whats one of the best tools in your shop?

[the cosmic avenger]

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.

[ytman]

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?

[the cosmic avenger]

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...

[pinned250r]

An 80 gal air compressor. Love me some air tools!!!

[Tbone07]

By far my favorite tools are the Tusk crank puller and case splitter

[jamieg45]

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.

[GO OVRIT]

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.

[Bigred]

Kegerator. Saved a lot of shit from being broken again lol

[pinned250r]

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

[GO OVRIT]

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.

[Pumashine]

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.

[rsss396]

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

[rablack21]

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.

[rk88r]

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.

[broken1]

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.