When upgrading your tool kit, buying an all-encompassing set can be tempting because they provide a range of spanners, wrenches and bits for less than the cost of putting them together individually.

Ratchet spanners may not be as essential as standard spanners, but they are desirable, because they speed up jobs and make removing hard-to-reach fasteners far easier. When a bolt or nut will only ...

A set of ratchet spanners can be incredibly useful, particularly if space is very limited. Open-ended at one end, to initially release the fasteners, the other end features a 72-tooth ratchet that ...