Favourite tool?
Feb 15, 2010 | 03:06 PM
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Favourite tool?
Mine is either a hammer or Paddy.
Feb 15, 2010 | 03:08 PM
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From: Kent
Feb 15, 2010 | 03:09 PM
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From: St Helier,Jersey
Feb 15, 2010 | 03:15 PM
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From: Australia
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Less.
10 mill spannner
I prefer a 13 mm personally but hey each to their own
Feb 15, 2010 | 03:18 PM
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I like swinging a 28lb or 20lb around.
Feb 15, 2010 | 03:47 PM
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From: devon
Cuttin tourch oxy bombs rock
Feb 15, 2010 | 04:26 PM
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Cuttin tourch oxy bombs rock
gas axe
Feb 15, 2010 | 05:04 PM
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From: Glasgow
definately my oil extractor, just stick it down the dip stick. no mess, no lying under cars on a damp road and very quick
does look like a swedish personal enhancement tool tho!
Feb 15, 2010 | 05:33 PM
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From: birmingham
Sledge hammer Come on if ya fail the first time jus use the hammer lol bosh it
Feb 15, 2010 | 05:50 PM
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rs tingle
Sledge hammer Come on if ya fail the first time jus use the hammer lol bosh it
If in doubt give it a clout
Feb 15, 2010 | 06:11 PM
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From: telly tubby land
mines a bodged up spanner to undo cones on a bike wheel, but only because it does ages of grinding and fileing to get it thin enough, or a c spanner cut and bodged to undo the rear casset, all of which can be bashed with a hammer to give extra leverage
Feb 15, 2010 | 06:15 PM
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From: STOKE-ON-TRENT
38mm signet spanner, doesnt see much use though
Feb 15, 2010 | 06:16 PM
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From: norfolk
8/10-12/13 combo ratchet spanner left behind by a tool rep.the best things in life are free.
Feb 15, 2010 | 06:22 PM
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38mm signet spanner, doesnt see much use though
1 1/2 AF ... Use that size all the time
Feb 15, 2010 | 06:33 PM
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From: Fleet, Hampshire
My new snap on 18v battery gun very handy bit of kit
Feb 15, 2010 | 06:57 PM
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been racking my brains (well for like 30secs) and I dont think I really have one, maybe the dremel as I am at my happiest making little bits and bobs lol. I love tools thou, and buying new ones. never enough money thou!
Feb 15, 2010 | 06:58 PM
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From: south lincs
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My new snap on 18v battery gun very handy bit of kit
I have to agree the best tool i've ever bought although it wasn't cheap. Also Snap ons new tech wrenches are very good
Feb 15, 2010 | 08:17 PM
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From: stoke on trent
hammer & prybar
Feb 15, 2010 | 08:40 PM
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From: fife, scotland
my diesel heater at the moment its saving my life at work from hypothermia!
apart from that, im still stocking up on a lot of tools, but the torque wrench for me is the one so far!
Feb 16, 2010 | 11:57 AM
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From: Bangor, Northern Ireland
BIG hammer or a lever bar
Feb 16, 2010 | 12:15 PM
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From: europark. sitech racing
gota be a piece of samco hose i use to remove/fit spark plugs once there undone.
Feb 16, 2010 | 02:48 PM
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From: stockton on tees
my ronson impact gun, great bit of kit for the money
Feb 16, 2010 | 03:14 PM
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From: Bridgnorth
Impact Gun.
Feb 16, 2010 | 04:00 PM
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From: Skelmersdale, Lancashire
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Matt Baxter
My new snap on 18v battery gun very handy bit of kit
Agreed. Although mine still strugles on wheel nuts for some reason.
Feb 16, 2010 | 04:01 PM
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From: burnley
Feb 16, 2010 | 04:04 PM
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From: Croxley Green, watFORD
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Nomaderst
been racking my brains (well for like 30secs) and I dont think I really have one, maybe the dremel as I am at my happiest making little bits and bobs lol. I love tools thou, and buying new ones. never enough money thou!
+1
i love my dremel!
theyre are quality
get all the niggly little jobs done
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Feb 16, 2010 | 04:06 PM
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From: BC, Canada
28lb'er aint just a tool for mashing, smashing and bashing things with.
Feb 16, 2010 | 04:11 PM
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From: Solihull near Birmingham
Feb 16, 2010 | 08:17 PM
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From: Essex
My Snap-On impact gun
Brian
Feb 18, 2010 | 10:35 AM
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From: Ayrshire
Feb 18, 2010 | 03:40 PM
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From: Lincoln
hammer
deffo.
Feb 19, 2010 | 06:53 PM
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From: Cheshire
Feb 19, 2010 | 07:25 PM
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From: scotland
these sockets for removing rounded bolts
need to find some opposite handed ones for doing the bolts back up
Feb 19, 2010 | 08:02 PM
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these sockets for removing rounded bolts
need to find some opposite handed ones for doing the bolts back up
these are life savers lol
Feb 20, 2010 | 06:08 PM
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From: Brum
haha, every ford owner should have a set of those....
Feb 20, 2010 | 09:57 PM
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From: dundee
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Mark RS
these are life savers lol
yeah seen them in mechine mart might get them now
Feb 21, 2010 | 09:08 AM
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From: Preston, Lancs
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Mark RS
these are life savers lol
2nded, they are legendary
Feb 21, 2010 | 09:27 AM
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From: Brandon
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Mark RS
these are life savers lol
what are these called tried looking for them
Feb 21, 2010 | 11:02 AM
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From: scotland
Irwin bolt grip
Feb 21, 2010 | 11:24 AM
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Quote:
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ally7th
these sockets for removing rounded bolts
need to find some opposite handed ones for doing the bolts back up
I need myself some of them! what the size range on them?
