Tools We Need
We only collect and refurbish tools that have been requested. These include:
Tools we need
- Blacksmiths tools – especially anvils, leg vices, hand operated pillar drills
- Carpentry tools – especially large carpenters’ vices, metal jack planes and tri-planes, drawknives
- Engineering and Metalworking tools – especially HSS twist drills, metric taps & dies, hand operated bench grinders
- Bicycle repair tools – especially spoke spanners
- Shoe repair tools – especially complete sets of individual lasts
- Auto mechanics’ tools – especially HD screw jacks, tyre pressure gauges, foot-pumps
- Electrical repair tools – especially multi-meters, desoldering equipment
- Arc Welders (240V)
- Industrial quality power tools – especially drills and bench grinders.
We also send out certain sewing machines
Tools we don’t need
- Gardening tools (except heavy duty spades and shovels, used for building)
- Imperial spanners
- Any broken, poor quality or disposable tools
- Typewriters, computers, books, lawnmowers, cooking pots, bicycles, knitting machines, domestic quality power tools – sorry we do not send any of these
A list of the tools we need and those that we don’t need is also available as an A4 poster.
Tools We Need (201 KB) We are sometimes donated tools, sewing machines and other items which are not wanted, or which are in some way unsuitable, or surplus to requirements, to be sent with our usual kits. We may then:
- Pass them on to other charities who operate differently from us
- Use them in our own workshops and warehouse
- Sell them – at car boot sales, auctions, via ebay or to collectors
- And if all else fails – recycle them (the metal is melted down for re-use, and wooden items are used to fuel woodburning stoves)
We currently send combinations of the following tools in kits. At the moment this kit list is under revision:
Standard Tool Kit (23.8 KB) Until the new kit lists come in, we will continue to base allocations on the existing list – we will let you know when the changeover is.