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| Nephasth:
Real life experience. Was a diesel mechanic for 5ish years of my life. Cool stuff. Right out of school I bought the basic tools... sockets, wrenches, pliers, pry bars, torque wrenches and ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- all from Craftsman because they were "great deals". Everything is fine and dandy for a while... but sockets will crack at the hex corners... open end wrenches will widen beyond their nominal size... Sears is alright with replacing the misc tool here and there. But after they saw me a few times, they asked what I did for a living. Told them I was a diesel mechanic at the Peterbilt shop in town. They told me they couldn't warranty any tools for me unless they were from their "professional line". I had a few set from that line. Complete garbage. The molded handles would slip off after a month or two of use. Snap-on... Nice tools. But, Cadillac prices. But there is always Matco and Cornwell. WAY better than Crapsman... ETA: There is no end all, be all, great tool manufacturer. Some make some tools better than others. The others... well some of them specialize in making other tools great. |
| pbj:
I’ve never had to ask a man if he was a mechanic. |
| jennifer:
--- Quote from: Nephasth on March 10, 2018, 11:31:12 pm ---Real life experience. Was a diesel mechanic for 5ish years of my life. Cool stuff. Right out of school I bought the basic tools... sockets, wrenches, pliers, pry bars, torque wrenches and ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- all from Craftsman because they were "great deals". Everything is fine and dandy for a while... but sockets will crack at the hex corners... open end wrenches will widen beyond their nominal size... Sears is alright with replacing the misc tool here and there. But after they saw me a few times, they asked what I did for a living. Told them I was a diesel mechanic at the Peterbilt shop in town. They told me they couldn't warranty any tools for me unless they were from their "professional line". I had a few set from that line. Complete garbage. The molded handles would slip off after a month or two of use. Snap-on... Nice tools. But, Cadillac prices. But there is always Matco and Cornwell. WAY better than Crapsman... ETA: There is no end all, be all, great tool manufacturer. Some make some tools better than others. The others... well some of them specialize in making other tools great. --- End quote --- I have never had that problem, broke a socket once and they were really nice about replacing it, But my sears is gone now, and the tools have been used hard. As replacements oddly enough, Jennifer was thinking a mix of both Matco and Cornwell....Snap-on just aint going to happen after the chrome fell off the 1 wrench I do have., |
| Nephasth:
--- Quote from: pbj on March 11, 2018, 09:49:24 am ---I’ve never had to ask a man if he was a mechanic. --- End quote --- Safe bet you've never had to take a broken tool from a customer for warranty either. |
| lilshawn:
"AvE" on youtube breaks down all kinds of HF tools and ganders at their insides and decides if it's ---steaming pile of meadow muffin--- or not. Believe it or not, some stuff is pretty good, while others are quite obviously not. Generally if it looks/feels cheap... it is. If it's got some gravity in 'er and seems decently made... they usually are pretty skookum. |
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