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It took me a year to pay off the tool trucks, after I quit turning wrenches for a living in the 70s (Yeah SO, Cornwell, and Mac) they always seemed to show up when I could use a speciality tool, I could do the job with what I had. The only other place we had to go to was Sears or Montgomery Wards back then
 
grumpy356 said:
And we all have a thing we do that is financially irresponsible or just bad with money, yeah... this may be yours.
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Look, I get it you dislike our one-legged friend. hence your weak jab at him. but I offer this argument.

Was at a shop closure sale a month ago. Owner got the cancers and wanted to clear out before it got him and left his widow to clean up the mess. I watched thousands, shit ten's of thousands in snap on brand tools sell.

Guess how much the cheap shit tools sold for on "beer flats".........nothing.

Besides making a living using snap on tools, he had an investment that paid back. Maybe not 1:1, but that hf shit isnt bringing any money in the end.

MuntCuffin said:
I'm not the self proclaimed "broke ass mechanic" financing tools...
If you are an actual mechanic, an inherent problem solver, you'll never be broke.

But hey, keep keepin on with the Joneses. Finance them tools and let others tell you how much you're worth...
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Do you have a different opinion of snap on users that don't need to finance their tools? just curious if its interest that you hate or good tool users? :flipoff2:

Steve300xcw said:
I never understood the guys that kept themselves broke trying to buy everything that the tool trucks sell.

That said, I do like good tools and have no problems spending a lil extra on them.
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thats were im at. I enjoy having good tools. I like the way the screwdrivers feel in my hand. I like the ratchets. I love the shit out of the 2' deep drawers. And in the end, Im leaving a nice little nest egg for someone, wife or sons.
 
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Thats mine. At the auction I mentioned above, the man had 2 of these but the ugly ass dodge green color. One brought $9,000, the other brought $8,000. Like I said, it wasnt 1:1 with what he paid for them Im sure. But what would he have gotten out of that 2500 hf box when its 15 years old. Nothing when you can buy a brand new for 1500 bucks.
 
xr-nut said:
Do you have a different opinion of snap on users that don't need to finance their tools? just curious if its interest that you hate or good tool users? :flipoff2:
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Of course. More power to you, you must be doing something right. We all have our thing that we spend an irrational amount of money on.

I may think the prices are silly, but it ain't my money thats paying for them. You do you.

But to finance your future away while bitching about being broke....that shit is just insane.

I use Carlyle ratchets...by far my most used hand tool is 1/4 and 3/8 drive ratchets. Love em. I've used snap on before, great tools, very smooth in the hand. I don't doubt their quality. Just gets to a point of diminishing gain for me at the price premium over other brands.
 
xr-nut said:
thats were im at. I enjoy having good tools. I like the way the screwdrivers feel in my hand. I like the ratchets. I love the shit out of the 2' deep drawers. And in the end, Im leaving a nice little nest egg for someone, wife or sons.
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I cant make myself spend money on a tool box. I just cant do it:laughing: I seem to have more Wright tools than any other name brand. Probly has a bit to do with who sells them around here too
 
xr-nut said:
Look, I get it you dislike our one-legged friend. hence your weak jab at him. but I offer this argument.

Was at a shop closure sale a month ago. Owner got the cancers and wanted to clear out before it got him and left his widow to clean up the mess. I watched thousands, shit ten's of thousands in snap on brand tools sell.

Guess how much the cheap shit tools sold for on "beer flats".........nothing.

Besides making a living using snap on tools, he had an investment that paid back. Maybe not 1:1, but that hf shit isnt bringing any money in the end.
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I don't buy tools with selling them as a deciding factor. I buy tools for my own use, as an investment to myself (tools doesn't make someone magically a good tech/mech...), and to keep them for as long as I can turn a bolt and there are many other things $$ can be better spent on.

There is nothing to argue about how a person want to spend their money, especially if they earn enough to achieve maximum $$$ per cube of an inch ratio density in their tool box. :usa:
 
DMG said:
What is 12mm on a ford?
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We were replacing the thermostat housing, water pump and serp belt. Maybe it was a 1/2-inch ?? My 1984 Dodge Daytona was metric fwiw.
 
Steve300xcw said:
I cant make myself spend money on a tool box. I just cant do it:laughing: I seem to have more Wright tools than any other name brand. Probly has a bit to do with who sells them around here too
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Wright makes a good wrench. That’s what I keep in my pickup.

I’ve never bought anything off a tool truck. I do own some snap on stuff I bought used. Their flex head ratchets are pretty damn nice.
 
Gbkeith said:
Wright makes a good wrench. That’s what I keep in my pickup.

I’ve never bought anything off a tool truck. I do own some snap on stuff I bought used. Their flex head ratchets are pretty damn nice.
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Yup. Alot easier on your hand if you are using them with an impact, than some of the thinner wrenches that are out there.
 
