Confessions of a tool junkie

[pcolbeck]

The Bahco ones are pretty good for the price I have a couple

If you want better look at the Facom Nano sets, ther are various conbinations and they are on promotion at the moment.

https://www.primetools.co.uk/product/facom-r2nano-14-dr-super-compact-metric-socket-bit-set/

[T42]

...Topeak's Ratchet Rocket stuff may do the job. https://www.topeak.com/global/en/products/75-Mini-Tools/1075-RATCHET-ROCKET-LITE-DX

Ooo!  Want want want want want want want want...

[andrewc]

A Facom Bicycle socket set. https://www.primetools.co.uk/product/facom-r1pico-cycnor-limited-edition-tour-de-france-bicycle-socket-bit-set-free-water-bottle/

[Mrs Pingu]

You lot are a bad influence.

[T42]

Ain't we just?

[chrisbainbridge]

Some years ago I was given the original of this as a present. https://silca.cc/products/t-ratchet-ti-torque-kit-2nd-generation

Beautiful.

[Jurek]

Some years ago I was given the original of this as a present. https://silca.cc/products/t-ratchet-ti-torque-kit-2nd-generation

Beautiful.

Silca do sell some very sexy looking stuff.

[Mr Larrington]

I had a Silca track pump, which fell to bits while being transported in the toolbox on my bike-transporting trailer.  Though the barrel – a sturdy piece of Columbus steel tube – is still very handy for fitting the crown races of 1” headsets.

[lissotriton]

...Topeak's Ratchet Rocket stuff may do the job. https://www.topeak.com/global/en/products/75-Mini-Tools/1075-RATCHET-ROCKET-LITE-DX

Ooo!  Want want want want want want want want...

Also a similar ratchet tool from Giant/Liv. A bit simpler and cheaper, but still most of the bits you would need on a bike.
https://www.giant-bicycles.com/gb/giant-ratchet-multi-tool

[rr]

You need the Wera bicycle 3 set: https://products.wera.de/en/tools_by_trade_tool_sets_for_bicycles_and_e-bikes_bicycle_set_3.html


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[MattH]

For small Bahco ratchet sets, I love this:-
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B000Y8TIMY


It is very small, easy to carry, cheap enough that I have a couple of them stashed in different places, and the right bits to do most minor tasks. The ratchet gets into places others can't as it's so small.

[robgul]

Not exactly a tool but I've acquired one of those Bisley grey cabinets with loads of small drawers - originally for stationery but useful for tools (with some foam rubber inserts in the drawers)

[Clare]

We are a three Bisley house. One in the garage, full of bike tools and spares and two in the study, one full of textile craft tools and one full of reels of thread.

Bisleys really are the most brilliant storage solution.

[Jurek]

I have a 10 drawer one in the studio/workshop. Containing all sorts of small things.

[hatler]

Mrs Pingu has it !!

It's a splicing fid so that I can make a closed loop like this : -



to a size of my choosing.

And here's my (not quite so professional looking) offering.




Which combined with a snap hook makes this : -

[robgul]

Garden shredder acquired at an auction (a real, live one not the ebay) - bit of a bargain as it's as new but cost 15% of the new price       Works a treat if a bit noisy, takes stuff up to about 40mm - downside is just more space is used up in the shed storing it.

Oh, and a new patio cleaning head for my Karcher pressure washer as a result of a fecking div moment when I threw away the connection tube for the old one thinking it was from the previous, long-gone non-Karcher machine 

[andytheflyer]

Last week I bought one of these.

https://www.screwfix.com/p/erbauer-emis216s-216mm-electric-double-bevel-sliding-mitre-saw-220-240v/271fv

Why oh why have I not done this before?  I've made numerous items of garden furniture before, and done woodwork around the house, all with hand saws and a Bosch circular saw.

I was tasked with making some garden planters for a friend's new house, and one of which was to house a cherry tree of sentimental value brought from her previous house.  I made the mistake of asking if she wanted mitred corners to the boards making up the 600mm square 16" deep planter.  Oooooh, yes please!  Can you do that?

The magnitude of the task by the use of hand saws and getting accurate, tight joints then dawned on me so I bought the mitre saw I'd always wanted.

Boy, does it make light work of accurate joints.  I'd already built a 5m long planter with hand tools but it made short work of the cherry tree planter and another long one to take climbing roses.

