Craftsman/China

Ya but that shouldn't effect what brand breaks easier. Just that he breaks more due to more frequent use.

 

Why exactly do things say Made In China, anyways? They need to quit stamping things. It's annoying.

 

I'm quite fond of my Snap-On ratchets, and yeah, I've had to get them rebuilt, but I use the hell out of them. The guys using Craftsman haven't seen better results, but for cost effectiveness, I do like what I've seen from Carlysle. Some things, I won't pay tool truck prices for… I use impact sockets almost exclusively (save for my 1/4" set). When I bought my starter set, it came with 1/2" drive metric shallow, metric deep, and ASE deep impacts (the ASE shallows were chrome for whatever reason). A couple of my larger 1/2" sockets have since come from Mac, Snap-On, and Matco, but my ASE shallows are a mix of Craftsman and Tekton, my 3/8" impacts are Tekton, etc. All my ASE wrenches 1" and up and metrics over 19mm are Craftsman, Tactix, Eagle, Sunex, and Pittsburgh. All of my 1/4", 3/8", and 1/2" drive ratchets are Snap-On, save for the set of three 100 tooth swivel head ratchets - those are Mac. For my 3/4" ratchet, I have an EZ-Red. I'm a bit wary of Snap-On's air tools, although I do have their 3/8" and 1/2" impacts, as well as their air hammer. So yeah, there's areas where I'll splurge, but I'm not gonna pay their prices for consumable things, or tools I don't use that often that I can justify the expense. E.G., air hammer bits… there's a surplus tools place down the road from where I work, and they have a bunch of Oldforge bits they sell for less than $5/each.

 

I have a few odd ball easco tools laying about in my box. Did a Google search and come to find out they are who manufactured for craftsman till 2010.

 

I really got to stop losing my 13mm impact socket. $18 a pop from my rapist, err. snap-on guy.

 

Leave politics out of this....edited by an administrator.

 

Every time a political party or politicians name is brought up is only a matter of time before the topic greys so over run with argueing that the thread is either locked or moved to the politics subforum. So let's keep this one about tools please and leave that other stuff out of it.

 

Leave politics out of this....edited by an administrator.

 

Ok you got it, but everything you use and or touch is 95% made in china

 

It is the law, not that it says China, the country of origin. It is a shame to see how sold out to China we are. Beef also has it if you look.