Denali 115-Piece Home Repair Tool Kit | 
| Brand: Denali
Category: Home Improvement
List Price: $99.99
Buy New: $49.99
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Seller: Amazon.com
Rating:  69 reviews
Media: Tools & Hardware
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 12.1
Dimensions (in): 16.5 x 8.3 x 7.5
UPC: 820909000099
EAN: 0820909000099
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| Features:
| • | Broad assortment of hand tools and accessories makes this a great general purpose kit for the home or shop | | • | Quality hand tools with professional features meeting ANSI standards | | • | Bit sets allow for drilling into metal, wood and concrete | | • | Packed in large durable nylon bag for easy and flexible storage | | • | Perfect for the home, shop, apartment, condo or RV |
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Amazon.com Review
Every home needs a good set of basic tools, and kits are a great way to get them at a considerable savings. Three things make Denali's 115-piece kit stand out—the price, an exceptional selection of screwdriver bits, and last but not least, the bag. In fact, it's hard to find a set of tools as extensive as this for anywhere near this price. If purchased separately, these items would cost $150.00 This kit includes all of the tools you need for just about any household chore, from hanging pictures to fixing a leaky faucet. They are of good quality and should handle all of your household chores and repairs for many years to come. Going through this kit, I really appreciated little touches rarely seen in basic tool sets, like the soft-grip rubber cover on the tape measure that makes it easy and comfortable to hold, and the dizzying array of bits that come with the ratcheting screwdriver handle. But what's really brilliant is that all of these tools come in a heavy-duty nylon bag. Most tool sets come in big, flat blow-molded cases that can be awkward to store and carry. Plus, some tools invariably fall out when you open the case. That's why most professionals, after buying a tool set, will throw away the case it came in and go out and buy a separate tool bag or chest to store their tools. The Denali kit's bag fits easily under a sink cabinet (it actually is the size of a breadbox), and has both a shoulder strap and hand-straps that Velcro together, making it easy to carry around. The mouth of the bag has metal stabilizing rods in the zipper, so it opens wide and stays open, meaning you can set it down, and easily get to any of the tools inside while you are working. There are a ton of pockets lining the inside and outside of the bag to carry little things like nails, screws, tape, picture hangers—all of the little things that seem to crowd your kitchen drawers. Of course, what are most important are the tools themselves. Again, this is a well-appointed set of quality tools that should outfit you for just about any household need. Here is a complete tally. What's In The Bag
16-ounce ripping hammer with heavy duty fiberglass handle
This is a medium-weight hammer that will handle most household jobs, with claws for pulling nails. Torpedo Level
A good sturdy level is a must for hanging or straightening pictures, checking tabletop alignment, or mounting towel bars and curtain rods. This 9-inch, aluminum model is accurate, lightweight and easy to handle. Tape measure
The 3/4-inch wide by 16-foot long tape measure has a thumb lock, metric and English markings, marks for placing studs every 16-inches, a belt clip, and a soft-grip rubber shell that makes it easy to grip and comfortable to hold. Heavy-duty zinc utility knife with rubber grip Wrenches - 16pc hex key set
These are also called Allen wrenches. The kit comes with 8 in metric and 8 in English measurements. - 6-piece combination wrench set with steel clip
Pliers - 8-inch needle- nose pliers with wire-cutting blades, useful for getting into small spaces and gripping small nails, screws, nuts, etc. (meets or exceeds ANSI standards)
- 8-inch diagonal pliers (meets or exceeds ANSI standards)
- 8-inch groove-joint pliers(meets or exceeds ANSI standards)
- 7-inch nickel-coated locking pliers are essential for getting a good, solid grip, especially when working in small spaces that don't allow you to grip with your full strength.
- wire cutters
Screwdrivers
Wow, you'd never imagine needing a star-drive screwdriver, until you buy that fancy new European dishwasher. Denali's kit includes a ratcheting handle with a selection of interchangeable bits to provide an exceptional array of screwdrivers in all sizes and head shapes. The ratcheting handle is a nice feature, making it a lot easier to drive screws that are upside down or in tough to see places, where you really don't want release pressure on the screwdriver handle to keep turning it. - 14 flat head: 4, 5, 6, and 7 mm and 3/32-, 1/8-, 5/32-, 3/16- (x3), 7/32-, and 1/4- (x3) inch
- 9 Phillips head: 1x2, 2x5, and 3x2
- 3 square head: S1, S2, and S3
- 10 star head: T6, T7, T8, T10, T15, T20, T25, T27, T30, and T40
- 10 hex: 3, 4, 5, 6, and 7 mm and 1/8-, 5/32-, 3/16-, 7/32-, and 1/4-inch
- 4 Pozidriv: PZ0, PZ1, PZ2, and PZ3
Poszidriv screws are similar to Phillips head screws, but are less prone to slippage at high torque and so provide better performance when working with air and power tools. Note that Pozidriv screwdrivers are likely to slip or tear out the screw head when used in Phillips screws. - 14 nut drivers
Drill Bits
This is interesting, since the kit doesn't come with a drill. The manufacturers apparently assume that either you have a cordless drill and will appreciate a couple of good bit sets, or that if you don't have one, you should get one. They're right. If you don't have a good, basic, cordless drill, you'll appreciate it when you do. Check out Amazon's selection of cordless drills. - 13-piece titanium-coated high-speed steel with steel case: 1/4-, 15/64-, 7/32-, 13/64-, 3/16-, 11/64-, 5/32-, 9/64-, 1/8-. 7/64-, 3/32-, 5/64-, and 1/16-inch
- 50-piece chrome vanadium steel 1-inch screwdriver bit set can be used with either a cordless drill or the ratcheting screwdriver included in this kit.
