Well, I just lost about 80% of my tools today, they are probably sitting in some distant pawnshop by now
I had my tools, along with my bosses tools locked up in his toolbox whilst we went to the shops for lunch + he had to go to the bank. Whilst he was parked literally 20 metres from the bank some crackhead smashed in the lock on the toolbox and took my cordless drill, my stahlwille 1/2" socket and spanner set, my new fluke 28-ii multimeter, my 3 crimpers that I had bought roughly 3 hours prior to them being stolen and all my knipex pliers, multigrips, ratcheting cable cutters and other bits and pieces. Being a first year apprentice, my tools must have looked alot nicer to the thief than the bosses rusty old ones cos all he lost was a fluke 179 multimeter and they left all his other tools.
Because it happened right outside a bank they have surveillance footage of it so maybe the guy will get caught, and luckily my company has a tool insurance policy so I should get new tools again without it costing me anything. My only worry is pretty much everything I had except my drill and crimpers were purchased online out of germany/america and if purchased at retail prices here in Australia, would be around $5000 (if they can even find them in a local shop). It would work out better for the insurance company and myself if I could just show them all my reciepts, rebuy my tools online and be reimbursed but i'm not sure if they will do this
soooo-did the insurance company ever het this settled with you ??
i hate to here it but ALL insurance companies have their crooked side
I always wondered how they expect you to show receipts after a fire. You'd think that if you showed them a melted wrench and then showed 10 ended auctions for the same wrench on e-bay, that they could somehow get the value of "replacement".
THANK YOU!THE TOOL GODS ARE SMILING ON ME! 
I made that claim against my AGENT, not the adjuster. I called the ADJUSTER slothful to his boss.
I AM HOPING TO GET THERE ATTENTION FROM ALL THIS.
. My boss also recieved a fluke thermometre instead of a multimeter.I got my tools last week and was very disappointed to say the least. My german-made Stahlwille 1/2" socket set was replaced with a 3/8" Stanley socket set, how does that work!?! Same deal with my screwdrivers, replaced with crappy chinese made ones and they aren't even 1000V VDE insulated. Spanners, again expensive german made stahlwille, and vintage Australian made sidchrome replaced with no-frills Chinese spanners in less comprehensive sizes, from 10mm-24mm instead of 6mm-30mm and no imperial spanners
The only thing I recieved that was half decent were Channel-lock brand pliers, multigrips etc. They are good but I still prefer my old Knipex/NWS pliers and especially multigrips. Channel-locks are cheaper than knipex/nws as well. and my Fluke 28ii multimeter was replaced with a fluke laser-beam thermometre thing
I rang up and complained, as the policy clearly states that my tools will wherever possible be replaced with identical items. In this case, they were unable to find anywhere that would sell any of the stuff i had lost so it had been replaced with "comparable goods". I again pleaded with them to just reimburse me for the amounts paid as per my reciepts but no that would just be to easy and sensible to do. I have to go out, find a business who will sell the tools here in Australia, and send them the bill.
So the owner of a small local independant toolshop now loves me. I had a good chat with Greg, and being a top bloke that he is, he will go out of his way and arrange for all my tools to be special ordered in. He even gave me his card with his email, homephone and everything written on it. He rang me today and said he could get my stahlwille socket/spanners for $1950 and even offered me a discount, but I told Greg not to discount himself, just send me the bill in full and I'll pass it on.
