Laverda 1000 tool kit wanted

I'm still using my Hilka 1/2" drive socket set, bought in '75. It was unconditionally guaranteed. I sheared the 10" extension, trying to loosen an Aston DB4 rear axle, with a six foot scaffolding pole on the tommy bar.
Took it to a tool shop and it was replaced without question.

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piranha-bro2 said:
I've still got most of my SF1 tools - and the oil bottle, which gets regular use. Compared to a Jap toolkit in the day the Lav stuff was first class.

BTW, I need a 27mm box the same at the 36mm Lav one used for the cush drive nut - for my Rr axle. Any idea where I would find such an animal?
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For that sort of thing Quentin, I buy box (or tube) spanners from a hardware shop, then cut them in half and weld together the sizes I need for a specific tool kit. 27mm is a bit of an unusual size. Sometimes you can find odd sized box spanners amongst plumbing tools. Alternatively, you might have to get a bit of tube and make one.
 
I have bought a budget 27mm socket and considering slicing off enough to use as a custom box spanner with some welding and a workable handle. Don't need one until the bike gets out on multi-day rides and chain needs adjustment.Obviously necessary also for flat tyre or other ear wheel removal issue.
 
Interesting, in my aviation career pretty much everyone used Snap-on exclusively. Sears Craftsman was used if you had to grind, bend or otherwise modify a standard tool for a custom application. In Flight Test, when we were writing the maintenance manuals for the C-17, we used the USAF issue toolbox which was all Snap-on products. They made us take our personal tools home to be certain the Maintainers could do everything they needed using just the government issue box. Augmented by special tools checked out from the tool crib, of course.
Alan said:
Snap On, Rip Off. Is a local saying here.
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Have heard that the Rolls Royce Merlin engines built under licence in America during the war came with Snap-On tools which were highly prized by the RAF engine fitters.
The Australian Collins class submarines are fitted out with Snap-On toolkits throughout the boats.
 
piranha-bro2 said:
I have bought a budget 27mm socket and considering slicing off enough to use as a custom box spanner with some welding and a workable handle.
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Weld it to the back end of your spark plug tube spanner so you don't need to carry another tool. I'm all for making bike tool kits as compact as possible. If the spark plug socket already has a function on the back end, find another job that needs a socket, and weld them back-to-back with a tube between them. Drill a hole through the tube for a screwdriver as a handle.
 
anyone who says Snap On is rip off is just not prepared to spend the money and get the best, if you dont understand the pleasure of using them and having them in your hands then you are certainly best off not spending your money, I have very few Snap On items, they are the ones I use a lot plus a strobe light and two torque wrenches, (recently recalibrated by MOD Porton Down, the small one found to be perfect and the large one just a few % off and corrected) everything is giving me great service after decades of use, many decades for the torque wrenches and timing light, which were mega expensive in the early seventies, I have never regretted spending money on anything Snap On, its the pleasure and joy of using them, just refitted the sidecar wheelarch to my latest toy and adjusted the gear linkeage, using Snap on 19mm and 10mm spanners, they are just the best! end of.
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