I'm sure you will appreciate this especially certain people who use their mrs dishwasher for degreasing car parts.

I allow my other half to use my conveniently kitchen located parts washer for dishes etc when not cleaning engine components :)

Like your style OB.

Hehe! Personally I wouldn't want to pay SnapOn prices but I also avoid SnapOff type tools. I sometimes visit garages that buy SnapOn (to do work there) and seeing the look on their mechanics faces when they think they've lost a socket or something little but might have cost £10, quite a big deal, when to me losing the same bit would be a trivial loss because I wouldn't have spent the same kind of money on it, confirms to me I struck the right balance. Also no worries modifying tools (i.e. cutting up and welding to them) to save time if the tool isn't expensive, a productivity boost to boot.

In keeping with my more modest use of tools etc - Fairy liquid is apparently as good at washing plates as it is for finding leaks etc, so some should be kept in the kitchen besides in the garage.

Simon

New kitchens do come equipped with a handy sized parts washer, so they're not all bad!