Hello Marcus

Those are very nice tools indeed, might I enquire as the price and availability ??

Kind regards
Greig

Location: Sunny South Africa

Ian
Have a look on the net for prime tools they do them and a good make
Bob

Location: Surrey

After seeing Ed China on 'Wheeler Dealers' using ratchet spanners I searched the web for an imperial set and found that King Dick do them. I then went via one of their outlets, Yarmo Tools, and was absolutely gobsmacked to find them available at ridiculously low prices -1/4 BSF was 97p and the 5/16 was £2.20. Clearly a mistake but who am I to point it out. I staight away ordered a full set and waited for them to realise their mistake, but a set of beautifully shiny spanners arrived just in time for Christmas. I tried to share my good luck with other Sheffield Seveners and Dave W sent off for an similar batch. Sadly for him Yarmo had realised that a gooley had been dropped and sent his money back. Imperial ratchets are not now on Yarmo's list!

They are super spanners though!

Location: Sheffield

Well.
My ghast is flabbered.
There's YET another thing I never knew.
I have already started saving up.
Many thanks to you all.

Location: Bristol

I recently bought one of these:
https://www.stanleytools.co.uk/product/147567
It works very well and can be clamped firmly in place. Good when the bolt/nut is damaged.

Well I never. I couldn't find one so modified the metric one, well done Charles.
Here's another item that I started to use only recently, interdental brushes for cleaning jets before putting them into service.

Location: Deepest darkest Kent

My daughter bought me a 1/4" drive metric socket set to make life easier when fixing her Beetle. The thing is I use it more on the Seven, the sockets are a single hexagon not bi hexagon and the 11 mm socket is a ideal for the dynamo bolts.

Geoff Greineg writes:

Thought you would be interested in the attached photos. I’ve been venturing in to panel beating as you can see!
The ¼ rear panel is my biggest attempt so far (on old piece of used aluminium from a broken-up caravan). I’m quite pleased with the result.
It’s been a steep learning curve, looking at quite a few utube videos,buying a cheap set of panel beating tools together with a bossing mallet,
setting up a suitable tree trunk with a shallow hollow on top, and making myself an 18” dia. Sandbag (see pic.) from scrap leather off-cuts obtained from ebay.

I feel quite confident now that I could shape the full size cover at some time, so have bought a new sheet of aluminium for just this. I’ve learnt one
very important thing – many light taps with the hammers rather than few heavy bangs, and definitely wear ear defenders! I find it quite therapeutic, but of course it takes time to get the desired shape required. As the finished article is going to have wadding and then rexine, or whatever, over the surface, a super professional finish to the aluminium is not really needed. It will no doubt get dented as per my old YW 214 did! Makes me wonder, while I’m at it, if I should make a second complete spare boot lid for ‘Sundays’ !!

Maybe you could post the sandbag photo on ‘Useful Tools’ for me at some time.

This shows just how easy it is to OX/A weld aluminum. I have used one of these for 30+ years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upE-sOIHjGo