My most hated tool. A shovel. I'm allergic to em, every time I touch one I break out in blisters on my hands, my back starts hurting and I catch a cold sweat.
When I first started tig welding I almost fell for the marketing hype of the tig sharpener. Then I saw some pro welder online sharpen his electrode with a 4" angle grinder and his welds looked like they off the cover of car craft magazine. I thought to myself, damn, that $350 sharpener will never make my snot welds look like that, better start practicing actual welding.
@@acanadiancarpenter I've screamed at managers before over this.. once you say "so you warrantied a receipt instead of the tool" they usually give you an exchange..if not, act like you're sucking it up and buying s replacement.. then come back two weeks later for a return..with a shiny new receipt..👍👍
Why can a shop vac never roll over its own cord without tipping? Always require gingecarefuling while pulling it around the shop by the girlfriend part.
I love Flathead screwdrivers for anything but screwing (not the good kind). I frogging hate using them unscrewing some pos slotted screw made of butter, jamming it in my hand and start spraying bio hazard all over my workplace.
I've got a set of the standard Craftsman ones from a couple decades back. I was using the round one (versus the ones with four discrete sides to the shaft) and when I went to remove a screw from a shower floor drain cover, the tool itself twisted at the tip. Didn't affect this little 8-32 screw at all, just broke the driver.
I still like standard better than Phillips (torx is obviously best)! Maybe it's just me but I can strip out a Phillips head just giving it a mean look!
Most hated tool? Needlenose pliers. For purposes of my personal pride, I'm going to blame the design of the tool rather than my own chronic ineptitude for enticing me EVERY DANG TIME to put a bracing finger between the handles, inevitably resulting upon closure in pinched flesh and a subsequent blood blister.
needlemose are great for stretching heatshrink. good for when youre soldering 2 different gauge wires together and the heatshrink that fits around the large wire wont shrink down to the small wire's size.
Most loved tool: flat screwdriver Most hated fastener: flat head screw. Seriously, why are those still made. We should throw a mechanics strike until every last one has been recalled and replaced.
I agree. Flathead screws rarely ever go in straight. When you apply corrective directional pressure, the slot is too shallow and you end up stripping it out or sliding the stylet wedge across a finished surface if not your hand
The freakin Phillip’s head screw is the worst. Its like someone said “hey I like the way this slot head is stripping out but it would be cool if it could cam-out at the same time.... wait I have an idea”
Most hated tool: my boss. Most hated implement used on the job: post hole diggers. I dug 300 yards of fence post holes before the boss man came riding up on his Dingo.
Cresent wrench, or adjustable wrench. Best nut edge remover ever. Also doubles as a end of travel gauge when it slips & your full speed clenched fist finds the hardest or sharpest edge around for 60 miles.
AvE my friend. I did you a favor and read through all 2100 comments. The most hated tools are definitely the ex-outs and the flathead screwdrive and I can say that I agree.
I've never owned a set of snap ring pliers I've liked. I work for an automotive parts store now, and every set i sell isn't worth the plastic it's sold in.
I've got an OLD snap-on set thats fantastic. The newer quality sets actually have beveled tips that encourage ring to slide up towards handle instead of off tips and flying across shop. Tiny change but makes HUGE difference.
I parked my car in the garage last night, opened the trunk, and found four 9mm sockets in the spare tire well. Don't know where in the hell they came from, but I know where they're going - 'Art' bucket.
He’s started a ‘career’ in boxing now after his failed teeny-youtuber channel got geeslusly screwed... so hopefully he’ll take a critical smash to the temple and be outta our way asap rocky!
Vet only applies to fiberglass shovels and hammers, fiberglass handles for pickaxes and regular axes have a solid half inch of thermoset between the handle and the solid fiberglass core. Those Hollow fibetglass shovels on the other hand f****** split down the middle where the pin is and starts getting shoved down the Shovelhead if you dig too much.
I hate any “new and revolutionary” wrench from craftsman. I just want a damn wrench with good steel and well machined. If it says “Mach”, “extreme”, or has a name of an animal or dinosaur I don’t want the f’ing thing.
Most of the time, yes. But I have gotten some good use out of the ratchet with a hole in the center on nuts where the shaft is too long for a deep well.
Yep, can’t stand their “flex claw hammer” bullshit or any other tool they try to reinvent with cheap plastic and Chinese pubic hair. I did however like the sidewinder tape measure
The last Craftsmen set I bought I just put up on my "wall of steel" - a wall dedicated mostly to old stanley planes and odd oldschool tools like cobbler's tools. Some old hand saws, too.
