What are your best tools you invested money on?

[Andrew]

Just wondering if you can share your experiences here. I guess we all like or liked at some stage buying tools. Some of them turned to be golden, real time savers, some of them just waste of money.
Say for example my probably the absolutely best investment was to buy two smaller, lighter, composite body impact wrenches. Naturally when buying impact wrench guy is looking for strongest one and ends up with some heavy monster. But I had that big one already and I also spent some 400 bucks on foldablle, rechargeable BluePoint 3/8 impact – I kinda liked to work with that one but it was still too big, too weak and unreliable. Getting smaller but stronger than that air tools – one 1/2 and another very compact 3/8 – made all the difference. They are strong enough to undo 95% of fasteners, way faster then air ratchets and still small enough to get into tight spaces. Or I can use some extensions / U-joint setups with them and still get there.
That was the most efficient tools investment for me so far.

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[Bruce]

SO balljoint press, wish I had known about it a long time ago. Also the cordless ratchet and impacts I have purchased in the last 6 months. The ratchet is just a little big and a little slower than an air ratchet, the impacts arent as powerful as air but they are plenty fast enough and not dragging an air hose around all day is just awesome.

[johnfkimmel@yahoo.com]

for wheel alignments,i found out the hard way(5 stitches over eyebrow)that i should get a long handle ratcheting breaker bar.pennsylvania salt rust has been heavy lately.

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