Aveng:- post#2
I am urious why you advocate 12-point sockets.
in a former life,I was a motor-mechanic.....I very quickly ditched 1/2" drive in favour of 3/8 ,for anything under about 22mm or ~ 3/4 AF. likewise, single -hex sockets.....less prone to wearing,better fit,greater contact-area, don't round-off tight/rusted fasteners...and, combined with the excellent Snap-On fine-toothed ratchet, it's hard to imagine a need for a bi-hex socket.
For the same reason, Stahlwille spanners can deform the fastener due to the smaller contact-patch. In the same vein, Snap-on produced special flare-nut spanners for pipework....jaws substantially thicker than a standard spanner and would almost invariably move a union that anything else just mutilated or crushed......anyone who's played with Citroen high pressure systems will understand
their specialised oddball stuff is unbeatable,though the prices of all their stuff is scandalously high.
Snap-on screwdrivers, unbeatable.....first time you bruise your knuckles, you'll swap to them.......but unless you have a money-tree, you have to be selective with what you buy. I had a small selection of snap-on ratchets,screwdrivers spanners and sockets.....vast majority were Britool. The most heavily used sizes were snap-on and earned their keep.
They look lovely on the van,but are NOT a substitute for skill and technique...beware the vanity purchase of shiny sets of which 80% gets used once in a blue-moon.