Annoying tools

[2wheels]

We had a valtra on demo and ended up keeping it. Only when I looked in the toolbox a month later, found a Snap-on changeable one left by a fitter. That's a good one, forgot to phone them to say I'd found it

the mechanic is probably still paying for it.

 

[Bob lincs]

I find the most annoying tools ride horses

And bikes and dog walkers .

 

[Pistonbroke]

the mechanic is probably still paying for it.

Ten years now. How dear are they?

 

[2wheels]

Ten years now. How dear are they?

don't know but it is a standing joke that paying for snap on tools takes a lifetime. i think my son's ones are all paid for, he is 44..

 

[Magnus Oyke]

Those cheap interchangeable internal/external circlip pliers. Absolute garbage.

I was lent some Snap On circlip liers with interchangable tips, that were also garbage, but eye wateringly expensive. I gave up and bought a pair of Knipex pliers, which took longer to extract from the packaging than to release the circlip.

 

[Cab-over Pete]

The most annoying tool is the one that you've been using whilst lying under a machine…..

You haven’t moved for 20 minutes. You’ve only used a couple of tools and you were just using this one 10 seconds ago….

BUT THE barsteward f**kING THING HAS VANISHED INTO THE GROUND!!!!!

And , for the life of you, you cannot find it anywhere.

And breathe…….

 

[Gerbert]

The most annoying tool is the one that you've been using whilst lying under a machine…..

You haven’t moved for 20 minutes. You’ve only used a couple of tools and you were just using this one 10 seconds ago….

BUT THE barsteward f**kING THING HAS VANISHED INTO THE GROUND!!!!!

And , for the life of you, you cannot find it anywhere.

And breathe…….

I'll raise you one. Workbench clean as a whistle, I lay down a tool. Turn around to pick up something, turn around again and it f-cking vanished.

 

[Swarfmonkey]

10mm sockets.

barsteward things disappear into thin air as soon as you've put them down.

 

[quavers]

The most annoying tool is the one that you've been using whilst lying under a machine…..

You haven’t moved for 20 minutes. You’ve only used a couple of tools and you were just using this one 10 seconds ago….

BUT THE barsteward f**kING THING HAS VANISHED INTO THE GROUND!!!!!

And , for the life of you, you cannot find it anywhere.

And breathe…….

many years ago while repairing brothers golf had had to take the gear linkage apart , heard a plastic ball from the linkage fall on the ground , ill get it later my thoughts , well i spent hours looking for it and finally had to give up and get one from the scrappy , 2 days later the dog dropped the original ball on the living room floor !

 

[Dry Rot]

Currently, cross headed dome headed screws. The cross is always the wrong size and burred over anyway. And there's no way to get mole grips to stay on the head.

 

[Cab-over Pete]

You need a set of Irwin bolt extractors.

One of the handiest things I’ve ever bought.

 

[Exfarmer]

10mm sockets.

barsteward things disappear into thin air as soon as you've put them down.

they just go and join their mates 13 and 17mm never have found them

 

[MF CI]

Mole grips, they always manage to rattle your fingers when releasing them.

 

[Dry Rot]

You need a set of Irwin bolt extractors.

One of the handiest things I’ve ever bought.

I like the look of those. I bought an impact screw extractor that seems to work, but yours look better.

 

[ollie989898]

We had a valtra on demo and ended up keeping it. Only when I looked in the toolbox a month later, found a Snap-on changeable one left by a fitter. That's a good one, forgot to phone them to say I'd found it

Another reason to buy Valtra.

 

[Willie adie]

Anyone that has had the misfortune to purchase a sealey battery grease gun will tell you that disappointment is the mildest emotion you will feel

 

[Pistonbroke]

Another reason to buy Valtra.

Don't expect they made that mistake again

 

[Pistonbroke]

Wifey bought me a socket set from Aldi about ten years ago and it was terrific quality,a made in Germany version. Sockets fit well , ratchet perfect and very strong a match for anything. A month later it was dad's birthday so ,with no hesitation ,ripped in to Aldi and bought a screwdriver set for him. Biggest pile of shite that ever left China. The shafts only went in to the handles about 3/4" so the ones that didn't round their tips on their first use just snapped the handles off.

 

[Forkdriver]

I saw this and thought of Jeremy Vine, and a load of others

 

[Scholsey]

This thing, not a single positive about it, not one.