/diy/ - Do It Yourself

1000 piece set. 600 bits & allen keys.

>>1621179
Looks fine, save the tool truck discount for some specialty tools. In the 5+ years I have been at my job, I have seen a bunch of diesel mechanics come and go and most of them use Craftsman-Husky tier sockets and wrenches. There has only been one real Snappy Boi and he doesn’t get the job done any better than the others.

>>1621186
>hurr durr mechanics sets are mostly sockets hurr durr

>>1621179

dude buy used on ebay. buy things like SK, proto, westward, ultra pro, mac, snap on (only if really good deal) etc

dont show up your first day of work with a never used 1000 piece husky set

>>1621209
>dont show up your first day of work with a never used 1000 piece husky set

superficial advice from a superficial moron. people with any brains at all don't judge you by your fucking tools ON THE FIRST DAY IF YOU ARE A BEGINNER. They talk to you. They observe you. They see how well you pay attention, follow directions, learn, and get along with others.

>>1621209
and look for estate sales.

>>1621236
>this
I've obtained a nice collection over the years by stopping at estate sales, and garage sales

Don’t buy a set like that, just buy what you know you’ll need right now and add to it as you go. It’s a little inconvenient but you’ll have a lot less waste in your box.

t. Dumbass that bought a craftsman master mechanic set in 2002 and ended up using under half of the tools in 15yrs of use.

>>1621179
>I could get a student discount from one of the tool truck guys
>but this husky set's only a grand
> I'm going to votech for heavy diesel

Nigger, did you even LOOK at the student pricing?
Snap-On student pricing is like 75% off.

People can argue that Snap-On isnt worth the price for the home gamer.
Some people try to argue that the quality and lifetime warranty for a mechanic isnt really worth it.

But you are doing HEAVY DIESEL, and you are getting a GIANT discount. And you still want to pay full fucking price for husky?
Matco and Snap-On have the best student discounts. Mac and Cornwell discounts blow, dont even bother talking to them.

You will kick yourself for the rest of your career if you dont buy tool truck brands at discount while you can.
That husky set isnt even extensive, it just has a bunch of different ratcheting wrenches which you most likely wont use.
Dont be lazy, figure out what you actually need, and then buy it from Snap-On. Youll have your whole duration of school to do it, going a grand in the hole immediately isnt going to help.

>>1621310
Are you telling OP the diesel tech that he wont need
>ratcheting wrenches
>flex head ratcheting wrenches
>stubby ratcheting wrenches
>small set of reversible ratcheting wrenchs
>ignition point wrenches

In addition to the regular wrenches and regular stubby wrenches?

What a great set

>>1621330
They throw in a few extra things that people bitch about like the folding hex keys, but OP will definitely want like more than half of that set right away. A comprehensive socket set with all 3 drives deep and shallow, plus the flex head ratchets, extensions and u-joints, ratcheting combination wrenches, and box wrenches will all add up to at least the cost of that set so the rest is kind of a bonus.

There’s some Klutch sets from Northern Tool that are good starter sets as well.

>>1621335
These are NOT good starter sets for a heavy diesel mechanic.

He will be using 1/2 the majority of the time, he will be using the upper sizes of wrenches most of the time.
He will never touch a 1/4 ratchet, or use 75% of the smaller wrenches (which happens to be all of the ratcheting ones in the OP)

When I started a ASEP program, the syllabus laid out what tools I needed. And the tool truck dealers had sets that were tailored to the class.
He needs to hold his horses and buy quality when he knows what he needs.

Sets that barely have any 1/2 but include fucking ignition wrenches are a waste of money.

>>1621179
>I've already got a 20" box with basic shit
then why buy a full set?

>Thoughts and/or advice?
get what you can from estates sales, or used. save money where you can. i doubt you would use more than half of that set as a diesel tech. spend the money you save, by buying used, on things that matter, get a good torque wrench, and a good impact that will last you.

