Rossco
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Yeah this ones a little beat up but 100% Working .. Its the Made in England bit that pushes the Manufacturing price up.
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Yeah this ones a little beat up but 100% Working .. Its the Made in England bit that pushes the Manufacturing price up.
bart1
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Just because I think we all like pictures, here are some comparison pics of a 14mm socket in 1/4" and 3/8" drive - Hazet, of course.
Ratchet.
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Love this thread, has got me looking at so many tool makes i never knew about before (or had heard of but wasn't sure of the quality) as i mainly bought mac or snap on tools when i was last working in a garage (plus some Knipex.. sold through mac tools if i remember correctly).
i have a few of my own items to post, mostly pliers so far, but i have a lot more purchases planned
Before i do anyone know of a good quality European or Japanese (or American, even though this thread is old countries) made multimeter? i have a gunson's one which is nice but no idea where its made (it has no country on it) i realize someone may have said before but im only half way through reading the thread
i have a few of my own items to post, mostly pliers so far, but i have a lot more purchases planned
Before i do anyone know of a good quality European or Japanese (or American, even though this thread is old countries) made multimeter? i have a gunson's one which is nice but no idea where its made (it has no country on it) i realize someone may have said before but im only half way through reading the thread
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bart1
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Fluke 123 ScopeMeter. Made in the Netherlands, of all places.
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Before i do anyone know of a good quality European or Japanese (or American, even though this thread is old countries) made multimeter? i have a gunson's one which is nice but no idea where its made (it has no country on it) i realize someone may have said before but im only half way through reading the thread
Fluke, daddy-o! Seek and ye shall find.
I have a simpler Fluke, but don't recall the COO.
Moose-LandTran
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My Fluke 289 is made in USA.
bart1
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I think my Fluke 87 is.
http://www.fluke.com/fluke/usen/digital-multimeters/fluke-80-series-v.htm?PID=56135
I am a EE by degree, but honestly don't use it that much. I do still think Fluke is the standard, though.
Ratchet.
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thanks, guess I've missed or not got to that post yet Fluke are the make to get then, had another cheap one before.. but it lasted a few months before startign to give wildly inaccurate readings ¬_¬ ill have to look investigate them (those two are a bit out of my current budget, but a cheaper one will work)
Fluke are the make to get then, had another cheap one before.. but it lasted a few months before startign to give wildly inaccurate readings ¬_¬ ill have to look investigate them (those two are a bit out of my current budget, but a cheaper one will work)Hi. That picture looks similar to the Pferd logo.klick Monte, I hope "click" is not patented;-) Ohhh... By the way... This is the greatest forum thread I've read in ages. Maybe just HeadFi forums click can compete.
Here is one for you Monte, its a feeler gauge that I bought over 10 years ago at a petrol station (I've been living in Europe for the past 18 years) its marked "Made in West Germany" and there is a picture of a cat or small animal jumping through a hoop.
Ratchet.
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Cool, the 87 looks like the one I'll be going for, ill have a shop around though and see if i can pick up one cheap (just cause)
bart1
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thanks, guess I've missed or not got to that post yet
This looks more like mine. Maybe mine is a 73?? I've had it for close to 15 years, when I bought it used. Have only had to replace the battery and haven't been gentle on it, if that tells you anything.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0002SRIXM/?tag=atomicindus08-20
Moose-LandTran
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I've been helping out a friend the past couple weeks, he's a former VW main dealer Licened (That's beyond Master.) tech.
Went to fetch something from his car and found this:
VW/Audi VAS5052 main dealer diag machine!
And another..
VAS5051 main dealer workshop diag machine, this has built in meter, scope, etc.
And he gave me this, a Hazet/VW T10039 door trim/panel removal tool.
Went to fetch something from his car and found this:
VW/Audi VAS5052 main dealer diag machine!
And another..
VAS5051 main dealer workshop diag machine, this has built in meter, scope, etc.
And he gave me this, a Hazet/VW T10039 door trim/panel removal tool.
american lockpicker
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Theres a German made multimeter but it costs so much(thousands of $$$) its usually available here for rent.
Difficult to see anything, but the 7-XL is a bit thicker and has a convex shape, while the 1B has a more rounded shape with a smalller radius, so it´s "sharper", the 7-XL is less sharp.
nice !
