Last time I was in the US I took advantage of the availability of cheap, relatively good Craftsman tools through Sears. For the price of a set of five ratcheting spanners here, I scored a set of metric ring/ring, open/open and ratcheting spanners from 8mm to 21mm that were made in the USA instead of China. However they didn't come in a nice tote the way Sidchrome stuff does.
Then (randomly... ???) in Dimmeys of all places I picked this up for $5:
I got 15ft of thick double layer webbed strap from an op shop for $7, and 2m of elastic from Lincraft for like $6. I bugged my better half to teach me how to use her sewing machine, and knocked this up:
There's plenty of space in there for more stuff, and Sears just started shipping to Australia....
As for the spanners themselves - the rings are good, the opens have their uses and have a good weight and feel, and the ratchets are a bit bulky and have large ratchet angles so they're often neglected in favour of a really nice set of double sided Bahco ratcheting spanners that I got as a generous gift.
Then (randomly... ???) in Dimmeys of all places I picked this up for $5:
I got 15ft of thick double layer webbed strap from an op shop for $7, and 2m of elastic from Lincraft for like $6. I bugged my better half to teach me how to use her sewing machine, and knocked this up:
There's plenty of space in there for more stuff, and Sears just started shipping to Australia....
As for the spanners themselves - the rings are good, the opens have their uses and have a good weight and feel, and the ratchets are a bit bulky and have large ratchet angles so they're often neglected in favour of a really nice set of double sided Bahco ratcheting spanners that I got as a generous gift.
