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

Hello!

I'm Simon Andrew, Lpgc on Lpgforum and well known to Gilbertd from there.

Was intrigued by one of Gilbert's recent comments there, enough to sway me to look at this forum, and I might be getting involved in doing head gaskets on a P38 soon and this forum seems full of experts (including Gilbert of course) so I joined up. I don't own a Rangerover myself but I work on plenty.

Well buga me, I'm to be moderated by Gilbertd... Everything in moderation though eh Gilbert hehe!

Regards

Simon