Show... your tools!

[skom25 1710]

Show your tools! All, chosen or favourite. It is nice to see interesting or recommended tools. 

Most of them are known almost for everyone. Which I really like?

Turnbuckles wrenches are very satisfying to use and quality is really nice.

Sharp Olfa knife and Olfa tool to cut circles. Super useful in work with stickers.

Sharp Tamiya plastic cutters. Do not buy cheap ones. Good cutters are expensive but you will not regret.

JIS screwdrivers, which are essential in Tamiya builds. I can write the same about tools set which is great.

E Clip tool which is "must have" if you have any clips in models.

Bike tire lever... superb to push aluminium tape inside body.

[Kpowell911 2163]

[Pylon80 3307]

1 hour ago, skom25 said:

Show your tools! All, chosen or favourite. It is nice to see interesting or recommended tools. 

Most of them are known almost for everyone. Which I really like?

Turnbuckles wrenches are very satisfying to use and quality is really nice.

Sharp Olfa knife and Olfa tool to cut circles. Super useful in work with stickers.

Sharp Tamiya plastic cutters. Do not buy cheap ones. Good cutters are expensive but you will not regret.

JIS screwdrivers, which are essential in Tamiya builds. I can write the same about tools set which is great.

E Clip tool which is "must have" if you have any clips in models.

Bike tire lever... superb to push aluminium tape inside body.

That looks perfect to me! I do have a few in common with these 👌

You are missing an M3 thread rolling tap

One thing I have is cheap needle nose pliers that I cross drilled to 3mm to hold the shock shafts when screwing shock bottoms.

[alvinlwh 6849]

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[skom25 1710]

@Pylon80 thread rolling tap is on list and I will order it in a week or two 👍 Good idea with pliers!

@alvinlwh nice tool but to be honest, bit harsh for aluminium parts ( wheel nuts, ball nuts etc.)

One thing I really need to consider is service stand.

[OoALEJOoO 3235]

Its plastic base doubles wonderfully as a damper stand

[ad456 437]

Here's some possibly less common stuff,

Pipe cutter for body posts,

scalpel with the screw at a sensible end,

small ring spanners are ridiculously handy

ceramic tweezers, deburrer, pin vice to name a few

[Pylon80 3307]

3 hours ago, skom25 said:

Good idea with pliers!

Note that the pliers need to be clamped on something thin before drilling, else the piston rods will just slip inside the hole once you are done. I use a piece of paper folded 4 times if I recall, then I held it clamped over the paper with ViceGrips while I was drilling.

[Pylon80 3307]

2 hours ago, ad456 said:

Here's some possibly less common stuff,

Pipe cutter for body posts,

scalpel with the screw at a sensible end,

small ring spanners are ridiculously handy

ceramic tweezers, deburrer, pin vice to name a few

The micro pipe cutter is very handy to cut body posts neatly.

[Wooders28 4856]

Try and get of shot of my collection (?) , as long as the OCD amongst you look away...🙄

One I would highly recommend,  is an MIP 1.5mm driver. I've snapped or rounded off so many 1.5mm drivers / Allen keys (and therefore grub screws..) over the years, wish I'd have saved myself some cash, and bought one sooner!! 

Shock pliers are another tool I thought I never needed, until the kids got me one as a stocking filler. Didn't realise they had a bit for pushing the ball stud into the bottom eye etc.

My LED pit light has come in handy, with my ageing eyes, (if that's classed as a tool?), and quite like the vacuum shock pump, although, it's been stolen by my Wife, and has had more resin jewellery in it, than RC shocks.....

 

[BuggyDad 5241]

7 minutes ago, Wooders28 said:

Try and get of shot of my collection (?) , as long as the OCD amongst you look away...🙄

One I would highly recommend,  is an MIP 1.5mm driver. I've snapped or rounded off so many 1.5mm drivers / Allen keys (and therefore grub screws..) over the years, wish I'd have saved myself some cash, and bought one sooner!! 

Shock pliers are another tool I thought I never needed, until the kids got me one as a stocking filler. Didn't realise they had a bit for pushing the ball stud into the bottom eye etc.

