Losing my GJ virginity in this thread since this thread is what brought me here in the first place. So much good stuff! Huge shoutout to Monte as well for always having the answers to everyones questions. Impressive!
With my ten thumbs I'm not much of a mechanic nor am I very good at carpentry work. But I like to to an odd job every now and then and find tools very attractive just to look at. Go ahead, you have the permission to call me a weirdo. My real passion is detailing and I'm sure there will be some action pictures of this in the future. Considering to create a garage thread as I've recently refurbished parts of the garage for the winter and saved up about $3000 that will be put into a decent tool selection that will satisfy my OCD a bit more than the worn out randomness I currently own.
I live in Norway and it's pretty obvious that the average Norwegian prefers cheapo Chinese tools as we have literally no proper tool shop that stocks German, American, French, Japanese or Swiss tools.
I guess there are the odd reseller of more high-end brands over here, but they focus on big corporate customers wich really shows in their pricing and non-excistant customer service to the average punter.
As a funny story (or sad, depending on your sense of humour) I contacted a company that sells Facom and asked them to quote me the total for a S.208-200 torque wrench and a set of five thin wall impact sockets. Got an answer back two weeks later. Two weeks! Not even in medieval times you had to wait to weeks for a reply and they delivered messages in paper form by foot.. And as if that did not put me off enough, they quoted me the equivalent of $680. And that was ex 25% tax and delivery. Roughly $900 in total for a ****** torque wrench and five sockets that I can get for $250 from Germany.. No, just no.
Anyway, enough of this short story writing in rather poor English.
Today I got some proper extension leads(?). The ones I had were from the late 90's and quite worn.. Excellent quality as always from Brennenstuhl:
But when I got the socket thingy situated on the worktop my OCD got the best of me. Why is the on button up side down and the logo on it's side?
Agh! Did a bit of surgery and quickly realized that this is not something the Germans approve of. What screws are these? Never seen them before..
Germany 1, OCD 0.
I hope this was not all boring. I promise to not write an entire book in my future posts!
-Kristoffer
