Toolmonger’s Top 5: The Week in Tools

Toolmongers love LED flashlights – especially cheap ones! Our readers selected a $4 flashlight with 28 LEDs as their number one pick this week, followed by a $60 reciprocating saw and a $4 nail apron. If you don’t have a reciprocating saw yet, you don’t know what you’re missing. They’re useful for all kinds of tasks around the home and shop from pruning trees to cutting steel square tube. And if you’re planning to do any roofing work, you’ll definitely want a nail apron; the more you walk around, the more likely you are to fall off the roof. Keeping your fasteners with you keeps you safe. Rounding out the top five this week is a quick-prototyping material from ShapeLock that becomes malleable in hot water but returns to a hard, nylon-like state at room temperature – perfect for mocking up a part or making a buck for casting work – and a new marker from Stanley that promises to mark on wet and oily surfaces.

Don’t miss this week’s One Beer Projects podcasts where we talk you through replacing your A/C filter – sure, it’s easy, but we offer some tips you may not have considered – and installing dimmer switches – a great way to add “ambiance” to a room for less than $10.

Top 5: The Week in Tools (32) [Toolmonger]