another fun fact is that craftsman tools that DO have a lifetime warranty, like a socket, if it has a laser etched number on it, it will wear off and disappear if in daily use. You will never be able to return it once that happens. Look for the older sockets that are engraved if they can still be had.

I tried buying some of the stanley stuff from walmart, and am pretty happy with the quality of the sockets, but broke a 1/4 inch ratchet almost immediately despite its better fit and finish over craftsman stuff. Overall though, for cheap lifetime stuff, its pretty decent, and you can't beat replacing lifetime stuff at a place like walmart with its hordes of underpaid unhappy people. Go there during the late late shift, when the dregs are running the store, and there are no arguments, or even disinterested apathy from what I can tell. "Want to replace that socket? heres ten, stop bothering me."

Precision stuff I have snap on, but its way way too expensive for everything. I don't want to be one of those guys who owes his life to the snap on truck. Worse than a drug habit, you end up spending more money.

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