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Changing a wheel cheaply - big breaker bar vs cordless impact wrench?

Discussion in 'Experienced Truckers' Advice' started by PermanentTourist, Jun 28, 2021.

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  1. Jun 28, 2021 #41
    buddyd157

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    i can fully assure you that...decades ago, when i turned wrenches?

    Snap-On, was way cheaper than they are now.
     
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  3. Jun 28, 2021 #42
    PermanentTourist

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    One time I picked up a load of their wheeled tool chests out of their Iowa factory. Each one was $24000. That's literally the price of a decently equipped new car, for a stupid metal box on tiny wheels. That's when I figured out that snap-on is a weird cult / status symbol.
     
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  4. Jun 28, 2021 #43
    buddyd157

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    my lower tool chest(rollaway) and top box, measured about 6 feet long (each).

    total cost was under $5.000 back then
     
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  5. Jun 28, 2021 #44
    Rubber duck kw

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    When that's how you make your living every day they're nice, it'd better be a pretty nice living though.
     
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  7. Jun 28, 2021 #45
    PermanentTourist

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    Either that or it's tax time and you are realizing that you made too much and your family's health insurance is about to go way up, so you need a quick tax write off...
     
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  8. Jun 28, 2021 #46
    Rubber duck kw

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    They're not for the average penny pincher that's for sure.
     
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  9. Jun 28, 2021 #47
    Ridgeline

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    Well after you just put the tire on with the cheap torque wrench then go down the road, a tire comes off the truck bouncing into a car, it is a lot cheaper than the lawyers fees, the court costs and the settlement you make, this is a lot cheaper.
     
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  10. Jun 28, 2021 #48
    PermanentTourist

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    OK, you might have a point about a proper torque wrench - that's a safety critical item (which I can't justify spending a grand on, so I will have TA double check).

    The $1000 torque multiplier is just silly tho
     
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  11. Jun 28, 2021 #49
    AModelCat

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    Pretty much all it is. I make just as much with my "inferior" tools. In 12 years I can count on 1 hand the number of tools I've busted that are "cheap" tools. Maybe 30-40 years ago Snap On really were better but these days its the same crap at twice the price.
     
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  12. Jun 28, 2021 #50
    PermanentTourist

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    Exactly. I just buy decent Craftsman for stuff I use a lot, and harbor freight cheapo chinese stuff for things I use once a year, like this wheel switching operation.
     
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