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I have thousands of dollars worth of tools but let me just give you some specialty tools and also say that a good high quality ratchet is maybe one of your most important tools you will use.
Knipex dikes or side cutters
S&K 12 point flex sockets
Gearwrench ratchet combination wrenches
Snapon ratcheting screw driver with exchangible shaft
and my best kept secret medical hemostatsHere are some air compressor basics. As others have stated before the air compressor needs to match your tool requirements. This information can be found in your tools owners manual or if you don’t have the owners manual you can google the cfm air requirement of your particular tool. For example an impact hammer has higher air requirements at 90psi than say an air ratchet @ 90psi. A good compressor will be around 1.5HP and have 4.2 to 4.5 at a minimum SCFM at 90psi. The rating of CFM @ 90psi is really the largest determining factor for heavy duty tools and is a good point of reference for an apples to apples comparison of air compressors.
Hello everyone. This is my first post. I learned this trick repairing aircraft engines. Milk of Magnesia is an excellent anti-seize compound. It performs well under heat, it is cheap, and when it is time to remove a bolt the bolt comes out without excessive force. The copper based anti seize that is fairly common is very good but the MoM is a little bit better in my opinion and not goopy.
I would probably go ahead and do some preventative maintenance and just replace all my ball joints links and bushings before it gets cold. “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure”. Or in Canada I guess a gram of prevention would be worth a kilo of cure. 🙂 . I live in NYC and the winters are brutal. So outside maintenance is very difficult when there is 1 foot of snow (30cm) on the ground. Do it before the winter. That will be one less headache.