Your Tools , do you like to use other peoples ?

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intrade, Jul 16, 9:22am
i dont like to and i dont like to lend my tools to other people
darryl, Jul 16, 9:51am
I'm the same. I will only use someone else's in dire circumstances, and then make sure they are clean and returned ASAP.

But generally no - don't like to borrow or lend.
bjmh, Jul 16, 9:53am
depends if they realise they are boomerang brand
seadubya, Jul 16, 10:07am
I loan mine more than I borrow others.
I prefer borrowers to use my tools at my place.
If I damage something I have borrowed, I replace it with a better version.
If gear doesn't come back it is not the end of the world, but no more follows it.
Most people have no idea what tools I have, it keeps the borrowing and lending to a minimum.
whqqsh, Jul 16, 10:48am
Have had my workshop (sole charge factory maint job ATM) stocked with my tools & good excuse to keep w/shop locked especially after hours. Management now want company tools & me to take mine home, after I ran through a rough tally by the time I got halfway through we were already between 3 & 4k so I now have to buy bit by bit over the coming months. It is hard because many of my tools Ive had for years, some back to my apprenticeship (30+ years) & I know where they will & wont be best for certain jobs. the new stuff just doesnt feel right. & no, I dont lend mine out anymore, too many, including whole socket sets dont come back or incomplete, damaged etc
tweake, Jul 16, 11:13am
much the same.
always had my own tools, never like having to borrow any.
i don't lend them out. still got a lot of my first ones i bought, now 20 odd years old. tho some of the one offs i buy i give to family for their workshop.

i get annoyed with work because they are slack on having the right tools and they just don't see the value. it gets frustrating trying to fix machines in a hurry, so you don't have a whole crew sitting around doing nothing, and they give you some pos socket set and munted screwdriver to fix $100,000 worth of gear with.
kazbanz, Jul 16, 11:46am
If there is one negative with this business its the fact that my tools have become the companies tools.
tweake, Jul 16, 11:54am
one of my early jobs we got paid tool allowance and bought our own tools.
got a little tricky with the more expensive things. worse thing was we had to take them home at night, otherwise they ended up being used by the owners and spread all around the place.
a real pain to load the car up with tools every night as i didn't get company vehicle.
bwg11, Jul 16, 2:31pm
I'm happy to lend tools, I have some "specialist" Honda and Mini tools (things like cone compressors, ball joint extractors, inner CV wedges, flywheel pullers etc). BUT if they don't come back the next day, never again.
ambo11, Jul 16, 3:00pm
I won't use friends equipment under any circumstances, just the way I think, but am happy to lend my stuff to a select few who I know will respect and use them correctly. and my chainsaws I would only lend to one mate, who would need to leave me the keys to his Merc, and give me his wifes undies drawer as a bond. Merc will be returned but the undies drawer is negotiable. lol
red97, Jul 16, 3:01pm
I usually prefer to borrow drill bits and cutting discs off mates rather than using my own,the only tools I will lend out are my anvils.
stevo2, Jul 16, 3:37pm
A group of us at work lend to each other but only because we trust each other. We have to lend to the apprentices but if they dont return them, they know not to even ask next time. Also, if you break it, you replace it.
There are a few things you never lend.
A chainsaw
A Concrete mixer
The wife
cause they will all come back Fu**ed
ladatrouble, Jul 16, 3:47pm
In a workshop we borrow between mechanics - someone often has the tool for the job, sometimes I have something they don't. Please and thank you, returned etc. I don't have a problem with that. Non mechanics using my tools? - no way.
survivalkiwi, Jul 16, 5:01pm
If you cant afford to buy your own tools ,how are you going to replace mine if you f^%k them?
johotech, Jul 16, 5:08pm
So you break a borrowed tool because it wasn't good quality, then buy a good one to replace it?

You may as well have bought your own good quality one in the first place.
andrew1954, Jul 16, 5:09pm
A good rule is only lend tools to people who have not stopped buying their own !
tub4, Jul 16, 5:25pm
normally people around here don't ask to borrow my tools, they tend to ask me to fix what ever it is they need doing
seadubya, Jul 16, 5:41pm
Yep. On the rare occasion that I do borrow something, I return it in at least as good condition as when I get it, or replace it with quality. I couldn't in good conscience return something that I broke. You're right, most of the time I buy my own instead of borrowing.
budgel, Jul 16, 6:28pm
I dont lend tools, I have on occasion let my son and his mates use my gear at my place with my advice if needed. It is good for all of us when that happens.
They have been appreciative and respectful of my stuff and my place.
Young guys have got to learn the ropes somewhere!
grangies, Jul 16, 7:08pm
I'm a spray painter by trade, and own a small panel and paint shop. The only time anything is lent out is to very close friends. It happens very rarely anyway.

My electric sanders are worth $400-$700 each, and basically unbreakable. So I know people cant exactly wreck them, but they CAN take too long to return them.
marte, Jul 16, 8:44pm
Do you know why a engineer has good tools?

He doesn't lend them.

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I am never lending tools again. A few months ago I lent a drill to someone (I have no idea who for some reason) and when I asked for it back (from who I thought it was, who says "I never borrowed your drill") and still have not gotten it back from who ever borrowed it. I asked to only two people who I would have lent it to but.
Still no drill
2sheddies, Jul 16, 9:50pm
Never anymore if I can help it. As others say, it either comes back broken, or not at all. Others won't value and look after them the way I do. The way I see it is, if they need the tool, they can go and buy their own one and wreck that instead of mine.

Best way to avoid any uncomfortable situations where mates/aquaintences might get their nose out of joint when you refuse their approach to borrow gear is don't let them see what you've got in the first place. They won't ask to borrow something if they don't know you've got one.
robotnik, Jul 17, 1:21pm
I can understand not wanting to lend tools if they are not returned, but as to being damaged, don't most professional hand tools have a lifetime warranty, so you can just get a replacement next time the SnapOn tool truck or whatever comes around?

I guess the tool supplier might take issue with say a silver socket being used in an impact and broken though, but apart from that?
cjdnzl, Jul 17, 2:26pm
I had a contract job where I had to use my own computer, which I used to carry between home and work each day - a full desktop no less. I got the accountant to certify that the computer was mine and not the company's on a signed document.
All went well until the company decided to do an inventory of office equipment, and the officer assigned to my part of the building breezed into my room, and started to note down the details of my computer. He was sure it was company property, even when I produced the document signed by the accountant he wouldn't believe it. I had a hell of a hassle with management over that. I won and kept my computer, but was under a cloud of suspicion for quite a time, specially when I requested a company computer to replace mine and refused to take mine in to work as a result of the hassle. I'm very careful where I take my stuff now.
intrade, Jul 17, 4:31pm
i highy doubt a lifetime warranty will apply if your rachet was used for a hammer and has markings from a pipe wrench on the tools.
i even get agro when some client takes my rachet and trys to pull the socket out without friggen pressing the release button on the back of the rachet. plus they dont make the new tools as good as the old one i own.