Prepsteading tool box

[jansman]

You are very right about tools being user and situation specific Andy. With us burning wood for instance, I have chainsaw sharpening kit, splitting wedges etc.

[ForgeCorvus]

Set of sweeps brushes. Rather timely thread-I have to get a new set.

Drain rods as well (or instead, my Dads set can fit a standard flue brush), get the type with the floating nut as they won't unscrew 8 feet down the pipe

Bicycle repair tools i.e. allen keys,headset spanners,pump (dual head),crank puller and chain splitter. Also plenty of puncture repair patches and glue.

Bike tools are like Plymtom's archery tools..... You'll need tools to fix X if you have an X in your life.

I thought we could use a general list which can then be adapted to suit
For example, you need two 11mm spanners to do almost any work on the two cylinder Citroens (but with those, a long extention bar with a14mm socket and a screwdriver you can strip the entire bodywork off a Dyanne), other cars don't seem to have that problem so most people don't need a pair of that size.

Yorkshire: Thanks for the tool brand suggestions

[Yorkshire Andy]

Shame we can't sub divide the thread into sub levels then could segrigate the lists such as

Or copy and paste and add to? :

Eg wood working

Clamps , saw, coping saw, miter block , pin hammer


Electrical

Volt probe. Multi meter, mega . amp clamp. Electricians screwdrivers small socket set insulation tape, wire cutters . crimping kit . soldering iron

Plumbing

Blowlamp, flux, solder, pipe cutter

Desaster /rescue tools

Sledge hammer . bottle jacks. Crow bars

Shelter making

Folding saw trenching tool

[Plymtom]

Bike tools are like Plymtom's archery tools..... You'll need tools to fix X if you have an X in your life.


Yorkshire: Thanks for the tool brand suggestions

Oh I have bike tools too, just not ridden them for years what can I say I like my tools and I like to be able to fix my own stuff, with the exception of cars... not that I'm helpless in the way of tools for that just that they ( unless you have a garage ) are nasty, sticky, cold, dirty things to work on
I have a box of more industrial electrical tools tucked away in the roof space, and if there's a labour saving tool I've ever had the need for then, I've generally bought one, re loading equipment is the order of the day for the foreseeable, but not for the zombie apocalypse, simply because it's another skill, saves money ( that's bullshit you just shoot more) and it's a preferable hobby to knitting

As with alot of what we do you don't have to call it prepping, I've always had a leaning toward self reliance.. if you're not wealthy it's second nature to get value for money and more done in life, TSHTF for a family with disabilities is ongoing since of started taking effect two decades past, I often forget that when I interact here in the spirit of things Our "normal" is a load of interconnected SHTF events, to jest it's like walking into a storm force wind, we're so used to it that if it stopped, we would fall flat on our faces, and still somehow we manage to find some fun

[junmist]

no one has mention it so I will add Drill

[grenfell]

no one has mention it so I will add Drill

something to drill holes preferably in a post event world human powered. .

Please sir , I did , honest.

Edit : thinking about it that could include engineers drills, brace and bits , and the old rawlplug type of tool. I've also " drilled " holes in timber with hot metal rods.

[ForgeCorvus]

no one has mention it so I will add Drill

something to drill holes preferably in a post event world human powered. .

Please sir , I did , honest.

Edit : thinking about it that could include engineers drills, brace and bits , and the old rawlplug type of tool. I've also " drilled " holes in timber with hot metal rods.

This ?


I've heard them called "Star chisels/drills" or "Shakers"

[Plymtom]

I've seen Star drills, tried one too, slow going hard work like a rawlplug tool, but then so were electric drills before the hammer drill became common place, let along the pnuematic hammer drill (SDS).

Back when I was an apprentice my electrician mate would get his rawlplug tool out for that last light switch we had forgotten on rewires in the shed of dolly houses, it was a source of great amusement for me... he invariably hit his hand with the hammer rushing to complete the task, I suppose I was a bit of a sod really I used to put the cups on upside down for ceiling roses with the flex and lamp holder and hand them to him casually, 8 out of 10 times he didn't notice till he had connected it and tried to screw the cup on

[grenfell]

This ?


I've heard them called "Star chisels/drills" or "Shakers"

Could be ( bit of a close up to be honest) although I've never heard them called by those names. The ones I have do have a similar cutting point that fits into a "handle" in a sort of morse taper type of way that is then hit with a hammer.

[ForgeCorvus]

OK, I've done a bit of google.
It seems that the Rawltool is a smaller and more hi-tech version (as hi-tech as you can get with a chiselly thing you hit with a hammer ) made up of a handle/toolholder/bit-to-hit and separate cutting bits. The shaker is a one-piece construction and they tend to be larger, more rawlbolt (or other mechanical fixings) then rawlplug.

Now I have to get me some.... Tool-junkie needs a fix

ETA: Pics
Rawl tool


Shaker