It's always a judgement call - I'll have an upper limit of what I can (or will) spend. Within that, I'm looking for capability to do the most jobs, not always ways to make the jobs easier to do, but there's a big grey area of course. For me, the biggest issue is that of having the equipment to do the job, having something to make the kob easier, more pleasant, or even faster is secondary. Where to draw that line can be a tough call sometimes. I'd like a digital torque wrench, but my old click-stop one works fine. Truth be told the cheap old beam wrench I had will set torque just as well if used properly. Extendable lower links would be in the "nice to have, but wouldn't spend much for" catagory for me, because I'll still get the job done, and in the scope of the whole job it won't make much difference. With a CUT, it's a whole bunch of those types of decisions wrapped up in one purchace, which is why it can be so hard to decide, I guess. Unit A is missing something that unit B has, but then its got some other nice feature, etc. And then often the things you thought would be a big deal turn out not to be, but you find that something that seemed unimportant is really key. For example, I knew separate brakes could be helpful, but I didn't realize how much I would use them. Maybe if I had extendable lower links I would find them to be an essential! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif