I don’t understand this attitude of not lending tools and kit out at all. I am and always have been happy to lend kit out to people who are trying to do a job I’ve borrowed kit myself although always try and prepare for any job by buying the right tools. I guess it comes from many years on the shopfloor before I moved into training where no matter how hard you try you can’t have the right tool or the easiest tool for every application every time.
For example I must have at least six 1/2 inch combination spanners, different lengths, different crank angles different weights different manufacturers and each one is useful in an application but there will always be a job where the different spanner would do it easier and that’s when you share on the shop floor.
Dealerships I have worked at the insular don’t share/don’t lend a hand to other mechanics didn’t last long. Just a different era and culture I guess.
I gave away over a grands worth of kit when we moved house as I hadn’t used it in the previous 2 years, no problem.... then gave away a lot more when here as I realised I wouldn’t use most of it again. A lot to people on here!
BR
Colin (lets be nicer and help each other eh? Let’s all remember “The right hand washes the left”)
