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Couple of toe-rags tried to lever open my workshop door a couple of years ago; they took to their heels when I appeared around the corner telling them what I thought of them. I suspect the large axe might have had something to do with it, though. :)

Mankiest thing I ever worked on was an abattoir fork truck. My gawd, smell? I really wished I couldn't. Work done here, today: Finished building a rack for all the boxes of kit that came out of my van and started to clear the workshop floor, at last. By the end of the week, I'll have a clear...

You're also paying for the traceability and the paper trail in any aviation-related hardware. All adds to cost. Some mark-ups appear unreal, but otoh, I'd rather not be in a plane that develops a dud rudder because somebody cheaped out.

It was lifing toolchests in an out of Transits that finally did for my back. Been doing it for years and one time just did it wrong. Never been the same since and I've always been careful to either get help or some way of doing it more safely. Be feking careful out there - your continued good...

Very true; there is no other good reason for its existence than to do a particular job, whether it's a S-O or a Leica. I've never bought an expensive tool that wasn't put to work earning its keep straight away, because the need for the tool was what drove me to buy it.

Because there's one thing here we all share; something that binds us all - the sheer delight of owning and using (whether pro or part-time or diy) a top-line, mucho-expensive tool that's designed to work right and work well for years. No matter that it costs an arm and leg, it's a tool and needs...

I built my workshop with three used Makita 14.4V drill/drivers. I bought them for about €10 each, bought a couple of new NiMh batteries (one genuine NOS and one X-brand) and they're good to go for another few years. With an adaptor on, they're brilliant as zip drivers for quick...

I don't see much there I'd trust as a locking mechanism.

I'd agree with sberry that the quality of cheaper tools has improved tremendously over the past few decades. When I started using spanners for a living, I was given a Britool 1/2" socket set and an assortment of double-ended ring spanners and screwdrivers by my folks to get me on my way...

He must be as thick as a plank.

Oh goody; a graveyard thread. I've just used whatever penetrant was the flavour of the day in whatever garage I was in, one of the best in years past was Plus Gas, which is likely the same as something on the American market. When I don't have a can of something to hand I just make up a 50/50...

You're all wrong - designed as a means of parting suckers from their cash, is all.

Strikes me there are a lot of used and cheap/free dishwashers out there going begging, if you catch my drift. Plenty of guys have discovered the ear-bending they cop when they boil-wash a cylinder head in the main domestic dishwasher, but a dedicated one in the workshop, now that's a different...

This. This works well.

Torque wrenches have cases? Nobody ever told me that. Eee... sheer ****** luxury.

If I may elaborate slightly; as a mod on another entirely unrelated forum, I see the other side and realise how fair /unfair it can be to introduce new rules that affect new-ish members. Over there, we've also had scammers popping up and relieving members of their cash by not shipping goods or...

I thought the 100 post limit was a good idea until this point.

Found the place on a google, and the first thread was "Tools from the Old World", as it related to something I was searching on. Then, I noticed with a slightly uncomfortable feeling that many of the posters were tool freaks and junkies with an unhealthy obsession about shiny or dirty bits of...

Passing pranksters have been known to play the same trick when they spot a neighbour's car being worked on.