Good Tools

[Scott Berg]

Good tools matter... Something as simple as this crimper for example

Amazingly consistent crimps every time




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[CS Cruiser]

You're only as good as your tools.

[olaf hart]

Buy good tools, you only buy once.

I still have the sockets and ring spinners I bought in 1967.

And the commercial Bosch 1/2" two speed drill I bought in 1973.

[Dockhead]

Originally Posted by olaf hart

Buy good tools, you only buy once.

I still have the sockets and ring spinners I bought in 1967.

And the commercial Bosch 1/2" two speed drill I bought in 1973.

You never drop tools overboard, lose, or break them? :astonishment:


One argument for cheap Chinese tools is that it is a lot less traumatic when they slip beneath the waves after you drop them . . .

[Stumble]

Originally Posted by Jdege

I can't speak to what everybody else does, but I always buy the cheapest tools I can find, with the expectation that any tool I regularly use will break, eventually.

The ones I break I replace with better quality. The ones that don't are either better-made than I would have expected from the price, or are simply tools that I don't use often enough to justify the higher price of quality tools.

Absolutely this. I have some very good tools, but they are mixed in with a lot of cheap HF junk. As an example a few years ago I bought a 500ish set of drill bits from HF for $50 including the storage box. These days about 1/2 of the bits have never been used, another 25% have been used once or twice and then put back, and maybe 25% that have been replaced with high end carbide bits of the same size.

It's that last 25% that makes up the vast majority of what I reach for, and at least I have a 33/64 drill bit if I ever need one as unlikely as that will ever be.

But there are some tools you just have to buy right the first time. HF vice grips are junk, the teeth simply won't bite SS well enough to break free a galled nut. Crimpers must be precision tools, and cheap knock offs simply won't cut it so you have to buy right the first time.