If you work in a dealership the crappy coating on the Mastercrap sockets is handy, all your common sizes become semi-chrome and easier to spot. Hahaha.
I was going to say the same thing. You can even see the RTX3S on the rear sticker at 2:04. Not a bad rotary tool for $35, I've abused one to death and another close to it. But 10x markup to stick some pointy bits on it is criminal.
The first one I had was before they apparently got sued by Dremel and it had the speed dial numbered 1-6 (why always 6) with no detents. I must have received it for a gift around 20 years ago by now. The newer one only has L/M/H on the knob... and some really weak detents... and is still just a knob on a potentiometer. Great example in minimal re-engineering to work around a legal issue.
I hate any drill bit set that touts magical golden coatings. Any drill bit set that comes in a horrible plastic holder that cracks in a week usually indicates the quality of the bits...
Mine worked well for a while. After the wheel was worn and I couldn’t find the tools to rotate the wheel to the other side I went back to hand sharpening
Lmfao "makes ur dingus fall off" & "cant get over the boarder cuz ur radioactive" had me spitting out my coffee when I watched this, pure magic brother! The accent just makes it that much better
I received a tap and die set for my birthday that I can only assume was made out of cheddar aged 18months. Wasn’t able to thread an 8mm hole in aluminium and the two smallest taps were bent out of the box.
That sounds like the ones my boss buys. We work almost exclusively in brass (custom plumbing shop), and the things self-destruct after a few uses. I'd bring my own set, except he'd destroy it or lose half of it.
I always buy taps on ebay on auctions. Brand new helical taps sold for 2€. I guess that people steel them from work and sell them on ebay. What person or company buys professional, german made, ground HSS helical taps only to sell 5 of them on ebay?
@@nathanlucas6465Your 1" to 1/2" adapter must be feck in awesome I can't even get a 1" to 3/4" adapter that doesn't shear off at the first sign of work.
Drum brake pliers. It's always a two trips to the tool box thing. Starts off with, "maybe this time" and ends with going back to two screw drivers and and regular pliers and some swear words.
dusty johnson I used old vice grips with the jaws ground into a semi circle on the tip so as not to squash the round type of retaining pin collets, the tiny little quick clamps that irwin made for the model/hobby types for closing wheel cylinders and the secret weapon for handbrake cables shall remain as such.
Find you a T handle spring hook, I actually look forward to drum brake rebuilds. I picked one up at the local harbor freight some time ago, but can't find it online. google it, I'm sure you'll find one.
I have a $5 chinesium multimeter that works very well. Said no one. But it actually is quite good. Accurate enough for home projects, batteries, resistors, etc....
Hot cold soldering guns. Doesn't matter where you get them from. In my experience they are all worthy of a quick flight towards a brick wall. I'd rather wait for 20 soldiering irons to heat up then pay 200 just to get pissed off.
I’ve gotten to where I just preheat them with a propane torch and let the electricity maintain the heat lol. Edit: I’m talking about cheap ass regular irons.
Got a ryobi pressure washer. First 2 minutes the water pump housing grew a 4 inch crack right down the freaking middle and lost 90% pressure . Piece o fukin garbage
The tool that cost me 6 years of my life and about 4K in divorce lawyer. Then I discovered that despite what I was told, other, less costly and less permanent sockets fits *just fine *
Most useless tool, My Imperial to Metric cross reference book. 3/4 of the time it's wrong the other 50% it's ok. Next time I buy one I'm getting a 110% accurate Chineseium one.
I work at a sporting goods store and the vacuum cleaner we have is so old that it still bemoans the end of separate but equal education laws. Its cord is more kinky than that one girl in college with the Catholic parents and it picks up dust about as well as teflon.
The standing joke at one of my old shops was "The only thing that doesn't suck here is the vacuum pump" Mind you it was a DOD contract job and we needed the equivalent of sucking a golfball thru a garden hose.
3:07 A complete helium atom wouldn't be such a big deal, problem is it's just the helium nucleus, no electrons. That's what messes you up, super ionising
Most regretful tool for me is a universal socket with spring loaded needles that fill in the gaps. Mashing those needles is a great way to turn a hex bolt into a 3/8" square inverse-nut.
Rarely do I ever comment (RU-vid comments are 9/10ths garbage) but you sir, you did indeed save this poor bastard from purchasing a SET of would-be useless sockets. Genuine thank you. Adding a few more to the Patreon, love them BOLTR's!
