You bought yours about ten years before I bought mine.
Your workmate would have found out what britool spanners tasted like if he'd done that to me.
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You bought yours about ten years before I bought mine.
Your workmate would have found out what britool spanners tasted like if he'd done that to me.
Cobbler
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The problem was, I was 16, 8 stone & 5’6”. He was mid 20’s & about 6 foot.
The problem was, I was 16, 8 stone & 5’6”. He was mid 20’s & about 6 foot.
I have a very long memory, and I can be a very patient man.
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Most of my Britool stuff belonged to my dad, and he has been gone since 1976. They must date from the mid fifties to early sixties. A Britool sales van (like Mac and Snap On) coming round when I worked in Agri and Plant in mid eighties. I wasn't on the tools then, but I remember the guys had a fair few breakages and complaining about them. ISTR they came from France by then ?
I also have most of dads Gordon Tools 1/2 inch socket set in A/F and BSF and BSW sizes. None of them have ever broken, and the ratchet and speed brace still work perfectly. They are also from the 1950s. They were in a nice metal case, but unfortunately I flattened it with a vehicle some years ago,
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I reckon after 43yrs of being a motor mechanic - I have a selection of every make of spanner made - but I don't own a full set of anything now.... 
Honestly I just own too many spanners....
Honestly I just own too many spanners....
You can never own too many.
My other half watched one of those programmes where people remove all their possessions to de clutter, and said that a guy on there had nearly 300 spanners, leading to remarks about how ridiculous that was . I of course agreed, but when she was out the next day, I couldn't resist a stocktake, and found that I had,
Exactly
500.
Whoops.
Borrow one from a friends who has one ?
I just had a Google, as you do, and Facom took over Britool in 1991
I've never had a breakage.
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I have in the past, but the only person I know is builder I’ve not seen for a few years.
Ive a full set of them I bought about thirty years ago , they are mighty , very slim and very light , they seem to be made from a very strange alloy ,,
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Especially as a single set is not much use, two of everything in any of the leading brands is going to get expensive.
Bob
Time to reacquaint , with a bottle of Crimbo brandy and pay the invoice in cash? Then hand him the paid for invoice??
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shoulda given him some laxative chocolateThe problem was, I was 16, 8 stone & 5’6”. He was mid 20’s & about 6 foot.
