I came across a few tools in my day and have tried many but I have a few
favorites I have acquired over the years. It seems that once in a while a
manufacturer makes one really nice item. Sometimes they are totally
unavailable.

My favorite 3/8 drills are

Skil 3/8 air drill - Variable speed, lots of torque and feels great
Milwaukee 3/8 VS 0222-1 Good power, decent balance, and a 0-3/8" chuck
1973 Skil Worm drive - too heavy but like holding a table saw in your hands
What is your favorite power tool and why?

pierce

R. Pierce Butler wrote:

I came across a few tools in my day and have tried many but I have a few
favorites I have acquired over the years. It seems that once in a while a
manufacturer makes one really nice item. Sometimes they are totally
unavailable.

My favorite 3/8 drills are

Skil 3/8 air drill - Variable speed, lots of torque and feels great
Milwaukee 3/8 VS 0222-1 Good power, decent balance, and a 0-3/8" chuck
1973 Skil Worm drive - too heavy but like holding a table saw in your hands
What is your favorite power tool and why?

pierce

I teach HS, and a few years back I had a young lady in one of my classes
named Makita. She was a nice kid, and after I got to know her a bit I
asked her where she got her name. She answered that her father named
her after his favorite drill.

Glen

Thats funny. We are naming our son Porter who is due this month. I know I
am going to get crap from people who think it came from Porter-Cable.
Honest, it didn't...I think...

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Sat, Feb 25, 2006, 11:14am (EST+5)
(R.*Pierce*Butler) doth query:
snip What is your favorite power tool and why?

I think this is another one of those dumb threads, but what the
Hell?, got nothing better to do at this moment.

Scrollsaw. Because it's versitile. Makes intricate cuts, or can
follow a straight line. For what I do, I could get along without my
bench saw, circular saw, bandsaw, and router, as long as I have the
scrollsaw. Take quite a bit longer, be a minor PITA at the very least,
but it could be done.



JOAT
Well, aren't you just the most adorable black hole of need?

Table saw. I use it more than any other power tool in the shop. It
is accurate and asks very little in terms of tune-ups. I use my drill
press a lot more than a hand-held drill.

On Sat, 25 Feb 2006 11:14:23 GMT, "R. Pierce Butler"
wrote:

I came across a few tools in my day and have tried many but I have a few
favorites I have acquired over the years. It seems that once in a while a
manufacturer makes one really nice item. Sometimes they are totally
unavailable.

My favorite 3/8 drills are

Skil 3/8 air drill - Variable speed, lots of torque and feels great
Milwaukee 3/8 VS 0222-1 Good power, decent balance, and a 0-3/8" chuck
1973 Skil Worm drive - too heavy but like holding a table saw in your hands
What is your favorite power tool and why?

pierce

R. Pierce Butler wrote:

I came across a few tools in my day and have tried many but I have a few
favorites I have acquired over the years. It seems that once in a while a
manufacturer makes one really nice item. Sometimes they are totally
unavailable.

My favorite 3/8 drills are

Skil 3/8 air drill - Variable speed, lots of torque and feels great
Milwaukee 3/8 VS 0222-1 Good power, decent balance, and a 0-3/8" chuck
1973 Skil Worm drive - too heavy but like holding a table saw in your hands
What is your favorite power tool and why?

pierce
Favorite hand held tool-Makita impact driver
Favorite piece of equipment-Unisaw

Dave

"R. Pierce Butler" wrote in
. 1:

I came across a few tools in my day and have tried many but I have a
few favorites I have acquired over the years. It seems that once in a
while a manufacturer makes one really nice item. Sometimes they are
totally unavailable.

My favorite 3/8 drills are

Skil 3/8 air drill - Variable speed, lots of torque and feels great
Milwaukee 3/8 VS 0222-1 Good power, decent balance, and a 0-3/8" chuck
1973 Skil Worm drive - too heavy but like holding a table saw in your
hands What is your favorite power tool and why?

pierce

My hands. Organically powered, no releasing of bad smells or dust as
they operate, built in sanding doneness sensors, and the feature you'll
never find on any other shop tool: They regenerate after being damaged.
(Ok, so cut a finger off and you're not getting it back...)

Puckdropper
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Old computers are getting to be a lost art. Here at Uncreative Labs, we
still enjoy using the old computers. Sometimes we want to see how far a
particular system can go, other times we use a stock system to remind
ourselves of what we once had.

To email me directly, send a message to puckdropper (at) fastmail.fm

"Leon" wrote:


"stoutman" .@. wrote in message
...
Thats funny. We are naming our son Porter who is due this month. I
know I am going to get crap from people who think it came from
Porter-Cable. Honest, it didn't...I think...


Porter is an admiral name. There are many tool names that would fit
the bill nicely. Oppositely, if you were into trucks, Peterbilt would
not make a great name although it would could be considered a part of
the manufacturing process. :~)

Well, That's buggered up my keyboard and monitor! )

"stoutman" .@. writes:

Thats funny. We are naming our son Porter who is due this month. I
know I am going to get crap from people who think it came from
Porter-Cable.

