what are some tools that were worth the price tag?

[Dustydazzler]

Anyone mention a decent labourer yet ?

Don't go cheap , get someone with half a brain who can chop out a straight box...

 

[martin mcguinness]

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B001CKAR4Q?ref=ppx_pop_mob_ap_share

Got it on a prime deal for £20, males getting floorboards up a breeze

Amazon.co.uk

£25, cuts through everything like a hot knife through butter, not meant for SWA but does it nicely. Meter tails are a breeze too

just ordered one it would have made my job a bit easier yesterday

 

[martin mcguinness]

My CK cable cutters 160mm and 210mm I usually have spare sets in the glovebox of the van as others seem to like them as much as I do or someone borrows them and uses them to cut nails ( only for copper cable )
Ideal for anything from terminating cat6 to 35mm tails I would recommend to any spark also a multitool I usually get the 20 pack of blades from amazon as it doesn't matter if you have expensive blades as when you hit a nail they get knackered just the same

 

[Let me think]

Don't know if you would classify this as a tool, but a decent set of knee pads.

Was using 'foam' trouser knee pad inserts yesterday, and discovered me knees and location of inserts in the trousers don't line up well enough. - in a loft conversion crawl space.

So back to knee pads (and the problems they bring me) until I can find trousers that are compatible with my non-standard knees or knee pads without the before mentioned issues.

 

[ipf]

Cost next to nowt and not used for a good while, but yesterday, a quick search of the toolbox found me a little 3.5mm re threading tap driver to sort out a crossed back box screw fixing. Extremely useful.

 

[Soi disant]

discovered me knees and location of inserts in the trousers don't line up well enough.

They never do - I think they're designed by flamingos.

 

[Dustydazzler]

on me they are more like shin pads , absolutely useless

i do have a set of gel knee pads but rarely use them

more often than not I just keep a bit of foam padding i Chuck on the floor to kneel on

 

[ipf]

I just fasten these round with velcro fastening. Not exactly modelling material but they do the job.

 

[Soi disant]

I just fasten these round with velcro fastening. Not exactly modelling material but they do the job.

Until they start to cut your circulation off....

 

[Soi disant]

more often than not I just keep a bit of foam padding i Chuck on the floor to kneel on

+1 for that.

Also more versatile - you can sit on it, or put it under your shoulder if you need to be lying down.

 

[ipf]

Until they start to cut your circulation off....

No, they call them tourniquets.
Never had any problem, outside the kex.

I suppose it's each to their own and what suits. I just need plenty knee protection, even up ladders.

 

[Teddy Lop]

Don't know if you would classify this as a tool, but a decent set of knee pads.

Was using 'foam' trouser knee pad inserts yesterday, and discovered me knees and location of inserts in the trousers don't line up well enough. - in a loft conversion crawl space.

So back to knee pads (and the problems they bring me) until I can find trousers that are compatible with my non-standard knees or knee pads without the before mentioned issues.

+million

Most guys only worry about their knackered knees when its too late. Some of the best advice you can give, take care of yourself, poxy job ain't worth suffering for!

The inbuilt knee pads are ace because you never don't have them on, for those "oh it'll only take a minute not worth getting the pad out the van" jobs that you're still struggling half an hour later! I found wearing knee pad trousers that come with a short leg option puts the knee pad in the right spot!

 

[Let me think]

+million

Most guys only worry about their knackered knees when its too late. Some of the best advice you can give, take care of yourself, poxy job ain't worth suffering for!

The inbuilt knee pads are ace because you never don't have them on, for those "oh it'll only take a minute not worth getting the pad out the van" jobs that you're still struggling half an hour later! I found wearing knee pad trousers that come with a short leg option puts the knee pad in the right spot!

Hence why I'm on the waiting list for new set of knees

 

[telectrix]

Hence why I'm on the waiting list for new set of knees

what size. us Scousers will nick to order.

 

[Lister1987]

what size. us Scousers will nick to order.

You mean shoot out to order, right? Or is that only the mancs these days?