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Kincrome are OK for Taiwanese made tools,I do think their spanners are too short for a given size and their ratchets are only marginal

I have had a Norbar 1/2' drive torque wrench for 15 years never had any problems with it they are a quality product

The offset I prefer and have done for the past thirty years are these Sidchrome(Australian Made).Sadly they are no longer made in this country and the new ones have a much shallower offset.The wrench(spanner) shown is a 1/2"x9/16" [/URL][/IMG] [/URL][/IMG]

Ha ha I never said the metric standards were law,I remember reading somewhere that the 15mm size came about to give better clearance for working with modern engines.I'd like to believe the reason for a bolt head being 15mm and the nut 16mm is so that you only need a single set of spanners to...

I think our dwindling car manufacturing industry uses the ISO metric standard but from what I have seen around here domestic construction uses whatever they have available i.e. the cheapest.Since I work in the rural industry I have to have every socket and spanner size made including SAE,Metric...

Basically there are three different metric standards ANSI/ISO American National Standards Institute/International Standards Organization.Which is your US made stuff DIN Deutsches Institut für Normung.Which is the German Industrial Standard JIS Japanese Industrial Standards.

I have a 3.2mm combination spanner made by Stahlwille.

It all depends on where the particular fastener is located, If it's in plain sight and easily accessible then I get it right 9 out of 10 times. However if it is located at the top of a ladder or underneath a dozer necessitating crawling underneath or climbing inside the engine bay then I get it...

I have a three piece set boxed by a company called Geiger which look identical to Astro and Sunex. I must admit I never use the 1/2"drive but use the others quite often. I do wish however that they had a locking mechanism to lock the socket on.

I use this double ended one I got from Jamec Pem

We have several cattle properties(farms)totalling just under 500,000 acres.So we have 12 Landcruisers similar to mine,2 Hi Luxes,3 Bulldozers(Cat D6C and D6G),4 Graders(Cat12, 2xCat140H and a Champion 710),8 body trucks(Hino,Isuzu,Volvo,Mitsubishi) 2 Loaders (Case MX570 and 621B) 3 Cat...

They don't import them here anymore either we now only get the 4.5litre V8 diesel which has had quite a few reliability problems.My Ute has the old 1 HZ 4.2 litre six cylinder diesel no powerhouse but probably the most reliable engine Toyota ever built.I believe this engine is still available in...

Just updated my main toolbox,Well not so much the toolboxes but the carrier,My old "Unbreakable" Hi-Lux broke so I upgraded to this Land Cruiser with heavy duty suspension and added a vice (Dawn 5 inch)

I carry this in my Ute,metric only as it's a Toyota the tools are a mixture of Snap-On,Sidchrome,Stahlwille,Knipex and others it all fits in an old Rota Rangex cantilever box.

Do the new vanes move freely in the rotor?,they should slide in and out quite freely as they rely on airflow to move them out to seal with the cylinder,I remember some tune up kits a few years back would need the vanes sanded slightly to get them to move freely

Never having owned a Snap On ratchet with a plastic/comfort handle,I wonder what whould happen if you just cut the plastic handle off?Does the handle underneath follow the same contour?and is it chromed underneath?

24 out of 30 I too missed some of the history questions and I also disagree about he box cutter

None of the above I have Sidchrome and Stahlwille

That SK set looks identical to my T & E set which I have had trouble keeping the handles tight since new especially when fishing out internal o-rings

I guess I was fortunate back in the early 90's when Sidchrome were closing down their Australian manufacturing I went out and bought all the Aussie made spanners I needed to fill out my sets.Some I could not get but Stanley( the owners of Sidchrome) were flirting with the idea of up marketing...