uklee70
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| posted on 16/8/05 at 08:46 AM |
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Best Value Quality Tool Kit
Good Morning All
It's the time of the year for me to get one year closer to retirement!!!!!
The better half wants to buy me something nice bless her (out of the joint account)
I think a new tool kit would be good
Thinking may be
Teng - Sealey or Clarke Pro
Has anyone found any fantastic bargains or could suggest a good set of tool
don't all say snap on as I will have to sell the bloody car and just have the tool kit in the garage
Thanks alot everyone
lee
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indykid
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| posted on 16/8/05 at 08:58 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by uklee70
The better half wants to buy me something nice bless her (out of the joint account)
I think a new tool kit would be good
lee
how much do you want to spend?
what do you want in it?
don't forget halfords professional, lifetime no quibble guarantee. my ratchet spanners have lasted 2 years of hard abuse (i do work for
halfords, but others do agree - come on others!)
if you get the trays designed to fit in roll cab drawers, you'll have to have a roll cab too 
tom
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uklee70
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| posted on 16/8/05 at 09:02 AM |
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I have just looked at the joint account
the budget now stands at sub £250 I would like a roller cab
I need to start again with my tool kit as I'm sure my current tools are made of Jelly
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JonBowden
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| posted on 16/8/05 at 09:02 AM |
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I bought a big box of MasterGrip tools for about seventy quid from CostCo a year or two ago. Consists of Snap On clone ratchets and sockets :
1/4, 3/8 and 1/2 quick release ratchets.
Vast quantity of metric and imperial sockets.
3 drawer toolbox
Misc spanners and screwdrivers
The kit all seems qood quality - but I haven't abused it yet
Jon
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Scotty
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| posted on 16/8/05 at 09:08 AM |
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sealey have some good bargains - i bought a complete set (i needed new, as i havent done much in the last few (15) years!!
quality is good enough for me - i'm more of a hobbiest
Sealey offer
PLEASE NOTE! All comments made by this person are to be considered "Tongue in Cheek" and are not meant to be taken seriously in any way - so there!
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indykid
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| posted on 16/8/05 at 10:42 AM |
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seems fair enough.
i just like to know if i hit a spanner it'll stay in one piece, and if i really hit a spanner and snap it, i can get it replaced FOC, not that
spanners should ever be impacted, or extended by any means.
i also use my deep 3/8 sockets on the 1/2" impact wrench, and they've never flinched.
tom
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britishtrident
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| posted on 16/8/05 at 10:59 AM |
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Avoid Halfords professional sockets I have a set of the flank grip ones -- 3 of the sockets are so far out is size that they were useless from day
one.
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Rob James
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| posted on 16/8/05 at 11:14 AM |
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I go with mastergrip also I must have the same kit app £70 18 months down the line and nothings broken, spend the rest on slighty specialist one off
tools and a bigger cabinet....Rob
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uklee70
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| posted on 16/8/05 at 12:17 PM |
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Thanks for the help
Where can I get this mastergrip tool kit from other than costco
I had a look in machine mart and the clarke pro stuff has a lifetime guarantee at reasonable price
Has anyone had any issues with the clarke stuff
I would like one of those nice roller top boxes any good deals ?
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ned
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| posted on 16/8/05 at 12:35 PM |
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don't forget draper, they do some good stuff.
a few possibilities here within your budget:
http://www.tooled-up.com/seasonal.asp?ID=1&referrer=HomePage
Ned.
beware, I've got yellow skin
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NS Dev
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| posted on 16/8/05 at 12:48 PM |
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..................and as Ned reminded me not so long ago, Teng tools do good kits, and they are VERY tough. I am a picky bugger when it comes to
tools, and I am impressed by em.
Have a browse of the Cromwell Tools catalogue (www.cromwell.co.uk)
£250 won't get you very far though. I'd forget the rollcab, just get 2 cantilever boxes (I keep getting more from the tip, got 5 decent
ones from the metal skip now!! useful for random nuts and bolts etc if nothing else!)
The tools do the job, the box that they're in is pose value and not much else really!
Get a really good 1/4", 3/8" and 1/2" drive (they are all really useful in their own rights, if you can only afford one go for the
3/8" socket set. Make sure there are deep sockets and std sockets in the kit, at least for the common sizes (i.e. 13, 15, 17 and 19mm)
Get a GOOD (britool, facom etc) set of combination spanners from 6mm up to 24mm.
Get a GOOD set of screwdrivers (Facom are great again)
Get a set of pliers, std, sidecutters and long nose.
Get a good set of allen keys and allen bits and torx bits, again Facom are good!
