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Snap-On 'enthusiasts' are usually the absolute worst for this kind of thing. They are obsessed with giving Snap-On as much of their money as is humanly possible. Their garages and workshops are like religious shrines to overpriced tools.
I once acquired a brand new, still boxed, Snap-On mini motorbike thing. Saw a lady advertising it on Facebook marketplace local to me, and it seemed very cheap. Think she was asking £100 for it.
It was 50cc and looked like a mini Ducati type thing, and had electric start and working headlights, indicators, horn, and stuff. I thought it was hilarious, and promptly took it out of the box, assembled the few bits that needed assembled, fuelled it, and thrashed it around the industrial estate where my business was. It was surprisingly fast, to the point at which one of my employees deemed it 'dangerous'
After a couple of weeks of riding it occasionally, including to the sandwich shop on the industrial estate to collect lunch, much to the amusement of the surrounding businesses who had a good laugh at it, I had a guy come in and start getting all excited about it saying they were 'really rare' and were sold only to the really big spenders of Snap-On etc etc.
I put it on Ebay and it got bid up to £1400
which I thought was absolutely ridiculous.
The buyer turned up for it a few days later. He was a rather overweight Scottish truck driver, and started telling me how his entire double garage at home was filled and decorated with Snap-On tools and memorabilia. He said he rarely uses any of it, but he just likes to collect it.
When he saw the mini bike for sale he "couldn't believe it" apparently and had to have it at any cost. He then went on to lecture me about riding it, which apparently I should never have done in case I damaged it or crashed it, and it should never have been taken out of the box. He told me I should have left it pristine in the box as it would have been more valuable...
He was never going to even start it apparently. Just clean it up so there were no signs of use, and put it on top of his main toolbox as an ornament.
There is one of these bikes on Ebay right now for £995:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/255063349717?hash=item3...
These people are crackers.
I once acquired a brand new, still boxed, Snap-On mini motorbike thing. Saw a lady advertising it on Facebook marketplace local to me, and it seemed very cheap. Think she was asking £100 for it.
It was 50cc and looked like a mini Ducati type thing, and had electric start and working headlights, indicators, horn, and stuff. I thought it was hilarious, and promptly took it out of the box, assembled the few bits that needed assembled, fuelled it, and thrashed it around the industrial estate where my business was. It was surprisingly fast, to the point at which one of my employees deemed it 'dangerous'
After a couple of weeks of riding it occasionally, including to the sandwich shop on the industrial estate to collect lunch, much to the amusement of the surrounding businesses who had a good laugh at it, I had a guy come in and start getting all excited about it saying they were 'really rare' and were sold only to the really big spenders of Snap-On etc etc.
I put it on Ebay and it got bid up to £1400
which I thought was absolutely ridiculous.The buyer turned up for it a few days later. He was a rather overweight Scottish truck driver, and started telling me how his entire double garage at home was filled and decorated with Snap-On tools and memorabilia. He said he rarely uses any of it, but he just likes to collect it.
When he saw the mini bike for sale he "couldn't believe it" apparently and had to have it at any cost. He then went on to lecture me about riding it, which apparently I should never have done in case I damaged it or crashed it, and it should never have been taken out of the box. He told me I should have left it pristine in the box as it would have been more valuable...
He was never going to even start it apparently. Just clean it up so there were no signs of use, and put it on top of his main toolbox as an ornament.
There is one of these bikes on Ebay right now for £995:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/255063349717?hash=item3...
These people are crackers.
ARHarh said:
Look at that and it obviously brand new and never used. The ceiling is too low, you will never be able to build anything in there. But at least the surfaces are not so covered in junk you have to work somewhere else.
Every workshop is new at some point though - I took pictures of mine when it was first finished and it was all pretty shiny then. It's not quite that clean now, but I still get people who come 'round making sarcy "you've never used this then" remarks as if it's impossible to have a sweep up when you're done - presumably they don't notice the giant dust extractor and air filter in there. Or maybe they just wallow in filth and don't understand cleaning. My last workshop had, I reckon, a lower ceiling than that, and I got plenty done in it.
I’ve seen workshops as tidy, and as clean, and as well organised, but not all 3 like that is.
There isn’t a mark on the walls – the person hardly does any work in it.
Maybe it was a photo taken after they bought a load of tools, and just painted the place, and told themselves “look at it, this is the best it will ever be…”
There isn’t a mark on the walls – the person hardly does any work in it.
Maybe it was a photo taken after they bought a load of tools, and just painted the place, and told themselves “look at it, this is the best it will ever be…”
It looks like lots of the kit is in the Festool systainers - beautiful for storing, but where do you open then up? There's probably a second workbench behind the camera filled with kit actually in use!
I have my (small) set of systainers stacked up on a dolly, and I wouldn't mind some shelves like he has.
I have my (small) set of systainers stacked up on a dolly, and I wouldn't mind some shelves like he has.
biggiles said:
It looks like lots of the kit is in the Festool systainers - beautiful for storing, but where do you open then up? There's probably a second workbench behind the camera filled with kit actually in use!
I have my (small) set of systainers stacked up on a dolly, and I wouldn't mind some shelves like he has.
Those systainers are in the Festool racks - you just pull them forward, open the box, take the tool out and then push the shelf back. No need to move the box to a bench. This is linked to the big problem with stackable storage - it is inevitable that the one you want is at the bottom of your stack. I have my (small) set of systainers stacked up on a dolly, and I wouldn't mind some shelves like he has.
