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OK now if you’re just getting started out buying tools I would strongly recommend picking
up a kit like this one right here. Now this is a Craftsman two hundred and seven
piece tool kit OK. It comes in this really sweet blown plastic, fitted carrying case.
It’s just terrific for taking around, you know, jobsites or … a very, very thorough,
comprehensive starter set. You’ve got your deep sockets up here, specialty
drives up here. Extensions, a universal, twelve point in metric and in SAE, large and small.
Combination wrenches in both metric and SAE again. Quarter inch drive, six point quarter
inch drive. Six point three eights inch drive and this is twelve point three eights inch
drive over here and half inch drive up in here. Half inch drive, three eights inch drive
and quarter inch drive socket wrenches. Some square drives. There’s some adapters. And,
really just a great set. The regular price on this thing was two hundred
and seventy nine dollars but I picked it up on sale for a hundred and nineteen dollars.
This is twice as good a set and twice as comprehensive a set as I started off with.
What I recommend, as far as brand goes, is very simple: choose your brand according to
what you like. I’ve got Mastercraft. I’ve got Craftsman.
I’ve got Snap-On. Gray. I’ve got Wright. Gear Wrench. I’ve got Williams. I’ve got
Proto I’ve got. Stanley. I’ve got Northern. I got Husky. I got Challenger. Mac. Blue Point.
Bonney. Action. I’ve got Blackhawk. Got Armstrong. And even some more besides those.
Pick whatever you’re most comfortable having as your tools. Just make sure, what ever it
is you pick, it comes with a lifetime warranty and that you hold on to the receipt because
you’ll be happy that you did when you go and you shatter a socket and you can just
go to the store and trade it for a new one. Well, yeah, I got quite a few different brands
but that’s because my tool kit’s grown organically over the course of my life. I’ve
always believed in investing in tools and I’ve always believed in spending a few bucks
here and there on something that’s going to be worth it and going to give you a lifetime
of use out of it. It’s an old cliché but it’s something
my Grandfather taught me. He said that if you take care of your tools, your tools will
take care of you. It’s true.