Tool kits, then & now.

[Old Mod]

So got to thinking today as I cast my eye over my array of tools and equipment that I use on a daily basis to carry out the work that I do.
And what a difference 30+ years make!

This was my kit back in 1983 oh plus a string line,
What was your kit back when you first started???

I'll post a pic of my current kit tomorrow, let's do yesteryear first 🙂



Yes, they're original Bal nippers, no, they're not for sale 😀

 

[Spare Tool]

Walked out of North east tile training (a professional tiler 😉) with more or less the same bucket of gear Marc, plus half a bucket of addy on my JEANS 🙂 oh and an angle finder and two batton stands that are still today unused. Only did course to tile my own bathroom, got home and it was erm "oh sh#t" ...what the hell am I gonna cut tiles with 🙁

 

[LM]

The only thing I can add to that apart from the said string line is a TS40. The best new bit of kit I ever got was my first Sigma.

 

[Old Mod]

Yeah it was a while before I got my first slide cutter. Can't remember how long tho. 🙂

 

[Blunt Tool]

So got to thinking today as I cast my eye over my array of tools and equipment that I use on a daily basis to carry out the work that I do.
And what a difference 30+ years make!

This was my kit back in 1983 oh plus a string line,
What was your kit back when you first started???

I'll post a pic of my current kit tomorrow, let's do yesteryear first 🙂

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Yes, they're original Bal nippers, no, they're not for sale 😀

Didn't have a squeegee like that was handed a length of rubber to make one, and where's your mixing stick, pointing stick, hacksaw, wooden float and small boat level

 

[Chris Gibbs]

My first ever job was a herringbone on the 45 with a two tile border... they were 20mm thick and 200x 100. I had a bucket with a stick. An 8mm notched trowel and a grinder (borrowed) His mate, a tiler of 10 years came round for a brew and saw the floor. He offered me a job on the spot. I did a pub for him in Cheshire out of the back of a borrowed fiesta with no clutch and never looked back.
My dad took me out and bought me a load of tools, then some scumbag Stanley knifed the window out of the car and robbed everything. On the plus side I started seeing the copper that gave me the incident number 🙂

 

[Albert]

 

[Spare Tool]

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That then or now? 🙂

 

[Chris Gibbs]

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can you back butter with that?

 

[Albert]

The way tile sizes are, maybe