- 5-piece masonry bit set with steel case: 5/32-, 3/16-, 1/4-, 5/16-, and 3/8-inch
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Wonderful Toolkit for Apartment Living! October 20, 2009
Steve D (West Chester, PA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I bought this set when I first moved into my apartment about 8 months ago. I've used it thoroughly since then. The best part about this kit is the fact that just about every piece of standard equipment is there to do your basics around the home. I've put together many IKEA & OfficeMax sets with this toolkit and it's been solid through each one.
The only downside I will mention is that the ratcheting screwdriver has loosened up after about 5 uses. Sometimes it'll slip off of the ratetching setting and go back to a standard mode which is annoying and if you're caught off guard can hurt your wrist.
The quality on this set is very nice for the price. No item feels cheap or flimsy. The included bag fits neatly in a closet and is large enough to hold everything with multiple pockets for some minimal organization.
I'd recommend this to someone looking for the tools that will see occasional use. Especially great for apartment living.
 This is the one you want to get. October 4, 2009
Aaron Contorer (San Diego, USA)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
While this kit doesn't contain *everything* a household needs -- for example you'll have to buy a drill -- it contains almost exactly the right things. If you need a basic, reasonably thorough assortment of tools to set up a household (or to stock a workplace such as an office), buy this.
The tool quality is much better than you'd think for the price, and the tools cover quite a range of types and uses.
Five stars for the price, four for quality September 26, 2009
Samuel Krikorian (Charlotte, NC United States)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
No tool kit seems to want to give you an adjustable wrench or two, but otherwise this set has all the basics. The price tag is great for a basic kit. The quality of the tools is good enough that they will last about forever if you are just an occasional handyman and aren't trying to complete massive projects all the time. Supplement it with large and small adjustables and your good for most anything around the house. I also supplemented mine with a longer tape measure (25ft vs 16), longer, skinnier needle-nose pliers and a cheap but sturdy, small-size LED flashlight. Super-Bright 9 LED Heavy-Duty Compact Aluminum Flashlight - Gunmetal Color The bag has room to toss in lots of other stuff if you have a bigger job or a very tool-specific job. The bag is a nice bonus because of the extra room and lots of pockets. Even with extra room, the bag is still just small satchel-sized, meaning it's significantly smaller even than those tiny gym bags they give you as a free gift when you join a gym or apply for a really bad credit card. I was surprised by how small the bag is but pleased with its construction and how much it actually holds. Love the bag, and I recommend this set as a great deal overall for the weekend handyman, handywoman or even handychild, so that's the whole handyfamily.
A good deal for the price September 26, 2009
B. Parsons
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I was looking for a starter tool kit for my daughter on her way off to college. I wanted a kit that covered a fair amount of territory, so she would have the basic things she would need for assembling, mounting, installing, and general small repairs. This kit fills the bill. The tools are diverse, useful, and good (not great) quality, and come in a convenient and durable bag that has room for extras. With a few minor additions (gotta have that duct tape) it is a good starter kit. The one complaint I have is that my order arrived with two torpedo levels and no utility knife. I could have returned it, I suppose, but I just bought a utility knife and added the extra level to my own tool inventory.
Excellent starter toolkit September 21, 2009
Alex Malinovich (San Francisco, CA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
If you're a tool snob you probably won't be looking at this in the first place. But if you're like me and just need to have an assortment of tools around the house this is a great choice. It's very inexpensive and the bag that the tools come in is sturdy and easy to use. There are metal rods near the zipper so that it can stay wide open even though it's made from canvas. A small touch, but a very useful one.
The tools themselves are quite sturdy. Nothing in there looks like it's cheap or about to break. I think they artificially inflate the piece count with things you probably don't need (do I really need 14 Allen wrenches?), but everything else is pretty sturdy.
I only have a couple of minor complaints about the entire set. The first is with the utility knife. It wasn't properly assembled when I got it, and after getting the razor blade into the proper place to be able to use it I found it flimsy and hard to move. I picked up a $2 utility knife at Walgreens which is much better than this one.
The second complaint is really a minor one, but one of the things that sold me on getting this was the included masonry bits as I was going to need them for an upcoming project. Unfortunately, the masonry drill bits are downright cheap (and I don't just mean inexpensive). Unless you're going to be drilling plaster, the masonry bit will definitely not get the job done (and will end up completely dull in about 30 seconds). If you're actually going to drill something hard, like stone, concrete, or tile, just go to a hardware store and buy a proper set of carbide bits.
However, if you're buying this set for the drill bits, you're probably the wrong target audience anyway. For having good pliers, a decent hammer, and a great assortment of screwdriver tips and wrenches you really can't beat this deal.
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