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To rebuild a capri, you need tools...

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And I now have lots of them!

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£70 on fleabay, all 6 point sockets too, so no rounding off old nuts.

Spanners aren't amazing, but the ratchets are 72 teeth ones. Good buy in my opinion.

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Its Kamasa by the way...

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Who are swedish, i never knew that.

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I;ve looked at a few Kamasa bits recently

All my stuffs Halfords Pro (Which i get 20% off of if anyone needs owt!) which is great as its got a lifetime guarentee---------------
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hay andy u can get halfords discount?

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cool, really good to know as i like there tools, i have a socket set thats laster really well, mite be after some other bits soonFUN IS NOT A STRAGHT LINE
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Re: To rebuild a capri, you need tools...

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Not bad Rich I suppose. I've spent more than that on a ratchet in the past! And all it came with was a box! Oh, and a life time guarantee aswell.

But seriously, I've thought about this in the past. I used to buy Snap-On, Britool and other expensive stuff, but that was when I made a living from using it 6 days a week. It's good gear, but a bit OTT for use at home on a car in my opinion. In any case, Teng, among others, sell excellent tools at a far more sensible price. Since the end of my HGV days, if I've needed anything I've usually bought Draper, which is cheap enough and more than up to the kind of jobs I generally do these days.

If I do work on anything heavy mind, the Snap-On comes back out. Too many grazed, bruised and broken knuckles over the years!!!!
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...of mine are dead cheap - "snap off" I think is the make!
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me to

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want some tools with a garantee. lads at work are gonna get fed up of me borrowing there good tools lol. whats the catch with the discount? coz 20% is a lot and ive heared halfords pro stuff is good.......stefan

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I went in there with my twentyeinhf year old Motor Vehicle Technology CSE Grade 1 certificate as my 'Trade Qualification' and got a discount card from them.
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Nowt wrong with snap-off tools......

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im currently using a new brand, Run-over has been on the market for a while now, generally ok but the run-over torches aint so good.
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i am a hgv mechanic too(over 15 years)
have been off due to long tearm illness(4 yrs)
hope to be going back soon
most of my tool kit is snap-on or mac tools
i have a few"chocolate" spanners that if i cant get on to any thing they get modded by the gas axe or grinder
have always found its worth buying kit that comes with a liftime cover.
broke 4 fingers once when a not so good spanner "let go"
you dont need snap on/mac tools for light work,but they come in to their own when heavy stuff is involved.
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US$45K worth of hand tools, Snap-on, Mac,
Matco, SK-Wayne, and some cheap stuff too,
the cheap stuff is for modifying, being a
mechanic in real life kinda sucks, but not
as bad as when I killed rats for a living...

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I mainly got it for all the sockets...

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Being six pointers, they are less likely to round off any old nuts, and less likely to round themselves off.

As I said, the ratchets are good though. My old draper 3/8 ratchet is getting iffy, but I use my halfords pro 1/2 as a hammer and it still works fine.

Britool have bought out some lovely kits, and not too badly priced. Im after a good set of ratchet spanners now, with the swivel ends on. Halfords kit looks ok.

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