Originally Posted by cossie604

Now then lets see, I'm 33 in two weeks and I started in my first garage (a DeTomaso specialists) at the age of 12 on Saturday mornings until I left school where I continued working there until 19, where I moved onto various other garages including race prep dedicated workshops through to a motorbike workshop in Grease back through to my current workshop manager's roll......so thats 21yrs with various tools.....I think Ive worked out what earns its money and where...young man....

Just to add for the other folk out there, admittedly my tool kit is probably around 60% SnapOn, with the whole kit last insured for 17k inc box. But, I know what is worth spending the money on and whats not ie there's no point in wasting your money on a tool thats not going to pay its self off. Nor is it worth spending stupid amounts of money on some thing thats just had the Snap On logo stuck on it. A great instance of this is a tap and die kit I bought off the Mac tools dealer. Its the exact same kit that the Snap On dealer sells except Snap On list it as more expensive and also they wont swap a broken tap under warranty unlike Mac tools who are happy to swap it for you. The very same kit is also available off ebay for much less....suppose I could buy a few of them and stick a SnapOn sticker on it and sell it to the young black and blown man Snap on sockets, ratchets and spanners etc are worth their weight in gold....they've paid them selves off many times over. But that doesn't mean Im gonna buy a Ribe set off Snap On when Im only gonna use it once in a blue moon...hence why my Ribe set it US Pro, and they've been faultless in the 4-5yrs Ive used them. Basically buy the kit that's right in quality and price for what your gonna use it for....occasional weekend use does not warrant thousands being spent imo.