Toolbox

ACTIVE8 · Post by **ACTIVE8** » 07 Jun 2011, 11:46

Thanks for posting that Gregg1100 interesting reading your blue point,

about Blue Point!

HDI · Post by **HDI** » 07 Jun 2011, 16:35

Wonder if the buyer used paypal for payment ! Imagine the seller fee if he did !
Then there is the small matter of collection !

Kowalski · Post by **Kowalski** » 07 Jun 2011, 23:56

Paul-R wrote:
addo wrote:better to have excellent leverage.
That's when I reach for my five foot length of gas pipe to slip over the handle of the breaker bar.

Nothing has remained unmoved by this combination so far although my son-in-law managed to put a bend in the gas pipe doing the hub nut on his Synergie!

My Dad owns a piece of steel tube which fits perfectly over the handle of his 3/4" rachet and it's thicker walled than gas pipe / water pipe. He usually just hits the handle of his ratchet with a sledge hammer when things are really tight.

handyman · Post by **handyman** » 08 Jun 2011, 13:42

Good Gawd, ratchets and hammers, hollow pipes on breaker bars!

Are you lot from the Hengist Pod School of Mekaniking?

Never heard of air-driven wrenches? The torque applied is in-line, rather than tangential, therefore less likely to shear the fastener being loosened.

Whoever collected all those tools has a serious psychological problem!

Must have made a Snap-on dealer both very happy and very rich.

H

Post by **Paul-R** » 08 Jun 2011, 14:45

handyman wrote:Good Gawd, ratchets and hammers, hollow pipes on breaker bars! Are you lot from the Hengist Pod School of Mekaniking?

Pass me my warhammer

handyman wrote:Never heard of air-driven wrenches? The torque applied is in-line, rather than tangential, therefore less likely to shear the fastener being loosened.

Assuming you have an air supply...

jgra1 · Post by **jgra1** » 08 Jun 2011, 15:48

I sometimes reach for a motorcycle fork

its the second port of call after my breaker bar,, fits well and is impossibly tough..

beyond that i have an old thick walled aluminium tube, then scaffolding next

I do sometimes use air, (before I moved last week!) but the air gun was cheap and gutless.. or the compressor.. or both,...

John

ACTIVE8 · Post by **ACTIVE8** » 14 Jun 2011, 17:33

Well I certainly do have some Snap On tools, but only a few!

No point in having something as decorative, other tools function well, and do a good job. I only bought the few Snap On tools as a personal treat, and if they could do something another tool couldn't, and only if there was nothing else available.

There appears to be a magpie mentality with the "collection!"

That amount of money could get a house extension. The Snap On must have a nice one!

Which won't be half inch or 3/8!

addo · Post by **addo** » 24 Jun 2011, 11:42

I was prompted to remember this thread when buying some tools the other day.

No way would I go "brand exclusive" as some things are frankly done better by one company than another, and vice-versa.

Out of curiosity, if you personalise lifetime warranted tools with an engraver or similar, does it affect warranty claims? I've not been in this situation, but wondered if makers might try it ("prior damage") as an out-clause.