Top marks to DTM

[TheBoy]

He recommended (and supplied and posted) some allen keys for me a while back, as I was having some dreadful trouble removing some allen screws from some brand new RC cars.

Well, today, I was stripping one of mine so I can get the chassis in a vice after it lost* a fight with a kerb a week or 2 ago.  Even after applying a shead load of heat, it was being stubborn.  So I broke out the Wera ones, and really leant on it to undo them, which they did perfectly.


Thanks for the recommendation (and the running around to pick them up and get them to me, which was above and beyond).  Brilliant bits of kit.



*well, maybe a draw, as the kerb sustained a fair whack of damage

[Andy B]

I think I could supply the whole of OOF land with Allen keys .... I've acquired a shed load of the things over the years both metric & imperial from 1.5mm (IIRC) to 25mm 

even the sh1te you get with self assembly furniture! 

[henryd]

I think I could supply the whole of OOF land with Allen keys .... I've acquired a shed load of the things over the years both metric & imperial from 1.5mm (IIRC) to 25mm 

even the sh1te you get with self assembly furniture! 

Ah yes, the chocolate ones

[STEMO]

I think I could supply the whole of OOF land with Allen keys .... I've acquired a shed load of the things over the years both metric & imperial from 1.5mm (IIRC) to 25mm 

even the sh1te you get with self assembly furniture! 

Ah yes, the chocolate ones

They're only single use, probably cost about a penny. 

[Marks DTM Calib]

Most are barely single use 

But yes, the quality ones are night and day better

[Broomies Mate]

All of my electricians tools are Wera.  Not the cheapest out there, but they can take some abuse. 

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

Decent quality tools make any job a heel of a lot easier to do properly. A lesson I learned late in life.

[STEMO]

Decent quality tools make any job a heel of a lot easier to do properly. A lesson I learned late in life.

Were you a cobbler?

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

Just spotted that myself. 

[iansoutham]

Most are barely single use 

But yes, the quality ones are night and day better

Don't even use Ikea Allen drivers, find a suitable Allen bit and use battery powered driver on low setting, lot easier and quicker 😄

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

Or just dont go to Ikea.   

[TheBoy]

Or just dont go to Ikea.   

You beat me to it

[ronnyd]

Unbrako used to be my choice when i was in engineering.

[Nick W]

Unbrako used to be my choice when i was in engineering.

still the easiest choice for high quality socket-head hardware.


Wera tools are well-designed, good quality and are sensibly priced albeit at the top-end of affordable.

[GastronomicKleptomaniac]

Unbrako used to be my choice when i was in engineering.

And sounds like a sinister, made up agency designed to thwart Jimmy Bond and his crew...