The Kapex saw and stand is my favourite tool. Utterly brilliant thing.
rxe said:
biggiles said:
It looks like lots of the kit is in the Festool systainers - beautiful for storing, but where do you open then up? There's probably a second workbench behind the camera filled with kit actually in use!
I have my (small) set of systainers stacked up on a dolly, and I wouldn't mind some shelves like he has.
Those systainers are in the Festool racks - you just pull them forward, open the box, take the tool out and then push the shelf back. No need to move the box to a bench. This is linked to the big problem with stackable storage - it is inevitable that the one you want is at the bottom of your stack. I have my (small) set of systainers stacked up on a dolly, and I wouldn't mind some shelves like he has.
The Kapex saw and stand is my favourite tool. Utterly brilliant thing.
https://www.festool.co.uk/accessory/491922---sys-p...
No Kapex here, but my Domino is a thing of beauty.
bucksmanuk said:
I’ve seen workshops as tidy, and as clean, and as well organised, but not all 3 like that is.
There isn’t a mark on the walls – the person hardly does any work in it.
Maybe it was a photo taken after they bought a load of tools, and just painted the place, and told themselves “look at it, this is the best it will ever be…”
It's literally the thread documenting the build. But, yes, he definitely didn't use it before he'd built it.There isn’t a mark on the walls – the person hardly does any work in it.
Maybe it was a photo taken after they bought a load of tools, and just painted the place, and told themselves “look at it, this is the best it will ever be…”
Lord Marylebone said:
Snap-On 'enthusiasts' are usually the absolute worst for this kind of thing. They are obsessed with giving Snap-On as much of their money as is humanly possible. Their garages and workshops are like religious shrines to overpriced tools.
I once acquired a brand new, still boxed, Snap-On mini motorbike thing. Saw a lady advertising it on Facebook marketplace local to me, and it seemed very cheap. Think she was asking £100 for it.
It was 50cc and looked like a mini Ducati type thing, and had electric start and working headlights, indicators, horn, and stuff. I thought it was hilarious, and promptly took it out of the box, assembled the few bits that needed assembled, fuelled it, and thrashed it around the industrial estate where my business was. It was surprisingly fast, to the point at which one of my employees deemed it 'dangerous'
After a couple of weeks of riding it occasionally, including to the sandwich shop on the industrial estate to collect lunch, much to the amusement of the surrounding businesses who had a good laugh at it, I had a guy come in and start getting all excited about it saying they were 'really rare' and were sold only to the really big spenders of Snap-On etc etc.
I put it on Ebay and it got bid up to £1400 which I thought was absolutely ridiculous.
The buyer turned up for it a few days later. He was a rather overweight Scottish truck driver, and started telling me how his entire double garage at home was filled and decorated with Snap-On tools and memorabilia. He said he rarely uses any of it, but he just likes to collect it.
When he saw the mini bike for sale he "couldn't believe it" apparently and had to have it at any cost. He then went on to lecture me about riding it, which apparently I should never have done in case I damaged it or crashed it, and it should never have been taken out of the box. He told me I should have left it pristine in the box as it would have been more valuable...
He was never going to even start it apparently. Just clean it up so there were no signs of use, and put it on top of his main toolbox as an ornament.
There is one of these bikes on Ebay right now for £995:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/255063349717?hash=item3...
These people are crackers.
I once acquired a brand new, still boxed, Snap-On mini motorbike thing. Saw a lady advertising it on Facebook marketplace local to me, and it seemed very cheap. Think she was asking £100 for it.
It was 50cc and looked like a mini Ducati type thing, and had electric start and working headlights, indicators, horn, and stuff. I thought it was hilarious, and promptly took it out of the box, assembled the few bits that needed assembled, fuelled it, and thrashed it around the industrial estate where my business was. It was surprisingly fast, to the point at which one of my employees deemed it 'dangerous'
After a couple of weeks of riding it occasionally, including to the sandwich shop on the industrial estate to collect lunch, much to the amusement of the surrounding businesses who had a good laugh at it, I had a guy come in and start getting all excited about it saying they were 'really rare' and were sold only to the really big spenders of Snap-On etc etc.
I put it on Ebay and it got bid up to £1400
which I thought was absolutely ridiculous.The buyer turned up for it a few days later. He was a rather overweight Scottish truck driver, and started telling me how his entire double garage at home was filled and decorated with Snap-On tools and memorabilia. He said he rarely uses any of it, but he just likes to collect it.
When he saw the mini bike for sale he "couldn't believe it" apparently and had to have it at any cost. He then went on to lecture me about riding it, which apparently I should never have done in case I damaged it or crashed it, and it should never have been taken out of the box. He told me I should have left it pristine in the box as it would have been more valuable...
He was never going to even start it apparently. Just clean it up so there were no signs of use, and put it on top of his main toolbox as an ornament.
There is one of these bikes on Ebay right now for £995:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/255063349717?hash=item3...
These people are crackers.
Sporky said:
Every workshop is new at some point though
Mine wasn't, none of them have been. They've been inherited, transplanted, amended, upgraded... fitted with whatever's there already, old bits from somewhere else, things made from off-cuts and left-overs, and stuff deemed (by SWMBO) as unsuitable for continued taking-up-space in the house. I did spend money (many years ago) on a pile of plastic tubs to put on the old Argos racking to keep things semi-organised, but I'm struggling to think of anything else that went in new! (Apart from the tools, of course)
Sporky said:
Or maybe they just wallow in filth and don't understand cleaning.
Or maybe it's that 
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