British tools

[bonny]

i was lucky enough to pick up a few german stahlwille imperial spanners recently , i am impressed with their quality , anyone else use them ?

[MG]

I've got some really old metric Stahlwille spanners. There's no way you will ever ruin one of these.

[BSA_54A10]

Yep I got em too.

You can generally guess the quality of a ring by the thickness of the ring.
Thin rings need to be forged from very high strength steel.
Thick walled ones can be made from recycled fence bolts.

Primarily I use Dufors ( you won't find these outside Australia.
Dully & Hansford made nuts & bolts and originally forged their spanners from the same stock as the high tensile bolts.
So they have round handles and are really really strong.
Siddons industries ( Sidchrome) latter convinced the country that all quality spanners had to be chromed and Dufors to a large extent got out of the market which is a shame because their non plated spanners were a lot better than Sidchromes.