Need help removing brake drum!

[pappy]

Use occasions like this to justify purchase of tools (in this case a tap, not necessarily the whole tap & die set). Over time you'll amass the tools to make about any repair yourself.

Butt

Totally agree! I used to just buy individual tools ... taps, drill bits, wrenches ... as needed. Now, I've found I use them so much I just spend the money and buy sets. I hardly use my SAE taps, but yesterday a project required a 3/8-16 tap. I had it without making a special trip and wasting an hour or so shopping and spending additional money on things I perceived I needed.

I've been amazed at how often tools I thought I would hardly use actually get used.

 

[Dauntless]

Congrats for finally beating this one!





Use occasions like this to justify purchase of tools (in this case a tap, not necessarily the whole tap & die set). Over time you'll amass the tools to make about any repair yourself.


Butt

That's fine, but $45 for a single tap or $200 for a tap and die set, or $20 to get the drums tapped for me... no brainer.

I'd rather wait until I have another shipment of tools coming from the US, and get the same or better tap and die set for under $100 shipped.

 

[2ndGenToyotaFan]

Wow, that's pricey! Do you guys not have cheap china made stuff? I've been using my $25 set of taps and dies for near a decade now... But I have added to the collection some recently...

 

[Dauntless]

Wow, that's pricey! Do you guys not have cheap china made stuff? I've been using my $25 set of taps and dies for near a decade now... But I have added to the collection some recently...

Yeah we get raped on parts and tools over here. That's why I buy from the US and ship it over.

 

[pappy]

So are you saying I should raid the local Sears and stock up on metric tap sets before my visit to OZ? Not cheap at $35US, but I've never broken one either.

 

[raydouble]

So are you saying I should raid the local Sears and stock up on metric tap sets before my visit to OZ? Not cheap at $35US, but I've never broken one either.

lol....The blackmarket tap king, that's what they will call you.

 

[Dauntless]

So are you saying I should raid the local Sears and stock up on metric tap sets before my visit to OZ? Not cheap at $35US, but I've never broken one either.

Definitely. Don't limit yourself to metric though, I also own a Land Rover

 

[KLF]

Off topic: I work with a guy that is now preparing for a move to NZ. He has brought back some ads and catalogs for tools, the prices are INSANE, so yeah I can believe what you are saying. Seriously, $500 for a simple Makita circular saw is not unheard of. He's now buying tools like crazy to fill a big container that he's having shipped over there soon, as he's going to be renovating his house when he moves over. He's also now contemplating taking his Prius with him.