TOOL TIME

We recently had someone ask for advice on starting up a collection of tools so they can do some of their own work.

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Tools are a personal thing. Not everyone is a tool freak like me. You now have specialist tool shops which, if your budget will stretch that far, will come to your house and set up a tool room.

You have to look at quality tools, but I wouldn't suggest that you need to go to the extent of Milwaukee or Snap-on which are high end and very good and really aimed at people like me who flog them day-in and day-out. For the home mechanic I'd look at something a little more mid-range like Sidchrome and Kincrome. Even Repco these days make a decent quality tool.