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best tool i ever found was made by Graystone. someone lost it and walking one day i found it along the road. what i can't believe is that i also found the attachment that converts it so that it fits most of my other sockets.
looks great, feels perfect in my hand, works when i need it.
and even better, if anyone bugs me it's so heavy it'd hurt if i whapped them with it...
songbird
I can say the same thing about Craftsman. I've never broke a Snappy, but have broke enough Craftsman open-end wrenches that I won't buy Craftsman fer commercial use. Fortunately, I'm retired.
Back in the 70s, I was doing a head job ona Sears Puch "twingle". Square head bolts (4) down in between cooling fins, so requiring a socket, which I didn't have. I'd borrowed a friends very expensive Snap-On metric combo wrenches. Being pretty green to mechanics, I made do. I put a crescent wrench on the Snappy's shank and used the open end of a combo wrench to fit down, end-wise, on the sqr bolt head. I got the first three bolts out, no problem. The fourth was a bugger. Wouldn't budge, so I increased the leverage on the adj wrench.
The bolt finally broke free, but not until the shank had twisted 45 degs from the head. Ewww! It not being my set, I was freakin, but continued on with my endevors. When I torqued the bolts back down (by feel), I used enough leverage on the adj wrench to straighten the twisted shank on the Snappy back to normal.
Despite all this abuse, the Snappy wrench never failed or even lost any chrome. When I confidently returned the set of wrenches to their rightful owner, I told him what had happened and that I would replace the wrench I'd abused IF he could identify which wrench it was. It was 10mm combo wrench and he couldn't tell. True story.
That's not to say ALL Snap-On tools are excellent. Since Snap-On has most of its tool line manufactured by others, a lot of it is now Chinese junk. Specially now that many US tool companies have gone under. The last tool I bought from Snap-On was cheap Chinese spring/pump oil can. It broke on the very first "pump".
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Most all of my Snappy tools were bought 10-15 years ago, so perhaps they were made in the US. Had Craftsman sockets break on me (3/8" drive) and just tossed 'em. Only two Snap-On sockets have cracked and didn't even know it until I examined them up close. They still worked even after being cracked. Never had a SO wrench fail
On Saturday, November 28, 2015 at 11:11:41 PM UTC-6, snipped-for-privacy@snyder.on.ca wro te:
I think the word "professional" is gone the way of the dinosaur. 50 years a go there was a huge respect for OTR semi-drivers...you could find a mechani c that wasn't a hack. Even my mechanic uses his ratchet for a breaker bar o r a std. socket in air tool! Most work I do myself... The "good guys" have all gone...if you find one, you're lucky!
His tools didn't fail from abuse. I likely used mine harder than he used his.
Virtually all of mine wure purchased 40 or more years ago.
Sorry, I'm retired!!!
I don't do much auto repair. I do have Kobalt, Klein, Craftsman, Porter Cable, Stanley, Stanley Bostitch (the heavier duty stuff?) Ideal, etc.
Although, If I have a need for a particular tool, I will spend the money to have the better (maybe not go for the absolute best) one. It's a waste of money and potentially dangerous to buy a tool that's cheaply made and unreliable. It might not even last long enough to complete the original job you bought it for use with. I understand that quality costs.
I am very pleased with my Kobalt tools, though. Returning a busted Kobalt tool (screwdriver) wasn't any trouble at all. It reminded me of dealing with Sears concerning Craftsman years ago-- When lifetime warranty on Craftsman tools really meant that. It doesn't apply to any electrical device. Be it a tester, a meter, or, a power tool.
AFAIK, Meters at one point were covered under lifetime warranty. I distinctly remember returning an old one that failed years ago for a newer model (they no longer carried the exact one I had) and they didn't charge me anything for it.
I pulled a Ghost Busters no no. Crossed phases inside an electrical panel and burnt the screwdriver tip and some of the shaft up as a result. They replaced it without hassle of any kind and I told them I did this to it. I went and got another one just like it and they told me to have a pleasant day.
I've used the old one before I killed it as well as it's replacement it to free some really tight screws too, torqued the hell out of others with them, they haven't even so much as chipped in the slightest little bit. I've chipped a stanley flathead doing less. rofl
I broke the top! about a 1/4 of an inch from the front (just the top) tip right off of my klein crimp/cutters pulling old staples the wrong way. local Klein dealer replaced it with a brand new one, no question asked.
I wrecked a pair of GB strippers/cutters by accidently (damnit) cutting into a live wire. Replaced without question at Lowe's.
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