Brilliant value tool kit

PCUK said:
Less then 60 quid and everything you'll need for home or boat general maintenance.
Not the best quality, but also not the worst and it's all there in one place in an aluminium luggage style trolley.
No connection other than being impressed with the value.
Here's the link:-
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/718pcs-T...899985&hash=item3f6f069431:g:SbYAAOSwH-daKKE9
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I wonder if the Chinese toolmakers have upped their game in terms of quality from the crap soft cheese stuff they used to produce. It is certainly cheap if the tools are actually fit for purpose.
 
alan17 said:
Would be interested in your thoughts after using tools!
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Do you ever get brilliant value at a low price? For a start that ally box will soon fall apart.

Great idea to have a "grab bag" of tools to hand, but I'd always go for fewer items of better quality. Spirit level and mains glue gun aren't going to be much use at sea!
 
Biggles Wader said:
I wonder if the Chinese toolmakers have upped their game in terms of quality from the crap soft cheese stuff they used to produce. It is certainly cheap if the tools are actually fit for purpose.
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Can't complain. Toolmakers' precision vise €83 including signed for delivery to Malta vs identical item from Europe €295 (well, almost 'identical' because the German one had the brand name marked on it whereas the one from Banggood had no marks). Accurate to within 0.005mm as per Mitutoyo dial indicator.
The same goes for MT3 arbors, shell mills, CT inserts and their holders for lathe and milling, solid carbide slot drills, collets, etc., etc.
Prices are tending to go up but still excellent value for money. Typical delivery to Malta is 7-10 days. Very pleased, so far!

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The Chinese will supply whatever quality you are prepared to pay for. The problem lies with the customer typically the British one who wants Rolls Royce quality but only wants to spend 2p and can't understand what the problem is so blames the supplier.

I blame interbreeding with the Scots and Yorkshire folk.:D
 
CLB said:
How else will you know if your billiards table is level?
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Isn't the billiard table on your boat gimballed? Even that is old technology now having been superseded by gyro-control with direct GPS linkage that allows for Magnetic Variation and Coriolis effect, although this latter is still under review when used within 1o 15' 39.7" N or S of the Equator!
 
During the twilight years of my motorbike racing career where I embraced Track Racing-Long Track, Grass Track and Speedway-at international level with the German Oldie Fahrer club and by invitation at other tracks worldwide, I purchased from Makro IIRC a steel three drawer tool box complete with tools. £50.00 ish. By putting the special stuff required for my antique JAP engines in the empty bottom tray I had enough tools in a small compact box to maintain and adjust the engine, gearing and clutch etc. on my chosen mount, a Hagon Jap Sandtrack bike, at the tracks where I strutted my stuff.

Still in use today. The long nose pliers I broke through abuse-trying to undo a cover plug with holes for a peg spanner-and the 3/8 ratchet, again by asking too much of it.

So, 17 years on, still good. I take it when the boat is on the hard to compliment the onboard toolkit.

I have been involved with handtools for 55 years. When I used them daily, the most often used were top quality. Snap on, Proto, Craftsman.

Then I discovered Kamasa tools had a Pro range, and chose them over the more expensive brands.

Like the most important thing on a racing motorbike is the nut on the handlebars, the most important thing with tools is the user.

I have a tool hanging on the wall in my workshop, from my maternal Grandfather. It is a steel strip,22 inches long with a 5/8 x 1/4 piece of motorbike chain one end and a piece of 1/2 x 3/16 the other.

It allows motorcycle drive sprokets to be held still while the nut is undone. From the time at Brooklands -1927 on- where said grandad was a mechanic specialising in Riley cars and Norton and Douglas motorbikes. I still use it.

It is so crude and shabby it would be thrown out by one of the tool collecting modern mechanics I see from time to time.

But-when you need it, its the only thing that will do.

For the boat, especially when working over water, I use a cheapo tool rather than a dear one. I find it hard to get them back when I drop them in............................
 
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PCUK said:
Less then 60 quid and everything you'll need for home or boat general maintenance.
Not the best quality, but also not the worst and it's all there in one place in an aluminium luggage style trolley.
No connection other than being impressed with the value.
Here's the link:-
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/718pcs-T...899985&hash=item3f6f069431:g:SbYAAOSwH-daKKE9
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Looks ok for garage use but I find hard cases a nightmare on a small boat. A soft tool bag is much easier to stow and I only have tools I know I'm going to use. I'm not crossing oceans anymore.
 
Fr J Hackett said:
The Chinese will supply whatever quality you are prepared to pay for. The problem lies with the customer typically the British one who wants Rolls Royce quality but only wants to spend 2p and can't understand what the problem is so blames the supplier.

I blame interbreeding with the Scots and Yorkshire folk.:D
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That’s what the chandlery told me. 83% of stuff comes from China.....quality depended on what price you pay
 
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