Tools. What's in your box?

[brucemillar]

I've got a few ratchets and sockets from Britool (the key sizes) from 20 years ago and they are like new still despite a fair use.

Very good.

Britool made fantastic stuff, back in the day when they even felt tactile and not hard and sharp.

 

[John]

I even use one of their sockets on wheel bolts on my other half's Joke and it is mint.

 

[MikeInWimbledon]

Didn't realise that you're such a Nipper, Bruce.

Only showing Metric spanners, eh? Hiding the Whitworth and AF just to tease us Old Folk.

Sad thing is - there are probably people on here who don't even know the difference between AF and Whitworth. Sad, I know.

"Different times."

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[Deleted96908]

And of course the tools in the boot of my 124 Wagon.

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Shouldn't be keeping your Viagra in the boot Bruce.

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[Doodle]

One could argue that AF only exists because the Americans needed a dumbed down standard

 

[chrisk2010]

Didn't realise that you're such a Nipper, Bruce.

Only showing Metric spanners, eh? Hiding the Whitworth and AF just to tease us Old Folk.

Sad thing is - there are probably people on here who don't even know the difference between AF and Whitworth. Sad, I know.

"Different times."

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Ahhh not just for you old folk lol !

I have taken on some of the engineering for the current company I work for when the on site engineer retired mainly because i was the only most qualified person in the room at the time and most of this machinery is from the 60's requiring imperial tools lol

He was kind enough to leave a couple of tool boxs of random imperial tools so i wouldn't get to reliant on adjustable spanners. He was a good engineer though we (HE) always talked about his 60's an 70's motor bikes although i'm not a bike person.

The more i clean the workshop and poke around in his old "Aladdins Cave" the more i find tools his made himself. The only problem i have is though i never know what they are for until the machine breaks.

 

[brucemillar]

Just checked. I still have a full set of AF Draper Expert Sockets.

It’s great to think back to the days when these were new to me and the cars they have seen.


I have a 1/4 socket set that modelled on “Triggers Broom”. Most recently I had to feed it a new ratchet when I broke the old one being too lazy to get out a bigger drive.


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[gaz_l]

The pride of my tool box is an engineer's ball pein hammer that belonged to my granddad. The head is stamped "1951" so nearing 70 years old now, the wooden handle is black as pitch from years of greasy hands and it's generally all bashed up, but it's still winning arguments.

Cheers,

Gaz

 

[optimusprime]

Bruce i remember the Pajero project .. And i read it through ,,front to back, with great interest ..So your are another of us in the special tools club .lol

 

[brucemillar]

Bruce i remember the Pajero project .. And i read it through ,,front to back, with great interest ..So your are another of us in the special tools club .lol

Trevor

The first Pajero story became a World Wide hit on the internet, when the wonderful Simon Brown (Carat) finally diagnosed and fixed, what everybody said was a timing fault: "It must be timing" "it cannot be anything but timing" "fix your timing and you fix your fault" These were just some the quotes that I read. The initial Garage gave up on the truck and I had to pay to have it trailored over to SImon's place, in bits.

The fault was eventually traced to a partially broken wire between the ECU and the Coils. This was found by Simon who taught me a valuable lesson. When tracing electrical faults in cars, use a test lamp and not just rely on a DVM. The DVM showed great continuity on that wire (to several garages who tested it) a test lamp flickered under load. The wire was found to be joined by about one strand and incapable of handling a 5v load. Job done.

This was after the engine had been completely stripped & rebuilt, a new ECU tried, the alarm removed, new coils, Ignition transistor - the list goes on. All for the want of a broken wire and a decent test lamp.

I now have (thank you Ted on here) a heavy duty test lamp (Halfords Advanced) that is perfect for tracing such faults. Invaluable when diagnosing the working nightmare that was my 124 radio with fader control and countless modifications (don't they all have that). Five minutes with a test lamp and we have flickering light. BINGO.

 

[GLK]

Bruce, you wouldn't happen to have details / link on that test lamp?

Sounds like something I definitely need, considering my unwavering desire to modify things

 

[optimusprime]

OK Bruce baby whats this little bit of magic your talking about . I have test light but do you know some thing i dont .

 

[optimusprime]

Right lads if any of you , like the look of Bruces garage and would like to make it a litle bit like his,, than check out this at Halfords .. Bruce you have very little room now to get the car in so you wont need one . ha ha .Only pulling you leg . Or go the one better .

 

[optimusprime]

Admin can you please remove all but one above of the large files .

 

[brucemillar]

Bruce, you wouldn't happen to have details / link on that test lamp?

Sounds like something I definitely need, considering my unwavering desire to modify things

Here you go:

Halfords Advanced Circuit Tester

 

[GLK]

Excellent, thanks!

 

[optimusprime]

Bruce looking at it ,i do have one ,,but it is not built so robust . And looking on the site it said order now till march 4 and get it for £14 45 .So if anyone needs one order now 10% off . The other handy tester I do have is for checking the spark .Its adjustable to see how much power its has in the spark to the plugs ,coil .,etc.Send picture Wednesday its to cold to venture out in the snow right now.I will take a few pictures of testing tools .And hope i dont double them up next time.

 

[Bobby Dazzler]

Right lads if any of you , like the look of Bruces garage and would like to make it a litle bit like his,, than check out this at Halfords .. Bruce you have very little room now to get the car in so you wont need one . ha ha .Only pulling you leg . Or go the one better .View attachment 75047 View attachment 75047 View attachment 75047 View attachment 75047 View attachment 75047 View attachment 75047

I can't see this on the Halfords website, only buying the two for £370. Have you got a link?

 

[Bobby Dazzler]

I can't see this on the Halfords website, only buying the two for £370. Have you got a link?

Found it: Halfords 7 Drawer Mobile Tool Chest and Halfords 6 Drawer Tool Chest Bundle

 

[Wolfie1]

I will take a pic of my toolbox at work tomorrow, i bought this in 2015 its a limited edition 24 carat gold ratchet i was going to use it but then decided it was too pretty to use