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Sharing what I got this year..........

Its often the case end of year is the time I bother friends who has kids/home in USA, to keep my stuff I shipped to them and their Daddy ( my friend ) bring it back to Indonesia because
they visited the kids in USA, or the kids goes back to Indonesia for year end holiday.

Usually it is small light weight stuff and not worth paying Amazon to ship to me direct Jakarta-Indonesia as the product price is so cheap, the courier cost to Indonesia
is then 4x the product price

If very heavy stuff like my 5000 EXT Quick Jack at 250 lbs or 113KG, me will ship UPS Air Freight Consolidated which is cheaper than speedy UPS or speedy Fed-EX at approx US$4 ( before Covid )
per kg but they want minimum weight like 150 lbs if I recall and it will be 2+ weeks and not the usual speedy 3-4 days USA to Jakarta or Singapore.

If I live in USA, I will go broke from buying tools....., I love them and so easy to buy in USA.
FYI, my government has banned AliExpress.com from shipping direct to Indonesia.
I can understand why my government is doing this to protect small businesses in my country.
I have to say after near 100 purchases at AliExpress, NONE of them sellers when shipping out to Indonesia will declare actual price of goods for Custom,
they will always under declare by crazy cheap. Aliexpress also uses Singapore as a cheaper transit price to reduce CIF price.
This means the source of goods in then logged as Singapore and not China.

I can still use BangGood which is honest for Custom declaration on price, but BangGood does not sell much stuff, more so mechanical stuff.
More for electronics instrumentation , DMM, power supply etc etc....those kind.


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This year I got these tools :

01. https://www.ebay.com/itm/115031991586 just arrived in Jakarta 2 days ago. U$134 landed and tax paid. So its double the original FOB price, almost.
Carbon pile battery tester, 500 amps.

02. https://www.pelicanparts.com/More_In...L-007776SCH01B
Mercedes Rear Spring compressor tool, supposedly does not have compatibility data for W212, but I took the risk and get it anyway because I am sure it will work.

03. Coin shaped slotted screw driver....damn, I never knew such screw driver exist.
https://www.amazon.com/PB-Swiss-PB-8.../dp/B00TPBTEP2
The beauty of USA Amazon.......


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Regular scredriver , does not have the width and the "polite" edges for on car under body jack pad coin shaped slotted screw.... I damaged the screw slot on one new Jack Pad already...duggghh !!!!




04. N73 EIS/EZS removal tool. Again here W212 is not mentioned, but it is so cheap... so what.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BCW24SL3...fed_asin_title


05. Heat shrink tube with glue. This is good stuff, I already bought some in 2023.
Now I buy more:
If 1/8" size https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01F2LFSHG...fed_asin_title
If 1/4" size https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0861RFS34...sin_title&th=1
If 1/2 size https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0861RFS34...sin_title&th=1
I can't get locally heat shrink this thick and has glue as waterproof sealer at small diameter. The one available is bigger diameter for
big 230/400V electrical cable of at least 5/8" OD.


06. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BDG6V2L5...fed_asin_title
This is so cute.... and will come handy.


07. I hope this one fits my turbo charger intake pipe OD
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D12BLJZZ...fed_asin_title


08. So cheap in USA and a Class 3, dang, at the best I can get locally is Class 2 and at 200% the price.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09HP5572Z...fed_asin_title
This is not a tool per-se, its for me when and if my car breakdown at night...... https://mbworld.org/forums/e-class-w...tive-vest.html

Awesome 3M genuine cloth/fabric type reflector



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Schwaben is not a German brand.
https://iatn.net/reviews/schwaben-to...hwaben%20Tools.
This brand is owned by ECS Tuning. https://www.ecstuning.com/News/Schwa..._10PercentOff/
So, 99% this is China made and not European/German made at such price (more so with mark-up by ECS ).
I am counting on decent reliability/strenght for DIY use, which is say 10 uses per year maximum.

You can get cheaper one at Amazon, but since China made goods has so many small home type factory making them, some can be really bad and some can be decent.
Metal parts holding 500KG / 1,100 lbs of compression is indeed scary if not well made and this is a single screw type spring compressor tool, unlike common 2 units claw type spring compressors.
https://www.amazon.com/mercedes-spri...ing+compressor

Thus I rather pay more for Schwaben because the handler in USA is a US company ( ECS Tuning ) thus legally they know the risk of this spring compressor will break and hurt people.

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To me rear spring compressing and then removing it out of the spring arm while being compressed is VERY DANGEROUS.
Front spring is much safer, I use 3 of single rod spring compressor tool and when compressing the spring we can aim the top mount away from us, as the mcphearson strut
is already out of the car.

I would probably use this Schwaben spring compressor only for installation and not total 100% removal.
What I mean by total 100% removal is WHEN we are not using jack* at spring arm ( load shared by spring arm to jack ) and not finally removing spring arm bolt at subframe.
If one has done rear spring arm of W212, one would know what I mean .


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In case you’re interested

Screwdriver/Tool used for DZUS 1/4 turn fasteners…
DZUS makes Mil-spec 1/4 turn fasteners used on Aircraft (and adapted to racecars)
Give it a google search you’ll see application
Handy tool for other things too as you know.
I use the Mac tools version, if anyone ever needs one off the Mac truck, if that’s still a thing

https://www.mactools.com/products/s240p


Happy Holidays!

 

Dang.....interesting one, thank you