I have every brand... I bought all my stuff off CL/ marketplace 2 main bulk loads ..hunt down a tool truck when I need warranty.
My go-to :
screw driver is the green HF one
3/8 rachet is snap on
1/4" ratchet is the composite HF
 
The Snap On trucks do not service or provide rape services at the track. Maybe the really high end teams see the Snap On guys at their shops.

Sonic Tools have managed to make a pretty good dent in the market in the last ten years. Dutch maybe, US distribution out of Alabama I think

I can give my rep a call, tell him which GT3 orGT4 we are running and which brand, and a week later a box or two show up with every tool needed to service those vehicles with the foam cutouts supplied.

Warranty at the races or through UPS. Sometimes the warrantied tools beat the trucks back to the shop. The high warranty items we carry two of.

I have sent several hundred thousand dollars of business their way in the past decade. They have yet to disappoint me. My long time sales rep at Sonic recently left to run his own Snap On truck. Best of luck to him
 
[486] said:
I do want some of them drawers that you gotta take a couple steps back while pulling them out
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MuntCuffin said:
Of course. More power to you, you must be doing something right. We all have our thing that we spend an irrational amount of money on.

I may think the prices are silly, but it ain't my money thats paying for them. You do you.

But to finance your future away while bitching about being broke....that shit is just insane.

I use Carlyle ratchets...by far my most used hand tool is 1/4 and 3/8 drive ratchets. Love em. I've used snap on before, great tools, very smooth in the hand. I don't doubt their quality. Just gets to a point of diminishing gain for me at the price premium over other brands.
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Here's the thing. I have two shops. One at home for me to tinker in and one at my business that makes me money. My mech for the last 6 years had a propensity for loosing my tools. So I built a cheap box setup for here. Kept my snappy tools at home. Now that he has moved on and my son is now turning wrenches for me, Ive started to invest a little more in tools here. (but I'll still keep my orange box and tools at home)

For example in my business shop, I have a few ratchets from carlyle. I can say unequivocally that they are a lessor tool than the snappy ratchets. I cant tell you how many we've broken here, a lot. The good is if it walks off Im out 20 or 30 bucks and when it breaks i can hand it to the nice napa lady who delivers parts here. I have never broken one of my snappy ratchets.

TrailTamer said:
I don't buy tools with selling them as a deciding factor. I buy tools for my own use, as an investment to myself (tools doesn't make someone magically a good tech/mech...), and to keep them for as long as I can turn a bolt and there are many other things $$ can be better spent on.

There is nothing to argue about how a person want to spend their money, especially if they earn enough to achieve maximum $$$ per cube of an inch ratio density in their tool box. :usa:
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Thats were we differ. I not only have a tool that will do the job(s) I require of it, but when Im gone my heirs will have an inheritance of tools or cash.

To the point of your thread, that is how I justify buying snap on tools.
 
I'm glad I bought 90% of my Snap-on tools 20+ years ago, there's no way I could afford them now. I did recently buy a new 3/8 drive, 200 - 1000 in/lb torque wrench off of the rape truck and it cost me $420, its not even a digital one.

I think Snap-on's tool box prices are absolutely retarded and probably would not pay their prices even if I did have the money. My current work box is a 61", 15 drawer Husky heavy duty that I paid $1K for at Home Depot. It came with a butcher-block top, built in power strip including 2 USB outlets, and heavy duty ball bearing sliders with soft close function.
Its does the job great for my needs.
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The Snap-on box in the background is a used 56", 10 drawer that my brother paid $3500 for after trading in his old 42", 7 drawer Snap- on box. :eek:
 
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CDA 455 II said:
As an outsider looking in regarding hand tools:
Buying two of everything from Lowes brand/Home Depot brand/Harbor Freight/Craftsman; would take care of warranty issue AND be waaaay ahead financially because not nearly as much money is tied up.
Versus buying from SO; $1,000 for a 44pc 1/4" set?!!!!:eek::eek::shocked:
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First of all no one pays 1k for that set, maybe $700 off the truck. I bet you could get that stuff cheaper.

Lowes/hd/hf has been junk compared to good tool truck stuff when it comes to fitment and quality. Craftsman used to be ok I have no clue about the newer stuff. Something more “niche” or oddball like the Tekton stuff is probably way higher quality than house brand tools.

I remember when Lowe’s cleared out all their decent US made Kobalt, they were pretty good quality, then they went to imported tools and the ratchet mechanisms were reverse of everything else 😂.

When your shitty socket doesn’t fit where it needs to or rounds off an important fastener, you’re fucked as a tech.
 
