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I finally tossed my "good enough" toolbox after a plumber laughed at it, and I want to know if I'm overthinking the replacement
A plumber was fixing a leak under my sink in Boise back in March and asked to borrow a wrench. I handed him one from the $29 kit I got when I moved into my first place, and he just looked at it, handed it back, and used his own. Then he said something that stuck with me: "That thing will round off a nut before it ever loosens one." I checked the jaws on my adjustable wrench and sure enough, they were chewed up and sloppy after maybe 15 uses. I started going through the rest of the box and found two screwdrivers with stripped tips and a ratchet that skips under any real load. So I dumped the whole thing in a donate bin and now I'm standing in the aisle trying to decide if I should piece together a set one tool at a time or buy a decent mid-range kit. My budget is around $200 and I do basic stuff like furniture, bike repairs, and hanging shelves. What did you all do when your starter tools bit the dust, one at a time or a full kit?
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jason5243h ago
Did the one at a time thing myself and it worked out fine since you only buy what you actually use. Grabbed a decent adjustable wrench, a real screwdriver set, and a ratchet separately over a couple months and none of it has let me down. Kits still shortchange you somewhere, so a few solid singles beat a box of filler.
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