Pocket tools

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great ideas Marv! I'd buy plans for those!

Around here I don't have surplus stores but there is always some jar full of interesting screws and bolts in the estate and garage sales we go to. I can't always tell from a glance whether they are useful or not. Having some gauges like yours would be so handy in those cases.

At first I thought you were talking about small pocket sized hand tools. When I was working in the field I always carried a Leatherman micro on my key chain, still do. Another thing that was surprisingly handy was the old GM C3/C4 test key that you'd stick into the com port in the 80's and 90's GM cars to put it into self diagnostic mode. Long after I quite working on those horrid contraptions I kept that on my key ring and it got me out of all kinds of situations like making a jumper into a female 12v socket for testing continuity etc. My favorite by far though was my tiny Snap-on pliers. They are old, probably from the late 70's and incredibly tough. Used them on everything from emergency wrench on nuts and bolts, fishing out small items, grabbing hot things to pulling out slivers. People would laugh when I'd pull them out of my pocket until the used them. Unfortunately they really don't make them like they used to. And Leatherman pliers don't even come close. The new Snap-on version is soft and junk