@@Gumby1974 Unless you get a set that has metric and non metric mixed IN A HUGE PILE. Sorry had to get that of my chest my coworker has like 60 different sockets al in a drawer.
Cheap long nose vise grips that twist every time you apply any kind of pressure. I still have them and I still curse every time I use them and think I will get a different result.
Ah, I purchased exactly the same, in one of those 10 assorted pliers for £15 that looked like a good deal when the sun was at just the right angle and the wind blowing just so... the rest of the time I just wallow in regret for not just buying £15 worth of beer instead.
I bought a three piece Craftsman set of these a few years ago, and the first time I used them was on drum brake springs and they immediately twisted and bent on the very first use...that's when I came to the horrible realization that my beloved Craftsman had outsourced their tools to China. I dug through an old toolbox and found an old rusty USA pair of the same size and they did the job with zero problems.
The cheap ones the tool breaks before the rivet mandrel. I have broken them popping a 3.2mm rivet, and that was aluminium holding 2 pieces of plastic. I bought the set because I needed 5 3.2mm rivets on a Sunday, and finished off the other 4 as well as the first with another rivet gun. A pox on cheap rivets as well, where the mandrel snaps off half way, leaving you to break out the grinder to finish the job.
When I still had my own company, I made aluminium fans for oil burners that were riveted together. Since the fan rotated at 3000rpm, the customer told me to use Emhart rivets explicitly, because the high rpms would cause metal fatigue and the fan would disintegrate. Guess what, Emhart (and Masterfix) was bought by Stanley and the production was moved to China... Got a phone call a week ago from the company asking me if I had some rivets left so they cold do some testing because they were looking to produce new fans. I emailed them in the summer of 2015 warning them about rivets made out of finest chinesium. Based on what I've seen, the rivets might be made in the same factories that makes the cheap no-name brands. They just slapped their own stickers on the white boxes.
18v cordless caluking gun that's only been useful for reminding me that marketing something that's only a bit lazy as something truly timesaving is just as effective now as it's always been.
I HATE peg board. It is sold to weekend warrior types and is sometimes adopted by managers who think tools will now be organized and never go missing because of the outlines. In reality, the cheap shit hooks fall out or don't let go of the tool. There are only awkward options for hanging larger tools or ones without a hole. Might as well add in baby jars of rusty cross threaded hardware screwed to an offcut of chipboard to that list. Any "Door Crasher/Father's Day/Makes A Great Gift" from Canuckistan Tire is also crap IMHO.
I love it. So much so that I use it for door material on my storage shelves for extra storage space. The key is to buy the better hooks. Either the super thick hooks that have two engagements to the board or the kits that have the black plastic keepers that you place across the hook and snap into the two adjacent holes. Both will keep holding the hook in while you pull out the tool being retained.
I bought peg board and threw it out immediately. Absolutley garbage. Instead I screwed a piece of OSB to the wall and screwered screws into that. Same result but much sturdier.
I called a local hardware store looking for some pegboard. They told me that they have some, but it doesn't have the holes in it. If I'm lieing I'm dieing. I was almost tempted to ask for a pattern to drill the holes.
Agreed. Get the quarter inch board and hardware - most nowdays is the 3/16". Only use the old style hardware with the extra nub. That works and is the reason pegboard became the universal standard. The new stuff is crap - is that breaking news?
Anything "As seen on TV" and almost any tool promised to perform multiple tasks/eliminate the need to own 10 other tools. Ie the hammer screwdriver and electric drill toilet plunger.
