What price one of these?

cavmad · Post by **cavmad** » Thu May 10, 2007 12:34 pm

Cheers Jeremy, will have a good look round Snap-On's website later to compare prices.

mnde · Post by **mnde** » Thu May 10, 2007 2:10 pm

DavidRutherford wrote:
mnde wrote:... purely the domain of the fairer sax....

I wrote sax because it wouldn't let me write s*x without a naughty awooga warning

Post by **docchevron** » Thu May 10, 2007 2:13 pm

sex

it's a wonderful thing!

DavidRutherford · Post by **DavidRutherford** » Thu May 10, 2007 6:21 pm

mnde wrote:I wrote sax because it wouldn't let me write sex without a naughty awooga warning

I know.. I'm being a wind-up merchant.

As DC demonstrated, it's actually fairly easy to write sex, or viagra, or any other word that's in the word filter. You just have to know how to write them.

BX Bandit · Post by **BX Bandit** » Thu May 10, 2007 7:13 pm

You two /\ are being very smug with your 'I know how to write naughty words' malarkey....

cavmad · Post by **cavmad** » Thu May 10, 2007 9:46 pm

I fully agree Mr Bandit, the smug pair of sex loving viagra sex viagra sex people

DavidRutherford · Post by **DavidRutherford** » Fri May 11, 2007 12:08 am

I think the word filters are rather amusing. They're all on words that will not usually come up in conversation, and if they are posted, are some of the most likely to be posted by spammers.

plus, I think we all know what all the word filters are now. Unless there are more to be found??

Getting back to the tools debate:

I recently started a new job which will at some point involve me buying my own professional-type tool kit. For the time being, I'm borrowing stuff from other people as needs be. There's Snap-on, Facom, Britool, K&M, Draper, etc.etc. To be honest, the Snap-on stuff is nothing special. Sure, it's good quality, and the spanners are comfortable to use, but the same can now be said of many other manufacturers.

30 years ago, Snap-on was the undesputed king of tools. Their prices were astronomically high, but you were buying the best. Plus, they were the only company to guarantee their tools for life. These days other manufacturers have improved so much that they are almost as good as, if not as good as snap-on, and they're nowhere near as expensive.

I recently priced up a Snap-on 3/4" drive socket set. Well over two bloody grand! Same thing from Britool is about £600, and having compared the two, I'm inclined to think that the Britool stuff is nicer to use.

It's all down to personal choice in the end. Personally, I'd rather buy more excelent-but-less-well-known tools than fewer well-known-brand tools. After all, the only tools I've ever actually broken have either been terrible quality ones, or where I've abused tools (like 8' of scaffold on a 3/8" drive ratchet.... what was I thinking!)

cavmad · Post by **cavmad** » Fri May 11, 2007 8:01 am

Agreed David and that's why I like the Halfords Pro range. They're extremely well made, nice to use, feel right, well priced and guaranteed for life. On top of that they're also easy to buy at any Halfords and with my discount card they're even better value for money!

jeremy · Post by **jeremy** » Fri May 11, 2007 9:12 am

Thats always the way - the tools you don't like or seem a waste of money after you have bought them haunt you for years - just look in my collection!

saint gaz · Post by **saint gaz** » Fri May 11, 2007 1:13 pm

For someone like me i have my trusty £7.99 wollies socket set in the boot this has got me going a few times. However i do try and get better quality tools as they become needed. i go for the popular draper / stanley as it more than does for me.

Post by **docchevron** » Sat May 12, 2007 3:31 am

DavidRutherford wrote:I think the word filters are rather amusing. They're all on words that will not usually come up in conversation, and if they are posted, are some of the most likely to be posted by spammers.

I recently started a new job which will at some point involve me buying my own professional-type tool kit.

Alas it was David that educated me in the ways of phpbb! Bless ya!

So, you have new job! Congrats! Anything good??

Cheers
Chris G

artic-steel · Post by **artic-steel** » Sat May 12, 2007 7:12 am

Filtering Scunthorpe always makes me smile

Barnsley BXer · Post by **Barnsley BXer** » Sat May 12, 2007 8:16 am

cavmad wrote:Agreed David and that's why I like the Halfords Pro range. They're extremely well made, nice to use, feel right, well priced and guaranteed for life. On top of that they're also easy to buy at any Halfords and with my discount card they're even better value for money!

Didn't know Halfords Pro did a range of hammers