I just looked up matco and snap on and holy schnikees! Those tools are expensive! Ill stick to my craftsman and goodwrench and harbor freight brand.

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Originally Posted by SirNik84
Have to agree with the "free" being best, , ,

My bro gave me a HF recip saw after he got a 'milwakee'. It sat on the shelf for more than a year before I had use for it, thats when I found out why he got the (anything but HF!). At that point I really needed a recip saw, & borrowed another from (another brother!) (there were six of us!) He had bought a porter cable saw & gave me his old milwakee saw which leaked oil. I tightened all the hex screws (ALL were loose). I tossed the HF unit (didnt even keep the power cord).

Also, I had (still have) a gerber pliers where the pliers pull straight out the front of the handles, I did seriously painful damage to my palms with that thing. I saw & bought a 'Leatherman' plier like a vise-grip. "Cruncher" maybe?? Best of all!! They didnt sell 'em for long tho, , ,-corne-

A while ago, I bought a load of gov't surplus scrap iron. when I went to pick it up, I couldn't find it at the warehouse. They went back and showed me two pallets full of tool boxes with tools in them. I protested this wasn't scrap iron, they said, " The gov't can call it whatever it wants, you own it now."

I found 36 tool boxes filled with Snap-On, Proto, MAC, S-K, Armstrong, ProAmerican, Stanley, JH Williams and Easco tool sets, wrenches mostly metric up to 75mm. Included some 1" drive stuff and many many 0-600 3/4 drive torque wrenches.

I have been testing them out as I do work and each year I sell a bunch at the MoPar National Swap Meet and the VW Midwest swap meet.

Snap-On, S-K Proto and Easco are the best, the others do the job but I see little things, like Easco wrenches being longer and beefier, for example.

Have only broken one socket and that one was one a 600 lbs-ft 46mm bolt on a Citroen engine cradle.

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1951 Citroen 11BN
1953 Citroen 11BNF limo
1953 220a project
1959 180D
1960 190D
1960 Borgward Isabella TS 2dr
1983 240D daily driver
1983 380SL
1990 350SDL daily driver alt
3 x Citroen DS21M, down from 5
3 x Citroen 2CV, down from 6

I know a place where you can sell a lot
Of that stuff. I'm looking for some stuff too.

I sell at every all-day swap meet in Michigan within reasonable distance, to get rid of the excess. I still have a ton of tool boxes, but I think that shipping makes them too expensive to sell here.

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1950 170SD
1951 Citroen 11BN
1953 Citroen 11BNF limo
1953 220a project
1959 180D
1960 190D
1960 Borgward Isabella TS 2dr
1983 240D daily driver
1983 380SL
1990 350SDL daily driver alt
3 x Citroen DS21M, down from 5
3 x Citroen 2CV, down from 6

I'll take the spring loaded handles which can't close on your fingers, thanks.
Don't use the shoot-out-the-front style.
If that was all they made, I would still be carrying a Leatherman.

Also like the tools accessible without flipping the darn thing open.

I never use them on cars, I have real tools for that, I only carry them for on stage, small, simple stuff.

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There are certain tools from them that are worth their weight in gold. Screwdrivers, ratchets,ratcheting wrenches ect

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i would have **** a brick when i saw what i bought

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I truly have much more stuff than I know what to do with and am slowly selling it all. Plus I have the property inside my ex-wife's house to liquidate.

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1950 170SD
1951 Citroen 11BN
1953 Citroen 11BNF limo
1953 220a project
1959 180D
1960 190D
1960 Borgward Isabella TS 2dr
1983 240D daily driver
1983 380SL
1990 350SDL daily driver alt
3 x Citroen DS21M, down from 5
3 x Citroen 2CV, down from 6

I used to hit the city car auctions a lot during the 80's. You would always hear stories about people finding stuff in cars they bought, but the only two I ever saw with my own eyes was once when I looked in the glove box of an old Volvo I had just purchased and found a Heuer watch. and another time when a guy who had purchased a beat up on VW Beetle opened the front and found a tool box full of gently used Snap-On tools.

Most of the time you would only find jumper cables and bottles of transmission fluid, but now and then you would get lucky.

I could use some ratchets. Sucks you weren't closer or I'd probably spend a chunk of change.

I'd like some snap on and SK ratchets if you have any

My first set of tools was a small box with sockets, small wrenches, screw drivers and pliers. That was in 1962. 1963 Red the local Snap-on man came in and offered to let me use a phillips screw driver for a week, if I liked it I could buy it, if not I could give it back to him. I had just broken the last .39 globemaster and need another. Back then the phillips cost $2.67. Would not let him have it back. The next tool was a small 1/2x9/16 box end. And on it went. Today I have at least 100K in Snap-on tools and a box. Many of the tools I have no one else made. In 1960 a guy by the name of Gene Olson working for Snap-on invented the Flank drive which was on all sockets and box end wrenches. It would provide 30 to 40 more torque on a nut or bolt without stripping it. 30 years later when all the patients ran out for Snap-on everyone else in the industry added flank drive to their tools. Both mac and matco have the bulk of their tools made in Japan, Tiwan or China as do SK, Craftsman, NAPA ect. It is true some of the blue point brand is made in the East but the Snap-on Branded tools are made here. I have learned over the years if you want the tool to fit in a tight place and take the fastener off it has to be a Snap-on.