Ratchet spanner’s purchase

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Informed advise sought, looking to purchase our lad a set of good quality rachetl spanner’s.
Not looking for cheapo’s but at same time not looking to pay OTT. Want the spanner’s to give a life time of DIY service. Recommendations please.

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Thanks chaps, certainly looking for quality and not cheese. Expect to pay at least £10 per spanner. I will google some of the recommendations. Ta again.

Edited by crankedup on Sunday 18th November 17:02

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Thanks again, interesting to read of experiences and helpful. I bought myself. big set of open enders from Halfords own brand and find them to be of great quality for the money. Truth is they look nice hanging on my garage wall
Our lad is the one who spanner’s, we gifted him a teng socket set about 15 years ago. It’s see
plenty of use and still going strong. Just want to sort the ratchet set for him now and it’s looking like wera may win our money..

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shirt said:

That is per spanner. A full set of 11 should be around £150

Also note that the open end does not ratchet but holds the nut in the jaws

The best deal I can find is Amazon, 11 piece wera set at £149.

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marksx said:

bearman68 said:

Is it Wera that do the ratchet open end spanners? Now they look handy.

Spanner prawn:

https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2...

That can’t be a genuine wera set for £22 ?
Opps just seen shirts post, £22 each spanner, so that’s about right.

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HazzaCrawf said:

Halfords Ratchet spanners are fantastic for the price. In 3 years I’ve only broken one, and that was my fault - trying to put too much torque through it while undoing a particularly corroded strut bolt.

If you’re going for absolute top of the range (ie, a long term investment), then I’d say Facom or Snap-on (check eBay, gumtree, Facebook marketplace for used ones).

Went for the Halfords offering, 12 piece ratchet spanner set (black) with lifetime warrenty for just £50 today. It is for enthusiastic DIY use so should be up to the job. Would have gone for the socket set and rachets included but he already has a good socket set. So have £100 available for a good screwdriver set now!
Thanks for all advise and comments.