mattonthesea
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Never thought of that. I use a small (1/4") t-bar and 7, 8, 10mm sockets. Saved me from a few years of jubilee clip scratches!
But that looks much easier
Which socket set?
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But that looks much easier
Poignard
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Now my boat is sold, and my tools brought home, I may have some to sell.
Bouba
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I didn’t see your boat for sale ad…did you sell it piece by piece ?Now my boat is sold, and my tools brought home, I may have some to sell.
KevinV
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You can get them with a flexi shaft too - brilliant tool
ducked
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Sort of related, to help decide if its worth shipping tools back to the UK from Taiwan, The Price and Weight for 10 socket sets of a range of quality was obtained from Amazon. with a UK postcode for the delivery address.
Amazon arent necessarily cheapest (Prime Tools seem to do Bahco better, for example) but they usually list the weight.
I dont believe one always needs best quality tools, but you might need better in the UK than in Taiwan, because rust, and nice tools are ...er...less nasty, so If replacing in the UK I MIGHT use Halfords Advanced or Sealey Premium for simplicity/lifetime replacement/ (despite my age)/good vibe,
My Taiwan tools are probably not that good on average, though many are King Tony or Black Hand, both of which seem fine
Price/kg ranged from 63.05 GBP for a Bahco S138 set (bit of an outlier) to 6.67 GBP for a Pollok 216 set, with an average of 19.52/kg.
This approach could be extended to other categories of tools, but for some non-reason its now insisting on US pricing, so that'll do.
So 20 quid a kg is now my arbitrary cutoff top price for tool shipping. Shipping is expensive, but AFACT at present, doesnt seem to be quite THAT expensive,
As long as I dont get stuck with import duties.
Amazon arent necessarily cheapest (Prime Tools seem to do Bahco better, for example) but they usually list the weight.
I dont believe one always needs best quality tools, but you might need better in the UK than in Taiwan, because rust, and nice tools are ...er...less nasty, so If replacing in the UK I MIGHT use Halfords Advanced or Sealey Premium for simplicity/lifetime replacement/ (despite my age)/good vibe,
My Taiwan tools are probably not that good on average, though many are King Tony or Black Hand, both of which seem fine
Price/kg ranged from 63.05 GBP for a Bahco S138 set (bit of an outlier) to 6.67 GBP for a Pollok 216 set, with an average of 19.52/kg.
This approach could be extended to other categories of tools, but for some non-reason its now insisting on US pricing, so that'll do.
So 20 quid a kg is now my arbitrary cutoff top price for tool shipping. Shipping is expensive, but AFACT at present, doesnt seem to be quite THAT expensive,
As long as I dont get stuck with import duties.
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