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This has all been the kind of advice I was looking for.
Bam, you seem to me to be one of the more-apt to do it yourself guys here, and I'm comforted by the short list of tools you're talking about!
65- I keep some small jack stands and a bottle jack, crescent wrench, and small 1/4&3/8 combo socket set in my truck. A lot of the other things I hadn't thought of that I definitely need. I'm still adjusting to this... I was used to having 20 pairs of vice grips to choose from at the in-law's - I hadn't even realized I don't have any now. I've really missed his heated garage, too!
Danno- I'll keep my eyes out for stuff I need and have in mind what quality I'm paying for. Re wood tools: you got me thinking - I've got a delta band saw & planer, hitachi miter saw, mostly dewalt and milwaukee power hand tools... but my table saw, which I use about as much as anything is a piece of junk riobi. None the less, the table saw has done everything I've needed it to as well as any other table saw without a thousand dollar fence.
In light of all of the advice from you all and different brand rankings... I think I'll find a good deal on a bigger socket set (I need some deep sockets immediately), and for the rest of the tools follow this philosophy: get the cheap/ mid range stuff when it's a lot cheaper, and get the better stuff when it's either not much more or I've broken a cheap tool trying... and I'll only use good quality sockets with the impact wrench.
Thanks again all.
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