_John_ Member 287 Member For: 14y 6m 20d Gender: Male Posted 13/02/11 07:47 AM Share Posted 13/02/11 07:47 AM To be honest Trent, as I trial - placed the spare Superoo decal I have on it, I had an idea for a Dick Johnson true Blu tribute on the rear wall of the trolly. Kid at work painted his Cat Yellow ( brand new cabinet, did a nice job too, I could show you the big dent in the roof of the workshop it left before heading off down the Brisbane River during flood ) I had thought originally before purchase of painting it Mercury Silver. But for now, I`ll just go with decals, liberal doses of Autoglym and trying not to go buy that add on top box this thursday night.Bloosted I bet I`m not the only one who popped wood over that hoist.. Once a long time back ( I was still married ) I had a rented house with a 6 metre shed, I had it too the rafters with Valiant stuffs. If I had a shed as big as that one in the pic I`d go apesh!t. A shed is definitely on my agenda, but it`d cost me 40K to do the earthworks on this motherbitch yard. Link to comment https://www.fordxr6turbo.com/forum/topic/73256-who-likes-tools-merged-topic/page/4/#findComment-1080783 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tray_182005 Member 1,226 Member For: 15y 9m 4d Gender: Male Location: Wee Waa/NSW Posted 13/02/11 08:58 AM Share Posted 13/02/11 08:58 AM $600 for a snap on socket try 5g for a set lolI have a sh*t load of tool n half would be snap on I love buying tools aswell I think I would be close to 15g worth now Dam snap on man coming to work every 2 weeks Link to comment https://www.fordxr6turbo.com/forum/topic/73256-who-likes-tools-merged-topic/page/4/#findComment-1080801 Share on other sites More sharing options...
_John_ Member 287 Member For: 14y 6m 20d Gender: Male Posted 13/02/11 09:20 AM Share Posted 13/02/11 09:20 AM Tray I`m clued up on what Snap On costs. Like everyone I`ve considered it, we have the Snap On truck come to work too. I recall BJ the Workshop foreman at the time bought a ratchet and 2 extensions I think and it was 600 for the 3 items.Snap On tools are exquisite. But totally off scale unneccessary for mugs like me. I have had some Snap On gear that I found at work, discarded odds and ends of old sets. I had a Snap On Pry bar and if I found motherbitch who taxed it off me I`d sh!t in their mouth.Some of the fitters at work will use cheaper stuff like Kincrome sockets and the like cause its gonna get knocked around and lost, but they`ll have a few Snap on Ratchets in in various drives. CAT Spanners are awesome too I might tell you. lol even a 3/8 - 7/16`s ringy is as thick as a piece of kabana. Hmmm, I could do with a more comprehensive set of combination spanners, I could buy a set of CAT items and take my current set to work...But I really do crave a set of ratchet spanners. More trinkets and widgets for my handy lil trinket and widget drawer..Anybody wants me I`m browsing tools online! 1 Link to comment https://www.fordxr6turbo.com/forum/topic/73256-who-likes-tools-merged-topic/page/4/#findComment-1080805 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Boosted_BF Donating Members 51 Member For: 14y 11m 11d Gender: Male Location: Melbourne Posted 13/02/11 09:50 AM Share Posted 13/02/11 09:50 AM this is my baby, filled with all the same branded tools also - been an expensive ever growing habbit, now also has a vice mounted in the back corner Link to comment https://www.fordxr6turbo.com/forum/topic/73256-who-likes-tools-merged-topic/page/4/#findComment-1080814 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dagabond Bored Member Administrator 35,722 Member For: 22y 5m 27d Gender: Male Location: Dé·jà vu Posted 13/02/11 09:55 AM Share Posted 13/02/11 09:55 AM I once went to look/buy an old HZ Panelvan up bush at a secluded caravan park where the owner and his father lived, the bloke was in his thirties skinny as a rake with dirty long brown hair a scruffy beard and looked like he hadnt had a shower in the last decade. This guy was definitely two sides short of a shed and spoke really drawn out and quiet like, I mean I'm not the brightest bloke in the world but he was on a whole nother level. Anyway we proceeded to take the van for a test drive and being an old HZ V8 Panelvan I could hardly hear the guy when going through the usual small talk as you do when locked in a car with a stranger and the subject of what we did for work came up at this point I said I was a Toolmaker, he looked across at me with this huge rotten toothless grin and said in the loudest tone I'd heard him utter "I loooiik tooools". I swear I nearly ran off the road trying to contain the laugh I was styfling...My toolbox contains...3 surface grinders2 cylindrical grinders1 Cad Wirecutter1 ANCA tool grinder6 flat bed lathes1 Horizontal mill1 Vertical mill1 MNC mill6 CNC Lathes25 6 spindle Gridley's2 8 spindle Gridleys's7 single spindle Wickman's...etc etc. Link to comment https://www.fordxr6turbo.com/forum/topic/73256-who-likes-tools-merged-topic/page/4/#findComment-1080819 Share on other sites More sharing options...
