What Tools You Use?

[Huntyfm]

Any of you have a real preference? Only asking today as I bought a Socket set with spanners today for £186

[timsmini]

I use what ever I can lay my hands on, but I have bought a snapon ball joint splitter.

[jackdaw]

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The biggest kin hammer I can find, a gallon of WD40 and a 4 foot length of scafholding bar about covers most things Mini !!!!!
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[gavinhendy]

Jun 21, 2011 20:32:10 GMT 1 jackdaw said:

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The biggest kin hammer I can find, a gallon of WD40 and a 4 foot length of scafholding bar about covers most things Mini !!!!!
;D

Il second that

[dai9fxey]

On the subject of tools and especially Snap On, did you see that auction on Ebay a week or so ago.?
Some bidder paid £34.000 for a van full of said tools. Hmmm. Check up from the neck up time.

[Huntyfm]

Yeah I seen that it was only on 24k when I seen it.. I bought my socket set off snap-on.. but their blue point... lifetime guarantee though

[ljonez]

Things like sockets and spanners are snap on, roebuck, king Dick or mac. Or any thing else that has a lifetime warranty. But screwdrivers etc are just el'cheapo items

[ljonez]

Also the halfords pro line is a good option as its got the lifetime warranty and theres no waiting for a rep to deliver a new spaner etc as u just pop to a store and they change it there and then

[BUMBLE BEE]

mine are all snap on and mac not cheap at all but at least theyl last

[jackdaw]

Some very good advice that I was given when I was just starting out with cars (so that would be a very very long time ago!) was to buy the best tools that you could afford and they would then last you ages and not let you down.

"Rolson" and "Black Spur" Tools it is then !!!!!!!! ;D ;D

[musicmutt]

Why pay stupid money for Snap On/Facom/Britool so overpriced when you can have these sockets sets and spanners from Halfords at a sensible price I use Pro Advanced and they also come with a lifetime guarantee plus any of my old socket sets and spanners of other makes like King Dick and even workzone(Aldi's) and anything else I can lay my hands on if need be that will do the job normally a flippin Lump Hammer
ww/af/bsf/metric all of em on a mini
quintessentially English by design and a pig to work on LOL but we love em ??

[joeperthigwynion]

where do i start

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[musicmutt]

Hahaha That looks like my garage on a good day

[joeperthigwynion]

my engine hoist

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[2alex2]

i need to start getting my own tools specialy for the mini as it will need work doing most of the time

[joeperthigwynion]

we've got all those tools on the farm but the normal tool kit consists of various size sledge hammers, a pry bar, wd-40 and some string

[dogsbreath]

I use a variety of differnt makes going from snap on through too the cheap and cheerfull ones, a lot of the time the snap on tools are exactly the same as some other makes but just badged up differently with a bigger price tag, i would,nt of belived it if i had,nt seen it in work the other day.

[joeperthigwynion]

most of my srewdrivers i made myself in college

[dai9fxey]

I bought a small set of METRINCH sockets donkeys years ago.
As the name suggests they can be used for AF and Metric fittings with the same socket.
The boot sales and Auto Jumbles usually supply the rest of my spanners and can be bought really cheaply.

Like the engine hoist Joe.
I used to use a forklift when I was living at home on the farm. Very useful bit of kit to have.

[jackdaw]

I've got a right old mix of tools gathered over the years.

I tend to see something on a tool stall and think "That'll be useful for .....", buy it, put it somewhere really safe for when the day comes that I need to use it, then when that day comes I can never find it !!!

What normally happens next is, a while later, I go looking for something else completely different for another job, cant find that either but do find that "Really useful tool" that I now no longer need !!!!!

I think its an "age" thing !!! ;D