[robgul]

Last week I bought one of these.

https://www.screwfix.com/p/erbauer-emis216s-216mm-electric-double-bevel-sliding-mitre-saw-220-240v/271fv

Why oh why have I not done this before?  I've made numerous items of garden furniture before, and done woodwork around the house, all with hand saws and a Bosch circular saw.

I was tasked with making some garden planters for a friend's new house, and one of which was to house a cherry tree of sentimental value brought from her previous house.  I made the mistake of asking if she wanted mitred corners to the boards making up the 600mm square 16" deep planter.  Oooooh, yes please!  Can you do that?

The magnitude of the task by the use of hand saws and getting accurate, tight joints then dawned on me so I bought the mitre saw I'd always wanted.

Boy, does it make light work of accurate joints.  I'd already built a 5m long planter with hand tools but it made short work of the cherry tree planter and another long one to take climbing roses.

I know exactly how you feel - 5 or 6 years ago I replaced the quite large decking at our previous house with some hardwood - IIRC I needed to make something around 100 cuts on 6 x 1" boards - slooooow with a handsaw, not quite so slow with a circular saw . ..  but after cutting 3 boards it was online to order from Screwfix, 10 minutes drive each way and I had a machine!!!

It has proved to be one of the most used tools in my workshop . . . it's now built into my benching with in/outfeed tables and piped dust extraction.

[pcolbeck]

Garden shredder acquired at an auction (a real, live one not the ebay) - bit of a bargain as it's as new but cost 15% of the new price       Works a treat if a bit noisy, takes stuff up to about 40mm - downside is just more space is used up in the shed storing it.

We have two. Both Bosch. The first uses a Archimedes screw thing to crush quite large branches etc into bits. It bogs down and gets bunged up and stuck with green or sot stuff though. We've had it for 15 years or so and its now scruffy but just keeps going. The second is one with a spinning blade. This doesn't do thick branches but will mince any soft of green matter nicely. Luckily I have a fairly big (if dilapidated) shed.

[Mr Larrington]

The other day I pared my Mega-Global Big River Corporation of Seattle, USAnia Wish List down to zero by buying Stuffs.  Now I haz a one o'these:


Shiny Thing! by Mr Larrington, on Flickr, which means I need to find another excuse for not deep-cleaning the IBM Model M in the Great Hall

[T42]

Garden shredder acquired at an auction (a real, live one not the ebay) - bit of a bargain as it's as new but cost 15% of the new price       Works a treat if a bit noisy, takes stuff up to about 40mm - downside is just more space is used up in the shed storing it.

We have two. Both Bosch. The first uses a Archimedes screw thing to crush quite large branches etc into bits. It bogs down and gets bunged up and stuck with green or sot stuff though. We've had it for 15 years or so and its now scruffy but just keeps going. The second is one with a spinning blade. This doesn't do thick branches but will mince any soft of green matter nicely. Luckily I have a fairly big (if dilapidated) shed.

We have a bloke who every so often loads it into his trailer and tractors it off up the village to another bloke who has an industrial shredder. He uses it as bedding for his sheep in winter, or when lambing, or summat bucolic.

[rogerzilla]

I've just been using a 2BA socket.  There is no real substitute; no metric or AF size fits a 2BA nut well. Old Moultons use them for the mudguards and rack stays.

[robgul]

Bought a couple of paint scrapers today - new with spangly wooden handles and brass ferrules . . . quite a strange item to be on sale at an auto-jumble?

Oh, and a lawn scarifier is winging its way here from Mr Aldi's emporium - as it's only going to used a couple of times a year the (included) 3 year warranty seemed to be a good idea . . past experience with a couple of Aldi tools found wanting has been instant refunds at the local store.

[CarlF]

Bought a couple of paint scrapers today - new with spangly wooden handles and brass ferrules . . . quite a strange item to be on sale at an auto-jumble?

To prepare one's Morris Traveller for re-varnishing?

[robgul]

Bought a couple of paint scrapers today - new with spangly wooden handles and brass ferrules . . . quite a strange item to be on sale at an auto-jumble?

To prepare one's Morris Traveller for re-varnishing?

  - there was a half-timbered Morris Minor on display at the event.   It was the Bicester Scramble at, err, Bicester, today.   

Loads of interesting cars of all varieties, lots of car geeks and nerds as well as pink-trousered chaps waxing on about their exotic Porsches, Cosworths et al - oh, and we saw Dom from The Repair Shop tv prog.