The hits just keep on coming!!

bust open a few knuckles with cheap tools and they won't be a luxury

 

I never said to go buy cheap tools. The most expensive tools in the world won't gaurantee you from busting open any knuckels. I typically only buy Craftsman tools, the prices that Snap-on and the other tool truck salesmen get for their stuff is to high for me. Their tools can't do anything that mine won't.

 

And you don't have to find your rep if one breaks.

Just walk into a Sears.

For my air stuff, I can replace 6 "Harbor Freight jobbies" for the cost of 1 Snap-On.

OTOH - I do have some "special tools" that you can't find in sears. And if I were wrenching 40 hours a week, my box would be snap-on...

Rick

 

Sure they won't.


I used to work at sears in the shop when I was just out of high school. I bought a LOT of craftsman tools as a result. When I went to tech school for automotive, I learned REAL QUICK what a snap-on or other professional grade tool will do compared to a craftsman.

 

Yup, they'll drain your wallet a LOT quicker.

I know; I used snap-on when I wrenched for a living because the rep came by the shop every week and the payment terms were weekly with no credit check. Today I buy Craftsman. If I had the cash and / or credit back then, I'd have bought Craftsman then too.

 

I dunno. Kinda like the TQ Wrench that vibrates & beeps, with the digital display - what is it, oh yeah - $1,700?


Coolest thing I ever tightened a fastener with...

No, I don't own one.

OTOH, the 3 Crapsman in my box cost me about $400 - even if I gotta wear my reading glasses to set them. In fact, the 540 pc Craftsman set I started my current box with, PLUS the double stack box they're in, cost about what this one wrench does. Granted, now, with everything that's in there - and in the garage, I got about $10K worth of stuff now. And if I'm in the middle of a project (and it's not 3AM) and need something I don't have in the box - I can walk into the Sears, 3 miles away. and usually grab it.

Sigh - this thread will degenerate into an all out, name calling, piss-fest - of the Craftsman versus Snap-On factions. Kinda like the EGR versus EGR Delete factions.

I LOVE SNAP-ON stuff. I get threatened with arrest for "lewd & lascivious behavior" from the woody I get, every time I step on the Snap-On truck. When I hit the Powerball tonight, I'm gonna buy me a whole truck, and all my Craftsman cohorts here will get one of these cool digital torque wrenches.

If I don't hit, I guess I'll just continue to use what I can afford. Though again - if I wrenched full time, I'd have Snap-On boxes.

Harley Specialty Tools (from Kent-Moore I believe), have a similar pricing structure (if you can even find a dealer that will sell you stuff - luckily I have one) - I've got about a grand in stuff that I'll use once or twice in a lifetime - but it's the ONLY stuff that'll work on certain jobs.

True Story: I'm coming home from the beach with this real hottie I picked up on the bike. I check the mailbox and start jumping up and down with joy.

She's like; "Hustler Hotties? SI Swimsuit Edition?"

Me: "NO, EVEN BETTER - NORTHERN TOOLS ANNUAL HARDCOVER EDITION".

She: "Tools?"

Me: " YEAH - THE HARDCOVER EDITION YOU DUMB SLUT!".

I guess it's a GUY THING...

Rick

 

You do know stanley tool company owns mac? You can see the resemblence in both.
I owned snap on tools till my box got stolen about twenty five years ago. The snap on man
was such a prick, that when I got the insurance check I went straight to the mac man.
All snap on men I'v met are pricks. They think if you don't use snap on your not a mechanic.
I like mac and still buy them some, it depends on how much I think I may use the tool.

 

My point is simply therr is going to be a considerable oulay expense in tool and shop equipment no matter WHAT you buy.

Personally, i prefer proto tools.

Buy quality tools with shank drive and you'll be set

 

Isn't Proto rebranded snap-on? Or is that Kobalt...

 

You can catch some deals on Kobalt stuff when Lowes revamps the tool area in the fall & puts it all on sale/clearance. Other than that, our local one does not stock much.

Most of my stuff is Craftsman & never had a issue with them. Found a set they had a couple weeks ago that would fill in most all of what I needed. Asked the sales guy where that set was... "Oh we are sorry, but that has been discontinued." It was the set that actually had all the deep well sockets & some ratcheting wrenches w/o all the fluff that you will never use.