>>1621209
>need a bunch of tools right now
>hurr durr spend 6 months trolling through ebay to find a good deal on a bunch of mismatched tools

>>1621179
go for it OP, you can always get more tools at auctions as time goes on if you want doubles or something really good comes up

>>1621179
>Thoughts and/or advice?
My family have work on heavy diesel stuff. Work at my uncles place.

Dude they are hard as hell on their tools. You are going to snap that Husky stuff in half. Hard as hell on their bodies to. All your joints will be fucked by 40yr old.

>>1621179
only buy what you need as you go along. chances are you wont use 2/3 the shit in these sets. borrowing once is okay. borrowing twice and its time to buy your own.

>>1621179
Husky aint bad i guess. Plus when the snapon shills are giving you crap reming them that they owe the rape van $100 a month forever

>>1621328
Man. It might actually be worth signing up for 1 votec class and leaving when the tools get there.

>>1621335
And 6 point sockets as well as 11

>>1621335
12....

>>1621341
My dirty loader could use a 1/4" with a hex bit so i can fix my horseshit lighter plug.

>>1621603
He'll need some repeats to make thos custom wrenches. My dad torched and bent one after the dealership said they have to start by pulling the motor or tranny to put in freeze plugs.

He was done in 2 hours all together and still has a drawer of his toolbox with homemade jobs.

>>1621613
But paid damned good if you dont get raped by CAT

>>1621190
your not quite getting it, are you?

>>1622640
i like the way you think anon. you thinkin what i was thinkin

>>1622648
>CAT

*gets laid off*

>>1621179
>Husky
It's literally fucking Home Depot brand now. When I worked there last year, I would occasionally kill time on break by browsing the tools section, and the quality of Husky shit was pure cringe. I don't mean from an aesthetic/handle standpoint, either. The contact points of wrenches were so badly misshapen I would never have used them on anything of mine. The sockets weren't much better.

>>1623788
Uh, they've literally been home depot's house brand for the last 30 years, dumbass.

Doesn't the school have a "recommended tools" list, like the school supply list from 5th grade?

>>1624023
Guy is probably just excited and getting ahead of himself, which is understandable.

>>1623814
>Uh, they've literally been home depot's house brand for the last 30 years, dumbass.
Uh, yeah, and some of use are either old enough to remember, or own Husky tools from before Black & Decker sold it to them and the quality went from average to sub-par shit, dumbass.

>>1624417
>Black & Decker
Correction: Stanley

>>1624417
Oh, so you're just a boomer "Hurr Durr back in MAH day, things were built to LAST" fags that sold out to Chinese manufacturers because you wanted cheaper shit. They're perfectly serviceable tools for the price point, and not significantly worse than rape truck tools, without the rape truck prices. The law of diminishing returns hits fast and hard, motherfucker, so why don't you go back to jerking off into your fapoff tool chest you refinanced your home on.

>>1624050
I suppose so. I'm kind of the same way. It's a good thing I never took up golf. After I played once, I'd drop $6K on clubs, bags, shoes, balls, tees & shit. I'd never play again.

See also: Parachuting, SCUBA diving

>>1624417
They only sold the name to Home Depot, they still make tools for them, along with a few others.
>>1624419
Correction: Stanley Black & Decker
>>1624493
Believe they shifted manufacture to China in the 90s, perhaps late 80s, don't really have to be a boomer to remember that. Think it was 90s, seem to recall it was after the first big batch of companies moving production to China and the outrage was gone, it was just more of the same.

>>1621179
Buy as you go. Go to a few diesel companies on your time off and ask to talk to the mechanics about their tool set.

As a tip, concrete plants are almost always looking for techs. They work long hours and pay decent. Good luck mate.

This thread is painful to read.

>>1621179
have the 400 something version of that set and have been pretty happy with it. the ratchets are junk tho, toss em and get snap-on

>>1624626
At least the tools can help save you money in the future... unless you’re going to scuba dive to a pirate ship wreck and find gold bars.