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| Thread ID: 131675 | 2013-05-03 09:12:00 | Buying Hand Tools From UK | kahawai chaser (3545) | PC World Chat |
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| 1339530 | 2013-05-03 09:12:00 | I want to buy some new hardware hand tools, sockets, lubes, copper grease, etc, and noticed on ebay, increasingly there are many UK sellers doing so and prepared to readily ship Worldwide. As opposed to US sellers that won't. Some UK items are cheaper and vastly more diverse than in NZ (e.g. Trademe, Bunnings, etc). However doing location research, many Sellers/Distributors seem to be located in "villages" (according to Wikipedia's description of these locales), e.g. like Business Park (goo.gl) in Cannock, Stattfordshire (Street View Image map), and Rolson Tools (www.rolsontools.com) at Twyford, Berkshire. Do the British really manufacture such tools from locational villages, - anyone here from UK know? I't unclear from images if the tools are really UK made - which I prefer. Or if any quality branded tool manufacturer's still exist in the UK. Basically I want to upgrade some of my aging/worn handed down UK automotive hand tools/apparatus made from Britools, Tipco Leeds, Woden, Record, etc. |
kahawai chaser (3545) | ||
| 1339531 | 2013-05-03 20:55:00 | They don't usually manufacture their, they usually only ship from such places, bit like how Ascent work just a warehouse where they store all the tools ready to be shipped. I personally don't find Rolson tools very good, certainly not their woodworking tools anyway. Record on the other hand are owned by Black and Decker as are Dewalt and Stanley tools | gary67 (56) | ||
| 1339532 | 2013-05-03 22:56:00 | They don't usually manufacture their, they usually only ship from such places, bit like how Ascent work just a warehouse where they store all the tools ready to be shipped. I personally don't find Rolson tools very good, certainly not their woodworking tools anyway. Record on the other hand are owned by Black and Decker as are Dewalt and Stanley tools They bought Elu too, and brought about the demise of superlative tools. |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 1339533 | 2013-05-04 03:47:00 | True forgot ELU despite having one of their drop saws | gary67 (56) | ||
| 1339534 | 2013-05-04 05:52:00 | Britool beautiful spanners. | prefect (6291) | ||
| 1339535 | 2013-05-04 06:14:00 | Britool beautiful spanners.I had never heard of Rachel. If you are going to stand in front of a bulldozer, you shouldn't be surprised if you end up dead. |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 1339536 | 2013-05-05 20:44:00 | Ok. Thanks for replies. Seems then no longer the great UK quality that once existed, but products and companies merged into other companies. | kahawai chaser (3545) | ||
| 1339537 | 2013-05-05 21:30:00 | You would be amazed at who owns who in the retail world, just have a look and see what the Briscoe's chain owns for a start | gary67 (56) | ||
| 1339538 | 2013-05-06 00:25:00 | Britool beautiful spanners. as opposed to the cheapies that just love to rust . I still remember having chrome peal off a spanner & get under my fingernails. That put me off the cheapies and onto the German & US brands |
1101 (13337) | ||
| 1339539 | 2013-05-06 00:51:00 | There is nothing wrong with buying a quality spanner set 1/4" AF to 1 1/16" AF and metric 7mm to 27mm. They will last your whole lifetime. Exception when you have to grind them or heat and bend them for a special job, I have a whole box of modified spanners for undoing poxy hose and pipe/tube connectors. Problem is you hardly seem to use them again other than than the 19mm (3/4) and 27 (1 1/16) ones. Funny thing is I have found the Powerbuilt and Repco brand ones very good although a bit thicker than quality west german and us ones. I dont want to know where they are made though. |
prefect (6291) | ||
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