Wrenches
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My first socket set was S-K. Still have most of them. Had an uncle that sold MAC and I bought a good many tools from him that he took in on trades. But most of my older tools are "kenmore" A.K.A. Craftsman. The convenience of having a nearby source outweighed the other considerations for me, but that being said, if I were in a situation where I couldn't get it replaced right away, and I needed it to NOT BREAK, I'd go with Snap On. It's one thing to offer a lifetime warranty on a tool, but even at that, you don't want it to break when Murphy's Law is in full force.
BTW, as I got older, I gravitated towards sockets that were laser etched with the BIG numbers. Too many times the Craftsmans I have are hard to read and my eyeballs aren't as calibrated as they used to be, especially with metric and English sizes being mixed on most cars nowadays.
BTW, as I got older, I gravitated towards sockets that were laser etched with the BIG numbers. Too many times the Craftsmans I have are hard to read and my eyeballs aren't as calibrated as they used to be, especially with metric and English sizes being mixed on most cars nowadays.
Metrinch. Not cheap, getting harder to find, but only one set of wrenches and sockets needed to fit any standard of measurement. Grips the flats of nuts & bolts, not the corners. Haven't had many situations that were so tight there was no room for the slight movement needed to grip: more of an issue with wrenches than sockets. I use them with my impact driver all the time, as the standard sockets that I have are impact rated. In 20+ years of ownership, have never had one round anything off, never had one fail. In many cases these will grip rounded nuts & bolts.
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I think I am going to see where I can get some of these sockets. They look good.
The Craftsman brand name was sold to Stanley Black and Decker in January 2017. Stanley Black and Decker is one of several suppliers of Husky tools. Kobalt tools are currently made by J S Products. Stanley Black and Decker also owns DeWalt, Porter Cable, Lennox, Mac and Bostitch brand names.
Maybe soon Kobalt and Husky will be just different names on the same tools!
Maybe soon Kobalt and Husky will be just different names on the same tools!
When I was a little kid we lived in Atlanta. Sears had a distribution center in a multi storied building. There was a store on the lower floor. Everything was priced, but the stuff on display was not for sale. You picked out what you wanted and the clerk called the order upstairs and down it came. You could buy anything. From a shirt, shoes, power tools, auto tires even a bunch of ducks. There was a Sears catalog in almost every home. Us kids waited with bated breath for the Christmas catalog. Many many years before the internet they invented mail order shopping. Heck! to sell radios out in the mid west they built a radio station WLS Chicago (stood for worlds largest store). What went wrong? How do you let an empire like that disappear? I've never understood !
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Sears isn't going away quietly, as I understand they are teaming with Amazon (deja vu to their roots?) to sell their appliance line. I too remember the old Sears catalogs and there was many an outhouse in the south populated with their outdated catalogs...........
Nevertheless, they did announce they are closing another 160 stores including one in Wilmington and Charleston. Sad to see them go but that era of retail has outlived its profitability.
Nevertheless, they did announce they are closing another 160 stores including one in Wilmington and Charleston. Sad to see them go but that era of retail has outlived its profitability.
CRAFTSMAN BRAND ALREADY SOLD to Black & Decker
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct...llion-2017-1&usg=AOvVaw2lB1TwUqTtV-ZlVoE-8ucK
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct...llion-2017-1&usg=AOvVaw2lB1TwUqTtV-ZlVoE-8ucK
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I go out of my way to buy US made when possible. I bought a set of Blackhawk sockets and ratchets, US made with foreign materials, excellent quality, 10x nicer to use than my old Craftsman stuff. Proto and SK are still mostly US. And there are other lesser known US brands. If you want cheap, buy HF. They are top of the line for Chinese mechanic tools these days. Really, they have stepped up their game.
I ordered a set of 14 Metrinch sockets and they came today. The idea of having a set of sockets that could fit both SAE and Metric was pretty interesting. The first thing I noticed after unpacking them was how thin the socket walls are. Much thinner than any of my other sockets. Guess I'll add these to my up-in-the-house tools where I'm not as likely to encounter needing to use a breaker bar or impact driver. They may be just fine, but I don't want to test just how strong they are under extreme conditions.
Don't forget Agrisupply's in house brand of hand tools. King Tony is the name if I remember correctly. In each vehicle with aluminum wheels, I added a HF torque wench, and correct size socket from Agrisupply to tighten lug nuts. To loosen them, I use same socket on a HF 25.5" breaker bar. Easy Peasy!
What do you need / what are you missing?
They are designed to be thinwall sockets. They also carry a lifetime guarantee against breakage.
good luck on that one
I won't know until I do my search! For one, I bought a new 9/16" open-end wrench, but I needed an 11/16". By chance, I happened to go through my Home Depot purchase history and saw where I already purchased an 11/16" wrench. The challenge now is to find it. It fits the collet on my Dewalt D26670 router.
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