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 Re: The most valuable non-tool in your toolbox?
[Re: Texas Dan]
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08/07/21 10:45 PM
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zip-ties and pool noodles,...invaluable. 
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Re: The most valuable non-tool in your toolbox?
[Re: Texas Dan]
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08/08/21 01:01 AM
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An 18" piece of #12 insulated copper wire. Use it to fish cables.
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Re: The most valuable non-tool in your toolbox?
[Re: Texas Dan]
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08/09/21 12:41 PM
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Since zipties are so popular....from last season. ![[Linked Image]](https://texashuntingforum.com/forum/pics/userpics/2021/08/full-30584-305449-allgood.jpg)
Last edited by Vern1; 08/09/21 02:31 PM.
Cheers,
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Re: The most valuable non-tool in your toolbox?
[Re: Texas Dan]
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08/09/21 08:17 PM
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If you pick it up and use it for some purpose, it is a tool. I've even used ants as tools.
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Re: The most valuable non-tool in your toolbox?
[Re: Texas Dan]
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08/09/21 08:25 PM
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LMAO, that’s a tough question but my truck has a welder, air compressor, cutting set up and pretty much every tool you could want along with about 200 miles of duct tape and another 300 zip ties, if I can’t fix it from my truck I’m calling in reinforcements and driving off as they show up since I’m done with the situation. I’ll be checking on my new pellet grill temps 
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Re: The most valuable non-tool in your toolbox?
[Re: Texas Dan]
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08/09/21 11:34 PM
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Texas Dan
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Before the days of canned air, I can remember a time or two when I used a straw to blow air into a tight spot to remove dirt and debris.
"Some people will never like you because your spirit irritates their demons."
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Re: The most valuable non-tool in your toolbox?
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08/28/21 10:39 PM
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Never heard of 100MPH tape.... ? My buddy who works on airplanes has 500 MPH tape. He is an inspector mechanic at American. I have not idea what it is, but he used it on my Bonanza's nose cowling and it worked.
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Re: The most valuable non-tool in your toolbox?
[Re: Texas Dan]
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09/02/21 09:21 AM
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6 inch piece of rubber fuel hose and a spark plug wire boot for removing spark plugs after breaking them loose and getting the new ones started.
"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened." Winston Churchill
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Re: The most valuable non-tool in your toolbox?
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09/02/21 11:01 AM
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Cheap fiber optic camera with WiFi connection to my phone.
Old spring loaded shower curtain rod for hoods that have weak hydraulic supports.
Disposable reading glasses
LED Headlamp
Old cracked/split sockets to be welded into special tools
Tweezers
Fingernail clippers
Painter's tape
Self-adhesive velcro
Antenna masts to be fashioned into other tools
Magnets out of old motors
Set pins pulled from chain tensioners
Maybe I can post more after looking in my box at work.
Pass the gravy.
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Re: The most valuable non-tool in your toolbox?
[Re: missingAK]
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09/06/21 03:48 PM
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Texas Dan
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6 inch piece of rubber fuel hose and a spark plug wire boot for removing spark plugs after breaking them loose and getting the new ones started. Another case where a telescopic magnet can be extremely valuable. Harbor Freight sells one that as a very strong magnet on the end of it.
"Some people will never like you because your spirit irritates their demons."
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Re: The most valuable non-tool in your toolbox?
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09/06/21 04:20 PM
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Quail hunting is like walking into, and out of a beautiful painting all day long. Gene Hill ![[Linked Image]](https://texashuntingforum.com/forum/pics/usergals/2017/07/full-3669-105539-full_16668_105507_image.jpg)
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Re: The most valuable non-tool in your toolbox?
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09/06/21 08:10 PM
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Re: The most valuable non-tool in your toolbox?
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09/06/21 09:34 PM
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Lock the thread. We have a winner. 
Quail hunting is like walking into, and out of a beautiful painting all day long. Gene Hill
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Re: The most valuable non-tool in your toolbox?
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09/06/21 09:36 PM
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...and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth. Gen. 1:28
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Re: The most valuable non-tool in your toolbox?
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09/06/21 10:03 PM
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bill oxner
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Caught me at a weak moment.
Quail hunting is like walking into, and out of a beautiful painting all day long. Gene Hill
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Re: The most valuable non-tool in your toolbox?
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09/07/21 04:52 AM
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Even more people who just assume to damn much!!!!! 
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Re: The most valuable non-tool in your toolbox?
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09/07/21 08:05 PM
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Magnets from old hard disk drives. Keeps screws and parts from running into the under spaces. Holds assembly instructions so even the fan can't blow them away.
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Re: The most valuable non-tool in your toolbox?
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09/07/21 09:07 PM
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bandages, tourniquet, etc.
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Re: The most valuable non-tool in your toolbox?
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09/07/21 09:26 PM
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bandages, tourniquet, etc. He's right you know.
"Some people will never like you because your spirit irritates their demons."
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Re: The most valuable non-tool in your toolbox?
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10/01/21 09:42 PM
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Used a washing machine water hose to add ATF to the ranch ride last week.
Used ratchet straps to load my gun safe when I moved last month.
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