Have you discovered a tool that you didn't know existed but thought it should?

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Don Alaska

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Has anyone discovered a tool or accessory that you needed but didn't know existed?

I discovered Stealthmounts when walking through the tool section at Lowe's and I always wondered why my drills and impact drivers had no capacity to store extra bits on the tool. Well the Brits have apparently designed an entire line of add-on stuff for cordless tools, Here is the one I bought and they have been very useful. I would recommend them for anyone who uses tools away from the house, shed or garage where they are normally stored.

Here is their website for all their other stuff.
 
Don Alaska said:
Has anyone discovered a tool or accessory that you needed but didn't know existed?

I discovered Stealthmounts when walking through the tool section at Lowe's and I always wondered why my drills and impact drivers had no capacity to store extra bits on the tool. Well the Brits have apparently designed an entire line of add-on stuff for cordless tools, Here is the one I bought and they have been very useful. I would recommend them for anyone who uses tools away from the house, shed or garage where they are normally stored.

Here is their website for all their other stuff.
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I bought my daughter a tool for last Christmas that was like a screwdriver with bits in the handle. I have a Screwball from the eighties with three different magnetic bits in it. It was amazing. I think it was the first tool with magnetic heads. Amazing!
 
Beth Gallagher said:
My husband has a baseball cap with flashlights (LED) in the brim. It was very handy when we were RVing and he needed to go outside in the pitch black to smoke or walk the dog.
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I used to have a headband that had the LED lights on it. I often had to work late when i lived in North Idaho, so I would be outside in the pitch black feeding horses, and doing whatever other chores had to be done after I got home from work. It was really helpful, and since it wa on my head, the light always pointed right where I needed to look.
I really liked that gadget, think I got it from Harbor Freight.
 
I have headlamps, but I never think to bring them when I decide to go for a walk in the woods at night, carrying a flashlight instead.

On-topic here, in the 1970s, while working for a paper bag company in California, I invented a device for easily stripping the first few layers of a roll of paper (usually about two tons), which were generally damaged. Before that, machine operators were using screwdrivers to break the paper on one end and then peeling it toward the other end of the roll, which sometimes produced additional damage to the paper as well as paper cuts, and took a few moments to do. Although I had made my tool in pressed board, the company had them made up in silicone, which enhanced its usefulness, and later sent them to its other four bag plants around the country. When that company closed its bag plants down, I was hired by Duro Bag (a different company) in Texas; when I arrived, they had something similar, so my invention was used nationwide, and no one knew or remembered that I had invented it. As people in the paper bag industry frequently moved from one company to another, I imagine that people brought my paper stripper with them.
 
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