/diy/ - Do It Yourself

>>1620026
when someone busted my window and grabbed just my small rolling bag it took $1800 to replace it all.

I'm gonna ballpark $5k ish which is kind of cheap compared to some.

7 or 8k. Not including things like the antique planes my dad had.

>>1620026
>>1620032
when someone busted my window in a rental house, stole all my copper plumbing and all my renovation tools I called the cops, then called the pawn shops in the area, found my tools, got the cops to come with me to the pawn shop and they made them give all my tools back. Next day called the scrap yards, described the copper that was taken, specifically the serial numbered brass air scoop from the radiator line, and they gave the cops a copy of her drivers license, they nailed the bitch 24 hours later driving around with bolt cutters and a sawzall in her back seat. Went to court (this was about 4 years ago) and have been getting $10-20 a month restitution for the copper ($700 so far compared to the $450 plus 10 hrs labor of mine to replace) from the 5 meth-heads who did it. Just got a notice in the mail yesterday that the one guy James was up for parole last week but was rejected because his attitude was "not in alignment with the goals of the parole system". Feels good man, and to answer your question, about $negative 250 plus the cost of my labor.

>>1620026
$650, but I mostly have hand tools.

I just got my first power tools, which are Kobalts drill driver and impact driver. I might get HF's Bauer Rotary Hammer because those things are fucking awesome.

In my ranking of hand tools as an electrician sparky,

As for pliers
If you can get knipex, get it.
If not, get channellocks.

Then there's specific tools which some brands are really good at. I really like some of Irwins, some Ideal, some Kobalt, some Husky. Funny enough channellocks don't make the best form of channellocks; Knipex do, and Irwin has a good knockoff of it.

If it's niche item, like mini-bolt cutters or pliers wrench, there's going to be a knockoff from Irwin or Kobalt within 2 years.

I know mechanics are different. They have an impact wrench, and usually ratchets/sockets from either craftsman, snap-on, proto or stanley.

>>1620042
Too bad it doesn’t work out like this more often.

>>1620026
>how much would you have to spend
Whatever the deductible is on your homeowner’s insurance. Has to be like $10k+ worth of stuff and I’m not even in a trade.

>>1620026
I bought a decent bit of it used, so if I were to spend another year looking for deals on used stuff, then probably 3-4K. If I had to buy it all new, it would probably be closer to 6k. That doesn’t include big stuff though, like air compressor, trailer, pressure washer, plasma cutter, etc, which function as tools for my business, but may not necessarily be classified as such. I’m thinking more along the lines of hand and power tools,

I'm an electronics guy, so I have scopes, power supplies, shit like that. Bought it all used, so I have no idea what it's worth new. Probably tens of thousands.

>>1620236
This, machinist with large amounts of tooling.
It's way to hard to quantify, but it's a copious amount of money.

Hard to say because a lot of my shit is from when Mastercraft (Canadian Tire brand) was American made, and now it's fucking Chinese. At least they changed the name from pro series to "maximum" when they made the switch, so it's easy to tell. I don't know what would be comparable, Craftsman from Lowes, or Husky from Homo Depot maybe?

Over all, I'm gonna say a few thousand, 5 or 6 maybe

I'd have to pay the robber 20$ trash disposal fee.

jesus.

2x72 belt linisher with inverter and belts, both forges, anvil, tongs, hammers? between them, £3-4000. Pillar drill, anglegrinders and die grinders, power drills, etc? add another £1000

Jewellers' gravers, saws, planes- handmade and antique ones, scalpels scribers, awls, leatherworking knives, dremels and burrs, pin vice and archimedes drills, and bits, hand drills. sculpting tools and carving tools? Got to be at least another £4000 there. There's a thousand in files alone.

cataloguing and measurement tools for doing technical drawings of items studied? board, a dozen Isograph pens, french and ship curves, compasses and dividers, vernier calipers, etc? close to another thousand.

and another £1500 for the computer which has all my work in it.

£12,000, $15,000-ish in total I'd say.

