Single favorite tool?

[Echo Tango]

What was the one tool that you bought during your build (or build in progress) that really made you say WOW! This thing is great! Not necessarily your most-used tool or most expensive tool, but the one tool that you really admired for doing its intended job so well.

I'm still working on my HS so I don't have much experience to speak of, but I've been really impressed with my air drill.

CP7300 Reversible, Keyless Chuck by Chicago Pneumatics
powerful, light, easy on the wallet, and the trigger is butter. Bit changing takes 3 or 4 seconds. Love it
Think I paid around $130 for it.

[Buggsy2]

It just might be this sorting tray from Harbor Freight. I have several and use them to store the bits and pieces of separate small tasks going on simultaneously.

[jbagley]

I got some hole finders in a pile of tools I picked up from a local builder. Didn't know what they were until that one day I was trying to figure out how to find that hole under that sheet of aluminum and drill to match. Simple and effective tool:

http://www.browntool.com/Default.asp...,ProductNumber

[Rupester]

....my Cleaveland tool rivet squeezer ... the "Main Squeeze". Incredibly well designed and works flawlessly. And you use a rivet squeezer throughout the duration of the build, be it riveting, dimpling, or other. (...like flattening out dimples you did the wrong way )

[Echo Tango]

Originally Posted by Rupester

....my Cleaveland tool rivet squeezer ... the "Main Squeeze". Incredibly well designed and works flawlessly. And you use a rivet squeezer throughout the duration of the build, be it riveting, dimpling, or other. (...like flattening out dimples you did the wrong way )

im still considering buying one of these. i just purchased my hand squeezer and dimple die set so i imagine it will take me a while to get "frustrated" with it enough to pull the trigger on something bigger and badder

[ppilotmike]

Without a doubt, the rivet removal tool from Cleaveland.
http://www.cleavelandtoolstore.com/p...sp?number=RRT4
While you can always drill out rivets by hand (which I do for flush rivets), you can't beat the rivet drill out tool for universal head rivets IMHO.

[dlloyd3]

Most tools did the job expected of them, drills, die cutters, squeezers, etc. One that really amazed me was the cheap belt sander from HF. Just could not believe how easy it was to shape aluminum parts. Could not get by without it.

[Paul K]

Die Grinder! I find more uses for this thing; cutting, shaping, edge finishing, etc. The quickest way to deburr an edge is with the 1" Skotch Brite wheel. Makes deburring the inside of a hole very fast and even fun.

[DonFromTX]

Definitely the pneumatic rivet squeezer! Don't get to use it too much on an RV12, but I hate the hammering sound of pounding a rivet, and the big ones squeeze too hard for me wth the hand squeezer. Always find it amazing to watch it squeeze a rivet so effortlessly.

[AltonD]

My Sioux air drill.
rivet squeezer from avery. The build is done, but I have the dies for rivetting brake pads. Great tool for this job.