Swift Transportation and their Lease Purchase Plan

Craftsman is the minimum that is acceptable for professional use.

You drop a B&D tool off of a ladder onto a concrete floor and it's toast. Makitas can take it, over and over again. There is a difference between amateur and professional use. In a shop, at least in a non-union shop, you are either humping to make commission, or to get promoted. You don't have time to waste with tools that break.

You would also notice, if you worked on enough high-tech equipment, that you often need the thinner socket walls and other clearance enhancements that are found in better tools.

Last but not least, there is simple pride in what you do. If you're going to be a professional, you should look like one, and that includes using professional tools.

Sometimes cheap tools can do the job, sometimes they can't. If your job changes every day, it's best to have a decent set, of decent quality.

I also have cheap tools around my house, and in my tool box. I would not, for instance, be able to afford tools like a parts cleaner and a hydraulic press if I bought the very best, but I don't do professional work at home, so it doesn't matter as much. If I were to go back to work professionally, I would have to remove a lot of tools and leave them at home.

For instance, if I were to go back to work on aircraft, the air hammer that I'm using as a rivet gun would be replaced with a real rivet gun, because when you drive hundreds or thousands of rivets in a day, it really starts to make a difference. If you put a patch on your own airplane once every few years, it really doesn't; at least, to me, it doesn't.

Yes. I have a bunch of tools that I have made, and modified. Why buy a special bent wrench, for instance, when you can heat it with a torch, bend it into the shape you want, and give it the quick ghetto heat treatment job? Some people keep a few cheap tools around just for the purpose of making special tools out of them. All of us who did aircraft work have cut up brake rings to make bucking bars, made brass O-ring tools out of brazing rod, etc. I even sharpen my own drill bits, freehand, a skill that really comes in handy.

I have never seen a can of WD40 in an aircraft shop. Maybe some automotive "grease monkey" shops, but not in a professional environment where people have an understanding of lubricants.

Right, buying quality is a waste of money. Might as well go to Wal-mart.

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Nothing nasty about shower every 2-3days? That's not something you want to brag about! Hate to see the inside of your truck, the odor probably wreaks when you open the doors!

 

I will come to the aid of Morella...she obviously needs some help here!

The obvious choice in "tool-ologogy"would be from

THE HEAD TOOL!


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She don't need any help there OHTW....She'll just make up some more nonsense to feed us about all the things she's done!

We'll believe her....I promise!

'Cause she's an aircraft mechanic like I'm an astronaut! She's a hell of a fabricator though...Fabricating one phony story after another.

 

Was that YOU playing golf on the moon? I thought that guy looked familiar!

I'm an aircraft mechanic myself....built many an airplane model....plastic stuff came in a box and used that high tech stuff called "model cement"...guess that makes me a "cement mason" as well! I'm also an engineer! I had my own Lionell train set growing up....so since I put the tracks together I can claim "railroad designer" too. And I can claim "forester"...all the trees I "planted" in my model train cities....oh I was Mayor of the towns I built my railroad through!

I have more talents than I thought....need to update my resume!

 

Me and Alice Kramden....

 

In my many years on this earth I've had ocasion to buy tools to support a hobby and sell tools as part of my job. I've noticed a few things, nothing is handier than a can of WD-40 and no tool is worth more than what you pay for it. Marketing and how tools are sold and distributed has a lot to do with their price more so that their actual quality.

 

Ya Know? I just might be an astronaut....I spend a lot of time in "outer space".

 

Thought that was "hillbilly"!

 

No buying quality is never a waste of money, but buying marketing and hype is.