My great fear would be if someone stole the tracings of the hundreds of museum items I've studied. that's literally tens (or more) of thousands of pounds worth of data, collected over nearly a decade of work, costing me tens of thousands in travel around the world to study the original objects, and some of the really old tools which were my grandfathers, some of which were *his* grandfathers in turn - my little joy is using a T-square which is made of wrought iron and steel, which is dated "1851"

>>1620026
I only have handtools
around 2000 €
I'd probably cry, though.

what do you mean
Actually buying to replace or yes mr insurance man I bought all of those snap on wrenches brand new in 1970 so please give me a check so I can replace them at full price ;)

Bout 60 grand

>>1620026
20k? I've spent the last decade becoming a handyman of sorts so i always "need" some tool. Getting into junk ass equipment now.

>>1620042
FUCK this makes me happy. Good work anon. Filthy fucking tweaker fucks. I talked to a bro yesterday. He found a squatter in his rental and had hell getting hin out. Fucking fikthy degenerates

>>1620266
F.

Find that anon with a shop full of tools and haul his shit off for him

>>1620270
It would take a convoy to haul that all off. How long you neen banging iron?

Probably around 20k

>>1620042
yeah I went to all the local pawn shops and never found anything. Not sure if pawn shops in any other area are different but the ones around me are run by scumbags that are probably in on the thievery.

Now I take pictures of all the serial numbers on my tools and email them to myself.

6k

This happened to me 2 years ago on my birthday. Fucking tweaker neighbor. Five weeks later the cops raided his house and found his garage full of stolen stuff. Luckily I engraved my name in all my power tools. By that time insurance already replaced almost everything.

>>1620026
I'd probably take it as a sign to get out of most of these hobbies and focus on programming and investment.

About $8,000 just to replace scan tools. Thousands more in hard line tools, specialty suspension tools, DVOMs, miscellaneous automotive stuff. A couple thousand in tool storage.

Probably another grand in woodworking tools.

>>1620339
Do you have a lathe/mill or do you just overpay?

>>1620026
Just hand tools or are we including air, electric, cordless, and things like presses, bench grinders, mills, vice, welders etc? If that shit is all included I’m looking at somewhere upwards of $200k but that’s probably on the low end. The fucking tool boxes alone $36k

>>1620264
Maximum stuff is usually gear wrench which is no where near as shitty as the shit Lowe’s and Home Depot sell. Also fyi crappy tire banded tools are about the cheapest way to buy gear wrench

I only have hand tools so in the $500 range. Channel locks have a really comfy grip

>>1620026
Literally, about $350. I build black powder firearms, and a lot of the tools I use I make. If someone went to steal my stuff they wouldn't even know what a lot of it is, and no pawnshop out there is going to pay money for a homemade octagonal barrel channel scraper.

>>1620570
Automotive has to be one of the most expensive traded despite being one of the lower paid jobs. Other jobs require a couple diagnostic tools and maybe a few high dollar power tools, but automotive guy end up with so many wrenches and specialty hand tools.

>>1620026
$500, since I don't have much tools yet.
>SAE 45 degree flare
>Adjustable wrenches
>Chink socket and rachet
>Makita 12V drill
>Bosch mains drill
>Bosch screwdriver
>Pipe cutters

>>1620698
nah it's when you get into CNC shit that you find out how cheap automotive is

>>1621143
I imagine, but that’s more of a manufacturing thing where the employer is paying. I’m talking about service tech type trades, the dudes who go out to sites to build-install-repair things. Automotive is relatively low paying compared to the other union gigs and there sure are a lot of auto techs with 2 years worth of salary tied up in their tools.

>>1620698
My friend did appliance repair, his tool bag was like 120 dollars of stuff from harbor freight and it had him covered, the money was good too.

about ~$100 if we include power tools, but it'd all be cheap shit from h4h

but fuck I'd be PISSED if someone took my ramset

Roughly $50K

Retired mechanic. Brought my box full of snap on / Mac / matco.

The house I bought came with a shop full of heavy equipment from the previous owner.

And I installed a 10k# rack at home.

Considering my tool bill was somewhere in the 28K total from my tool collection. And 90% was on sale at the time I bought it. So I figure if I had to buy it all new cause I came home to an empty shop. $50K if not more.

>>1620026

The mill, mini lathe, welding equipment, and CNC router parts (it was a DIY thing, I can't put a proper value on it) alone would push me above 10k. Probably only another 2-3k outside of that stuff.

>>1620662
Kek! Post some work anon

>>1620588
Fucks sake anon

>>1620542
>investment.