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My snap-on guy won't even talk to me. I don't buy much of anything anymore but do warranty stuff. I asked for a 1 5/16 deep chrome socket and it was like $108 and back ordered, I asked him the PN and put it in eBay and bought one for $30 shipped while on his truck. Hasn't talked to me since:laughing: Doesn't help he'd show us tools and I'd be like ohhh that's neat and next week have the same tool with a different color handle for much cheaper. My friend works down the street and gets all my snap-on warrantied by a different guy and I get his Cornwell stuff taken care of.
 
[486] said:
wee, you're being a retard when it comes to space
throw that plastic shit away and all that will fit in 1/20 the space
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:lmao:

don't you know that is why you buy a tool box that large? Everything has a place and everything in its place. Clean that shit before you put it back too. its an investment, treat it as such.
 
I think since the dawn of time these threads came up.
Snap-on/Mac/ (maybe Matco) are a higher quality and geared more specific towards specialty items than your standard big box store.
There are more choices in quality hand tools these days than there ever was before, so they do give them a run for their money, but Snap on has to off set that with service.
When I turned wrenches for a living, I was a Mac tool guys, now that I don't it's normally Amazon or Harbor freight for that "Good enough" style tool.

The toolbox prices are still nuts and you are only paying for the badge on the side.
 
All my snap on tools are garage sale purchases. If I am buying new it’s Proto
 
xr-nut said:
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Here's the thing. I have two shops. One at home for me to tinker in and one at my business that makes me money. My mech for the last 6 years had a propensity for loosing my tools. So I built a cheap box setup for here. Kept my snappy tools at home. Now that he has moved on and my son is now turning wrenches for me, Ive started to invest a little more in tools here. (but I'll still keep my orange box and tools at home)

For example in my business shop, I have a few ratchets from carlyle. I can say unequivocally that they are a lessor tool than the snappy ratchets. I cant tell you how many we've broken here, a lot. The good is if it walks off Im out 20 or 30 bucks and when it breaks i can hand it to the nice napa lady who delivers parts here. I have never broken one of my snappy ratchets.


Thats were we differ. I not only have a tool that will do the job(s) I require of it, but when Im gone my heirs will have an inheritance of tools or cash.

To the point of your thread, that is how I justify buying snap on tools.
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I look at it the same way. I want my kid to have everything he will ever need and QUALITY at that when the time comes. I hope hes into wrenching like I am. If not, its a good nest egg of money he can sell off. Maybe my daughter will be into it. Who knows. I do know that I got the best I could though, do with it what they wish.
xr-nut said:
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don't you know that is why you buy a tool box that large? Everything has a place and everything in its place. Clean that shit before you put it back too. its an investment, treat it as such.
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Bingo. Poorly organized tools drive me nuts. I bought more box to allow for the use of the trays. Easy quick ID and grab for the job at hand.
 
Wheelerfreak said:
Are they still? A little over a year ago they were bought out by the chinese and I thought they shut down the USA factory?
I bought a bunch of SK tools on clearance at the time.
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Yup, they got bought out, now priced high too from what I've seen. I have a bunch of US made SK stuff and have had good luck with it.
 
I outfitted my box at home and box at work with SK wrenches, screwdrivers, sockets and ratchets. Everything else is other brands I like

Wiha
Knipex
Klein
Proto
Wera
Nichols

Sucks because up until 5 years ago I could get any SK tool I wanted right in town.


From their website

SK Tools USA, LLC is now a sister company of Shop-Vac USA, LLC in Williamsport, PA USA. We have relocated our manufacturing and distribution from Sycamore, IL to Williamsport, PA USA in November 2021. This move allows us to leverage the facilities and technical capabilities of Shop-Vac who also shares our pride of quality, precision, innovation, service, and country.

Under the ownership of GreatStar Industrial USA and its portfolio of brands including Arrow Fastener, Pony Jorgensen, Goldblatt we now have far greater resources and global scale to improve our service and innovate while building on our 100-year reputation. We will continue to manufacture many products in our new Williamsport facility while leveraging the experience and resources of Shop-Vac and our parent company, GreatStar Industrial. This blended approach will allow us to focus our manufacturing, procurement and innovation while improving our service and maintaining our reputation as the premium tools for American professionals.
 
IowaOffRoad said:
Why doncha use that warranty and have em replaced?

our local serial rapist has no issues fixing them or replacing them no matter ow old or were you got it.
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3/8" was replaced. Fucker wouldnt admit that it broke, but he still handed me a new one:laughing: The 1/2" doesnt really get used much anymore. I'll open it up and see wtf, one of these days


I used to buy alot of stuff from these guys. Hit the sales and mixed sets, saved a lot of money doing so.
www.harryepstein.com

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The Harry J. Epstein Co. - USA Hand Tools - Surplus/Retail/Liquidation
www.harryepstein.com
 
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