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  1. 21st September 2011, 11:03 AM #1
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    Default The best cheap widget?

    Mine's a combo twist drill with short flutes and the shaft cut like a rat-tailed file.

    Incredibly handy for widening holes in metal plates like door latch striker plates (when drought and rain have doors going up and down like yo-yos).

    What's yours?
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    My Jobmate folding work table.

    Ridiculously cheap - and far from the best quality - but I honestly don't know how I worked for so many years without one!
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    Quote Originally Posted by artme View Post
    Weardjagetit???
    Can't recall ... not made of cheese so it's lasted for years.
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    The Telegraph Point Toolworks amazing multi-chisel. Cost nothing and does everything.
    See here:
    https://www.woodworkforums.com/f152/n...ol-envy-77924/

    .... some old things are lovely
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  6. 22nd September 2011, 09:16 AM #6
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    Cheers, Ern
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    Quote Originally Posted by rsser View Post
    Mine's a combo twist drill with short flutes and the shaft cut like a rat-tailed file.

    Incredibly handy for widening holes in metal plates like door latch striker plates (when drought and rain have doors going up and down like yo-yos).

    What's yours?
    Sounds somewhat like a RotoZip bit. Also fits Dremel (1/8" shank).

    Might not be my best cheap widget, but I agree - very handy.

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    Milk crates! Combined with cable ties and the like you have benches, scaffold, shelving, saw stools etc etc. Wonderful things and quite reasonably priced.
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    Salvaged food containers, e.g. peanut butter jars, for misc. hardware. Cost = zero.

    Salvaged plastic buckets (4-5 gallons), for larger portable storage. Also cost = zero. Either roadside orphans, or from "hazardous" waste facility.

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    Purple flower handled screw driver that has 2 sizes of both phillips head and slot. Even HUbby use to dive into my tool box to borrow it. After saying "whydjabuythatthing? " Often the only tool he could find cos everything else lost in the shed.
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    Those silicone cooking spatulas (from $2 shops) ...chop the handles off and use for flexible sanding blocks..
    and thanks for the heads up about milk crates and cable ties Christopha ....cable ties hadn't been invented when I last used milk crates for furniture.

    what if the hokey pokey is really what it's all about?
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    Bottle opener.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Cliff Rogers View Post
    Bottle open
    ..a bit early isn't it Cliff?

    what if the hokey pokey is really what it's all about?
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    Yup, left off the er.

    Only on my first coffee.
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    The spindles from bulk CD/DVD cases. Screw 'em to the wall and slide your 100/125 mm cut off wheels and flap disks on 'em .
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