Starting your own toolkit - what's the best way?

Wik wrote

Both and compressed air and if ion power ever becomes a serious
alternative one of those as well.

 

I think you're on to something, there; very George Lucas:

TIE-Angle-Grinder.
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|That the scenery | It always gives the test first
|Could be a cold-blooded killer. | and the instruction afterward."
***** human response from wik at blueyonder dot co dot uk *****

 

Wik wrote

"Oi Vader!!

See that pile of scrap over there mate. That was one of your kin death
stars before I let the boy have at it with this ion powered angle
grinder."

Works for me.

 

" Chewie - scrap the Death Star ".

 

Like I give a shit?

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Dunno if its still on but Halfords were having a sale last month when i got
a 142 piece socket / spanner set from the pro range for £110 instead of the
usual £140.

 

KillaHedgeHog wrote

Your arrogance will return to haunt you one day.

 

christofire wibbled...

You need this, and nothing less :

http://buy1.snapon.com/catalog/pro_det.asp?P65=&tool=all&item_ID=65301
&group_ID=2299&store=snapon-store&dir=catalog

HTH

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Don't confuse fastner sizes with the spanner needed to undo them, they
differ from manufacturing country to country.

Shank size Thread Spanner
Pitch Size
M6 (6mm) 1.00mm 10mm
M8 (8mm) 1.25mm 13mm (12mm on some Japanese bolts)
M10 (10mm) 1.50mm 17mm
M12 (12mm) 1.75mm 19mm

 

You could always buy a rail of A/F sockets...

 

I agree with Pip but make sure you get them in as good a make as you can
afford. Cheap tools aren't...

Teng is pretty good value for money. I've heard nice things said about
Halfords Professional, but my blind prejudice prevents me from buying
them.

Britool aren't what they used to be, Elora is v. good, Snap-on are over
priced, Facom are expensive but very nice, King Dick is worth it for
imperial comedy value.

 

The 'gradual accumulation' method has stood me in good stead. Buy as
you need tools for a particular job and buy the best you can afford.

The Halfords Pro range have had good recommendations, are reasonably
priced and I've not broken one yet.

The most pleasurable bit is buying the nice big red cabinet to put it
all in

 

Ben wrote

Gradual accumulation is fine when you can look back on 40 years of it
but when you have to start from new you only get to do it the once so a
bit of forethought could turn out to be handy, long lasting, cheap and,
above all, useful.

As darsy (I think it was) said elsewhere: the wobbly ones are kin handy
sometimes. As is making sure you write BOTTOM on the bottom of the
carry case.

Mine are all over the kin place but then I don't have a garage.

 

...but remember to lock the drawers on the top cabinet and middle cabinet
when you're moving them onto their nice new shiny 10 drawer roll cabinet
[1]..

DAHIK yadda yadda


[1] I need the foam/rubber drawer lining stuff, where to get?

 

I have both, as it happens. Sadly, the 5/8 one went down a drain whilst
I was working on forementioned Landrover, hence the temporary use of a
metric socket.

Still, I swear it was the 15mm I used, despite the sums....

--
John

SV650
Black it is
and naked

 

I bought one of their 4 drawer steel toolboxes a few weeks ago, it's
very nice.

 

If you're buying a set I'd be tempted to get some with the 'ball' on the
end of them so you can offset the key by 15 or so degrees when using it,
useful in tight corners.

 

I've broken three of their most-excellent ratcheting combination
spanners [1] in five years. I took them back to my local shop and the
snotty-nosed urchin wanted to see the receipt... Of course I didn't have
this. Going to one of their superstores elicited a more reasonable
response.


[1] Rumour states these are an old design from either Facom or Snap On.
Don't know if I believe it, they're still fucking good.

 

I nearly did and then my mate offered me that Snap-on one you saw in
my garage for nowt.

 

Sounds like a lot of people need it - I'm getting a "server too busy"
error. Now, go and see pip about other reasons why it's good to give a
small description of what the URL points to.