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Show Home Improvement, Safety And Economy TOOL SETS SAVE TIME Have you ever taken an adjustable wrench from the workshop to the kitchen to begin repair of a leaky faucet, fau-cet, only to find that the jaws don't open quite wide enough to fit the nut? Or started to tighten a loose hinge but found the screwdriver screw-driver tip too thick to fit the 'screw slot? And then had to make a return trip to the workshop for the right tool? These are familiar time-wasting time-wasting happenings that can easily be avoided. Modern toolmakers have solved this type of problem in a number num-ber of different ways mainly main-ly by combining sizes of hand tools and complete work kits in a single package. And they are not those "dime store" multi-purpose . gadgets. We're talking about the makers' regular professional-quality home-owner tools in a neat vinyl or plastic plas-tic pack. You'll spot most of these in any good hardware store, juch as a set of three sizes of Crescent adjustable wrenches, or a convenient combination of an adjustable wrench, screwdriver and pliers. pli-ers. There's a Nest of Saws made by Nicholson that includes in-cludes a wooden handle with three interchangeable blades compass, keyhole and metal or wood cutting. For your circular saw, they have a Trio pack of rip, plywood ply-wood and all-purpose blades, and to answer your filing needs a Home File Pak four different files "for every ev-ery purpose." I So that you can have all i your soldering gear readily at hand, Weller put together a dual-heat gun with three tips, tip-changing wrench, flux brush, soldering aid tool, and a coil of rosin-core solder . . . all in a plastic case. Two other handy sets are Xcelite's Four-In-One screwdriver set which consists con-sists of a holder with two reversible blades with different differ-ent size tips for regular slotted slot-ted or cross-shaped screw heads, and a compact convertible con-vertible set of 10 midget screwdrivers and nutdrivers with a "piggyback" handle that slips over the top of the mini-tools for extra turning power. With handy sets or kits like these, a lot of back-and-forth between the repair scene and the workshop is eliminated, and two jobs can get done in half the time. |