Dieselhead Plays a Tribute to Sears Roebucks - PeachParts Mercedes-Benz Forum

Carrameow · #1 05-25-2007, 09:45 AM

One of the sad things about Sears is whenever you pass through some forgotten area of a forgotten city, you inevitably see some great structure which was once the "Sears" building. Huge like an ancient Ocean Liner and bigger than the ancient City Hall. Its usually boarded up, cinder blocked in and little remains of the huge metropolis that made that store once draw thousands a day. The highways and suburbs and the automobile sucked the life out of the once thriving city neighborhoods in less than half a century! The factories left and the familes separated and the streets are lifeless and empty now. The ghost like structure will sit there incongrously, even scary , reminding you that time will change everything. You sit there, musing that in half of our time on this earth, an entire way of Life disappeared and became archaelogical fodder and that we too will vanish..oh well, on to more important issues like changing your brakes or washing you car...

The other month I bought a used Sears Compressor at a yard sale. The motor was brand new but the compressor shot. It was vintage 1974 and when i went to the Sears website, I was surprised to see that there was full documentation and support for every part of that compressor down to the rings!
That inspired me to look for a rebuild kit for an old Sears 4 ton jack I had. Yes they had the parts! Ditto for an old lawnmower.
Not to mention the 12 to 13 broken ratchets and sockets I have exchanged through the years...
Finally when Craftsmen changed its stock of Sockets to the new "Laser Printed" style, I ran in and bought every obsolete 6 and 12 point socket up to 32 mm for prices of 10% of the norm.
I can't afford SNAP ON. Craftsman is my only alternative. And I know every harbor freight or home depot socket will crack under extreme load.
I dont know how Sears can maintain this quality and still compete with Home Depot and Loews.

TX76513 · #2 05-25-2007, 10:32 AM

Most of my Snap On, Craftsman, MAC tools were bought at Pawn Shops when I lived in Wichita. Every time the aircraft workers went on strike I would wait about 45 days and see what was not redeemed. That's done me well some twenty-five years later. But, even HF has a lifetime on their hand-tools now.

vstech · #3 05-25-2007, 10:36 AM

my little town has one of those "structures" near my office, sad... really sad.
my town is the one that has the plant that makes all the craftsman sockets and I have a service contract to fix their label printers pretty regularly, amazing place. 2million sockets pounded out each day...
John