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[candyman]

Back on the original topic...

I noticed the full time mech. had got a new set of spanners.

10-19mm. Snap-off.

Guesses on how much he paid......?

£80 if standard and on offer?  £150 plus if special like long or flank drive?

[Webby the Bear]

Couldn't tell you if they were special flanked, sorry.

But you're still short by £50 

So £200 for a set of 10-19mm spanners. I'm sorry but I'd be scared to use them which is pointless. And that's just a stupid amount.

[Nick W]

I have that set, and wouldn't pay the normal price. Mine were £100(ish), off the van, cash and paid in full. They were a treat to myself when the van turned up on my birthday.

[Webby the Bear]

Fair enough, Nick.

The other thing about paying big bucks (as well as not being able to use and abuse them) is its bloody easy to leave them in peoples cars!!!! Took door cards off todayand thought id left a screw driver in the door after it was all buttoned up  luckily I found it under the seat 

[Darth Loo-knee]

From my view... its like saying there are certain things on an Omega I would only buy from Vauxhall. ..

Same really for tools. I bought 6 cheap mole grips near on 20 years ago for a specific sentiment old asted a week I joke you not. I bought some Vise Grip ones from a Snap On van which never failed and I still have them now...

I have like loads on here a Halfords set which has half inch drive ratchet, three eights and quarter... its handy yes but I prefer to use my Snap On ratchet i have had for years... why? Maybe sentimental, maybe it feels better in my hand.....

Horses for courses

[Nick W]

I had to replace my truck socket set last year as I stupidly left it at the side of the road. Unsurprisingly, it wasn't there 30minutes later. £100 at Halfords was an expensive lesson but affordable; it's over  a grand at SO prices.

Anything I care about has my initials engraved on it, which includes individual sockets. This makes it easy to prove that something is yours.

I have several good tools that I've found in cars, as it is too easy to forget something. This is the best reason for organised toolsets as it's obvious when something is missing.

[candyman]

I'm the same with the engraving, everything had to be. I have a good lidl set for the back of the jeep, £70 and all 3 socket sizes and full set spanners.
 Was in a workshop yesterday where a fella had spent 10 grand on a SO rollcab that he now regrets. Its nice but why? Takes 2 people to even move it, about 7ft long 6ft high and full of tools.

[Webby the Bear]

Interesting points boys.

Re the vice grips I presume they were expensive, Daz? Mine are Irwin, cost £7 I think and have lasted me 6 years now and no sign of them breaking.

If someone has 10k to spend on a tool trolley they must be freakin nuts!!!! Or rather loaded.

[Andy B]

....
Re the vice grips I presume they were expensive,  .....

They tend to be at the dearer end.
I've 4 pairs or them ..... curved jaw & straight jaw, both large & small. But the cheapo stuff they hand out at work (can't think what they are now - but cheap) don't seem to be that bad. It depends what you're doing with them ..... I bought a few pairs of really really cheapo grips off the market for use when welding. I'd rather bugger up the cheap grips that the Vice-grips 

[Rods2]

If I'm away from home and repairing things, I religiously check that I've got everything before I go home. In aviation which is my apprenticeship background they use shadow boards for this, so all tools are accounted for or they are signed in and signed out, where this is a vitally important safety issue. A tool that stops an elevator working or worse is obviously a potential major/catastrophic disaster!

[candyman]

The one thing I would say about SO is buy there socks, there warm and really long lasting. Haven't worn out a pair yet. 

[Webby the Bear]

It's very easy to leave tools in cars imo cos you don't tend to get tools out and put them away after each job in the garage.... you just move your tools to the next job and prob realise at the end of the day 

[Webby the Bear]

...but of course take your point about aviation 

[Darth Loo-knee]

It's very easy to leave tools in cars imo cos you don't tend to get tools out and put them away after each job in the garage.... you just move your tools to the next job and prob realise at the end of the day 

then buy yourself a rollcab