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Need to start the toolage collection again and dont wanna buy shite!

Cant justify the cost of Snap-on and wondered how good Repco stuff is?
Comes with a lifetime guarantee (like most decent tools nowadays) and theres a Repco close by my house!

What are the prices like (nothing on the inter web about prices)?

There good, I have a few in my toolbox that I use a lot at work (fitter n turner) and there the ones I use if I'm getting a hammer or a leverage bar on them and they have survived, the finish is gone but they still work

Their ratchets I don't know, but sockets and spanners id buy again.

Also have a few supercheap auto tools and they get put to the test also

Both of these brands would be ok for around the house tinkering
I'd wait for a sale though as they do some pretty good prices on their sets

Cheers

Repco is alright if you don't use it often, don't have anything that is locked tight or anything that needs a precision fit.

Remember lifetime guarrantee is not against wear and tear. It is against manufacture defects. If you use a screw driver as a prybar this isn't warranty. If you use a ratchet to break bolts this isn't warranty. If you use an big pipe on a breaker bar and it breaks it isn't warranty. The seller CAN tell.

If the chrome wears off that isn't warranty but if it flakes off it is.

There is better for the same dollars as repco.

Blue point
Stanely
Sidchrome

Sp ain't bad for cheap crap

timmyrocks wrote:There good, I have a few in my toolbox that I use a lot at work (fitter n turner) and there the ones I use if I'm getting a hammer or a leverage bar on them and they have survived, the finish is gone but they still work

Their ratchets I don't know, but sockets and spanners id buy again.

Also have a few supercheap auto tools and they get put to the test also

Both of these brands would be ok for around the house tinkering
I'd wait for a sale though as they do some pretty good prices on their sets

Cheers

yer, there good. i use supertools got from bunnings, had them for years, still good. thats 3/8 drive.

Other tools i have are beta, had them for many years and there great, barry sheen was a big fan of beta.

Blurr wrote:There is better for the same dollars as repco.

Blue point
Stanely
Sidchrome

point me to where you can get blue point for the same price as repco?

Well my repco tools must be the good ones
I use them on shit that's worse then loctite, rust haha

Oh but defiantly there are better brands out there, I use kincrome, sidcrome, stawhillie, snap on for my clean stuff

But for the money I use them for everything and dont care about them
Since when is sidcrome the same price?

sidchrome is shite these days; have seen some of their sockets that were sized wrong and a couple that sizing had forgot (it said 12mm, wasnt; and wasnt 1/2" either?)

i use either jbs brand (affordable and almost bullet proof) or kingchrome (bit pricier but always has that weird tool you need) wither of these two are very good- used a 3/8 ratchet with 6 foot of pipe on the end (and my 130kg swinging off that) to crack a siezed bumper bar bolt on a old holden - all good!

have some old stahl willie stuff that are so strong that they will survive a nuclear bomb!

Aldi .!!!

I bought all new Stanley gear from bunnings last year. Used it heaps and very happy wih it, between supercheap auto and bunnings you can get some decent Stanley sets at a great price

Cheers
Kiwimat

MadKaw wrote:Aldi .!!!

Or if you're really smart you use Dave's Aldi stuff. It's so good I've never had to replace anything

yzr750 wrote:

Blurr wrote:There is better for the same dollars as repco.

Blue point
Stanely
Sidchrome

point me to where you can get blue point for the same price as repco?

Depends if your talking about repco complete kits or individual spanners. Have a look at some of there singular stuff hanging up. The seems to be a difference in price and finish.

Kmart is also good. I have had a quarter inch ratchet that has lasted me years, must be good.

I have a full mechanics kit of tools + a lot more i have picked up over the last 7 years. Almost all are Repco tools and have and still do stand up to anything i have thrown at them. The only tool that has broken is the rubber grips on my large multi-grips.

I know a Mechanic that has had Repco tools since the 1970's. Used them every day on cars, trucks and tractors and never ever complained about them. Not bad for tools that most recommend for the home mechanic.

when i was working in dealer workshops years ago, all my tools were beta as i said before, and found them great, not cheap, but of the highest quality, tho all my screwdrivers were snap on, found them to be better than anything else.