Stanley bloody screwdrivers!

steptoe · Post by **steptoe** » Thu Jan 24, 2013 10:09 pm

I might use the pic for a roll call of my set .....

YouTube · Post by **El_Freddo** » Thu Jan 24, 2013 11:28 pm

Wow, that fleabay bidding went for a pretty price! Good investment on the seller's part!

Cheers

Bennie

steptoe · Post by **steptoe** » Fri Jan 25, 2013 6:32 am

190 bucks ! plus postage ! People do get carried away don't they ?I saw the same sort of thing years back on a text book by IMPCO the lpg people. Thought I paid too much for my copy @ 52 bucks yet same thing hit $280 or thereabouts a little earlier and may have been due to the well presented description of contents the seller included - making it sound like a wealth more info than my copy

If LJ Grimster ever googles themselves and lands here - your name is in my copy

NachaLuva · Post by **NachaLuva** » Sat Jan 26, 2013 1:20 pm

Thats just ridiculous! Sidchrome I could understand but Stanley were such crap...mine get used for chisels!!!

T.Farm.Brumby · Post by **T.Farm.Brumby** » Fri Feb 01, 2013 12:52 am

Anyone else notice that regardless of when you buy a set of stanley screwdrivers, even fresh off the shelf, them/the box always smells like vomit?!

steptoe · Post by **steptoe** » Fri Feb 01, 2013 6:44 am

Now that you mention it......

Used an ALDI Workzone flat blade to remove rear wheel bearing and nut grease cover cups successfully and happy to report no damage to the blade at all - good old chrome vanadium ? The handle suffered an internal rupture though, with the soft rubber inserts holding the ship together and still work as a screwdriver

Post by **TOONGA** » Fri Feb 01, 2013 6:45 pm

I have 2 green handled stanley phillips head screw drivers they were my fathers (I got them from his toolbox, when his car was written off in a carpark by a vehicle that left the road at great speed and used his car as a buffer zone.)

I will never part with them and never use them as chisels or drifts.

TOONGA

YouTube · Post by **El_Freddo** » Sat Feb 02, 2013 2:42 am

TOONGA wrote:I have 2 green handled stanley phillips head screw drivers they were my fathers

We've only got one now - Dad's still spewing as he thinks he left one down at a wreck at pick a part - some lucky bastard would have found it, a score that would have made his day...

Cheers

Bennie

steptoe · Post by **steptoe** » Sat Feb 02, 2013 6:51 am

Just a screwdriver left behind eh? We've been on the other end of that 25 years ago when car bodies went to the local tip and someone scored a whole set of Dowidat sockets drivers etc - saved from being recycled

Battlewagon · Post by **Battlewagon** » Mon Feb 04, 2013 9:29 am

Still got my Grandad's set of gedore ring spanners, from 3/8 to 1 1/8, clipped into the metal box they came in.
They feel very heavy in comparison to modern spanners and sit so nicely in your hand, I can really lean on them hard, and not hurt my hands.

Wish they'd made a comparable metric set.