Morris Minor Owners Club

well iv got a new tool trolly today its cool
iv found more tools in the shed so its looking
good just need to get me a mm
lolol

dont forget safety glasses gloves even a hat it stops the hot bits when welding and grinding don,t even risk an eye, glasses every time learnt my lesson cutting a pain of tempred glass and a splinter 3/4 long lenght of a pin straight in so could,nt close my eye until I pulled it out luckly no perminent damage just a scar on the eye ball you only want a bit of grit rust steel or a broken grind wheel and it,s to late

safety first project second or a&e here u come
iv seen loads of things when i worked
in a&e not nice
lolol

Good advice about safety, you cant be too careful. A good pair of axle stands is vital if you are working under any car.

Another important tool for a Minor owner is of course a good grease gun.

here is the beasty <br><br>

I WANT ONE

that cost me £180 beer tokens lolol
got some more pic <br><br>

I see a couple of Stanley screwdrivers and some that look like dodgy Chinese copies.
Cheap tools tend to be a terrible investment as they will damage the fixing, themselves and possibly you.

Look for chrome vanadium on tools you buy, it's fairly indestructible.
Drop forged spanners are usable but second rate and will spread their jaws and wear quite quickly.

Do you have any Whitworth spanners yet?
You may have some success rummaging around in boxes at boot fairs. Look for the words chrome vanadium cast into the spanner and make sure there in no obvious damage.

I've colour coded my tools with spray paint so I can see at a glance which are metric, AF or Whitworth.

cool idea il have to do that
thanks mate
the stany stuff is for scraping stuff
lolol

there all chrome vanadium the spanners are
lolol

MarkyB wrote: I've colour coded my tools with spray paint so I can see at a glance which are metric, AF or Whitworth.

That's a good tip

i would forge t what colours were for what

You'd forget your own name, you hobbit

aupickup wrote:i would forge t what colours were for what

You could use White for Whitworth, Blue for BSF, Maroon for Metric and..... errr........ something else for AF!

But I'll bet you still won't find the size you're looking for!

Azure=AF

Only any good for you sunday tinkerers. Using spanners like I do I'd be forever re-painting them!

I've said it before (somewhere) and I'll say it again- those Halfords ratchet ring spanners are excellent- slim, strong and fine ratchet working angle.

Personally I'd just make a decent shadow board - which I intend to do when the OH gets a job and I'm allowed to spend money on the really important things again, after all spanners are more important than the rent aren't they?

Shadow board????
Whats wrong with the bench (and a photographic memory!)

OK I'll admit being a Sunday tinkerer.
When I worked as a mechanic I ended up marking my tools (all metric) with an angle grinder to stop them growing legs and walking off
This weekend I moved on to a further refinement with a 3 drawer 2 tray toolbox that I got from my sister for Christmas.
Top tray (half width, fold out) is for screwdrivers.
Top tray (full width, fixed) is for ratchets, hammer, pliers and special tools (allen keys, star bits etc.)
Top drawer Metric. Middle drawer AF, Bottom drawer Whitworth.
So far it works really well
I need to get four more more socket holding bars for AF and Metric half inch and three quarters and I may move the star bits and allen keys to the metric drawer as older cars hardly ever have them.
Only once did I open the metric drawer to get an 11 mil combination spanner to do service as 7/16ths because I needed a shorter spanner to get on the nut.

Over time the system will get refined like moving the metric stuff to the bottom drawer to stop the whole thing getting top heavy.
I found it a pleasure not to have to sort through an amorphous tray of spanners to find the one I wanted.
A shadow board is OK if you have a workshop where you will do all your work and don't mind getting out from under for the tool you forgot you would need.
The style of toolbox I'm talking about gives you the tools you need to hand next to you when you need it.
"I commend it to the house"

linearaudio wrote:Shadow board????
Whats wrong with the bench (and a photographic memory!)

You've not seen the bench at the parents.....

Dan_Harris wrote:

linearaudio wrote:Shadow board????
Whats wrong with the bench (and a photographic memory!)

You've not seen the bench at the parents.....

Just you wait 'till I post a picture of MY bench!!
Now where did I leave the camera?

I think the original post was tending towards "what tools do you most need on a moggy". So:

I have a lovely old WD open ender 1/4ww x 3/16ww, about 4" long and twice as thick as any modern spanner, so it purchases on more area of a worn fixing. That, two screwdrivers, an adjustable and an ancient nicely weighted cobblers hammer seems to sort most running repairs