My mate repairs PC's and is looking for a good PC tool kit he can carry around with him. Can anyone recommend a good one that is not too expensive (Max £50) Ta
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My mate repairs PC's and is looking for a good PC tool kit he can carry around with him. Can anyone recommend a good one that is not too expensive (Max £50) Ta
ummm small philips head/med philips head screw drivers; slot screw drivers small only; anti-static wrist band; needle nose pliers and small snips for cable ties. that should form the basic tools required if you want more allen/torx keys are usefull. I've got a swiss army cyber tool which has been great.
TBH, you only need a cheap kit, Maplin do one for 10-15 with a magnetic screwdriver, pliers, component tube, screw grabber, everything you need, and a USB drive with some bits and bobs on and your sorted
Custom PC offer a toolkit worth £9.99 if you subscribe to them, which you would also get the first 3 issues for price of £1. Even if you cancel with the 3 issue period, you get to keep the magazines and the kit, but it's a good magazine to subscribe to.
https://secure.widearea.co.uk/dennis...3/opening.html
www.custompc.co.uk
Yeh i got the kit from the CPC subscription. Awesome magazine. But the toolkit is pretty crap tbh. Dont expect anything great from it.
if you want something small get:
http://www.gadgeteers.co.uk/?url=pro.../cybertool.htm
they are simply bloody brilliant, everything you could need! I swear by mine.
Got this one cheap, does the job http://www.7dayshop.com/catalog/prod...oducts_id=6027
Just add a USB memory stick with your favourite freeware applications and a couple of packs of spare screws and you're sorted.
How about B&Q? ^^
I got a tool set of screw drivers ( lot and lot of screw drivers!), including a small screw drivers box set and few other bits and pieces for a tenner. But no carry case lol
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Originally Posted by Lucio
That looks ace. I will send the link to my mate. Thanks
Got this from (I think) Kustom PCs a year or 2 back, but they don't have it now. It certainly wasn't anywhere near £40 either, but perhaps I got it through work (no VAT). It's got everything I've ever needed, and more. Can't say the soldering iron is up to much, but then I never use them anyway. Not exactly pocket sized if that's what you're after though.
The 15cm phillips driver bit is a godsend.
JUst throw the torch away btw :) it's utterly useless. Got a maglite to go inside insteadQuote:
Originally Posted by Koolpc
Try and get your mitts on one of these: http://uk.farnell.com/1098818/tools/...k-tools-t4826d
Or if you want to save a bit of brass, this is the same thing but with a different set of bits: http://uk.farnell.com/609742/tools/p...k-tools-t4829d
This is pretty much the only tool you need -- a good, high quality screwdriver with decently well-magnetised tips. Actually, in truth you probably only need the #2 Phillips head bit and the driver, but natch. Don't skimp on the bits -- cheap screwdriver bits break in short order, and usually they'll take the screw heads with them. I've got the first one, BTW. It's been used for PC assembly, putting up LCD TV wall brackets, and a ton of other stuff. The white printing on the rubber handle has completely gone, but it still works like new. I'm not sure I rate the plastic box it comes with, but the tool itself is great.
The only other useful tools are a torch (get a cheap LED torch, cost five quid from your local market, if that) and a small pen-knife (for cutting off cable ties). That covers 99% of the things you'll need for building PCs...
If you're feeling spendy, a Mini MagLite with the LED conversion kit is the next step up (though I'm using a Ring Cyba-Lite that I picked up for a fiver in a Maplin sale a few years ago, no problems except it eats batteries). If you can't find a decent pen-knife, a pair of diagonal cutters (£5 ish, Maplin) would be a good alternative.
Be aware there are PCs which don't use standard screws at all. I'm sure there's others, but (shudder) some Tiny PCs (before they folded multiple times) used a sort of 6-point star shaped one on their cases. Most standard tool kits won't have those screw bits, but I'd imagine any decent dedicated PC kit will.
The kit I linked to even has those silly star bits :)
what?Quote:
Originally Posted by this_is_gav
torx bits?
loads of things use them... (mainly electronics that don't want you inside :laugh:)
edit: just for reference...
http://www.bontool.com/knowledge_cen...ive_Styles.jpg
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Originally Posted by this_is_gav
I did look at that and sent that to my mate too. Looks a great toolkit.
Another thought. Is it possible to buy a tool roll where one could then choose thier own tools individually and then slot them in the tool roll?
I got a pack like that from CompUSA. Those tweezers and that little injection scooper thing is really useful for picking screws in hard to reach places.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lucio
Torx bits :PQuote:
Originally Posted by Lucio
I got a cheap ratcheting screwdriver from tesco with bits for that. It's useful if you've got hex screws too.
I found the most handy things that I have in my tool kit is, a magnifying glass to read the very small writing on MB's. A dentist mirror for looking around corners, mainly to put jumpers on hard drives. A clamp on torch.
long handled screwdriver with multi head changer. one of those retractable screw picker-upper things.
I got all this in my tool kit that was given to me free when I passed my comptia A+ exam.
A few of the newer HP machines use Torx too.Quote:
Originally Posted by this_is_gav
A small flat head screwdriver works though, it's all I use ;)
They sound like Torx screws. The screwdriver kit I linked to contains the "tamperproof Torx" bits, which will work with the normal Torx screws, and also the nasty anti-tamper Torx screws that have a little pin in the middle of the screw head.Quote:
Originally Posted by this_is_gav
About the only thing that kit doesn't contain is a tri-wing bit, but I've only ever seen those screws on Nintendo kit... Hardly worth worrying about.
Here you go, £2.99
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/105556
Lol!Quote:
Originally Posted by DeludedGuy
Anyway, my mate went for a Belkin 36 piece toolkit in the end.
Thanks for everyones help. :bowdown: