What single tool have you lost, or had to replace the most?

[qcroanoke]

I have never lost a pair of Klein's and that's about it:grin:

I haven't either but I have burnt up a few pair before I could!
I lose mostly wire strippers.

 

[fondini]

tools

tools

phillips without a doubt,sharpies,and sometimes my better judgement!:grin:

 

[erfitz1208]

lost

lost

tic testers, screwdrivers.. i usually go back and find them on a light fixture.

 

[cadpoint]

IT's been a toss up between three over the years, the Flat, the Phillips, and the Blunt nose cutters.

Hey, Happy Birthday! Buy yourself something!

 

[jeremysterling]

I usually lose about 1-2 lockback knives per year.

Me, too. I never understood why my pocket knives always came up missing. When they came out with knives that clip onto the pocket, my loss rate has been "cut" in half.:grin:

 

[EBFD6]

I couldn't even start to count the number of mini-mag flashlights I've lost. I don't think I've ever owned one longer than 2 months, usually leave them in a drop ceiling or drop them down a wall.

 

[guitarsarge]

I go through a lot of "ringers" between dropping them in the abyss of loose fill insulation, helpers, or those dog-gone watch batteries popping out along with the end cap...

 

[ultramegabob]

I couldn't even start to count the number of mini-mag flashlights I've lost. I don't think I've ever owned one longer than 2 months, usually leave them in a drop ceiling or drop them down a wall.

I know where one is taped to a conduit above a suspended ceiling aimed at a j-box that I was working in, I would imagine the battery has run down by now....

 

[nunu161]

i probably lost about 4 or 5 levels over the past 4 years damn bar joists they get me every time, i realized today that my $35 level was gone, that might have been stolen though

 

[tim123]

gloves... pulling wire, bending pipe, running mc I like wearing them.... but I don't like wearing them for make up.. so I put them down and never remember where I put them... I eventually find them after I buy a new pair.


I was always losing the 25' chrome stanley tape measures everyone seems to have these... right up until I bought a big ugly cheap green one. I have had this one a long long time now, also started putting my name on the back side of the 20' mark :wink:

 

[rt66electric]

wiggy gone

wiggy gone

I have lost two wiggys' lately. I just charge screwdrivers to whichever job I'm on. At one time while I was two tools Up on the lost/found department located above ceiling tiles.. That did not last long. DENNIS

 

[ceknight]

I tend to leave my 5-in-one screwdriver on job sites all the time.......

I don't lose the 5-in-1 driver, I lose the freaking bits. 2 so far this year, you'd think I'd have learned to push them in all the way by now.....

 

[Jesse7623]

philps screwdriver for me. but other than that i say the tool box itself. i keep changing to a bag, pouch, box, tote and now finially the veto.

I have lost so many tools with and without a bag I dont even use tools anymore.I have honestly given up on the whole thing.

 

[quogueelectric]

Hacksaws people just love to steal hacksaws. I have had to buy about 40 of them until I painted mine purple and now noone will steal it. I did shed a tear when I had a carbide cutter set stolen about 300-350 at a mall in Hicksville. Moo-Hoo!!

 

[ptonsparky]

Pencils. I buy them by the hundred, can leave the shop with three and they are all gone by the time I reach the second job. They even disappear while I am sitting at my desk. Other than that, the newest screwdriver. Never the old worn out one.

 

[nhfire77]

I don't lose the 5-in-1 driver, I lose the freaking bits. 2 so far this year, you'd think I'd have learned to push them in all the way by now.....

I hear that!!! I use the 10 in 1.

Greenlee has a new model out. The #2 Phillips and large flat blade are the large bit size like in the 5 in 1. The other bits are the smaller ones like the 10 in 1. Since I used the #2 phillips the most and now its larger I haven't lost it... yet.

 

[satcom]

Hammer Drills have legs, now we have them signed for and inforce the care for all company tools, the legs stopped working

 

[360Youth]

I think I went the first 5 or 6 years without ever losing a hammer, and now I couldn't tell you how many I have replaced. I usually lose the occassional tool more than the frequent one because I forget that I used it or do not think to check for it in my bag when I cleanup.

Here's an add-on question if it hasn't been adressed already, how many of the "lost" tools do you find right after buying a replacement. Bought a new pair or wire strippers a few weeks ago and found my other pair the next day at our shop. Talking to my brother on the phone, looked down, there they were. :roll:

 

[zog]

Meggers, been through dozens of them. Also 9/16" wrenches.

 

[kwb]

I can never find my sharpie. It starts off in my shirt pocket but always ends up anywhere but.

Whenever I can't find my sharpie... I look in the wash machine and there it is!!