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Jewlio Rides Again LLB World Chat Champion
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Posted: 21:39 - 27 Mar 2017 Post subject: |
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Can get the Philips heads as well as the posidrive for the same price ____________________ Mpd72: I can categorically say i’m Brighter than that, no matter how I come across on here.
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chris-red Have you considered a TDM?
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Posted: 22:10 - 28 Mar 2017 Post subject: |
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Fuck sakes, I'm going to cry into a corner.
Reserved this spanner set earlier in a rush before work. Priced up the spanners I needed to buy on their own and come to the same price as the set and still had some left over, no brainer I figured.
Spent ages staring at it through the glass cabinet wondering how I was going to get it home after work. Anyway, I purchase it and go back to work starting at the case and all the spanners. Commuted home with the spanners and only now, at home, do I realise that they're not the advanced range and have "chrome vanadium" written on them.
No lifetime guarantee, balls.
I'm not sure if I've just paid a very high price for a set of shit spanners.
On the other hand I now have a complete set that should long fulfil my very limited and occasional mechanical use.
Seems I'm not the only one that has been stung since some reviews state "lifetime gurantee" and they've probably also realised either after writing the review or when they've tried to return one, crafty. Sure it doesn't say advanced anywhere but seems I'm not the only one that's been had.
I'm so exhausted it's not worth the fight to attempt to return them. It was someone else's money, gift, that I used but I wish I'd realised before. ____________________ The do it all, T̶h̶e̶ ̶b̶r̶o̶k̶e̶n̶ ̶o̶n̶e̶,̶ ̶T̶h̶e̶ ̶b̶i̶g̶ ̶l̶u̶m̶p̶,̶ ̶C̶h̶o̶n̶g̶ ̶N̶o̶o̶d̶l̶e̶ |
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now with 15% off as well, so £6.37 for the screwdriver set ____________________ Past - 1988 honda revere 600, 1996 kawasaki gpz500s, 1999 Yamaha R6
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Tigerlea Nitrous Nuisance
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NJD |
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Posted: 01:39 - 31 Mar 2017 Post subject: |
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Agreed, I jumped the gun a bit also and have not won much as a result, yet.
Well, I saved a fiver on that big spanner set but lost out on three pound savings on the socket set because the shop I reserved it at ballsed the order up and didn't discount the one I did pay for to the price I should have purchased it at, a whole three pound overspent.. much sadness.
3/8 and 1/2 socket set is tempting but I'll probably wait for whenever there is a next time and let my bank account recover between now and then.
He says. ____________________ The do it all, T̶h̶e̶ ̶b̶r̶o̶k̶e̶n̶ ̶o̶n̶e̶,̶ ̶T̶h̶e̶ ̶b̶i̶g̶ ̶l̶u̶m̶p̶,̶ ̶C̶h̶o̶n̶g̶ ̶N̶o̶o̶d̶l̶e̶ |
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NJD |
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Posted: 11:01 - 31 Mar 2017 Post subject: |
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Matt B wrote: | NJD wrote: | 3/8 and 1/2 socket set is tempting |
If this is just for working on the bike then 1/2" drive is massive overkill. I use a really good quality 1/4 drive set for most things on the bike, and a 3/8 occasionally. The problem with a physically bigger 1/2" is that it's so much easier to over-tighten and strip things.
The only time the heavy duty 1/2" stuff comes out is a breaker bar for axles and the rattle gun for front sprocket nuts. I have a 1/2" torque wrench for tightening back up. |
I agree. The last and first time I serviced my brake pads, F&R, I used one of them Aldi workzone 1/4 ratchets and a 1 pound Halfords, of the correct size, deep socket that I got from a carboot and once nail varnished up, for marker, they've not come loose so the 1/4 socket set I just purchased is a little flash compared to what can really get the job done.
When I had to loosen my axle recently I just used the ten pound Halfords advanced spanner I got and used that to tighten it back up also, not deadded yet.
I asked originally because, as said, wasn't sure if a well made 12pt was any better than advice I'd been given in the past. Reason I'd be tempted now is because of the price. £21 works out cheaper than the ratchet, if I ever needed it, at regular price plus all the sockets for bonus points. 3/8 because complete set, yo.
Guess I'm just tempted to splash the cash.
I'm a fan of under powering myself with tools to be honest because if I'd of gone at the axle with a breaker bar, like I was going to, instead of a spanner I'd probably have rounded of a fucked my rear end by now because I was half asleep when I did the job and ended up trying to tighten instead of loosen the axle. I got there in the end but I can be a numpty. ____________________ The do it all, T̶h̶e̶ ̶b̶r̶o̶k̶e̶n̶ ̶o̶n̶e̶,̶ ̶T̶h̶e̶ ̶b̶i̶g̶ ̶l̶u̶m̶p̶,̶ ̶C̶h̶o̶n̶g̶ ̶N̶o̶o̶d̶l̶e̶ |
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NJD |
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Long since purchased the big spanner set. Not overly joyed, as above, that it wasn't Halfords Advanced like I figured it was but in truth the cost of 4 spanners, picked at random, of the Advanced range equals the price of the entire set. I don't really need the Advanced and so since they're going to spend more time gathering dust than getting used it's probably not the worst purchase I've ever made. Plus I've lost the receipts for all the old Advanced spanners I had pre this thread so the extra money I spent wasn't worth it anyway in terms of using "warrenty." Can't feel the build quality difference in terms of weight between normal vs advanced side by side. Bit pricey but I paid with someone else's dollah so all is well.
Out of interest have I been given a wonkey 1/4 ratchet in the set I purchased?
Looking head on at the ratchet switch I flick it to the right to loosen and the left to tighten. The workzone ratchet, as I'd expect, is the opposite way. Are all ratchets not supposed to be flick the switch to the left to loosen and the right to tighten.
It's not really an issue but I can't decide if the mechanism inside has been fitted backwards, or wrong, or if not all ratchets loosen and tighten the same way. ____________________ The do it all, T̶h̶e̶ ̶b̶r̶o̶k̶e̶n̶ ̶o̶n̶e̶,̶ ̶T̶h̶e̶ ̶b̶i̶g̶ ̶l̶u̶m̶p̶,̶ ̶C̶h̶o̶n̶g̶ ̶N̶o̶o̶d̶l̶e̶ |
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Thank you BillyJ.Bought myself a nice set of 1/2" drive socket and driver set ____________________ Just talk bikes.What else is there?
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Old Thread Alert!
The last post was made 7 years, 22 days ago. Instead of replying here, would creating a new thread be more useful? |
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