1. Milsukie portaband that snapped bandsaw blades like pretzels before the teeth showed any wear. Machining custom bushings for the idler wheel slide took the 1/8" slop out of the weeble wobble. Guide bearings continually got replaced from seizing up or blowing up from debris during use. Paying $25 per bearing for oem is rediculous so a 30 pack on Amazon cured the continual surprise maintenance issues. The shoe was machined at 89° instead of 90 causing lots of headaches trying to sort out why everything turned out crooked. The PA6 plastic cooling fan blew up a year into owning it. A whole new armature has to be bought as it is cast in place. The cooling fin shoot out like razor blades when she blows. Fast forward to a little bit past 3 years in ownership, cooling fan number 2 blew up shedding about half of the plastic fins. Milsukie refused a warranty service number on the first cooling fan stating if it blew up, it was abuse by the user even though they had barely heard any details or pictures of the problem. With the 2nd cooling fan blow up, the saw was under the 5 year warranty but wouldn't be looked at for 4 weeks after receiving once mailed to them. Of course the customer pays the shipping and any components they deem as abuse or misuse which is virtually everything once reading their fine print in the warranty statement. I decided not to fix the saw and use it until I ran out of the stockpiled guide bearings. The saw has always been kept clean even in the metal cutting environment of the shop. Changing blade manufacturers made no difference in how long they lasted. I purchased a Bauer bandsaw which from what I was told comes out of the other side of the same factory Milsukie does and blades lasting until the teeth are dull has been a pay raise increase. 2. The M18 drill and driver set lasted about 2 years before major problems showed up needing repairs. The drill out of the box would not change speeds by the slide switch. Milsukie had a 2 week wait upon receipt before it could be looked at with the attitude that it was already my fault yet it had never had drilled a hole yet. I decided I'll just fix it as I had work to get done. The Chinesium spring was installed wrong in the housing with the finger ends not hooked in the holes causing the no gear change. One battery stopped accepting a charge. Was told it was due to excessive heat or cold and likely been dropped too hard. Always an excuse as to why warranty was void without Milsukie knowing all the details for being called. 3. Channel Lock brand linesman pliers - was working for an electrical contractor and bought a new pair which out of the package would fold over the wire rather than cutting it off. Found out the cutting jaws had been machined crooked and the pin was loose as AvE had encountered also. Made in the USA with short cuts taken to keep profits up all while competing with the import brands. So agree or disagree, name brand or no name brand, either way is a gamble as it could work great and last forever or be a total piece of shit. The Bauer bandsaw, it has already paid for itself not eating at least one $7 blade a week. Not all cheaper brands like Horrid Fraud offers are bad. Another note before many think I don't take care of my tools, I treat them well as they cost too much not to. I just tend to find the lemon tool more often than not as bad luck seems to be the common problem. Just my thoughts.
Easy outs! I absolutely despise that lie-of-a-name piece of crap. I guess they are good for removing all hope of getting that bolt out after they break off in the hole.
The screws I work with I think must be made of butter. They strip quicker than a hooker when the ships pull in, but that also means easy-outs actually work.they even work when you throw them in a shitty cheapo electric screwdriver. The number of bolts I've turned into weird flathead screws is amazing
Dewalt thickness planar: -So expensive and big, for such a shit tool -Immediately gouges and scores the wood -Taught me the word 'sniping' Almost unavoidable. Buy the overpriced sheet metal extension table only slightly better. -Upgrade to the thicker blade you can sharpen yourself is immediately nicked up by a knot or who knows what on the first day -kickbacks cut your hand open you can't even see it coming or what is going on down there -loud as a jet engine without even putting wood in it -but looks like it's sturdy and would be useful, and the 4 bicycle gear/chain raise/lower is so enticing, so disappointing compared to how it looks -can't justify getting rid of it because it sort of works well enough given that I don't use it much
I once got a service call by an IT guy when a row of computers weren’t getting power. I looked through the little window in the door when I was waiting on the guy to let me in the computer room and saw the plug to the power strip was just barely hanging on to the ceiling receptacle by the ground pin. I tried not to laugh as I plugged it back in and restored the blackout. This was an after-hours emergency call and Mal-Wart got charged 4 hours for it 😏.
Power Fister Colour Coded sockets are useless, because they didn't colour code the nuts and bolts of whatever I'm working on. How am I supposed to know what colour socket I'm to use on what bolt.
I have a ton of colored sockets from Hazard Freight, and after a while you can look at a bolt and know what color to grab. Also really nice when switching shank size or going from short well to deep well, as their the same color.
Deck grinders used for industrial level tile removal. Combines the worst of jackhammers, needle guns and pallet jacks with the accompanying joy of 150 decibels of mind ringing joy.
Flat head screwdrivers! But it's not really the tool, it's the bloody screws! Who in their right mind still uses flat head screws? Is it 1922 or something? So you got to fix the front door of the appartment complex because some movers have busted the hinges and the door can't close anymore. I'm not going to bed without a closed front door. Guess what? Flat head screws! Thrice painted over. Have fun getting flat head screws out when their grooves are filled up with paint and they're bent at a 45 degree angle. People that use flat head screws need to go away. Use torx! (and your head.) The same goes for people that paint over hinges and screws, go away!
