If you lose a tool do you panic and go OCD?

[Squid]

favorite of all time was the lee Enfield .303. only 10 shots, bolt action, but i could put a 6" group in @ 200 yards.

My cousin owns one as well as a Magnum 45 and a Stirling Sub Machine gun, his hobby is making Kentucky hunting rifles but he does live in Montana and was in the Pathfinders/Special Forces in Vietnam.

 

[Leesparkykent]

Anyone know the make of tools the DONs supply to their staff? I need a fix.

Like these Pete? Insulated Pliers and Cutting Tools | Insulated Tools Ltd - https://www.insulatedtools.co.uk/pliers-cutting-tools.html?p=2

 

[Pete999]

favorite of all time was the lee Enfield .303. only 10 shots, bolt action, but i could put a 6" group in @ 200 yards.

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Like these Pete? Insulated Pliers and Cutting Tools | Insulated Tools Ltd - https://www.insulatedtools.co.uk/pliers-cutting-tools.html?p=2

Was thinking more screwdriver as they are my particular fetish, saw some in a store today, forgot the name, had to walk away, nearly broke my heart, they were nice and chunky, just like I remember, £13.99 + VAT for 1 driver

 

[Leesparkykent]

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Was thinking more screwdriver as they are my particular fetish, saw some in a store today, forgot the name, had to walk away, nearly broke my heart, they were nice and chunky, just like I remember, £13.99 + VAT for 1 driver

Insulated Screwdrivers and Nut Spinners | Insulated Tools Ltd - https://www.insulatedtools.co.uk/insulated-screwdrivers.html

 

[Squid]

All this talk about screwdrivers.......

 

[MJPD29]

I don't obsess I don't think but I do go into spiralling depression and often sit for hours on end on my sofa thinking of all the good times me and that particular tool had and how i can never replace it... and if then gives me an excuse to replace it with 5 brand new glorious other tools that I need about once every 3 years

 

[Pete999]

Insulated Screwdrivers and Nut Spinners | Insulated Tools Ltd - https://www.insulatedtools.co.uk/insulated-screwdrivers.html

I don't obsess I don't think but I do go into spiralling depression and often sit for hours on end on my sofa thinking of all the good times me and that particular tool had and how i can never replace it... and if then gives me an excuse to replace it with 5 brand new glorious other tools that I need about once every 3 years

Deffo a Tool Tart mate

 

[Marvo]

favorite of all time was the lee Enfield .303. only 10 shots, bolt action, but i could put a 6" group in @ 200 yards.

I shot one of those several times on the rifle range at school, they were good fun.

Worse than actually losing tools is the fear that I might lose them. If I have a particular tool that's a favourite I usually make a point of buying a second identical one so if I ever do actually lose it then the trauma is less because I already have another.

 

[Mark42]

What about the converse? Having a long-familiar tool which whilst perfectly OK, is not the best, so accidentally losing it provides an excuse to buy a better one?

I once found a Yankee screwdriver* laying in the roof space of a Visionhire* shop. I immediately realised it was the one I had lost six years earlier on a previous visit. It was like being reunited with a long-lost friend.
Shame that in the interim electric screwdrivers had been invented.

* Yeah, this dates me ...

 

[Squid]

Wow I remember them, jubilee clip on the body to stop them rolling off the scaffold tower.

 

[Pete999]

When our tools came back from an overseas trip they all ended up in the store in our workshop, if you weren't there to take custody of your tools, they sort of got shared around, not that bad as most of it was supplied by the stores, but you get to know your own set and treat is if you had bought it, at least I did,
I had this big insulated screwdriver I had had since my days working for the SWEB big booger, loved it I did, course it went missing, found it about a year later in someone else's kit, soon had it back in my tool case though.

 

[littlespark]

You only ever lose the tool you need at this particular moment. This is also the exact same moment you find something you thought you had lost 2 weeks ago, lying on the top tray, where you left it.


Tried a little DIY wood butchery the other day. Even bought a new hand saw for this.

Couldn't find a pencil for marking... had to take one from kids...
Couldn't find a decent tape measur.. found an old one that didn't spring back completely...

Losing tools is one thing... breaking them another.

I dropped the pencil onto concrete. That was the lead shattered, it wouldn't sharpen.. had to pinch another one. Then the tape measure followed. Split in half and unravelled.

That was an end to the days DIY project.