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uklee70

posted on 16/8/05 at 08:46 AM Reply With Quote
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

posted on 16/8/05 at 08:58 AM Reply With Quote
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

posted on 16/8/05 at 09:02 AM Reply With Quote
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

posted on 16/8/05 at 09:02 AM Reply With Quote
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

posted on 16/8/05 at 09:08 AM Reply With Quote
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





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indykid

posted on 16/8/05 at 10:42 AM Reply With Quote
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

posted on 16/8/05 at 10:59 AM Reply With Quote
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

posted on 16/8/05 at 11:14 AM Reply With Quote
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

posted on 16/8/05 at 12:17 PM Reply With Quote
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

posted on 16/8/05 at 12:35 PM Reply With Quote
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.





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NS Dev

posted on 16/8/05 at 12:48 PM Reply With Quote
..................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

posted on 16/8/05 at 06:26 PM Reply With Quote
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

posted on 16/8/05 at 08:09 PM Reply With Quote
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

posted on 19/8/05 at 09:26 PM Reply With Quote
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

posted on 20/8/05 at 12:01 PM Reply With Quote
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

posted on 20/8/05 at 06:05 PM Reply With Quote
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

posted on 20/8/05 at 06:42 PM Reply With Quote
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

posted on 20/8/05 at 06:42 PM Reply With Quote
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

posted on 20/8/05 at 11:12 PM Reply With Quote
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

posted on 22/8/05 at 12:35 PM Reply With Quote
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

posted on 25/8/05 at 01:58 PM Reply With Quote
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

posted on 25/8/05 at 06:57 PM Reply With Quote
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

posted on 25/8/05 at 07:11 PM Reply With Quote
http://www.lawson-his.co.uk/scripts/products.php?cat=Tool+Sets
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NS Dev

posted on 25/8/05 at 10:24 PM Reply With Quote
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

posted on 30/8/05 at 10:35 AM Reply With Quote
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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