Boring but a professional set of slim, ratcheting spanners my wife bought me a few years ago. Don’t use them all the time but when I do, they’re a godsend. My old man always said to buy the best quality tools whenever possible and he was dead right.
Boring but a professional set of slim, ratcheting spanners my wife bought me a few years ago. Don’t use them all the time but when I do, they’re a godsend. My old man always said to buy the best quality tools whenever possible and he was dead right.
Same goes for my torque wrench.
I had a nightmare changing a wheel a few years back, with jammed wheel nuts and ended up shearing the end off the factory supplied wheel wrench that came with the car. Went out in the following week and bought an extendable wrench for about £40. Only ever had to use it once since then and that was just before Christmas when the same happened in the pissing down rain on a toll road here, would never have cracked the nuts without it and woulda paid £400 for it on that particular night.
Never really liked Rolex after picking up a perfectly decent working one in Thailand that was indistinguishable from an original until I foolishly took it diving. Not waterproof.
Still since then the vast array of rip offs and copies have put me off.
Never owned an original one though so may well be irrational prejudice.
My Dualit classic toaster. Handbuilt in the UK since 1950s with hardly a design change since that you'd notice. Utterly reliable for over 15 years. But if anything did go wrong, it's all repairable/replaceable. I'm expecting it will see me out. A superb piece of kit.
My Dualit classic toaster. Handbuilt in the UK since 1950s with hardly a design change since that you'd notice. Utterly reliable for over 15 years. But if anything did go wrong, it's all repairable/replaceable. I'm expecting it will see me out. A superb piece of kit.
Agreed. What's more my brother in law runs the manufacturing operation so I get 45% off
Two Ralph Lauren long sleeve cotton shirts a colleague bought for me in New York in the early 90's. Such quality, nothing like the crap you get these days from outlet stores and the like. One pink and one lilac, still wear them today.
Just to be clear - is that "I" still wear them or "my sons" still wear them. I only ask because, like many of us, I seem to recall you being perhaps a size more "athletic" in the early 90s.
My Dualit classic toaster. Handbuilt in the UK since 1950s with hardly a design change since that you'd notice. Utterly reliable for over 15 years. But if anything did go wrong, it's all repairable/replaceable. I'm expecting it will see me out. A superb piece of kit.
Agreed. What's more my brother in law runs the manufacturing operation so I get 45% off
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If a pencil breaks in zero gravity, the graphite broken off can cause a short circuit in the electronics.
Just the most perfectly designed piece of art that is used by millions of people every year.
Cryptic clue
The beginning of two sheds and a former partner (5)
I do hope you are not referring to PP as this is good design that is owned not merely held to pass on for the next generation.
Same goes for my torque wrench.
Also handy in a road rage application
Still since then the vast array of rip offs and copies have put me off.
Never owned an original one though so may well be irrational prejudice.
A superb piece of kit.
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/12/28/cache_in_the_attic_05_sinclair_sovereign/