Garant wrenches + sockets are made by Stahlwille.
If you can get the tools for a good price - why not ?
Hahaha, thanks for the tip, I will try to stay away from those Germans, or in any need of communication I would try to switch to English
yeah that´s better ! 
Well, you know that you won't go to sleep without having learnt something new, now you know Bosch once made such tool (or somebody did for Bosch)
It has been at home for more than 20 years and it still works.
now we have to find a italian manufacturer of soldering guns- otherwise i can´t sleep my father yes, he does everything around the house, like electrical installations, plumbing, tiling etc. But i don´t know how many times he used them , i´ll ask if he counted how often he used which one
A few more packages arrived.
WOW that are some really nice tools you got !!!
How do you like the Athlet ratcheting screwdriver ?
+ depth stop
Do all 1/4" drive sockets are now stamped with "Made in Germany" instead of just "Germany" ?
you´re right looks like Pferd ! Didn´t know they once offered measuring tools
nope
nice trim tool + electronic gadgets !
Flex reciprocating saw blades:
www.flex-tools.de
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american lockpicker
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Anyone know about this wrench?
http://www.footprint-tools.co.uk/Products/wrenches-products.htm#1
Whats the quality like and is it made in England?
http://www.footprint-tools.co.uk/Products/wrenches-products.htm#1
Whats the quality like and is it made in England?
servito
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Monte now has a little helper too ! Welcome Lil´ Monte
He helps me with all kind of things, like hand me tools, searching for screws etc.
Thanks buddy !!!
Hey what happens that everybody has a new assistant??
I guess he will be as an apprentice,isn't him?
Those assistants you have are very funny, Moose, cosmik and Monte
But wait theres more...
lockpicker, does it spell/say "STANILESS" under swiss made???
What a mistake in such case
yeah, got a Dräger fireman respirator somewhere for that kind of stuff...
Some fireman forgot their respirator close to your home?
well, depends on the company/workman... had a Saarbrücken pipe works truck there last time: wow! shiny and all, nothing to compare it to in France...
So you probably live in/close to Metz, Nancy or Strasbourg, since Saarbrücken is close to those cities!
welcome back servito!
Thank you cosmik
Drill bit holder
Hahahhahahahahahaha, how many rpm can maintain?
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Rossco
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Yeah Plumbers tool.
Top quality pipe wrench .. Plumbers actually refer to that type of tool as Footprints
american lockpicker
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lockpicker, does it spell/say "STANILESS" under swiss made???
What a mistake in such case
Stainless is spelled right but there must have been a mark on the blade that makes the I look like its part of the N.
r6_cannibal
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Contributing!
Sorry about the picture quality, photos were taken on my phone and I was holding my 16month old daughter in my other arm.
First up some pliers. The pratt-read ones are made by knipex i belive. and on the left is a grip-on from spain.
This is one that I can't remember how I got but I bought it new. Hard to read but it says Rennsteig. This is my favorite chisel in this size.
These FELO screwdrivers are really nice and are made of Birch.
The Felo screwdrivers don't get used too much because I have all these Wiha screwdrivers that are my work horses. I love these drivers, phillips up front, flat in the middle, and torx at the far end
Sorry about the picture quality, photos were taken on my phone and I was holding my 16month old daughter in my other arm.
First up some pliers. The pratt-read ones are made by knipex i belive. and on the left is a grip-on from spain.
This is one that I can't remember how I got but I bought it new. Hard to read but it says Rennsteig. This is my favorite chisel in this size.
These FELO screwdrivers are really nice and are made of Birch.
The Felo screwdrivers don't get used too much because I have all these Wiha screwdrivers that are my work horses. I love these drivers, phillips up front, flat in the middle, and torx at the far end
kissmeimgerman
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Contributing!
Sorry about the picture quality, photos were taken on my phone and I was holding my 16month old daughter in my other arm.
First up some pliers. The pratt-read ones are made by knipex i belive. and on the left is a grip-on from spain.
This is one that I can't remember how I got but I bought it new. Hard to read but it says Rennsteig. This is my favorite chisel in this size.
These FELO screwdrivers are really nice and are made of Birch.
