My Britool Collection

[winchman]

Its are to see the yellow handle in such good condition, the plastic usually degrades and they go brown and change shape

 

[Dieselman 63]

Its are to see the yellow handle in such good condition, the plastic usually degrades and they go brown and change shape

This is true. They made screwdrivers but I’ve never seen them, presumably they deteriorated. I use Wera drivers anyway.

 

[Maker]

The speed brace is an excellent thing, and you don’t get them in standard tool kits anymore.

I've got one in an Elora speed brace in a whitworth/AF set, no clue why you don't see them much any more, I use mine all the time.

 

[winchman]

This is true. They made screwdrivers but I’ve never seen them, presumably they deteriorated. I use Wera drivers anyway.

Winchboy has a few Britool screw drivers, they are very rare, he mainly uses Wera and Snap On Driver though. I must dig out my Gordon tool set, been collecting stuff for it for a few years I suspect its near complete

 

[winchman]

Heres a pic of it new

 

[Bornfree]

The speed brace is an excellent thing, and you don’t get them in standard tool kits anymore.

The only time I ever use a speed brace is running down cylinder head bolts. I always think that I can feel if a thread is tight with one.

 

[droopsnoot]

The only time I ever use a speed brace is running down cylinder head bolts. I always think that I can feel if a thread is tight with one.

I must say that while I did buy the kit partly because it had a speed brace and I hadn't got one, I can't actually remember the last time I actually used it. Just not using it isn't a reason to not have something, though.

 

[Mick Annick]

The only time I ever use a speed brace is running down cylinder head bolts. I always think that I can feel if a thread is tight with one.

Use mine for wheel nuts, I don’t have an uggadugga

 

[Dieselman 63]

Use mine for wheel nuts, I don’t have an uggadugga

Same, and the spark plugs a friends Mitsi. Cbf getting an extension, the brace is just long enough. Terrible GDI engine, but the car was given free so...

 

[HughF]

Agree, I have a 3/8 Koken Z Drive set for my Japanese car, the Z series sockets are smaller for ease of access - really nice socket set and I’d recommend it.

The 1/2 stuff gets a good amount of use on the tractor (sometimes the 3/4 stuff too!). Can’t beat the power of a 1/2 breaker bar especially on bolts that people have rounded with a bihex socket. Hammer a six point on and crack off with the bar.

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I'm very tempted to pick one of these up for when the shows open up again... and to make a mess of my garden with...

 

[HughF]

I'm generally 3/8" kit person, rarely (never) touch 1 /4" , 1/2" is for bigger stuff, which really needs to be tight.

3/4" kit is exclusively my 7 .5 ton truck, or tractor or manitou wheel nuts and stuff.

1/4 on motorbikes and small stuff under the bonnet, 3/8 for general use but always 1/2 on suspension work.

I use 3/4 on the big van, it's basically a 5 tonner underneath anyway. I don't see how you can manage without a complete set of each tbh.

 

[Mick Annick]

1/4 on motorbikes and small stuff under the bonnet, 3/8 for general use but always 1/2 on suspension work.

I use 3/4 on the big van, it's basically a 5 tonner underneath anyway. I don't see how you can manage without a complete set of each tbh.

I have a 1/4 set which got plenty of use on trucks - bought it to do the injector pump nuts on Perkins V8’s which need a very long extension to get at, 1/2 for everything else, though I rarely worked on cars, company provided a 1 inch drive set for the really big stuff

 

[Dieselman 63]

1/4 on motorbikes and small stuff under the bonnet, 3/8 for general use but always 1/2 on suspension work.

I use 3/4 on the big van, it's basically a 5 tonner underneath anyway. I don't see how you can manage without a complete set of each tbh.

I was told 1/4 inside the car, 3/8 under the bonnet, 1/2 under the car.

I thought 1” was just for air guns, but the Britool catalogue shows ratchets and breakers. Real man territory... my 3/4 ratchet is a beast!

 

[Cobbler]

Nuts & bolts on cars have got smaller, years ago all I used was 1/2” the 3/8“ set didn’t get much use. Today it’s the other way round, for the bits & pieces I do I hardly use the 1/2” set unless it’s with a breaker bar then change to 3/8” once it’s moving. It’s all change, even the name, we never knew it as a breaker bar, it was a knuckle bar.

 

[Dieselman 63]

Some rarer bits of equipment, an early E70 sliding T bar with the discernible kink at the end. Also E56, the steel bar for making long extensions into T bars. Often this has been replaced with a plain steel bar.

 

[Dieselman 63]

1/4 full set. AF, BA and one BSW. Two Gordon bi-square sockets, too.

 

[brightspark]

anyone got a half inch 16 mm old brittol or a superslim socket to sell i lost one out of a set

 

[Dieselman 63]

Some accessories for 1/4. Ratcheting driver, useful little thing. Square handle. 1/4 square connector.

I find the set extremely useful as you can make up a little ratchet screwdriver for getting internal screws out of the Forester doors.

 

[Dieselman 63]

AF Ring open end spanners. These are tricky to come by, harder than you’d think. Slowly building a full set. The largest one is an absolute monster!

 

[imagedude]

anyone got a half inch 16 mm old brittol or a superslim socket to sell i lost one out of a set

I've got one I'd swap for something of similar quality...