At least his last name isn't "Cable"....

......I hope...

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"R. Pierce Butler" writes:

I came across a few tools in my day and have tried many but I have a few
favorites I have acquired over the years. It seems that once in a while a
manufacturer makes one really nice item. Sometimes they are totally
unavailable.

Let me describe a faroite tool, not so much of the exact model, but of
how it affected me.


I've been doing wooddorking for 25 years, using a $200 old Rockwell
contractor's saw. Well, it died, and I was not able to fix it. I went
into a bit of debt, and a lot of mental turmoil, and spend $$$$ for a
nice cabinet saw. This was nearly 10 times the price I paid for a saw
20 years ago.


But when I got it, a transformation occurred over me. I could no
longer blame my tools. This was a precision machine, and if my work
looked crappy - it was my fault. I wowed to never again just slap
something together. If I was going to build something, I would do my
best. Instead of a hasty cut, I'd make a jig to make sure my cut was
precise. I started upgrading my tools, with precision fences with
fine-tuning adjustments. I tuned my saw using a TS-Aligner Junior. I
built fences with T-slots, and starting making use of those T-slots
for feather boards, hold downs, etc, etc,

I may not be able to make as many items as before, but I wowed to be
proud of anything I built, because I knew I did it the best way I
could manage.

My cabinet saw literally transformed my attitude to woodworking.


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The one that shocked me the most as the most useful is my kreg pocket
hole kit. I know pocket hole jigs have been around a lot longer than
kreg, but I discovered them recently. I heard some people talk about
how useful they were, so I picked one up almost as an impulse buy.
I've been amazed by all the things I've made with it. I probably won't
use it much on "real" furniture, but for the several shop projects I've
made with it so far, It's been spectacular. Last night, I was dreading
cutting a 4x8 sheet of plywood on the table saw because it would have
to hang out in mid air. So in about 30 minutes, I threw together a
small work table from 2x4s and a 2'x4' piece of melamine I had laying
around. I made it the same height as the table saw. For small shop
cabinets, I spend more time cutting the plywood than I do in assembly.
My only complaint is a lack of dust collection which has been fixed in
the latest version. For me, it's been well worth it.

brian

I have 2 that I really enjoy.... Bosch jigsaw and my Makita impact
driver.

Bryan

R. Pierce Butler wrote:
I came across a few tools in my day and have tried many but I have a few
favorites I have acquired over the years. It seems that once in a while a
manufacturer makes one really nice item. Sometimes they are totally
unavailable.

My favorite 3/8 drills are

Skil 3/8 air drill - Variable speed, lots of torque and feels great
Milwaukee 3/8 VS 0222-1 Good power, decent balance, and a 0-3/8" chuck
1973 Skil Worm drive - too heavy but like holding a table saw in your hands
What is your favorite power tool and why?

pierce

The Leon entity posted thusly:

Oppositely, if you were into trucks, Peterbilt would not make
a great name although it would could be considered a part of the
manufacturing process. :~)

A friend, named Peter, built an amphibious airplane (A Coot). One of
his neighbours worked for Peterbilt, and gave him a little Peterbilt
'badge' to affix to the plane. He gets a lot of mileage out of the
badge, let alone the plane.

On Sat 25 Feb 2006 05:14:23a, "R. Pierce Butler"
wrote in . 1:

What is your favorite power tool and why?


If it was *any* tool in the shop, I'd say the panel cutting table that I
built for 20 bucks in an afternoon. There's nothing in the shop that's done
more for my lower back, and I rank THAT factor very high. :-)

But for power tools, I find it's the Bosch 3915 I got after it was
discontinued. I NEED the table saw and the band saw. They're essential
along with another half dozen in the shop, and I like using 'em. But within
weeks, after I got that saw on a rolling station with wings on both sides,
the Bosch was the most-used tool in the shop and it was usually cutting
project time in half. Surprisd both me and SWMBO. We figured it was going
to make the bathroom remodel easier but didn't figure on THAT much. I
noticed the "easier". She noticed the "faster". I'm still a little
surprised that a non-essential tool has become my favorite and most-used,
but that's the way it worked out.

On Sat, 25 Feb 2006 15:43:40 GMT, "stoutman" .@. wrote:

Thats funny. We are naming our son Porter who is due this month. I know I
am going to get crap from people who think it came from Porter-Cable.
Honest, it didn't...I think...

Tell that to my brother DeWalt.

Matt

Matt Stachoni wrote:
On Sat, 25 Feb 2006 15:43:40 GMT, "stoutman" .@. wrote:


Thats funny. We are naming our son Porter who is due this month. I know I
am going to get crap from people who think it came from Porter-Cable.
Honest, it didn't...I think...


Tell that to my brother DeWalt.

Matt
Or my brothers PowerMatic and Unisaw. Sheeeesh.
j4