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clare@snyder.on.ca wrote:
This is the interesting thing about tools for working on cars.
Very few of the common jobs require any special tools that you don't
already have, which are the common tools that everyone has.
Every once in a while, you need a special waterpump holding tool, or a
special brake caliper hex wrench size or a special clutch spline alignment
tool or a special balljoint separator tool or a special bearing puller or a
special harmonic balancer puller or a special transmission jack.
The nice thing is that the money you save on labor almost always has you
more than break even on the tool costs, except in your very first jobs in
your life when you're just a kid.
When you're just a kid, you have to buy jack stands for the first time, and
ramps for the first time and brakespring pliers for the first time and a
dwellmeter and timing light for the first time and feeler gauges for the
first time and a floor jack for the first time, and so on.
Truth be told, you often buy the major tools twice, since you try to go
cheap the first time, so, for example, you buy the tube-type cheaper $15
jack stands (the ones with holes drilled in a pipe) and finally, when
you're older, you spring for the notched ones instead.
Likewise you buy the small cheap floor jack, when years later you spring
for the heavy duty one.
The worst is that you buy the least amount of wrenches and sockets in the
beginning, then you learn later (way later) that you ended up buying one by
one a million extender bars and u joints and deep and shallow and impact
sockets, that you should have just sprung for the $1000 set in the first
place.
But you never had the money when you bought the tools for the first time
(just as you stored them in hand tool boxes until you sprung for the big
boy years later).
So, yeah, you buy tools twice sometimes, but that's only because you didn't
have the money and you didn't have anyone to advise you when you were a
kid.
Yup. The cellphone camera replaced pen and paper diagrams!
KD makes a special tool for that - at the value O put on skin and
suffering, cheap at twice the price
This is the interesting thing about tools for working on cars.
Very few of the common jobs require any special tools that you don't
already have, which are the common tools that everyone has.
Every once in a while, you need a special waterpump holding tool, or a
special brake caliper hex wrench size or a special clutch spline alignment
tool or a special balljoint separator tool or a special bearing puller or a
special harmonic balancer puller or a special transmission jack.
The nice thing is that the money you save on labor almost always has you
more than break even on the tool costs, except in your very first jobs in
your life when you're just a kid.
When you're just a kid, you have to buy jack stands for the first time, and
ramps for the first time and brakespring pliers for the first time and a
dwellmeter and timing light for the first time and feeler gauges for the
first time and a floor jack for the first time, and so on.
Truth be told, you often buy the major tools twice, since you try to go
cheap the first time, so, for example, you buy the tube-type cheaper $15
jack stands (the ones with holes drilled in a pipe) and finally, when
you're older, you spring for the notched ones instead.
Likewise you buy the small cheap floor jack, when years later you spring
for the heavy duty one.
The worst is that you buy the least amount of wrenches and sockets in the
beginning, then you learn later (way later) that you ended up buying one by
one a million extender bars and u joints and deep and shallow and impact
sockets, that you should have just sprung for the $1000 set in the first
place.
But you never had the money when you bought the tools for the first time
(just as you stored them in hand tool boxes until you sprung for the big
boy years later).
So, yeah, you buy tools twice sometimes, but that's only because you didn't
have the money and you didn't have anyone to advise you when you were a
kid.
The ones I did were simple. The hard part was remembering how the damn
springs on the drums went. I couldn't believe how easy pads were; it
took me longer to find the C-clamp than to do the work :-(
A cell phone camera makes all of that SO much simpler!!!
Yup. The cellphone camera replaced pen and paper diagrams!