Old tools

Hi Terry, great thread idea this. I have my step Dad's old tool kit which has loads of different sized ring spanners - comes in handy on Landies.

I have a Draper socket set that my dear wife bought me over 25 yrs ago and still going strong.

 

love old tools, My garage was broken into 18 months ago and all my lifetime's collection was taken. I had king dick, gedore, as others have said, but my fave was a snail brand spanner which just seemed to fit everything.
It is amazing how often now I need one of my "specials" and they aint there any more. I have rebuilt my kit slowly, got some from aldi and lidl, but it just is never the same. Treasure them guys

lol have to say they never stole the bike,mmmmmmmmmmmmmm perhaps that says a lot

 

I inherited loads of my dad's old tools which he and his father used running the family farm. Still have boxes of Whitworth spanners, hand tools which had my dad or grand dad's initials stamped into the shafts.

 

I used to know a guy who was a mechanic on tanks in WW2, his socket set was something to behold.lol

ooooooooh proper spanners, whitworth and bsf threads not this AF and metric crap.

 

Well, I make my living on the tools and in reality well maintained cheap tool can still work very well. I've snapon and a good selection of middle of the road and cheap tools. The most used every day tools for me is a cheap Aldi 1/4 drive socket set. It's always to hand and I know I can leave them around without them being pinched. I buy cheapish vise grips, lube them well and as good as any. I use a lot of air tools and one of the best is a lidl Palm sander which works as good as indasa, ccp or Desouter. The list just carries on.......

 

I always find the Halford stuff to be really good and take daily abuse. Got to agree about the decent cross head drivers though. The amount of knackerd fasteners you find because people seem to think anything with that shaped head can be undone with any cross head driver. Grr...drives me nuts. I must admit, i kind of use small angle grinders as disposable items these days. They are so cheap they are hardly worth messing with when they give up the ghost. I did buy a cheap 'dremel' type tool from maplins. It was ok but not a patch on the real thing. It's in the bin now, quite dead

 

I still have my Draper socket set in it's orange tin box that my Dad bought me when I got my first car in 1979. (a red 1967 MkII Cortina 1500 (pre- cross flow engine).

 

Too right!