What does a good minimal tool kit look like?
Hi,
This might be a stupid question, but what does a good minimal tool kit look like for you – assuming that you are not a professional craftsman or a complete hobby DIY fan.
I currently have everything in a shoebox đŸ˜€ – and my cordless screwdriver is fit… and after I had to borrow various things from friends (cordless screwdriver + bit set; ratchet set) because I urgently needed them…
So I'm thinking about getting some equipment for myself, but I don't want to overdo it – less because of the money (that too) and more because of the space. And I'm wondering what I should get that's small and handy, but covers the essentials – screws, drill bits (not impact drills), wrenches, all of them together, but doesn't take up too much space…
And after you buy one or two sets, they're conveniently packaged, but you always end up with things that aren't directly part of the set, but you want to keep with the tools… And finally, consumables like various screws…
How about you?
- Which sets do you have?
- How do you deal with additional tools?
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I like the list of nobodyathome. However, I would add another FasenprĂ¼fer :-).
At the end of the day everyone has their own preferences.
I myself now have two tool bags and a small plastic tool box.
In one pocket there are only tools for electrical installation: stripping pliers, small hammer, multimeters, insulated screwdrivers, side cutters, knives etc.
In the other pocket a small cordless drill hammer, cordless screwdriver, drill, dowel, various inserts, associated chargers uva.
In the tool box: ratchet with nuts from the lid, hammer, div. Fork wrench, Inbus wrench set, various screwdrivers, saw, small clamping claws from the Chinese, metre rod, measuring tape, various adhesives, fase testers, lighters, water pump pliers etc.
Things have been purchased as needed. I.e., if I exchange the shower fitting, for example, I need a (rightly failed) fork wrench SW 30 mm or something that I then buy and which is then in the tool box in the future.
You meet the nail on your head – the space problem. The other answers already contain many ideas. Something else. (Note – I have a lot!) My idea was that what I need most, I want to be able to take my hand right away. Everything else can be in the box.
Therefore: larger box (in my case a trolley) concerned and granted. Screws, nails etc. fit in.
For instant: a very small toolbag – you get often for very little money in the discounter. The tool in it is usually scrap (deposited).
Then quite consciously: only what you really often take in your hand comes into the small bag – if it is in there for a long time, then it comes back into the box. The box is tied up and the bag is on the shelf in the kitchen.
What remains in the bag are few screwdrivers, two pliers, and small things
That’s exactly what I got (in my case from Norma) so Stubby tools: everything much smaller than normal, but usable: mini hammer, mini ratchet and so on.
In addition, Knipex’s secret tip is a super-mini gear set, with which you can start incredibly much: a small water pump plier and one with parallel baking; the whole thing in a belt pocket. It’s a little something, but you have 30 years.
It was a success and the little bag hardly takes place.
Great idea!
I find cordless screwdriver and stitch saw important. I saw everything with the jigsaw, even a branch on the tree.
And then wrenches, an inbus set and 2 pliers. Pliers are often important.
So what you’re dealing with is good.
Such a tool that pulls down the insulation and couple of luster clamps.
Torx is also nciht bad, you often need bicycles.
Hand circular saw or saw
Circular saw
Handles
Minimum 2 cordless screwdriver
Various hand saws and wedges
OK, I wouldn’t take a complete set.
In my tool box would be a set of screwdrivers
A three-axle tariff ratchet with 2 extensions
Nuts
10 12 13 14 15 17 19 mm
A bit holder and a set of bits
Fork Key Set
A good combination plier
A side cutter
A water pump pliers and a hammer
As well as a cordless screw
And so gradually you can expand
A hammer drill
A good waterway
A Saw
Completely assembled sets I basically reject. I have not seen anyone yet, with whose composition I would have been 100% in agreement.
Z-Saw cutting shop set
Raspels and Feilen
Spring clamps
Screwstock (work bench you can easily improvise or build yourself)
Screwdriver – four or five, slot and cross slot or Philips
Drill winch – with drill set, bit holder and screwdriver bits
couple Stemmies (shmal and wide) and sharpening or peeling stone
Hammer – a wood hammer and a shrine hammer (steel) 200 to 300 grams. Rubber or other hand hammer as well as a small set (cylindrical!) splint driver and a grain also do not harm.