The Felo screwdrivers don't get used too much because I have all these Wiha screwdrivers that are my work horses. I love these drivers, phillips up front, flat in the middle, and torx at the far end
The Pratt-reads are Orbis, and I will be buying those wood Felos soon. They look awesome.
r6_cannibal
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Good to know those are Orbis. thanks!
The Felo drivers I got for my Father-in-law and my Dad as a gift. When I was in my teens there was this wood handle screwdriver that we both really liked and always reached for it first whenever we needed a phillips. No idea who makes it now, but it was a good driver. It broke several years ago and that spot in my dad's tool box never got filled. I bought him this set about a year ago and a couple months after giving him this it made me happy to find the Felo phillips in the spot the old wooden screwdriver used to be.
Moose-LandTran
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Anyone know about this wrench?
http://www.footprint-tools.co.uk/Products/wrenches-products.htm#1
Whats the quality like and is it made in England?
They're very good. I have one and it bites like a mofo. Used to have another one with a 2' pipe hammered onto the handle, i used it for turning seized steering track rods and it worked great.
richfinn
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I've been helping out a friend the past couple weeks, he's a former VW main dealer Licened (That's beyond Master.) tech.
Went to fetch something from his car and found this:
VW/Audi VAS5052 main dealer diag machine!
And another..
VAS5051 main dealer workshop diag machine, this has built in meter, scope, etc.
And he gave me this, a Hazet/VW T10039 door trim/panel removal tool.
I think the licenced VW techs were trained on the Pheaton and the Touregs with the big engines, some of our guys carry the VAS systems and can do DISS reporting for warranty work.
Moose-LandTran
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Yes, that's correct. Licenced techs are Master techs with the additional Touareg/Phaeton endorsement. A Master tech cannot do work on Touaregs/Phaetons besides routine maintenance and stuff like brakes.
Licenced techs do stuff like this:
(I know, that's Audi, not VW.)
Thanks Jens for your offers!
Nice tools
when it´s finished i will. Maybe on sunday
I don´t know exactly how old it is, it came mounted on a old wooden workbench with a wooden door and drawers, i guess like 30 or 40 years ?
but you have nice english screwdrivers instead !
I like it very much ! Feels good in my hands, nicely made cast metal housing, good paint job, functional "auto lock" mechanism, simple + efficient "clean" design. My favourite !
another pic for you
Sandvik Lindström electronic pliers
Very nice old vise..a steel looks awesome and tough
Thanks to share your experience about your NT cutters
Very unique head shape + box joint Sandvik Pliers
A blade length 200mm, I used it regularly before I got a jobs and money to bought another high quality screwdrivers.
Awesome Gedore wrenches !!!
Very nice comparison pics awesomeHi North,
i can take some pics later, i only have comparison pics of the "7" and "7-XL" and a family pic right now
Gedore "7" on top, "7-XL" below:
7-XL head on the left
7-XL beam on the left
7-XL box end on the left
Gedore 7
Gedore 1B
Gedore 7-XL
Hazet 600N vs. Gedore 7-XL
btw. for the NT Cutter fans
Congratulation for your new tools!A few more packages arrived.
Wera, Athlet, NWS, Knipex, PB Swiss and Famag:
I found only version VDE this:
It took, but I found NWS Quattro-Grip:
Old stock PB Baumann.
Sorry for the long post.
Very nice choice
Nice PICS of socket and blue box Hazet
@bart1
Awesome blue box, a water pump pliers looks like my old Hozan is it Hozan or ?
Nice wood handle FeloContributing!
Sorry about the picture quality, photos were taken on my phone and I was holding my 16month old daughter in my other arm.
These FELO screwdrivers are really nice and are made of Birch.
richfinn
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Yes, that's correct. Licenced techs are Master techs with the additional Touareg/Phaeton endorsement. A Master tech cannot do work on Touaregs/Phaetons besides routine maintenance and stuff like brakes.
Licenced techs do stuff like this:
(I know, that's Audi, not VW.)
I like the engine cradle thing, do they have to support the vehicle differently when they drop all that weight out of front end?
Moose-LandTran
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Yes, it's strapped to the lift by means of special ratchet straps and brackets. Those cradles are pretty serious. I used one once, it's an impressive piece of kit. It's electro-hydraulic and there are lots of those pins for different models and engines/gearboxes.
