Used Total power tools & hardware in Islamabad & Rawalpindi
Is a used Total power tools & hardware worth buying?
Total is a Chinese-manufactured brand carried by ordinary hardware shops here rather than by tool specialists, and its catalogue leans as much to boxed sets, hand tools and site accessories as to machines. Second-hand that shapes what turns up: sets in their moulded cases alongside light-duty drills and grinders. With a set, completeness is very nearly the whole of it.
Imported
Parts usually have to be imported or sourced from the grey market, so a repair takes longer and costs more — which matters more on an older unit than the build quality does.
Total is stocked by general hardware shops rather than tool specialists, and that decides what exists: discs, blades, bits and drivers are everywhere in Rawalpindi's hardware market, while anything internal is matched at a repair shop by measurement. Moulded parts — guards, base plates, case pieces and the individual contents of a set — are not stocked at all, so damage to one of those usually ends the item.
Checking a used Total power tools & hardware
These are specific to Total. The general power tools & hardware checks apply too and are on the power tools & hardware page.
Count the set pieces
Sets come in blow-moulded cases with a recess cut for each piece, so a missing one is obvious the moment the lid opens. Individual pieces are not sold separately here, which means a short set stays short.
Photograph the long code
The plate carries a long alphanumeric code rather than a short model name, and that string is what a hardware shop matches a guard, chuck, blade or brush to. Without it everything has to be matched by measurement instead.
Try another pack
Their cordless tools are built around a shared lithium pack rather than one pack per tool, so test the body with a pack from another of their tools at the same voltage. A body whose own pack is finished is only worth having while that mount is still current.
Check socket flats and drives
In the hand-tool sets the pieces to look at are the drive squares and the flats of sockets and spanners. Rounding or spread there is what drags a full set down, and it cannot be put right piece by piece.
What Total power tools & hardware are worth
- A complete set in its case is worth considerably more than the same set short a piece, because the missing piece cannot be bought on its own and the moulded tray makes the gap plain to every buyer.
- Repairs are made by measurement rather than by part number — a bearing by its markings, a brush cut to size — which keeps a tool running but caps what a used one fetches beside a tool with catalogued spares.
- Cordless bodies follow the pack mount: while the range shares one, a bare body is a real purchase for anyone already holding those packs, and once the mount changes it is a shell.
Model lines you will see second-hand
- 20V lithium cordless
General power tools & hardware checks
These apply whatever the badge on the front says — the power tools & hardware page covers them in full.
Listen for brush sparking
Give a corded tool a minute of free running. A shower of sparks visible through the vents, with a sharp burnt-varnish smell, means the brushes are down or the commutator is scored. Brushes are a cheap consumable on common models; a burnt armature is a rewind and rarely worth doing.
Rock the spindle
Unplugged, grip the chuck or the disc flange and try to move it side to side, then in and out. Any play you can feel is worn bearings or a bent spindle. On a grinder that shows up as a disc that wobbles as it spins; on a drill, as holes that wander off line.
Work the trigger slowly
Squeeze a variable-speed trigger through its whole travel, then test forward, reverse and the lock-on. Surging, dead spots at low speed, or a motor that will only run flat out, is a worn switch module, and those are model-specific and not always available locally.
Check the cable ends
Flex the lead where it enters the body, and again at the plug. Taped repairs, hardened or cracked insulation, and a moulded plug that has been cut off and replaced are all marks of a site tool. A cable that has been shortened is common and lowers what the tool fetches.
Check it is genuine
Copies of the well-known names are everywhere in this market. A copy feels light in the hand, the moulding seams are rough, label colours and spacing are slightly off, and the rating plate is a printed sticker rather than stamped or etched. Spares made for the original will not fit a copy.
Work the battery flat
A pack showing full on its gauge proves nothing. Charge it, then drive screws or make repeated cuts until it drops out. Cells that collapse after a short burst are done. Test every pack, not one, check the charger belongs to the same platform, and look for swelling or heat marks near the contacts.
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