Nice tools are great - and expensive.
I said to my neighbour, a young guy starting out in his first home, ‘don’t buy carp tools’.
I know there is a spectrum though - where midrange (price wise) can still be good tools and not only last longer but make the job easier.
All of that said though - there are some cheap tools that I’ve bought that have been great, and I figured we might all have? And that if we shared them - we should all be able to afford them ... because they’re cheap?
I’ll start ...
Mine is a flexible honing set I bought off eBay. It has more sets of legs in it than the one in the link here:
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/US-PRO-Tools-Cylinder-Honing-Tool-25-to-62mm-For-Brake-Piston-cylinders-etc-6198-/252386512283?_trksid=p2349624.m46890.l49292
It was cheap and it’s been fantastic - I’ve refurbished wheel cylinders with it, honed motorcycle cylinders, opened up tight bearings, undersized bushes, and tonight my series speedo drive was just going to need way too much force to go on the output shaft ...
For the price I think it’s worth having one in the drawer - and when you need it, they do a great job.