Halfords Professional 30 piece Metric Vortex Socket System

[Mike Jackson]

Being the tool queen that I am I was looking for a better way of dealing with monoblock taps. I've got a couple of sets of monoblock box spanners but I always struggle when one's been fitted for a while and seized.

I'd eyed this system up a while ago and took the plunge about a month ago. It's a bit of a tight fit on some taps and I had to wind the tails out on one to get the ratchet on but this set is the dogs danglies when it comes to undoing seized monoblock taps.

I had a fancy monoblock to fit the other week and the thread on it was about 1/2" with a 17mm nut on it. My normal monoblock box spanners don't go that big and a normal socket seat isn't deep enough to do the nut all the way up the thread. Without this set I'd have been poncing about with a normal spanner putting a fraction of a turn on at a time. I reckon it saved me over an hour on that one job.

Have a look at Halfords | Halfords Professional 30 piece Metric Vortex Socket System

 

[Barry98]

not too bad a price neither , i carry a teng set in van at all times

 

[secret squirrel]

Tool queen, drag queen or just a queen all the same to me............hone:

(I have to say Mike, you scare me!):49:

 

[SafeGasInstall]

what is teng set Lee ?

 

[Barry98]

just a brand , still a socket set but we have a lot of farms round us and in one of the villages theres a supplier who stocks them. does good discounts too

 

[Barry98]

 

[brasso1981]

How much for that set bod?

 

[Barry98]

dont know dont have that exact on i was just showing sgi , what one is like

 

[Dannypipe]

I have a really well good socket set myself. Wouldn't leave home without it.

 

[SafeGasInstall]

What one Danny ?

 

[Dannypipe]

My set came from B&Q!

Here's a really good review that someone else wrote about them.

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Here's the photo the same guy took.

 

[bennygas]

got a little facom 1/4" drive set i keep in me service box,and a 1/2" facom set that lives in van - been a godsend in days gone by. was fartin about one day getting fed up with the small flats on some of the soft brass rad air bleeds (especially when the rads have got all the cover/fascia panels on them). A 22mm hex socket on a ratchet's lovely for tightening air bleed plugs and blanks into rads. only problem with my kits are there arent any long sockets, not that I do many taps etc, so haven't really missed em if im honest.

 

[Best]

That Teng set of sockets that Bod showed is the 111 piece set I think & is about £217. Maybe it could be got bit cheaper, but still expensive! Probably better with the separate 3/8 & 1/2" drive sets of Tengs sockets, cheaper & easy to carry about.

 

[Dannypipe]

That set I showed was about £50 and is plenty good enough for a jobbing plumber.... It's not like we're mechanics!!

 

[jtsplumbing]

Seem's a lot of expence for a flash set of spanners, all you need is a set of deep socket's, have a 1/4 drive & 3/8 with extension bars and stubby ratchet prob cost under £20.00 in total,

 

[Barry98]

yeah cos all the profit I make I just live paying te tax man an struggling with infereear tools , never buy cheap

 

[jtsplumbing]

Not a case of buying cheep ! only buy the one's that you are going to use, fine if you will be doing repaires on van, but how much will you use out of a full set ? same as a lot of these kits (Drills ect) you never use all of it, looks nice in the box, but whats the point of lots of pritty box's taking up space, Never thought I'de here of a Yorkshire man spending money ! must get the number for Guinnes book of records ! lol. I'm from the other side of the hills (Manchester) now liveing in the SW.

 

[Barry98]

lol , no your quite right i am tighter then a ducks arse , just not on work stuff. i see what your saying and i do use my teng sets for when am playing with mi landies etc

plus like i said they are discounted

 

[SafeGasInstall]

I use Bacho set , I got it for £40

 

[bennygas]

I think i'm probably a bit like bod when it comes tools - I don't skimp on them if I can afford them. had most of my hand tools for years now, hardly ever replaced any and what's more, I haven't had any break on me. have found that cheap sockets shatter, and after seeing me brother lose an eye to flying metal, it just goes against the grain to buy cheap if I can afford something a bit better. quite agree with jts though - buy what you need, but buy good stuff. the bonus with big sets is for the times when you're stuck for a certain odd size and you have a look and it's in the kit, and you come away rom the job fthinking, yep, it might sit in the van for months without being used, but that thing paid for itself today.

 

[Howsie]

I always cut the thread down and then the socket fits no problem.

Tools: buy cheap, buy twice. BUT nothing worse than all the gear, no idea.

I wish I was as good as some of my tools.

 

[Barry98]

i paid 20 quid for these after getting stuck on a boiler where i towed my nuts off to get in behind something.

think the rrp is about 35-40 quid

 

[Barry98]

 

[Dannypipe]

Got a set of them in with the set I showed above Bod. Very handy.

I really can't praise the B&Q set enough. The quality of them is pretty damn good too.

 

[scotty plumber]

Does the b and q styled ones come with a ratchet as i have seen heaps of these on ebay but they do not seem to have a ratchet

 

[scotty plumber]

You get a 6-piece box spanner set on e-bay for 3-quid ranging from 6mm-17mm

 

[Dannypipe]

Does the b and q styled ones come with a ratchet as i have seen heaps of these on ebay but they do not seem to have a ratchet

My set did mate.

 

[expertprint]

Good post here, keep up the amazing work.
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