You lend a neighbour your 10mm combination spanner/wrench and it is returned with a big 'Thank You'

Well you won't be lending again will you ...?

2 minutes ago, JAS21 said:

Well you won't be lending again will you ...?

 

I think you can safely put your wallet on that.

Not a Thailand problem. I built two houses and did various jobs over a period of three years using the same tape measure. Lent out for one hour it came back broke.

Your neighbor saved you from the busted knuckles. 

Go to the 20 baht shop

 

Buy a good quality wrench - no problem. Buy some no name POS - problem.

On 12/27/2016 at 5:40 PM, petermik said:

Go to the 20 baht shop

 

Again

1 minute ago, canthai55 said:

Buy a good quality wrench - no problem. Buy some no name POS - problem.

 

I agree with your approach but I've had difficulty finding what I'd call quality tools here.  

Can you offer a suggestion as to where to find them?

18 minutes ago, watcharacters said:

 

I agree with your approach but I've had difficulty finding what I'd call quality tools here.  

Can you offer a suggestion as to where to find them?

 

pretty high quality tools here for a price:

 

http://www.factorygear.co.th/

 

 

20 minutes ago, watcharacters said:

 

I agree with your approach but I've had difficulty finding what I'd call quality tools here.  

Can you offer a suggestion as to where to find them?

 

 

Ive bought a heap of bluepoint gear (spanners/ratchet spaners/socket sets (1/4, 3/8, 1/2) etc etc) from hardware house for very reasonable money.

quality tools may be found here and there, really depends on what kind of tools you are after

 

a couple of pretty good shops very close to the Worachak intersection in BKK

good shop close to Bearing skytrain station

good shop on Rama 1, close to Bantatong

there is an ok shop named NPE in Baan Mo

 

57 minutes ago, canthai55 said:

Buy a good quality wrench - no problem. Buy some no name POS - problem.

 

If you look closely it has been cut, not broken.

If it had been just broken it would have had probably one split and the internal machining would have been damaged. Probably cut to use on something similar to a brake bleed nipple.

Never ever lend anyone tools. Unless you could careless.

Same as books you care about.

Money as well.

The shop I used to work at had a sign: "The only tool we let out of this shop belongs to our tomcat - he always brings it back"

8 hours ago, watcharacters said:

 

I agree with your approach but I've had difficulty finding what I'd call quality tools here.  

Can you offer a suggestion as to where to find them?

 

Hardwarehouse stores selling a brand called Tactix that is pretty good quality for the price.

http://www.tactixthailand.com/

9 hours ago, C5VETTE said:

 

Hardwarehouse stores selling a brand called Tactix that is pretty good quality for the price.

http://www.tactixthailand.com/

 

Edit..

17 hours ago, Don Mega said:

 

 

Ive bought a heap of bluepoint gear (spanners/ratchet spaners/socket sets (1/4, 3/8, 1/2) etc etc) from hardware house for very reasonable money.

 

There is a company called Hardware House?    Thanks for the link.

2 minutes ago, watcharacters said:

 

There is a company called Hardware House?    Thanks for the link.

 

Hardware House.

9 hours ago, C5VETTE said:

 

Hardwarehouse stores selling a brand called Tactix that is pretty good quality for the price.

http://www.tactixthailand.com/

 

 

keep it well oiled as its rusts (surface)  easily.

At least you got yours back.  Over the years with various contractors and workers "borrowing" my tools when no one is looking, I'd say 80% have gone on walkabout.

4 minutes ago, steelepulse said:

At least you got yours back.  Over the years with various contractors and workers "borrowing" my tools when no one is looking, I'd say 80% have gone on walkabout.

 

 

ONLY 80%?

Tactix brand from Hardware House.

 

Matall brand from HomePro.

 

Avoid miscellaneous branded, Chinese-made stuff from Amorn like the plague. Looks like the OP's rusted and busted ringer was Chinese crap and well past its use-by date.

Quality tools do not fail.......Cheap stuff does......You pay for quality...That's why quality stuff does not fail...BUT getting back to the topic, I tell folk to piss off regarding the few shit tools I have....

Sparingly - and I was usually attached to them & helped....Always have had quality tools in a big  upper, mid & a lower rolling box + a large cantilevered box that I could pack & take and a small set usually in the cars/rv.....

 

One time without my knowledge my Daughter let a girl friends boy friend have access to the tools to work on his car....They seemed to mostly come back - until, you guessed it....

 

Within a year he broke into the work shed & stole all the tools - some he just took the drawers out leaving the bottom box gutted....He'd gotten job as an apprentice technician at the local Ford store - - - - > using my tools .....

 

Other stuff like weed eaters, riding lawn tractor & misc yard stuff I actually kept away from others.....Finally, giving most away to a guy that was struggling his way up doing yard maintenance....Bu that time they were mostly sitting taking up half a garage....I'd gotten rid of the horses, land, & other toys/snowmobiles - ex wife and other assorted crap.....

 

I've a decent set of Craftsman I brought over with me.....Much handier & dependable than the ex wife ever was....LOL....

After a while you learn that it is far better to keep your good sets of tools in the house. My good drill and angle grinder are also in the house. I bought a large box of old tools from a friend who sold his house and I kept them in my garage. Within a year the most common sizes had walked off. I also had a big box of nuts and bolts of all different sizes. They have mostly gone away also. I have an old cheap drill that amazingly still works and a cheap angle grinder that is burned out. I had about 16 large nuts and bolts that were used to put mud wheels on aside my regular tractor tires, ALL gone. I made it easy for them to steal, I kept them in a bag.

On 28/12/2016 at 0:22 PM, Don Mega said:

 

 

keep it well oiled as its rusts (surface)  easily.

 

I spray mine every so often with WD40.

 

That works for me.