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Sold a boxter for a 944.....

Blast, forgot I spent another £500 or so on wheels and leather interior, and the wheels are still in the shed! OK less than a grand if you don't keep buying stuff all the time.

I hate to think how much I have spent on tools
 
ORIGINAL: Neil Haughey
I hate to think how much I have spent on tools
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Money spent on tools is NEVER wasted, providing they are good-quality tools.

(Money spent on cheap tools is always wasted. Or, to put it another way, there are two types of tools in this world. Snap-On and Snap-Off. Snap-On is what you want.)


Oli.
 
I would have agreed until I found that Halfords pro tools also have a lifetime replacement warranty, just take the broken tool in and they will give you a new one they said. Bizarely they are only slightly more expensive then their normal stuff.

BTW my brother had about 3K worth of snap on. Yes brilliant but even snap on sockets and drivers break.
 
Neil,

I'm being slightly facetious because I liked the joke!

I happen to rate japanese tools quite highly, and use a Teng set, which has a lifetime warranty such as you describe. It is still working 12 years later ... (although they have discontinued a few of the pieces in the set, which is good news because if you break one, they send you a collection of items as replacements, which between them are BOUND to do the job!)

I'll vouch for the Halfords Pro range as well. It is good, and they do replace broken bits - I speak from experience.


Oli.
 
Snap On stuff is very good but it is so american. On the socket wrenches the little lever that sets if you are unserwing or screwing the nut is marked 'ON' and 'OFF'. So that'll only be good for conventional threads and not for LH threads would it? I'm surprised an american firm has allowed that given the litigious society they live in. I can imagine a case where some halfwit takes it as read and causes some sort of accident and takes Snap On to the cleaners.
 
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