Grinding – grain size 120 and 240, plus at least cheap dust protection masks with paper valve and one Cork block
Wood pulp e.g. Ponal Wasserfest. Very fast setting is Ponal Express.
brush, terpentine substitutes for cleaning and dilution
If you want to buy or have to buy new, here are some specific products that I use almost every day:
Measuring tape with viewing window, e.g. Stanley 3m PANORAMIC, €12,50
Brothers Mannesmann IndustrialScrew clamp M90422 (blue-silver, not red-black) 120×200 – already seen from 12 Euro (300mm cost almost the same, 500mm are also not much more expensive.)
Juuma C-forces – even with little manual force you can tighten them very tight thanks to cross handle and trapezoidal threaded spindle.
Wolfcraft FZH Forces all sizes – Super Parts for everything possible!
Combination angle Bahco or Stanley, or the practical “Speed Square” = a kind of geo triangle for woodwork, made of aluminum with stop. But metric Eighth scale – the cheapest have customs scales, because for the USA thought.
Wera Screwdriver Set 6-piece. Cross & slot – 28 Euro
Set of hexagon key in holder with “ball” at long end – so from 5 Euro
Stanley Surform Hobby-Feile from 8 Euros (The Surform standard file is also good, it is actually more rasp than filings.)
Flat butt file Hieb 2, 150mm (or two pieces, Hieb 1 and 3) – further wedges in other shapes as required – always only with handle use!
ex-DDR mini screwstock B 63 with table clamp (GISAG) AND
rigid mounted parallel screwstock 100mm with anvil surface OR
IRWIN 226361 Wooden hanger, 16.5 cm
Stemmies 6mm and 20mm MHG ~20 Euro, other sizes by choice, or even C. K. Tools five-part set T1180 with scraper
CONNEX Exhaust stone 150x50x25mm for wet grinding – 7 Euro
Not necessarily for woodwork, but sometimes also very useful and very inexpensive:
Small Roll fork keys 110 or 150mm – from 5,50 Euro
Water pumps Knipex Cobra – from 16,50 Euro
Gedore Red or Proxxon Ringmaul wrench set, SW8-19 8-tlg with holder – from 25 Euro
1/4″ 16 pieces about 30 Euro
The Gedore Red plug set 1/4″ 16 pieces is very inexpensive with 30 Euros and it works in places faster and more comfortable than with ring keys. But at least in motor vehicles you get worse or not at all. On the other hand, screws that are seated in depressions cannot be reached with uncrimped ring/mouth wrenches. So in the long term you need both.
A set of cheap Chinese forstner drills with hard metal trim is also super practical, but basically you need a table drill or at least one drill stand and an electric hand drill.
So the listing is more than a minimum – far more. (Adoption that you are not a professional craftsman or hobby-DIY fan)
But in particular:
I’m wondering what you’re doing… that’s the problem with me.
I think I would take 1-2 finished sets so I have the base (accu screwdriver with bits; A ratchet, key pliers set) but what with all the extras …
My personal solution brings you little, because I own about ten times as much stuff scattered over three different small workshops in my house as well as the garage. If you have a fixed workshop, you can easily attach a tool wall there and shelves. And with the basic equipment you can easily make tool boxes and wall holders and all that made of wood, just as you want.
I have a very good cordless drill screwdriver with all accessories. A suitcase with pliers in different shapes. One with the very normal tool (screwdriver, hammer, inbus wrench, bit screwdriver..)
That’s enough for my need. All small products (screws, nuts, nails, grinding paper, etc.) are in an extra cardboard box.
Oh, my God… what’s minimal? I have extremely many tools in different sizes and actually need more.
But I’ll try.
Yes, what I wrote above…(Adoption that you are not a professional craftsman or hobby-DIY fan)
But above all, the question of how handy is packaged…
Buy such a suitcase. You can do everything that is so normal.
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