What tools do you take?

"G.R. Patterson III" wrote in message
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Mike Rapoport wrote:

A little off topic, but how does *anyone* afford Snapon tools? Their
1/4
socket set is about $1100!

I'm with you on that. They had a tent at Osh a few years ago, and I priced
some
stuff. I decided that my old Craftsman and Mac tools are good enough after
all.

If you were to use Snap-on for a while you would understand the cost and
realize that Craftsman is pretty much in the crap category.

George Patterson
A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way
that
you look forward to the trip.

On Tue, 02 Mar 2004 21:49:57 GMT, "Dave Stadt"
wrote:

If you were to use Snap-on for a while you would understand the cost and
realize that Craftsman is pretty much in the crap category.

No words more true have been spoken. The difference is when you need
to handle them for a living, you soon appreciate the quality. And
believe it or not, there are some nuts or bolts that will work better
by using a Snap-On. Face it, they couldn't stay in business with
those prices if they didn't have something! Ebay prices have been
reasonable as of late.

FYI - those "Kobalt" tools you can buy at Lowe's are manufactured by
Snap-On. So for some of you folks that can't see spending a fortune
on hand tools, you can get your stuff at a discount hardware store and
possibly have some quality, too.

Stu Gotts wrote:

FYI - those "Kobalt" tools you can buy at Lowe's are manufactured by
Snap-On. So for some of you folks that can't see spending a fortune
on hand tools, you can get your stuff at a discount hardware store and
possibly have some quality, too.

Good to know. I bought a decent set of sockets at Lowes last year, but they
aren't Kobalt.

George Patterson
A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that
you look forward to the trip.

Stu Gotts wrote:

FYI - those "Kobalt" tools you can buy at Lowe's are manufactured by
Snap-On. So for some of you folks that can't see spending a fortune
on hand tools, you can get your stuff at a discount hardware store and
possibly have some quality, too.

Gee, and I just bought them because they matched the plane :-). I actually
did start with them for that reason and I needed a tool box of a different
color than Ron's, but they are quite nice. They still don't have the
automatic homing device needed for tools in our house, and I've only bought
the stuff that I can't dip out of Ron's box (hey, I bought him nice tools,
someone has to use them!!)

Margy