Work Stands and Tool Kits

Dayling
Dayling Posts: 17
edited September 2015 in Workshop
What would be a good budget work stand and toolkit?

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  • jameses
    jameses Posts: 653
    +1 for the Lidl workstand.

    If you're running shimano, there are a few basic tool kits out there (like the jobsworth kit currently on sale at Planet X) that are good enough for most jobs. Don't scrimp on cable cutters, the £5 ones you'll see on ebay are pretty useless after a few cuts. FWIW, I've been using a pair of BBB cable cutters (cost about £20) for the past three years and they still cut cleanly.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,521
    If only Lidl stocked one when I needed a replacement.

    So, I bought this:

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    £28 on fleabay.

    I bought a pair of 'self sharpening' Shimano cable cutters for £38, 18 years ago, still A1, like this but much cheaper now we have ebay:

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    Alen keys are easy to get holf of. Don't get dirt cheap one's as they will wear out/wear your bolts out. I had a surplus so ground off the 'L' bit and used loctite to superglue them into 1/4" drive sockets. You can get Alen key and Hex on handles, very useful:

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    seanoconn - gruagach craic!

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