Ratchet spanners may not be as essential as standard spanners, but they are desirable, because they speed up jobs and make removing hard-to-reach fasteners far easier. When a bolt or nut will only ...

One fractionally too small open end spanner stopped this otherwise top-quality set from finishing much higher. It’s the most expensive by some margin but you feel that in the matt-finished tools with ...

Open-ended at one end, to initially release the fasteners, the other end features a 72-tooth ratchet that only needs 5° of rotation to move to the next tooth. The angled ratchet head means access can ...

We’ve been asking a few of our machinery-minded contributors to nominate their favourite get-out-of-a-fix bits of workshop kit. In part one, we tested an inverter arc welder, an antifreeze tester, a ...