My LED pit light has come in handy, with my ageing eyes, (if that's classed as a tool?), and quite like the vacuum shock pump, although, it's been stolen by my Wife, and has had more resin jewellery in it, than RC shocks.....

 

Your light looks a little perturbed. Are you up to something you shouldn't be just out of shot? 

 

[markbt73 5593]

There's a clear plastic bin on my workbench labeled "Common Tools." These are its contents:

And then there's these:

And these:

...and that's just in the workshop. You should see the garage, where the "big" tools live...

 

[Sogogi 3333]

2 hours ago, Wooders28 said:

Try and get of shot of my collection (?) , as long as the OCD amongst you look away...🙄

One I would highly recommend,  is an MIP 1.5mm driver. I've snapped or rounded off so many 1.5mm drivers / Allen keys (and therefore grub screws..) over the years, wish I'd have saved myself some cash, and bought one sooner!! 

Shock pliers are another tool I thought I never needed, until the kids got me one as a stocking filler. Didn't realise they had a bit for pushing the ball stud into the bottom eye etc.

My LED pit light has come in handy, with my ageing eyes, (if that's classed as a tool?), and quite like the vacuum shock pump, although, it's been stolen by my Wife, and has had more resin jewellery in it, than RC shocks.....

 

Just broke my 1.5mm hex today. Need to pick up some mip hex..

[Wooders28 4856]

5 hours ago, Sogogi said:

Just broke my 1.5mm hex today. Need to pick up some mip hex..

Its only a 1.5mm I've broken many of, so far the rest of my arrowmax have been fine.

Seem expensive, but should be the last one you buy..😁

[simalarion 2528]

Some off the tools i use,  threat he'd my Top-Force with some Hop-Ups today

 

[skom25 1710]

I really have to think about similar case. Looks great!

[Pylon80 3307]

I wanted a vacuum shock/diff tool but I couldn't bring myself to buying one so I made this:

It works great and it was free...

[bavee 1074]

Ok guys, here you go:

Hmmm, ok:

That's more like it!

[Honza 1086]

Does this count? 😁

[Nick-W 1760]

5 hours ago, Pylon80 said:

I wanted a vacuum shock/diff tool but I couldn't bring myself to buying one so I made this:

It works great and it was free...

That’s a great idea! To think I’ve been wasting this on claret. 

[Skimax 30]

On 9/15/2023 at 12:44 PM, OoALEJOoO said:

Its plastic base doubles wonderfully as a damper stand

Have this and I can attest that they are fantastic. Have served me well for a long time!

[skom25 1710]

Quite strange is fact, that JIS screwdrivers from this kit, seems to have bit different size that those sold separately.

[Wooders28 4856]

Managed a shot of my tools, (well, some..)

Allen drivers, Lubes (diff, moly ,dry lube etc), thread lock, double side tape, camber gauge, esc programmers, parts tray , lexan cutters , shock pliers, superglue, spare fan , spare sensor cable , small spanners (4-11mm) , and of course a Tamiya T !! 💪

 

 

Quite like the 'Tuning Haus' wallet, plenty of depth, so you can ram a fair bit of stuff in. I've bought a 'fastrax' one for my daughter, and it's quite thin in comparison...

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Jonathon Gillham 4672]

On 9/16/2023 at 6:28 PM, Wooders28 said:

Its only a 1.5mm I've broken many of, so far the rest of my arrowmax have been fine.

Seem expensive, but should be the last one you buy..😁

Funny you say that. I have the Arrowmax purple tools too (about 6 years now) but the first to go for me was the 2mm. I kept the handle and replaced the tip with a Hudy one, and have just done the 1.5mm and 2.5mm as well. The 8th scale cars use a lot of 2.5mm heads.

The power screwdriver tips are the same - Arrowmax but the 2mm is MIP now. 

[OnTheTrail 1161]

Here's the main tool set up I use for RC cars.   I love to repurpose things when I can so the base of this is a plaque from and old RC airplane contest.   The rest is just an old drawer organizer and some wood.....all painted flat black.  

  Holds probably 80% of the tools I need on a build that are very handy as this sits on the end of my work bench and almost everything has a place (so I put it back where it goes..... ).   Slowly adding more as I need them and have been doubling up lately on bits/drivers where one has a handle and the other fits a 1/4" driver.