Painting over hardware should be a flogging offence. I agree about the slotted screws as well, guaranteed to slip and send the edge of the screwdriver scraping across a nice finished surface with the least bit of off axis torque.
easy fix, you either hit the screwdriver while in the slot or use a utility knife to cut the paint out of the slot. I've done this thousands of times. I'd hate to think of cleaning out a torx head. My nightmare is when people put sheet metal screws or wood screws where the machine screws should be in outlets because they take them out to paint and lose the original ones.
I know what you mean but technically what you are referring to is slotted screws. A flathead screw can be a phillips drive, slotted, hex, square, torx etc..
Agreed, Torx is best by far (Robertson / square is 2nd)! Not a big fan of standard but Phillips is still the worst! Just scowl at em and they strip out! Lazy jerks that paint windows shut deserve a good beating too!
I'd love to see a breakdown of two harbor fraught things in comparison to others. 18ga. finish nailers, harbor vs. bostitch (or other "high end" brand). The other, upright, oil-free air compressor, harbor vs. maybe a dewilt or kobalt. If interested, I'd be happy to contribute the HF 18ga. nailer to the cause but I'm too poor to supply it all. Love the channel (just introduced to it) and look forward to using more Canadian slang as your vernacular makes its way into my frequently used words! Keep it up, man. These videos are the ultimate consumer reports and I've already learned a ton about the chemistry behind plastics, rubbers, and metals that make up much of the average tool!
Can't go wrong with a Wiha or a Wera. I can't tell you how many times the 2mm Wera I have has been hammered into a pentalobe security screw just because that's the one set of bits I never have in my bag.
My most hated tool is a flat-blade screwdriver. For twisten on screws that is. Worst invention ever, along with the slotted screw heads that go with it. Handy multi-purpose gizmo outside of that though.
Robertsons ARE the best. Don't run into them often here in the USA, outside of electrical panels. But the positive fit and torque-ability are fantastic. All other screws are inferior, imo.
Pro tip! Get one of those little vibrating engraver tools and engrave the sizes into your cheap sockets. I have a lot of sockets that I had to grind down to fit into tight spaces, thus removing the numbers. And you can also use it to engrave your initials into your tools.
Knew a guy who was about 55, he had been a master tech for 35 years, he had been a commercial trucker for 30 years, he has been in the armed forces for 20 years, he was in the RCMP for 10-15 years somewhere in there, he had lived am interesting life. He showed us a picture of his classic Chevelle all done up in front of the shop he owned, of course we live in Ontario and he had palm trees in the picture which we pointed out... He had been a special forces sniper and had had Sadaam Hussein in his sights and wasn't allowed to take the shot one time; another time he and some other truckers were stranded in the mountains for 30 days due to a snow storm so he hunted caribou with a sharpened stick and fed them all with esperagus he had in his trailer and the caribou he had speared. As funny as the stories were, he thought we believed them all, he had no mechanics license, no skills of any sort but he believed he was a gift to the earth. Always had a better story or experience. He was steal your lunch out of the break room poor but he had several successful businesses. He is my most hated tool. Side note, can confirm about those mastercraft sockets wearing off. Pain in the arse.
I'm hiding my lust for your pin assortment. Prior to this video I prided myself in having every possible thing that was sold in plastic multiple bin containers. YOU WIN THIS ONE MR. VIDEO MAKER MAN!!!
One of my big regret tools is the HF manual tire mounter. I wasn't expecting a fancy powered experience. I knew there'd be some manual labor involved with it, but what I wasn't expecting is how the bar is so poorly designed to scar up the lip of aluminum rims on the removal. And in fact, it's only the bar I have issue with. The rest of it actually is quite functional for standard traditional tires. Don't bother with anything with a low profile. But trailer tires and old truck rims, it works on. I just wish the handle didn't scar up the rims. Maybe I'm just not using it right, but for the minimal cost saving, I'll just take my tires to be mounted. On the other hand, the HF static tire balancer is AWESOME. I wish I'd owned one of these years ago. Again, there's some manual work involved with operating it, but it does a darn good job of balancing a tire...worth every penny IMO.
I have lost countless 10mm wrenches and sockets until I found a stubby 10mm combination wrench about 4" long which lives on my keys now and I NEVER lend it.
That dude pisses me off like nothing else. Especially his "skills every guy should master" bullshit. If everyone "masters" blacksmithing I'll be out of a job
what happens with alpha particles is they pick up a set of electrons as soon as it can. Generally, the skin has a lot of dead cells on the outside that pick up ionization (extra electrons) from the environment. Alpha particles can't make it more than a millimeter at most into the skin due to this property. Once they are inside of your body, however, they can steal electrons from your organs and DNA structures and wreak all kinds of havoc.