The above lot will set you back around £250 for decent stuff, but will be enough to tackle most jobs.
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big_wasa
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| posted on 16/8/05 at 06:26 PM |
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I like my Teng stuff But Snap-On is better, it doesnt have to cost both arms and a leg if you import second hand from the states...Dare I say ebay
Ive also had some drapper pro stuf that has served me very well..
Ive got one of Halfords roller cab set ups as I couldnt import them cheaper And Ive been happy with it.
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rusty nuts
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| posted on 16/8/05 at 08:09 PM |
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Check out your local free ads paper , often see secondhand Snap On stuff for sale . Better than new cheap stuff for the same price Britool are good as
well but are now part of the Facom group so not sure about availabilty of new . Draper tools are preety good value as well
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uklee70
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| posted on 19/8/05 at 09:26 PM |
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I've Just got this tool kit
for £300 quid please tell me that this is a good price I hate paying over the odds.
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7992570534&rd=1&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWA%3AIT&rd=1
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caber
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| posted on 20/8/05 at 12:01 PM |
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That looks lieke a good start, you still need to get yourself a 600m 1/2" breaker bar, a set of cold chisels, an impack screwdriver and a 5lb
lump hammer, all essential for dismantling, a cheap set of combination spanners that you don't mind battering the hell out of, and my favorite
is a set of ratchet combinantion spanners that I find really handy for quickly doing up or undoing nuts and bolts particularly where it is difficult
to get a ratchet in.
One of my favorite sources of tools is boot sales and autojumbles a lot of older tools are so much better than today's predomoinantly Chinese
stuff and most the time people don't know or care what they are selling!
Caber
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aweekes1
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| posted on 20/8/05 at 06:05 PM |
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I'd give Cromwell a wide berth. I bought a rivet/rivnut tool at £70 which snapped in half on the first time out of the box. I had bruises and a
broken tool and they just said "Oh, we'll order you another one in then". Naturally I told them to **** off.
If anyone has a good rivnut tool for sale or knows where I can get a cheap but sturdy one let me know!
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mike-ktm
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| posted on 20/8/05 at 06:42 PM |
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Strongly agree with Caber on the 600mm Breaker bar - these are invaluable !! Never had anything so tight that I couldn't get it with one of
these !!
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mike-ktm
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| posted on 20/8/05 at 06:42 PM |
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Strongly agree with Caber on the 600mm Breaker bar - these are invaluable !! Never had anything so tight that I couldn't get it with one of
these !!
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indykid
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| posted on 20/8/05 at 11:12 PM |
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i see you don't have a sierra back axle on the locost, or are you just quite stout?
an essential addition to the 600mm breaker bar is a 1500mm bit of scaffolding pipe.
now you're unstoppable
tom
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NS Dev
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| posted on 22/8/05 at 12:35 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by aweekes1
I'd give Cromwell a wide berth. I bought a rivet/rivnut tool at £70 which snapped in half on the first time out of the box. I had bruises and a
broken tool and they just said "Oh, we'll order you another one in then". Naturally I told them to **** off.
If anyone has a good rivnut tool for sale or knows where I can get a cheap but sturdy one let me know!
Hardly a reason to question Cromwell!!!!!!!!!!!!
You buy a cheap rivnut tool, that's what happens, it breaks!
We buy £25,000+ from them every year with no probs!
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James
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| posted on 25/8/05 at 01:58 PM |
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Mmmm, Teng tools... yummy!
I've not had to buy many tools as use my Dad's 99% of the time but I did invest in a Teng torque wrench.
It's fantastic!
Cheers,
James
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stevebubs
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| posted on 25/8/05 at 06:57 PM |
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Take a look at the Sealey promotions and make sure you get their professional line.
AP2305COMBO5
looks good
S
[Edited on 25/8/05 by stevebubs]
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stevebubs
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| posted on 25/8/05 at 07:11 PM |
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http://www.lawson-his.co.uk/scripts/products.php?cat=Tool+Sets
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NS Dev
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| posted on 25/8/05 at 10:24 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by indykid
i see you don't have a sierra back axle on the locost, or are you just quite stout?
an essential addition to the 600mm breaker bar is a 1500mm bit of scaffolding pipe.
now you're unstoppable
tom
brilliant, can't stop laughing now (am pi55ed though!) so true though!
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smudge
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| posted on 30/8/05 at 10:35 AM |
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quote:
Originally posted by stevebubs
http://www.lawson-his.co.uk/scripts/products.php?cat=Tool+Sets
Nice find Steve, these guys are about 5 minutes down the road from me, so no postage costs either
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