Read rich dad poor dad. Get on bigger pockets app. And listen to the bp podcast on the sticher app.

That and the room full of investing books has changed my life. Landlording is absolute fucking aids so I'm thinking about making offers on just land about to go into foreclosure

>>1620538
Seething. I think all theives should suffer.

>>1620577
I dont overpay, I buy most of my tools new for half price, have 4 welders and a bunch of equipment

>>1620518
That's a good idea. As is an engraver.

Local tweaker FUCK stole over 70 antique chainsaws from my wifes late grandfather. Then had the nerve to go to the local parts store and order parts for off the wall antique chainsaws.

I was about to go to his house and get then back after a beatdown but her mom told me not to and i don't want her mad at me.

£0
I don't even have a fucking screwdriver, I just lurk to fantasize what I would make if I actually had money to spend on this shit

50k. Ladders and scaffolding is worth 24 on it's own

>>1622722
Yeah, like I know to make money you just got to manage it like a hawk and I just dont have the energy for it.

20k probably but thats not much considering ive been collecting all my life and am a heavy duty mech full time

i dont need 8 different variations of one tool to get the job done, i like to keep it simple. a little ingenuity and resourcefulness go a long way

Not sure DESU. I got my stuff over a long period of time and some of the more important items were handed down to me. I'd say I could get back up and running comfortably for $500, I'd be pretty much back at full speed at $1000, and I'd need about another $500 to cover the 3d printer. Add another $1000 for the computer and $500 for the peripherals and accessories, although I could get by on something much cheaper for a long time. I don't stress the computer to it's full value very often, but when I do, I don't really have another option. No idea what the junk bins are worth but someone might actually be doing me a favor when it comes to starting over there.

Gotta have at least $50k in tools but I do a lot of varied shit that requires specialized tools.

>>1620026
3k i think

>>1620270
Dont you have a backup of the tracings?

>>1620662
The tools are still worth the time you put into them.

>>1622728
So did you get them back?

>be rentfag
>no garage/workspace
Probably around $500-600 for everything in my toolbox. If we include my home brewing equipment I'd kick that figure up to around $800.

my home tools/ carry around probly 6k
if they got in my shop and managed to somehow get everything couple million probly

>>1620026
>and took everything from you
Not my 10mm socket! Nooooooo!

>>1624511
>go to princess auto (canadian chinktools)
>look for single sockets in common spark plug / oil drain plug sizes
>rack is empty
>every other size is full

>>1620026
$20-$25k

that might be a bit on the light side though

>>1621143
35k for cnc lathe, 45k for cnc mill, 25k for other stuff

I'd fall back on ny insurance and they would pay for everything.

>>1620026
~$300usd

>>1620698
High level IT (running / repairing data lines in buildings) is way up there too. Like Auto, you aren't legit without $10k in an analyzer or two, and a pile of specialty tools. Pay is also crap unless you 'open your own shop'.
Also companies really care about their liability if you screw up (more so that a dude in an out-of-warranty lexus)

>>1620026
3k

>>1620026
The box alone is $7k

All the overpriced snapon, matco, cornwell tools in it , another $7k
Plus roll carts and creepers and chairs and welding gear another 2k

I would say a total of about $16-17k

>>1627220
>be fiber optic splicer
>fusion machine $15k
>fiber characterized + other test gear $18k
>bucket truck $150k
>fiber trailer 50k
>hand tools and misc call it another 7k

>still need to pickup supplies daily from whoever is contracting you out, splice cases, boxes, splitters

>everyone only wants to pay you $30/hour

Glad I didnt have to pay for any of this.

Knowing what I know now, I think I could reproduce my work setup for 40k. Boxes, cart, cabinet, and all the tools.

28yo mechanic.

>>1620058
>Knipex

I see you too are a man of culture

>>1620698
My mechanic's shop rate is $70/hr.

>>1627991
no his door rate is 70 an hour
his mechanics gt paid considerably less than 70 an hour.
ours is 80 i make 25.
to replace my tools maybe 10k.
my home tools. 12k.

>>1627989
I recently got me a Knipex 2-way staple remover

>>1620264

Hey, I bought a long nut set from crappy tire in 2015 and only two if then have broken so far, one of which was my dad using it in an impact driver.

>>1620264
Husky makes fantastic tools