Tools for restoration project

Really? Oh.

Conor's not such a common word.

I have used the aircraft type Kleeco skin pins and clamps with great success. Makes easy work of situations were clamps not be used. Tom

But then so can a lump hammer. :-)

They're also relatively cheap! Which is unusual for aircraft bits but you need so many clicos to hold a wing together they're almost a consumable.

Really? Its a gaelic name. I'm sure there's plenty of Irish who'd disagree with you.

And gas cutting gear.

Conor ( snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com) gurgled happily, sounding much like they were saying :

Isn't it normally Connor with two "N"s, though?

Nope - can be any combination.

'"Conor Turton" wrong' gives 642 - although oddly enough '"Conor Turton" pillock' only gets me 15... ;-)

Better using both of my names as they always appear somewhere in my posts whether in the headers or the sig file.

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Adrian saying something like:

As a surname that's a more common spelling. With one 'n' it's a fairly common name given name here.

In article , SimonJ writes

I went in there the other day to buy a new 3/8" socket set, but bizarrely all three sets they had skipped 12mm (i.e. sockets were 10,

I'm off to Halfords...

Although it's generally true to say that you get what you pay for in tools, the one exception I have is the el cheapo Nu-Tool angle grinder that cost about £12. My grinders get some real hammer, but this one has already lasted as long as the three previous Black & Decker/Bosch models and at a third of the price! Even comes supplied with spare brushes. My wife bought this one as an emergency replacement but I'd definitely buy another.

Ditto. The full-face guard is the best type IMO, keeps the sparks off the rest of your face too.

Nu-Tool to the rescue again! £30 for a variable-speed from the tool stall at the autojumble.

My Nu-tool grinder lasted 1/2 hour, wouldn't touch em again.

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Paul Tasker

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These low cost tools are unlikely to be tested, so very early failure with some is to be expected. However, it's likely the average life is ok for a tool of this price.

I've got a couple of PP ones from B&Q to avoid changing between grinding discs and de-rusting wheels, and they've been fine.

I bought one of their drills once when I was doing a lot of powered wire brushing and didn't want to bugger up the bearings of my Bosch. It lasted a few months before the bearings went, as I'd expected. They swapped it under the guarantee and I finished the job with its replacement making it a good return on the 14quid cost. When that one died, I pulled it apart for a look. The plastic moulding around the bearing was too thin and badly designed for the job so it was clearly never going to last long.