Right who’s got all the 10mm spanner’s and sockets.

[Boris7]

 

[zzr1400tim]

here's a funny one.
A few years ago I had a problem with the Honda outboard motor on my boat. I had to remove a couple of screws with a 12mm A/F spanner.. but they were M8 screws?.
so it should have been a 13mm A/F spanner.
I thought it was weird that they made M8 screws with a "non-standard" 12mm head..
Speaking to someone later they informed me that the Japanese are very superstitious and do not have anything to do with the number 13!!
Don't know if it applies now..

 

[zzr1400tim]

I just buy a quality Halfords Pro socket set (when they're on offer Xmas/fathers day etc)
Usually cheaper again IF you have a trade card.
And make sure I PUT THE 10MM/13MM stuff back in it at the end of every job...

Good quality kit that lasts AND has a great lifetime guarantee....

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I love my Halfords Pro kit.. apart from when I opened it upside down and the stuff went all over the floor
must have taken me an hour to find all the sockets and put them back into their respective places..

 

[kensowerby]

Back in the 60s when I was working on construction sites i had a very simple system ie. "If you want to borrow a tool leave your wallet in my tool box"
It was surprising how many times I was told to f--- off

 

[tidewatcher]

When I was a first year aircraft apprentice we had to buy our own tools. There was a guy there who sold Britool spanner’s and sockets. Having bought a set of (AF) open end and ring spanner which cost me many weeks wages, you could pay the guy off weekly from your pay packet, I set about engraving my initials on all the spanners. At this point a long in the tooth engine fitter came up and asked what I was doing. I explained the tools cost me a kings ransom and I didn’t want anyone to pinch them. He then uttered the profound words.

” Ah lad, but when they are picking through the wreckage on the hillside you wouldn’t want them finding a spanner with your name one would you?”.

To this day all my spanners, some of which are still the ones I bought as an apprentice, are identified by a code of centre pop marks.

Just saying, enjoy your flight…….

 

[n brown]

couple of these ,10 and 13mm ,hanging over my workbench ,have saved me having to dig out my socket set on many occasions

 

[trevskoda]

I love my Halfords Pro kit.. apart from when I opened it upside down and the stuff went all over the floor
must have taken me an hour to find all the sockets and put them back into their respective places..

Aus set then.

 

[ricc]

ive got an iceceam tub on the bench wi 10 an 13 mm spanners, an 3/8 ratchet , couple of short extensions with 10, 13,1719 and 7/16, 1/2, 9/16 sockets with the 1/4 drive set in the drawer it does most of what i tinker with.

ive never bought the expensive branded tools. just picked up good used stuff at auctions an car boots. no worries about loosing tools on site or light fingered scroats.

one morning years ago found the workshop door broken open..... nothing noticably missing

bit later neighbour came round his workshop had been done over,all his fancy shiny brand name tools gone, had to borrow some of my spares to keep working

 

[caledonia]

I shudder to think how much money I’ve spent on tools since my first visit into Aladdins Snap on van.
35years of between a fiver and £25 a week. I have two Roll cabs and two top boxes all full of Snap on. No doubt they are expensive but the are the best and doesn’t matter how you break it they replace it.
Just going out to unlock the big red box and fit a set of brake shoes to the quad.

 

[n brown]

only snap on i bought was a 19mm socket after i broke 2 getting wheels off . with that , a decent breaker bar and a 4 foot scaff tube ,no wheel is safe !

 

[Polar Bear]

here's a funny one.
A few years ago I had a problem with the Honda outboard motor on my boat. I had to remove a couple of screws with a 12mm A/F spanner.. but they were M8 screws?.
so it should have been a 13mm A/F spanner.
I thought it was weird that they made M8 screws with a "non-standard" 12mm head..
Speaking to someone later they informed me that the Japanese are very superstitious and do not have anything to do with the number 13!!
Don't know if it applies now..

A lot of Japanese and Chinese companies make their own fasteners. Even Renault made a five-sided bolt on one of their brake systems? That catches a lot of mechanics out.

 

[linkshouse]

 

[trevskoda]

I have had a few girls wishing to see my tool kit, they seemed disappointed when I opened the garage.

 

[jigarai]

 

[caledonia]