I was so inspired that I went and weighed my sledgie. 28lb gross - so the head is probably 25. It's marked somewhere, but it filled in with super tough concrete. Sometimes I rent it out to the police for when they raid a particularly hardened criminals place. Who's the daddy? It is.
I love my small lightweight hammers since because I don't have a welder I can fix almost any sheet metal problem with them and a box of oldschool rivets.
Old rubber spark plug sockets. They grip too fast to the ceramic, and once you get them threaded in, your whole extension pops off the thing and it gets stuck in the well.
Hey man.... not too far to go till 1 million subs... good luck brother, what do you get for a million nowadays...? anyway, love your vidgeeeos man... good work :)
My least favorite is a drill press made by cummins but not the cummins engine company. This is Taiwan built press that never drills a straight hole. However in the other building I have a really old craftsman press with a half inch chuck welded right to the shaft and not a single safety cover left. But it drills prefect holes every time
Crapsman ratchets. That was the only brand I knew growing up. Until late, I figured all ratchets has less than 50 teeth and felt about as smooth as a slip-n-slide on a rock bed.
Yes, electric staple gun. Won't drive a quarter inch long staple more that 1/8" into a 2x4 without both hands applying down force. Conversely, even the Hazard Fraught air stapler is a bonnie, a beauty, and a joy forever. Did a whole bunch of stapling of insulation and didn't have hammer down staples before hanging the sheetrock. Drove every one of them dead flush. Simply lovely.
#1 hated tool for me...harbor freight wrenches. I was in my mid-20s driving a 91 miata...engine had little to no compression, so I bought some cheap tools and pulled the engine. With the engine on the hoist, my buddy holding the flywheel and my neighbor watching, I go to pull the flywheel off. I slap the closed end of a 16mm(I think) wrench on a bolt and proceed apply my weight to it, around 250lb. The end snaps off and I then punch the concrete full power and bounce my forehead off the ring gear. Then in a blind rage throw the wrench...straight into the driver's door panel of my neighbor's car. Luckily his car was a beater cash car and he was more concerned about the geyser of blood erupting out of my face than his car's door. I ended up throwing the whole set away the next day and picking up a set from HD, not much better but they never beat me up like the HF set did. My left hand's fingers are still crooked to this day a decade later.
With age you learn better than to apply any pressure in any direction you aren't fully prepared to punch in. I've lost plenty of skin doing this very thing, hard lesson learned.
dr.rockzo I had one break and raked my knuckles up the radiator. Completely took the skin off pinky, ring and middle finger knuckles. It took months to heal I can say HF tool boxes are ok. Had one 10 years now and it’s still in good shape.
Shittest tool Ive ended up with is an air ratchet. Unless you've pre-cracked your fastener it does fark all. Couldn't pull the skin of a half cooled custard.
W Winterheart Land of ping pong and genocide you crack me up. I’ve got a half inch drive one that if your not ready when you pull trigger will snap your wrist like a cheap chopstick made by the C.H. Ina company.
In my home garage - Channel-locking pliers. They never lock in the channel when you need them to, and always lock into the wrong spot when you finally get the teeth on a hose clamp with your arm pretzel'd up inside an engine compartment. At work - the non-ratcheting hose clamp crimpers that you need to open up a mile on the handle end to get around the ear while trying to hold a clamp in place as well as usually two hoses with your arms stuffed behind a cabinet or some other sort of non-movable fixture. 3rd place is a tie between corded power tools and ni-cad battery tools though corded probably edges that one out. Best tool is the 3 ft iron pipe. It's a hammer/prybar/stethoscope/ratchet handle extension.
That one tool called the apprentice. Sucker is never on time when it does show up , causes much anger , confusion, and is never far from a cell phone. Alas , the last model was so bad , we got rid of it and haven't bought a new one in two years.
Any normal tool that's been redesigned for the home do-it-yourselfer that doesn't know any better. Like the power tools with "new comfort gel grips" or any power tool with a laser on it. For a while they were putting lasers on everything. They even put lasers on hands saws and keyhole saws.
I have one of the Eastwood tungsten grinders and I actually like it. It's no faster than a grinder with a flap wheel (What I used to use), but it takes up less room on the bench and is easier/safer to manage with one hand. Plus you don't have to keep track of a dedicated flap wheel for tungsten.
E clip remover. I had one years ago. Used it for a couple hours and after I got that clip off I threw it in the bushes and went back to using a screwdriver and pliers.