Sick Puppy
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Now, it's mostly in Japanese, but it appears to be a list of someone's tools, and at the end is a whole bunch of links to Japanese tool makers.
http://home.att.ne.jp/lemon/kanzaki/newpage24.html
Nice showing of tools!
http://home.att.ne.jp/lemon/kanzaki/newpage24.html
Nice showing of tools!
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jensputzier
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All new Reilang oilers in aluminum I received today (I ordered the complete range of the Reilang Solution line) are stamped on the bottom that they are made in Switzerland. Except for the ROD300AL which seems to be from a previous production run made in Germany.
First orders have been shipped. I'll add pictures later.
Just dragged these up from the barn to do a little job around the house so I figured I'd take a few shots to put up here.
Got this a few weeks ago from a boot sale (vide grenier). All sockets are the Acesa originals apart from 3 of them (2 replaced by USAG and the 12mm by a no-name).
When I got it the ratchet had been replaced by a SAM ratchet (also pictured) but I put a Bahco ergo in there because i figured it was made in Spain.
Now searching around the boot sales for the original ratchet.
Got this a few weeks ago from a boot sale (vide grenier). All sockets are the Acesa originals apart from 3 of them (2 replaced by USAG and the 12mm by a no-name).
When I got it the ratchet had been replaced by a SAM ratchet (also pictured) but I put a Bahco ergo in there because i figured it was made in Spain.
Now searching around the boot sales for the original ratchet.
Attachments
bart1
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Dunno. I only have the Smart Case and a couple random bit sockets, but I can check.
Channellock! (New World)
With Hazet here:
Ratchet.
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Some of my collection, sadly pretty small at the moment
Some Knipex pliers and cutters, a pair of engineer neji-saurus screw pliers and a Wera screwdriver magnetizer/demagnetizer (works far better at magnetizing than demagnetizing...)
the Knipex cutters I've had for the best part of a decade and there due for replacement, they've been well used (read abused) and are a bit 'sloppy' now, still cut fine though.
the VDE ones are a few years old, and the red handle ones were a bargain £10 find on eBay a week ago
I actually bought the Engineer inc pliers after seeing them on this thread, were a lucky find on eBay, Japanese tools are a rare find here, work really well too, nicely made and the grips are really comfortable (and they look cool
)
couple of Nos Hazet sockets, a polydrive (square spline drive, used by Fiat etc most commonly) and a E11 torx, Hazet tools are fairly hard to find here it seems, these came off ebay again
got a pair of vessel wire strippers on there way too, plus replacing a lot of my worn out (and/or cheap) tools with new quality ones
Some Knipex pliers and cutters, a pair of engineer neji-saurus screw pliers and a Wera screwdriver magnetizer/demagnetizer (works far better at magnetizing than demagnetizing...)
the Knipex cutters I've had for the best part of a decade and there due for replacement, they've been well used (read abused) and are a bit 'sloppy' now, still cut fine though.
the VDE ones are a few years old, and the red handle ones were a bargain £10 find on eBay a week ago
I actually bought the Engineer inc pliers after seeing them on this thread, were a lucky find on eBay, Japanese tools are a rare find here, work really well too, nicely made and the grips are really comfortable (and they look cool
)
couple of Nos Hazet sockets, a polydrive (square spline drive, used by Fiat etc most commonly) and a E11 torx, Hazet tools are fairly hard to find here it seems, these came off ebay again
got a pair of vessel wire strippers on there way too, plus replacing a lot of my worn out (and/or cheap) tools with new quality ones
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AutomatiquE
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All my Hazet 1/4 sockets are stamped "Made in Germany".
ps : Sorry for the crapy picture.
@Ratchet : very good starting collection, nice quality tools.
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Moose-LandTran
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Nice stuff inspector.
Nice SAM ratchet. Any ties to Facom? What's the quality of SAM tools?
Ratchet.
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Ribe-CV. Polydrive is used by VW-Audi only.
Thanks
I stand corrected
there pretty uncommon, even fiat doesn't use them for everything (annoying) I didn't know the right name so looked it up (and got it wrong lol), can see the difference between polydrive and Ribe-CV now, guess the fasteners are less prone to stripping than torx
Both are oddly hard to get tools for, well in the uk anyway, no doubt they will become more common, or quickly become obsolete.