KWIK F6 Donating Members 526 Member For: 16y 1m 17d Gender: Male Location: Adelaide Posted 13/02/11 10:08 AM Share Posted 13/02/11 10:08 AM Bloosted that's a serious shed...I think most blokes would trade there partners for a shed like that...Very nice.. Bet you have plenty of mates who love using that hoist... Link to comment https://www.fordxr6turbo.com/forum/topic/73256-who-likes-tools-merged-topic/page/4/#findComment-1080822 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tab Sucker Moderating Team 32,303 Member For: 21y 16d Gender: Male Location: Brisbane Posted 13/02/11 11:22 AM Share Posted 13/02/11 11:22 AM On 13/02/2011 at 9:55 AM, Dagabond said: I said I was a Tool... Nobody likes a show-off So did you buy it? Link to comment https://www.fordxr6turbo.com/forum/topic/73256-who-likes-tools-merged-topic/page/4/#findComment-1080834 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rootster Just a large member member Silver Donating Members 3,125 Member For: 16y 6m 25d Gender: Male Location: sydney Posted 14/02/11 04:10 AM Share Posted 14/02/11 04:10 AM Tools not what I expected to find...well at least some of them replied............ Link to comment https://www.fordxr6turbo.com/forum/topic/73256-who-likes-tools-merged-topic/page/4/#findComment-1080943 Share on other sites More sharing options...
tray_182005 Member 1,226 Member For: 15y 9m 4d Gender: Male Location: Wee Waa/NSW Posted 14/02/11 05:47 AM Share Posted 14/02/11 05:47 AM Im am a fitter aswell n I use kincrome socket sets I had a look at the snap on half inch and 3/4 set the other day because I wanted them, both over 5k needless to say they stayed there lolMost of my snap on gear is air tools n impact sockets n some other thing.Which I believe need to be to best Nice tool box mate dont think I could ever bring myself to buy 1There is a comp at the moment for a snap on tool box sort of like yours vauled a close to 10k Link to comment https://www.fordxr6turbo.com/forum/topic/73256-who-likes-tools-merged-topic/page/4/#findComment-1080962 Share on other sites More sharing options...
turbotrana Member 2,586 Member For: 22y 1m 10d Gender: Male Posted 14/02/11 07:10 AM Share Posted 14/02/11 07:10 AM Some of the tools coming out of china are unbelievable. I bought a 13hp 3600psi pressure washer with brass head and electric start that works brilliantly for $1100. Then bought one of those Arbour-tech brick saws made in Malaga West Australia for $1000. Put them side by side and you feel sorry for anyone trying to compete with the Chinese as you just cant compete with their cheap labour.I don't buy any overpriced Snap-on stuff. THere is much more better priced high quality chinese stuff that will get the job done. Link to comment https://www.fordxr6turbo.com/forum/topic/73256-who-likes-tools-merged-topic/page/4/#findComment-1080980 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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