Wrenches

[Hirlau]

Tonight I went to Sears to get a 19mm wrench. I needed one to get the bike rack off the 4-Runner. My metric set only went to 18mm,,I've been a millimeter short all my life.

I wanted a quality wrench and one with the fancy ratchet in the hole. I was a bit shocked at the price of the wrench, $28.00 with tax. The shelves were full of China & Taiwan tools with Sears name on them, for less than half the price of this one.

I do yard sales most weekends & look for good old tools, sometimes I get lucky. Half of the tools I have, I don't even know how to use them, but I search them out nevertheless.

[10Pups]

I think if you check into the warranty on the sears tools the U.S.A. made ones are life time. That's the way it used to be when they came out with the Sears brand vrs the Craftsman. I found the same with Bucks knives. I buy the US made at about 30% more and if I break a blade they give me a new one free. Mag Lite does the same thing. Can you tell I sell tools ? Not to mention I have 4 roll-aways full of them. In general I would say ,where it was made and how much it costs tells you what your getting. The deciding factor for me is , how much am I going to use it and how long will I need it. You gt a good one and will never have to buy another. Well unless you loan it out, which is another thing I do not do. They never seem to come back. It's like the word loan turns into gift when the borrower is done with it

[Hirlau]

The salesman said it had a lifetime warranty.
A friend of mine, at the time, wanted to read one of my judo books, he kept it 5 years.

[Logistics]

Craftsman makes pretty good tools and when I have to warranty one of the tools they always swap it out no questions asked. When I used to work as a vehicle glass technician I purchased Snap-On tools and is what the largest part of my tool inventory is. Now Snap-On is sticker shock compared to Craftsman and has the same lifetime warranty.

You cannot go wrong with Craftsman. Good tools.

[JimmyHAD]

Snap-On is art. Beyond tools. I don't have a lot of them but every now and again, when I need a wrench I make it a Snap-On. Ebay is a good source for high end tools. The USA Craftsman, vintage S&K, Proto, are all good. Vintage J.H. Williams too.

[stingray]

Snap-On is art. Beyond tools. I don't have a lot of them but every now and again, when I need a wrench I make it a Snap-On. Ebay is a good source for high end tools. The USA Craftsman, vintage S&K, Proto, are all good. Vintage J.H. Williams too.

All the above is true however American consumer products "Craftsman" isn't what they used to be...everyone is going for the gimic tools. I splurged and bought a set of Armstrong box open end for $100 about thirty years go and even Armstrong isn't making a tool even close to my set now.

[HarleyFXST]

Snap-On is art. Beyond tools. I don't have a lot of them but every now and again, when I need a wrench I make it a Snap-On. Ebay is a good source for high end tools. The USA Craftsman, vintage S&K, Proto, are all good. Vintage J.H. Williams too.

Vintage Snap-On. More and more of their stuff is being made in China.

[thebigspendur]

The salesman said it had a lifetime warranty.
A friend of mine, at the time, wanted to read one of my judo books, he kept it 5 years.

You should have gone over to his house and instead of him reading the book you should have given him some "personal" instruction.

[Hirlau]

You should have gone over to his house and instead of him reading the book you should have given him some "personal" instruction.

Actually I had a class running for 6 years, just for the guys on the department. It was 2 nights a week, 3 blocks from the station, FREE, 2 1/2 hours before roll call; it doesn't get much more convenient than that. He attended approx. 3 classes, borrowed a book, never came back. Once a year I would remind him of the book, only because it was a first edition, difficult to obtain, part of my library. His response was always , "Yes, Johhny I'll find it for you." The only reason I ever got it back, was his wife forced him to clean out the storage room in their house.
He probably never even read it through.
Now he's sitting in jail, busted by ATF for illegal sell of firearms; with all tthis time on his hands now, I bet he wishes that he had my book to read.

[edhewitt]

The salesman said it had a lifetime warranty.
A friend of mine, at the time, wanted to read one of my judo books, he kept it 5 years.

Was it in English, or did he need to learn a foreign language to read it, either that or he Jamie a self taught black belt :-)