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Chat & Social => The Bar - General Chat => Topic started by: lambert on July 15, 2008, 19:41:42

Title: Anyone heard of
Post by: lambert on July 15, 2008, 19:41:42

King dick tools?

Are they any good?

Title: Re: Anyone heard of
Post by: thermidorthelobster on July 15, 2008, 19:48:01

I can just imagine the "KING DICK" sticker plastered across the side of your truck.

Title: Re: Anyone heard of
Post by: carbore on July 15, 2008, 19:51:15

I have some, seem very good. Most of mine were bought for pence in car boot sales/farm sales when I started stocking up on Imperial stuff after buying the Landy.

Title: Re: Anyone heard of
Post by: Discopoo on July 15, 2008, 19:51:46

They used to be a very good budget brand of tools, not too epensive but good quality.  :dance:

Title: Re: Anyone heard of
Post by: lambert on July 15, 2008, 19:54:32

I found a 3 inch adjustable spanner at work today seemed like a usefull thing just wondered what they were.
 
As for a truck sticker, i'll pass ta!

Title: Re: Anyone heard of
Post by: 666 on July 15, 2008, 20:15:03

Not heard of that name for a while! :shock:

Used them a lot nearly 20 years ago along with snail brand while i was steel erecting! They made a lot of big adjustables and podgers (rat tailed spanners) for use in steel erecting as well as the normal comercial market  ;)

Cheers

Mark

Title: Re: Anyone heard of
Post by: Tommo on July 15, 2008, 22:29:24

there used to be some right names about at one time. anyone remember lobster?

Title: Re: Anyone heard of
Post by: lee celtic on July 15, 2008, 22:37:18

I have some king dick spanners I got from a car boot .

They are good quality and the older ones are the best of the bunch.

Last car boot I got a set of real MOLE grips for a quid :D

and two snapon spanners with worn rings for 50p swaped them for new ones with the snapon in a van man while round at the local garage :lol:

My prefered weapon of choice is TENG  :twisted:

Title: Re: Anyone heard of
Post by: beast5680 on July 16, 2008, 20:39:16

older spanners were top quality made of decent steel think i,ve got a couple somewhere

Title: Re: Anyone heard of
Post by: Disco Matt on July 16, 2008, 21:27:21

I have a small set of brilliant ratchet spanners from Aldi (of all places). They're weird - only five or six of them, but if they're a size you need they're superbly comfortable to work with, and the ratchet mechanisms are good too. I don't tend to buy expensive kit, mainly as for what I do with it the cheap stuff is fine. I might well start replacing with better stuff when things break or wear out though - still need to get a breaker bar.

Title: Re: Anyone heard of
Post by: lee celtic on July 16, 2008, 22:37:56

I remember when snapon brought out the new ratchet spanner  :lol: :lol:

it only ratcheted one way and if you wanted it to go the other way you had to turn it over ,

the only problem was when the bolt head you were undoing hits somthing and then you can't get the spanner off the bolt to turn it over and you can't screw it back in either  :lol: happened a lot when working on bikes :roll:

Title: Re: Anyone heard of
Post by: mm77 on July 17, 2008, 19:55:30

Branded stuff I think from years ago, I've some and its good stuff, the light Alloy 1/2 inch socket rackets are sort after strong but light to work with

Title: Re: Anyone heard of
Post by: Disco Matt on July 17, 2008, 21:53:58

Quote from: lee celtic on July 16, 2008, 22:37:56

I remember when snapon brought out the new ratchet spanner  :lol: :lol:

it only ratcheted one way and if you wanted it to go the other way you had to turn it over ,

the only problem was when the bolt head you were undoing hits somthing and then you can't get the spanner off the bolt to turn it over and you can't screw it back in either  :lol: happened a lot when working on bikes :roll:

Oddly enough that's exactly what the Aldi ones do! Other annoying part is that they're a bit too thick to fit into some spaces. Pity, as they're very nicely made and fit the hand superbly.