I hope you enjoy the career change, it's a challenging and rewarding job *if* you allow it to be .

Plenty of good tools to be had cheaply, Kennedy rollaway tool boxes are top notch if prolly all 40 years old .

Pawn Shops, craigslist and bankruptcy auctions etc. will be your best friend ~ Don't buy big combined all in one tool sets, just get the basics and add as you go along .

LOCKS on everything ! .

Don't go down the rabbit hole of rushing every job, therein lies frustration and misery .

I don't own a butterfly air tool and rarely ever used my air ratchet either .

Take the time to learn how and why things work, don't be a parts changer .

Time will tell .

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-Nate
1982 240D 408,XXX miles
Ignorance is the mother of suspicion and fear is the father

I did then what I knew how to do ~ now that I know better I do better