My best buy, what's yours?

[lesweeks]

My best buy, what\'s yours?

Some gadgets and gizmos work and some don't. Without doubt the best bit of kit I've bought, since I started the long trail which is to restore an old wooden yawl, is a Harris heavy duty scraper from Screwfix. I've stripped all the paint, anti-fouling and varnish from the outside of the hull, the spars 'n' sprits, and I've nearly finished the inside as well with just two of the tungsten steel blades (four edges). Can't be bad for less than £13.


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[Forbsie]

Re: My best buy, what\'s yours?

The Sandvic version of that used to be my best buy.

My current one is the Fein Multimaster. Not cheap, but an absolutely fantastic tool. Done loads of stuff where I, as a beginner, couldn't have fathomed out how to do it any other way.

 

[burgundyben]

Re: My best buy, what\'s yours?

I've couple of those Sandvik Bahco scrapers, bloody marvelous tools!

 

[grumpydog]

Re: My best buy, what\'s yours?

Don't laugh - but it's that blue, 14-day masking tape, which lasts at least a month in my experience. I had a horrendous time cleaning up the mess the other stuff made left out in the rain! (spot the guy who only does the mug's jobs like sanding, painting and varnishing!) Good quality brushes are nice too...

 

[burgundyben]

Re: My best buy, what\'s yours?

Good shout on the blue tape.

I suppose Ishould have said my best buy was the boat itself!

 

[dombuckley]

Re: My best buy, what\'s yours?

Darn - beat me to it.
My old GP14 must be the best value for money of anything I've ever bought: 25 years of fun for the princely sum of £295. Now 50 years old and still going strong. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[old_salt]

Re: My best buy, what\'s yours?

May be not the cheapest of items.
The best tool I have is my Myford 3 1/2" lathe the jobs and the cash it has saved me is uncountable.
From simple tapered plugs and the tools to fit them for old nail holes and all the new keel/stem/Stern post bolts / rods threaded ends to rudder stock and shaft bearings an endless amount of bits that added up would have cost a lot more to buy or have made.

 

[Eventide26]

Re: My best buy, what\'s yours?

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Darn - beat me to it.
My old GP14 must be the best value for money of anything I've ever bought: 25 years of fun for the princely sum of £295. Now 50 years old and still going strong. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

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You or the GP14 /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif?

I agree though, I first learned to sail in one of those 38 years ago.

 

[Spuddy]

Re: My best buy, what\'s yours?

Anglegrinder I'm afraid. So often I've started of jobs with the the engineers toolbox, followed by the joiners and then thought "Sod the subtlety". Clouds of smoke but has shifted engine beds and mounts, wooden bearers, old bolts, cleaned up hull crack for glassing, trimmed off ends of bolts for windows and on and on.

 

[Seagreen]

Re: My best buy, what\'s yours?

Again, fein Multimaster. Recommended by a forumite and I was not disappointed. Excellent piece of kit.

 

[Castletine]

Re: My best buy, what\'s yours?

GP14 - I've got one too!
$600, 50 years old, solid as and still going strong after rebuilding the delaminated mast