You Spanner!!!!!

[masterb]

So the question is......
What are you useful for, You spanner!!!!!

By that i mean i have a load of none metric spanners and sockets, in fact even more now that i bought a tool box of tools last weekend at a car boot.

It seems to me that unless i decide to start buying and driving, chug a boom or chitty chitty bang bang type cars, i am never ever going to need or use these things.
Since i first started driving, and messing with cars, i cant think of one that was not metric.
So in effect i am giving house, or rather garage space to a load of metal i would be better off weighing in.

[MichaelSB]

Maybe we should all send you an old Nut to play with

[steveww]

A lot of the nuts and bolts on the XJS are imperial not metric. If you plan on doing any work yourself on your XJS they will come in very useful.

[poprivet]

Ha Ha! I know what you mean.
A few years ago I ditched 30 years worth of indifferent quality sockets, allen keys and spanners and treated myself to complete professional quality sets of AF and Metric kit.

I now can find exactly what tool I need every time and know that it isn't going to slip, break or rattle around in the bottom of a tool box.

Buy quality and buy once is the motto.

[dhdove]

"Buy quality and buy once is the motto."

I'm in Snap-On heaven

Tony

[kelsham]

I never throw any tools away. while quality tools may be best, on some occasions I find a cheap spanner rather perversely fits a worn nut or bolt when the quality item slips.
It also hurts less to modify a cheap tool for a specific job.
regards Kels.

[masterb]

I'm afraid i really can't afford more expensive tools, but if i found a box of snap on stuff i am sure i could manage using them.

one of my best tools, was a hex type tool, so that i could remove the gearbox sump plug and filling plug.

It consisted of a short piece of thick threaded rod, 2 nuts the size of the sump plug socket and a bit of welding.

And i finished the job off by filling the gearbox up from the engine compartment, in comfort thanks to a length of old hose pipe.