- 1. Tools (score: 1)
- Author: Dan DiBiase <d_dibiase@yahoo.com>
- Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2000 13:47:15 -0800 (PST)
- I've been looking at tool sets lately, as I prepare to start serious disassembly on the project car. I'd like to buy a comprehensive set, as I have the usual mix-n-match junk for around the house...
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- 2. Re: Tools (score: 1)
- Author: David Littlefield <dmeadow@juno.com>
- Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2000 16:05:11 -0600
- On Tue, 5 Dec 2000 13:47:15 -0800 (PST) Dan DiBiase <d_dibiase@yahoo.com> Do yourself a favor and buy a set of quality tools. Sears Craftsman or the Husky sold by Home Depot or Kobalt sold by Lowe's
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- 3. Re: Tools (score: 1)
- Author: Ajhsys@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2000 17:29:22 EST
- - - - - - - - - - - - - For the cars you list in your .sig, you need all SAE tools. No metric, no Whitworth. Buy the best you can afford. Check out Lowes. Good quality, excellent guarantee, pretty go
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- 4. Re: Tools (score: 1)
- Author: "E.Claure" <spanlab@ceibo.entelnet.bo>
- Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2000 06:46:38 -0400
- Dan, you can build your MG with a mid and large size adjustable wrench, vise grip and a long nose pliers. On the other hand once you start the tool thing it becomes an addiction. Ever heard of Tool J
- /html/mgs/2000-12/msg00197.html (7,671 bytes)
- 5. RE: Tools (score: 1)
- Author: "Dodd, Kelvin" <doddk@mossmotors.com>
- Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2000 14:40:37 -0800
- The Whitworth tools are for those fortunate enough to own a 100-4, T series or Landrover. Your MG is pretty much equivalent to SAE. Get a good quality 3" crescent wrench for handling the nut on the
- /html/mgs/2000-12/msg00198.html (9,326 bytes)
- 6. Re: Tools (score: 1)
- Author: Carl Elliott <grunt2@adelphia.net>
- Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2000 17:43:04 -0500
- Sears Craftsman , will be just fine. Carl E.
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- 7. Re: Tools (score: 1)
- Author: David Littlefield <dmeadow@juno.com>
- Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2000 17:14:35 -0600
- On Tue, 5 Dec 2000 14:40:37 -0800 "Dodd, Kelvin" <doddk@mossmotors.com> Although an oxy-acetylene torch is also valuable for welding and is quick and definitive in heating a frozen nut, a propane tor
- /html/mgs/2000-12/msg00202.html (8,857 bytes)
- 8. Re: Tools (score: 1)
- Author: "Richard Spurling" <hobbes@senet.com.au>
- Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 09:50:00 +1030
- My old man rebuilt the engine on his Rugby using a screw wrench, a screw driver and a hammer. Mind you, when he taught me how to rebuild engines, we seemed to use a lot more spanners than that. Chee
- /html/mgs/2000-12/msg00204.html (8,197 bytes)
- 9. Re: Tools (score: 1)
- Author: "Kai M. Radicke" <kmr@pil.net>
- Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2000 18:29:11 -0500
- Agreed. I used my sawzall to cut up a Healey 100-6 this summer (Don't Kill Me, Ed!). The Healey frame is massive, I did manage to break one blade... but Donald Healey was just angry about what I was
- /html/mgs/2000-12/msg00205.html (8,461 bytes)
- 10. Re: Tools (score: 1)
- Author: Dan DiBiase <d_dibiase@yahoo.com>
- Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2000 15:39:01 -0800 (PST)
- Okay, I'll bite - a Rugby would be...?! == Dan DiBiase Dayton, NJ 76 MGB Tourer Driver - Brooklands Green 66 Pull-handle MGB Tourer Project - faded Tartan Red NAMGBR #5-2328 _________________________
- /html/mgs/2000-12/msg00208.html (7,969 bytes)
- 11. Re: Tools (score: 1)
- Author: "Richard Spurling" <hobbes@senet.com.au>
- Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 10:34:10 +1030
- Very old car - Ford T vintage and style though usually a light truck. It was my Dad's first car, the one he courted Mum in, and apparently it was horrible. The seats were hessian bags stuffed with s
- /html/mgs/2000-12/msg00210.html (10,980 bytes)
- 12. Re: Tools (score: 1)
- Author: JustBrits@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2000 20:24:40 EST
- Every "tool" has it's place. <<> Won't have to Kai. Just remember Geoffry is just "waiting" for DMH to "finish" with you!! << The Healey frame is massive, >> Guess that says a lot for the favoured Tr
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- 13. Re: Tools (score: 1)
- Author: Dan DiBiase <d_dibiase@yahoo.com>
- Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2000 17:25:43 -0800 (PST)
- I'm GLAD I asked, Richard, that was great reading! So, a 'rugby' is what some would call a 'flivver' (sp?) up here... Although I am sure that someone will correct me if I am mistaken.... So you've be
- /html/mgs/2000-12/msg00216.html (8,244 bytes)
- 14. Re: Tools (score: 1)
- Author: JustBrits@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2000 21:05:46 EST
- And most wrenches necessary to handle same are found in an "ignition" set. Ed
- /html/mgs/2000-12/msg00219.html (8,120 bytes)
- 15. Re: Tools (score: 1)
- Author: Bullwinkle <yd3@nvc.net>
- Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2000 20:04:33 -0800
- Now here is a topic designed for a lot of input. Everyone has some experience on this subject and even the lurkers can add their $0.02. I'll add my $0.01. FWIW: My tool chest is just about 100% Chra
- /html/mgs/2000-12/msg00222.html (8,434 bytes)
- 16. Re: Tools (score: 1)
- Author: Bullwinkle <yd3@nvc.net>
- Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2000 21:23:33 -0800
- Richard Spurling: I found it interesing and a delight! No appologies needed. Blake
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- 17. Re: Tools (score: 1)
- Author: "William M. Gilroy" <wmgilroy@avaya.com>
- Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2000 23:49:05 -0500
- If you can't swing a torch I would suggest a MAPP gas hand torch. It looks like a propane torch but is much hotter. Forget about a propane torch they don't get hot enough. Gilroy
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- 18. Re: Tools (score: 1)
- Author: Kevin Sullivan <kevins@khoral.com>
- Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 12:21:09 -0700 (MST)
- Great story! Hey, look, you're done! -- Kevin Sullivan kevins@khoral.com Khoral Research Inc. Albuquerque NM USA 1968 Dodge W-200 Crewcab "PW" www.khoral.com/staff/kevins/dodge
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- 19. Re: Tools (score: 1)
- Author: "William M. Gilroy" <wmgilroy@avaya.com>
- Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 17:12:41 -0500
- As for socket types I would buy in this order: 1. 6 point shallow sockets 2. 6 point deep sockets 3. 12 point shallow sockets 4. 12 point deep sockets in whatever sizes you purchase. There are times
- /html/mgs/2000-12/msg00267.html (9,267 bytes)
- 20. RE: Tools (score: 1)
- Author: "Thomas Pokrefke" <pokrefke1@home.com>
- Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 18:37:59 -0600
- Arrggghhhh. Just waltz into Sears. Better quality, the best guarantee, and damn good prices. Thomas Pokrefke (Financial Analyst, Sears Roebuck & Co) 1970 MGB
- /html/mgs/2000-12/msg00269.html (8,283 bytes)
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