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General => Lounge => Topic started by: the cosmic avenger on June 15, 2014, 08:33:39 PM
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I'd have to say one of the best purchases I've made is an ultrasonic jewelry cleaner from Harbor Freight.
I can stick parts in the cleaner and go do other stuff to get work done instead of cleaning parts by hand.
I clean a LOT of carbs and it is a serious time saver. I just pull the float bowl and cycle it a few times. Carb is done vs spending a half hour each carb pulling all the jets cleaning all the varnish and running a cleaner thru all the holes in the jets.
Let's me make money other places and I still charge the same for cleaning carbs.
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did you get the big one or the small one? How about a pic with the carb in it? I wanna see. Does it foam up or anything?
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I got the big one. It's still not that big, carbs have to be flipped over to completely get cleaned.
I run mine with mineral spirits in it, seems to work best of stuff I've tried.
No foam or anything but it does make an pretty annoying buzz.
I know people freak about rubber and mineral spirits and or parts cleaner but if it's not left for an extended period of time it doesn't hurt.
I've probably cleaned 200+ carbs with either one and never had an issue.
It also works pretty well on chains. Just remove the heavy crap before you put it in or it will take longer to clean.
If I remember I'll grab a pic...
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An 80 gal air compressor. Love me some air tools!!!
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By far my favorite tools are the Tusk crank puller and case splitter
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I'm not sure I have just one, my whole tool box because it si full of everything I need to work on vehicles and especially my quads.
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Probably my blast cabinet. There's a 350x frame in there right now. My 80gal compressor is 170 feet from my garage in its own little shed. Sure is nice having plenty of air without any noise. I did just get a new scanner and lab scope, but that doesn't really help the r out any.
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Kegerator. Saved a lot of shit from being broken again lol
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Probably my blast cabinet. There's a 350x frame in there right now. My 80gal compressor is 170 feet from my garage in its own little shed. Sure is nice having plenty of air without any noise. I did just get a new scanner and lab scope, but that doesn't really help the r out any.
You must not have much freezing happening down there? Or did you dig the line down? I love that idea but it'd be tough in the negatives at times
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I've never had it freeze. It's 1" pvc about 16" in the ground. I try not to let moisture stay in the system anyway though.
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I have simple man tools and nothing fancy lol, so my favorite is 12mm socket HAHA
A nice 6 point 12mm and 10mm used a hundred time a day.
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I use the Tusk 8-10-12mm Y wrench allot along with a 8-10-12mm T wrench every time I work on my bike
But as fairly cheap must have tool I probably would go with a electric 4.5" hand grinder used with cut off wheels, flap sanding disc, scotch brite pad wheels and metal grinding wheels attachments makes it a very useful tool with any kind of fab work.
I really like my dewalt 5/8 arbor the best out of the 3 that I have
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My Milwaukee 18volt Lithium impact driver with socket driver for 3/8" sockets. I use this bad boy almost every time I work on the R. Plus, this is really handy at the track when I need to do some quick work. I also recently required his big brother, M18V Fuel 1/2" compact impact wrench. I can do virtually anything out at the track in quick time with minimal effort.
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Yeh angle grinders get used a lot here. 3 of keep you from swapping wheels so often. The tool I use the most is dewalt cordless impact driver. Care must be taken not to over/under torque things though.
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One of my favorite tools that I picked up a couple yeas ago is a pneumatic micro die grinder. It's about the same size as a 3/8"X6" extension & works awesome for porting. I like my Miller 120V 140A mig welder a lot too.
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The only tool you need.. a BFH! :rofl:
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I have a Makita impact that I use for smaller stuff use that about a hundred times a day.
I have a pretty loaded shop though, band saw, drill press, mig,tig,welding table, pedestal and belt grinder, balljoint- u joint upress,dremel, and a few thousand other hand tools.
Only thing I really need that I don't have is a large parts washer...I wouldn't mind a big arsenal dual stage compressor but the one I got works ok.
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when the wife comes in the garage with little on,, I have the right tool to fix" her" right on the seat of the 250r,,, she is happy and goes back in the house and I get a couple of more hours of garage time,, man that's fun too,,,,,,
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80 gal air compressor. It gets used a lot for tools,painting, sandblasting etc... To many toys in the shop right now for painting tho, so I use my friends paint booth
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when the wife comes in the garage with little on,, I have the right tool to fix" her" right on the seat of the 250r,,, she is happy and goes back in the house and I get a couple of more hours of garage time,, man that's fun too,,,,,,
damn i need one of those broken wifes lol
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Craftsman 8mm,10mm ,12mm,14mm sockets
And torque wrench
Also my tusk crank puller and case splitter
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All these guys saying 8,10,12 sockets, what about your Allen head sockets!?!? I use those waaaaay more than hex head, on my bikes that is
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I think some of you are confusing most commonly used with best tool. :wink-new:
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Miller syncrowave 250. Great tig for alum or steel.
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I had a job several years back where I was grinding burrs off parts with a dremel, so I had a dremel in my hand probably three hours a day. With all that experience, I became a dremel master, and it's probably my favorite tool in my shop. From wire-brushing parts, cleaning electrical connections, drilling, cutting,sanding, grinding, polishing, you name it.
I had a pilot jet stuck in a Grizzly carb, the previous owner had stripped the slot on top. A drill bit in the dremel and an easy-out fixed that problem.
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a multimeter comes in handy. especially with the OEM ignition.
john
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a mallet. because after 30 years a lot of these parts don't want to move like they should
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The best thing that I ever got for the shop/garage was the white tool box. Plug it in and keep it stocked to make for good quality maintainance and repair time. It makes you happy to spend lots of extra time tinkering with and going over your quads.
Also a nod goes to the plastic bb filled dead blow hammer as a stand out happy to have item and the good stereo.
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I had a job several years back where I was grinding burrs off parts with a dremel, so I had a dremel in my hand probably three hours a day. With all that experience, I became a dremel master, and it's probably my favorite tool in my shop. From wire-brushing parts, cleaning electrical connections, drilling, cutting,sanding, grinding, polishing, you name it.
I had a pilot jet stuck in a Grizzly carb, the previous owner had stripped the slot on top. A drill bit in the dremel and an easy-out fixed that problem.
I probably would've just cut another slot in the top and tried again...
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I probably would've just cut another slot in the top and tried again...
It was recessed in a hole about quarter inch deep. The only way to "cut" a new slot would have been to use something very small, like a 1/16 end mill or a very small carbide, and mill it. Drilling was by far the easier option.
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I would think if you go to start a project and automatically reach for certain tools every time instead of other tools that could do the same I would classify that as my "best"
I have a Mill, lathe, 3 welders, plasma cutter, bands saws ect.... but are not used regularly