcycles for 40 years. Didn't know I needed a quick shifter 'till I had one.

Nothing quite like bashing through 5 upshifts with a pinned throttle. Brings a little tear to my eye.

Automatic sliding doors on my wife’s new Honda Odyssey van. Seriously the best new thing I’ve seen in a very long time, I could never go back to manual doors now.

A pair of custom fit Whites fire jumper boots.

A church nearby is for sale and they put a vintage Delta 24" scroll saw by the curb for special trash pickup next to a deep freeze. Might have sat there for a week and was covered in snow. It just looked like an awesome chunk of American iron so I picked it up.

It is called a 40-440 and was made in 1973. Probably weighs 125 pounds and is mounted on a sturdy steel base. Cleaned and scraped the rusty table and was amazed when it ran perfectly. It has a 1/3 HP motor and is intended for industrial use. An indicator of how heavy duty is that the gear box holds 3/4 of a quart of "light cylinder oil" I used Dex III transmission oil.

It was mostly complete, but I'll have to make a table insert from a disc of aluminum and a jaw for the upper blade chuck. Had to replace the thumb screws that hold the ends of the blade. Decades of use had mushroomed the inner ends and they wouldn't screw out very far. That was 89 cents for two. About 20 bucks spent on it including a pack of blades so far. Looking forward to cutting some trinkets out of thin wood with the grandson.

quote:

Originally posted by 64dodge:
Milwaukee M18 FUEL Hackzall. No idea how I got along for all those years without one.

Friend of mine ordered one of these from Amazon and after waiting for quite a while and not receiving it, he contacted Amazon and they sent him another. Couple weeks later the original one arrived. He contacted Amazon and they said just keep it. He gave the extra one to me. I use this for everything!

Extended pole chainsaw, now trees fear me!

As does my back, arms, legs.....

A Winchester 1894 carbine in 30-30, a gun and caliber I thought I would never have any interest in owning, but now that I have it I am beginning to understand the appeal. A light, compact, reliable do-anything kind of rifle. Probably explains why they have sold over 7 million of them!

My wife's answer would definitely be the InstaPot.