Recent content by Luke5305

I started as an apprentice in 2007, There was a 63 year old fitter, who was proud he had no metric tools. His tool collection was massive and he had every sized imperial spanner, open ended, cranked ring, obstruction, slogger etc. He had two of everything as his preference was using two spanners...

I'm also in the UK and none of my dealers have been interested in supporting warranty claims on tool box components, drawers, slides, locks etc, I know of someone who had a complete top box replaced FOC , but it was suffering heavy corrosion after a few months. The piano hinge on my box is...

The Lisle tool has arrived, quite impressed with it, a lot heavier than i was expecting, it seems to have been machined from one piece of steel. The remove side is a lot smoother than the install side for some reason, but I'm happy with it. Just waiting for an engine mount to arrive so I only...

All good advice and gratefully received,I've ordered up the Lisle tool as I'm going to walk off the old belt, to keep in the car as a get me home spare, might be useful one day, I've found a mini paint roller handle , with the 90 degree bend and large grip handle, that I'm thinking as a puller...

I've had a few of the cheaper ones and they don't last very long, the casing splits or cracks or repeated use breaks the retaining mechanism , mine were always used to break the heads of rivets or cut rusty platework without resorting to a grinder. If the end of the chisel has a wire hoop to...

I've used the universal fastener type heads on a set of blue point ratchet sticks for years, probably the same mechanism as the gearwrench ones tba, I've used them on metric , imperial and external torx fittings, even used them to drive the square end of taps/reamers in tight spaces, Only seen...

Thank you so much for the replies so far, the tip about the flange on the pulley is something I'd not considered and i'll be having respect for the belts , I probably won't try flicking it on with the engine running ! I'm going to buy the Lisle tool and probably use cable ties to help me hold it...

Hello everyone, after some new tool advice , Got to replace an aux belt (air con/alternator) on my Hyundai i10 , there's no adjuster so I'm looking at different stretch belt tools, I've never come across stretch belts before. Although I'm in the UK I can order from amazon a one piece steel...