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If your only tool is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail. Here’s everything you need to know about the history and usability of our favorite tools, so you can pick the right one for the job.

Tools

What’s in Your Tool Kit?

When we visited the Oakland technology project space Tech Liminal after MacWorld | iWorld in January, some Fixit Clinic folks there let us dig around in their tool kits. Steve…

April 15, 2012

by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit

Tools

The Hand Tool Shortage That Stalled WWII

I wouldn't have thought that the powerful Allied forces could have been stalled by a lack of wrenches and hammers—just as I wouldn't have expected that American soldiers in Iraq…

April 9, 2012

by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit

Tools

New iPad Opening Tool

We’ve been searching high and low for a better way to get inside the iPad. Our current method requires industrial strength suction cups, a heavy-duty 1500 watt heat gun, a…

April 1, 2012

by Kyle Wiens - iFixit

Tools

iMac 21.5″ and 27″ Dual Hard Drive Kits!

Our most-recent iMac 21.5" teardown revealed an interesting tidbit: unused mounting points that were curiously in the shape of a 2.5" hard drive. After a bit of investigating, we found…

March 6, 2012

by Miro Djuric

Tools

Secondhand Tools: Dozens of Drills

At the Lajpat Rai electronics market in Delhi, secondhand tools wait for customers. The drills are so artfully displayed—I wonder how much packaging material it would save if Home Depot…

March 4, 2012

by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit

Tools

A Wrench That Might Come in Handy

In a new take on the hand wrench, designer Paul Julius Martus developed this cool cast bronze sculpture a couple years ago. The sculpture reminded me of our hand and…

February 12, 2012

by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit

Tools

What Tool Can’t You Live Without?

This fuel injector tester was the centerpiece of a Nairobi car repairman's shop, until it was damaged in a huge diesel fire that devastated his neighborhood. What tool can't you…

February 5, 2012

by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit

Tools

Rickshaw Repair Tool Camouflage

Last week, I posted about a rickshaw repair shop in Delhi, showing off some photos of a man putting spokes on a wheel by hand. Today, I want to show…

February 1, 2012

by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit

Tools

Let’s Play Name That Object in India!

Two men sit in a Delhi shop with shiny metal cylinders stacked from floor to ceiling. When I first saw this picture, I couldn’t figure out what they were—not motors,…

January 28, 2012

by Elizabeth Chamberlain - iFixit

Tools

Hold On, Museum Wax Is On the Job

Jeff Stephens is an inventory specialist at iFixit, and he worked for six years as a supervisor of installations at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. He has installed…

January 25, 2012

by Jeff Stephens