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Tools tools and more tools!
http://www.craftsman.com/shc/s/p_10155_12602_00929498000P?vName=Hand+Tools&cName=Ratchets+%26+Sockets&sName=Ratchets&prdNo=8&blockNo=8&blockType=L8 I wish sears advertised these in stores because I'd buy them in a heartbeat. But apparently craftsman has a new "premium" line and a lot of the reviews I am reading on forums about them put these ratchets up there with Snap-On I must have them |
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Most tools are made by the same company and branded for whoever the end seller is. Used to be a factory in Wichita Falls Tx that made them for at least Craftsman and Snap On, probably others.
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Per-Exactly!
Why not buy them from the local Chinese Communist Embassy (Harbor Freight)
and save $130.00 USD ? "Lifetime Warranty" (Whatever a "Lifetime" is?)
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Nah those ratchets tend to suck. Plus I like tools and I should be allowed to blow money on stuff I want occasionally.
Plus these are made in the USA. Which nice |
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nice looking .......but $$$
wow $149.00- really ?
nice looking stuff but for my limited use too much |
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Proto Tools, if I recall.
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Danaher makes tools in the US almost exclusively for the US government and for the military. The exception to this that I know of is S-K and Stanley tools, which were bought by the European company FACOM and many are made in Europe, although there are some Stanley tools made in China. Personally, I would put Armstrong, Easco, and Williams on a par with Snap-On, because they are made in the same US factories that always made them. Plus they are made for truck repair and heavy equipment. I have lots of Craftsman sets that I am selling cheap. Why use Craftsman when you can get Easco? or Mac?
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I like to hit the old-car swap meets to pick up used tools. I've found some nice rachets by Easco, Kal and others. People usually want too much for old Snap-On tools.
I picked up some 3/8-drive Blackhawk sockets over the weekend for a buck apiece, but they weren't used. The stamping seems a little off. Factory seconds, I assume. |
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I used to work in a shipyard in the scaffolding trade. We used ratchets to install certain types of scaffolding. The craftsman ratchets that people used did not hold up well. They had a tendency to slip or skip a tooth when applying force. We had several injuries caused by this slipping. We stopped using them. They can cause great harm at the wrong time. Proto, Mac, Snap-on, were much better ratchets.
Craftsman ratchets do look good. |
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SK now owned by Ideal
SK went bankrupt after a management buy out, only now getting back to manufacturing (the buy out was the name and rights and designs only NO manufacturing facilities). They designed from scratch a new plant and now cast/forge all SK tools here in 'merika!
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So far I've only ever broken a single craftsman tool, and thats because I pushed it WAY over what its meant for.....I used a flex head 3/8 size ratchet to loosen the differential on a car in the junkyard with a 4 foot cheater pipe. It survived and I got the diff off, but it was mortally wounded and I had to trade it in (damaged the clicker/tooth gear) The replacement is still going strong after installing/removing two other diffs, and many other projects. Maybe that first one was only good to 300% of capacity instead of 350%
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