New tool thread

RyanY said:
I gotta say, buying tools is not the worst vice, but it can be as expensive as an opioid addiction! @P. Edward KnickKnack mentioned in a recent post (in not ao many words) that we all blow cash on frivolous things, but you will have tools to show for it at the end of the day. However, as @Zee09 mentioned, though, there is more to life than work. Also, I don't know how much ROI one could expect from multiple copies of the same tools, but it has to be way more than the ROI I will get from the martini I'm drinking right now! But we have to live a little... :)
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Yep, too many words thought the same thing myself afterwards. Simple message though. It is try not to get addicted to harm your life, but who doesn’t spend money all sorts of ways, and he is getting something tangible at least. Actually most people are addicted to buying too many of certain things, not many live like monks. Teapot collecting for example, pretty soon putting shelves in to hold them. Why? Not sure anyone knows.
AutoMechanic said:
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Went to Rural King today. You didn’t think i would leave empty handed did you? Got a new pocket knife. My other one I’ve had since I was a kid got it as a prize from Boy Scouts for selling so much pop corn. It finally went dull and wore out. I have a razor blade knife at work already but you need a regular one sometimes too when the razor one isn’t strong enough. So I’ll bring the other one home and use this one. And then another tread depth gauge. We have to put tread depths for any car we do as part of a multipoint inspection and if you eyeball and it’s wrong for some reason they will pull you into the office and question you and ask did you really check the depths same with brakes and that’s never a good feeling lol. Plus with me hopefully becoming a state inspector soon it is important. The ones they gave us come out of calibration all the time and are just really cheap so after going thru three I said I’m just going to buy one. I have the same one at home actually two but I misplaced one at home haha but it’s around there somewhere.
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Buy a house now AM? It’s never too early. Then you will be in deep like many but you have title to a piece of the rock. When it’s paid off you will still be young. Doesn’t have to be the fanciest, just the cheapest in the best area in the price range. Then you can look for diy homeowner tools, think of that.
 
To continue the derailment.....I'm not great with money but I've never had a car payment in my life and I've basically never paid anyone to service my vehicles.

It doesn't make me awesome but I look at what people pay for oil changes, diagnoses, new timing sets etc and it's not cheap. So then people buy new and take on a car payment justifying it by reasoning "at least new is less likely to break down and is under warranty".

YES, the correct way to do it is save, save, save, then buy new.

However, my point is that there is some ROI in owning quality tools and knowing how to fix your junk. There are a million variables involved but while I understand a mortgage I'd never (and never have) taken on car payments.
 
Now, not continuing the derailment (well, actually, that's not true -- just wait!!)

Tekton sockets in 1/4" drive 15mm. I recently had to pull an alternator from a GM 4.2 I6 and was wishing for 15mm in 1/4" due to space constraints

Typically these days I try to buy Snap On on ebay because I've come to appreciate quality tools, but even at used prices including shipping these 2 sockets were ~$64 on ebay. New prices at Snapon.com were only slightly more.

For sockets I won't use THAT often and especially in 1/4" drive where ultimate torque can only be SO much, that stung.

I had some rewards accrued at Tekton's site and these 2 would be ~$3.60 shipped.
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Thus, the choice became used SnapOn for $64 or new Tekton for $3.60. Discretion is the better part of valor in this case
 
D60 said:
Now, not continuing the derailment (well, actually, that's not true -- just wait!!)

Tekton sockets in 1/4" drive 15mm. I recently had to pull an alternator from a GM 4.2 I6 and was wishing for 15mm in 1/4" due to space constraints

Typically these days I try to buy Snap On on ebay because I've come to appreciate quality tools, but even at used prices including shipping these 2 sockets were ~$64 on ebay. New prices at Snapon.com were only slightly more.

For sockets I won't use THAT often and especially in 1/4" drive where ultimate torque can only be SO much, that stung.

I had some rewards accrued at Tekton's site and these 2 would be ~$3.60 shipped.View attachment 96009

Thus, the choice became used SnapOn for $64 or new Tekton for $3.60. Discretion is the better part of valor in this case
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Tekton tools have served me well.
 
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Picked up another cart for work. This is kind of going to be my workbench type. If you get what I’m saying. It’s going to have all the tools on it I need for the particular job I’m doing and probably evolve through the day. Then at the end of the day put everything back where it goes. The regular roll cart is fine for everything you use on a daily basis but you can’t pile everything you need to use for a particular job in the top and be organized and I don’t want to look unorganized. Plus I need more storage anyway, not really lol. Kind of an early birthday present to myself. Pops chipped in $20 on the bill as he snuck some things in on the bill too haha. He got me the two year protection plan as well. My birthday is next weekend on Saturday exactly a week from today so one less thing to ask for lol. Wish they had other colors than red but it is what it is. My pumpkins will not match haha. That’s what everyone calls my setup at work is the pumpkins. I also asked about the orange side lockers when they would be available they said as of right now only red and black would be available due to issues of sourcing matching orange paint for the boxes now and also yellow. That’s what the employees said I am not sure how true it is but that’s what I was told. I will post pictures of it put together later.
 
AutoMechanic said:
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Picked up another cart for work. This is kind of going to be my workbench type. If you get what I’m saying. It’s going to have all the tools on it I need for the particular job I’m doing and probably evolve through the day. Then at the end of the day put everything back where it goes. The regular roll cart is fine for everything you use on a daily basis but you can’t pile everything you need to use for a particular job in the top and be organized and I don’t want to look unorganized. Plus I need more storage anyway, not really lol. Kind of an early birthday present to myself. Pops chipped in $20 on the bill as he snuck some things in on the bill too haha. He got me the two year protection plan as well. My birthday is next weekend on Saturday exactly a week from today so one less thing to ask for lol. Wish they had other colors than red but it is what it is. My pumpkins will not match haha. That’s what everyone calls my setup at work is the pumpkins. I also asked about the orange side lockers when they would be available they said as of right now only red and black would be available due to issues of sourcing matching orange paint for the boxes now and also yellow. That’s what the employees said I am not sure how true it is but that’s what I was told. I will post pictures of it put together later.
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I have several I use next to my lathes. Sometimes they collapse from the tooling weight..
 
Zee09 said:
I think I paid $70 twenty years ago..
Seriously...not Chinese though
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Nah it’s Vietnam LOL. The display has a tag on it at the bottom says 12/97 made in Vietnam so they were made in Vietnam as of the 1990s lol. Guess they still are don’t see a country on the box. The display is also a darker more brick colored red.
 
SubLGT said:
A "protection plan" for a simple tool cart? What can go wrong with a cart?
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Porters can lol. Porters we have at work are reckless as heck. One of them ran into my orange cart with the floor machine and almost knocked it over. Same one ran into my box and knocked one of my side trays off and took a mirror off pulling into the shop once too. They have hit several other things so it’s best to have it. Also had some things torn up back when customers were still pulling cars into the bays too so if we go back to that then that’s another thing to worry about too.
 
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