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kcoyle · Joined: 15 Jan 2011 Posts: 712 Location: Long Island, NY

I went to flush transaxle and found the fill plug slightly round and impossible to get out. I tried the usual (heat, soaking, BFH, vice grips, swearing, etc) with no luck. Climbed into the attic and dusted off the welder I bought 10 years ago in a fit of rage when I was quoted $400 to fix a stoop railing and wound up doing it myself. After about 20 minutes fiddling with the welder I was able to get a big blob of weld to hold on the allen key/drain plug and it spun right off.

That welder was destined for craigslist this spring after tripping over it and moving it a dozen times without having a use for it. Looks like I'll have to keep it another 10 years. You never know.
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1982 931- Stock with MBC at 8psi

Relax, all right? My old man is a television repairman, he's got this ultimate set of tools. I can fix it.

220 · Joined: 15 Jan 2011 Posts: 28 Location: Southern NSW Aus

Haven't sold any but gave away a bucket full of spanners (wrenches) on the weekend.
I have a full set of metric 6-19mm open ended spanner the same in ring spanners, a set of 6-36mm combination spanners and a basic set of ratchet spanners.

Put a set of combination spanners in a tool box for my son, if I'm lucky it might stop him raiding my tool chest

and gave the rest to my father who seems to be for ever misplacing tools.

I've found it doesn't matter how many tools you have it's always the tool you have misplaced or the one you dont have that is need for a job.

Martijnus · Joined: 29 Dec 2006 Posts: 2019 Location: Netherlands

You're a tool if you sell tools.

Doesn't sound as smart when you say it to the clerk at the hardware store.
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"Rule: Turbo's make torque, and torque makes fun." (C. Bell)

924 "50-jahre", 1981.
MSII/extra, LPG, ITB's, 5lug.
To be turbo'ed in a while.
Killed her at the Nurburgring, Porscheless at the moment

staticsan · Joined: 19 Jan 2009 Posts: 450 Location: Sydney, Australia

I've found that a multi-discipline project, such as making an old car go, is a good way to fill out one's tool set. I most happily spent one morning many months ago selecting a suitable socket set and spanner set from the local tools place. There were so many to choose from...

I obviously made a good choice with the socket set: my Dad likes to use it instead of his own (it lives at his place because that's where my '924 is).

Wade.

emoore924 · Joined: 13 Apr 2004 Posts: 2822

I have a stainless steel tool box that's bigger than my wife's stainless steel refrigerator.

That way I have a place to keep all those single-use tools like the 20" long allen wrench you need to adjust the MFI on a 72-73 911, or the little "hold tension on the timing belt pulley" two-stud wrench thingie you use to hold the timing belt pulley on a 924 whilst you're tightening the hold-bolt. Or the craftsman bottle opener. Very important stuff there. Always need more room...

madislandguy · Posted: Tue Feb 07, 2012 1:28 pm Post subject:

NEVER get rid of a tool. You might need it to make a "special" tool someday. I have cut and rewelded so many wrenches to make single purpose tools it isn't funny.

chaparral2f · Joined: 29 Jan 2011 Posts: 33 Location: southern oregon

I guess that's why I've got 2 Mig welders (Miller and Esab) a Lincoln Tig and an Esab plasma cutter in my garage. Now if I only had room to work around them.

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1980 Porsche 924
1997 GMC Jimmy (DD)
1984 300zx Tube chassis, Jag suspension, 400hp sbc

pmcaya2 · Joined: 24 Nov 2005 Posts: 191 Location: Scio, NY USA

It's indeed important to have the right tool since cost seems to escalate if you don't. If the original owner had the correct $2 hex wrench he wouldn't have rounded the transmission plug bolt and you would not have needed the $400 welder to solve the problem.

I liked the fact that you included swearing in your tool box - cost is low and it sometimes works as well as a spanner wrench. - Peter