Four ringed exhaust, criminal bad taste or way cool man?

[gnt@nhm.ac.uk (Graham Thackrah)]

Dear List,

Initially thinking the former, I visited Ingo Rautenberg's web page and have
to say it looks a lot better than I expected. Good job I checked before
posting a very derogatory message stating that Americans simply haven't a
clue when it comes to matters of taste (!?).

Also (if anyone is not seeing red after that last comment!), having just
asked Mr. Haseltine the same thing, I will need to start buying my own set
of tools soon, as the virtually fully equipped garage facilities I enjoy at
the moment will disappear in September. I was wondering if anyone can
recommend a reasonably priced socket set / spanner set available in the UK?
I am not thinking Snap-On quality but would like to buy stuff that will last
well. I was thinking of around 100 quid for socket set spanners and maybe
some axle stands / ramps. I should also budget for a torque wrench but that
is probably going above 100 quid by now.

I have recently used a Teng set and that seemed to be alright as is the
usual Draper set I use. The Draper set has to be fairly good as it has stood
up to several generations of ritual abuse by students,

"Pass us a hammer will ya?"
"Will this do?" passing the ratchet driver,
"Yeah, thats fine" as student proceeds to smack wheel brace in vain attempt
to loosen siezed wheel nut.

Cheers again,

Graham.