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Originally Posted by mgeoffriau
(Post 876682)
Yup, it was still working fine but felt a little gummy the last time I used it.
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Originally Posted by viperormiata
(Post 876686)
I need to do that to my Craftsman
Dude, just trade it in for a new one. https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1336790132 |
Don't trade it in if it's a USA Craftsman. The new Chinese Craftsman are the suck.
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Of all my years of wrenching...the best socket wrench I ever used is the Harbor Freight extendable 3/8-1/4 wrench.
https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1336791735 http://www.harborfreight.com/3-8-eig...het-98802.html |
Originally Posted by flounder
(Post 876688)
Dude, just trade it in for a new one.
Originally Posted by mgeoffriau
(Post 876689)
Don't trade it in if it's a USA Craftsman. The new Chinese Craftsman are the suck.
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Originally Posted by viperormiata
(Post 876701)
Bingo. It's a USA model. Not to mention the only place around here that will deal with Craftsman trade-ins is Sears in Key West. Lets just say they are not easy to work with.
I'd rather do the work myself. Thinking back about two years, they used to hand out NEW ratchets off the shelf for trades when you broke one. Last week I went to swap a broken ratchet and the dude gave me one that looked freaking used from a bin under his bench. The ---- is that about?? It sucked worse than the broken one. Is it sad that I've started buying more of my hand tools from harbor freight? At least you know what quality to expect from them, which has started to pass Crapsman.. |
Craftsman is about on par with Harbor Freight now...I'm not joking. Those Pittsburgh ratchets work just fine. I like Gearwrench when it's on sale. Actually, Sears.com is blowing out some Gearwrench right now, it's worth checking out.
The ratchet in the pic is a first generation Kobalt, made under contract by Williams which is a division of Snap-On. They were really nice. They switched to Danaher-made tools later which were comparable to Craftsman. Now they are really crap, not even Harbor Freight quality. More like Wal-Mart Stanley or Allen junk. |
Originally Posted by elesjuan
(Post 876716)
I miss the rebuild kits they used to hand out too.
Thinking back about two years, they used to hand out NEW ratchets off the shelf for trades when you broke one. Last week I went to swap a broken ratchet and the dude gave me one that looked freaking used from a bin under his bench. The ---- is that about?? It sucked worse than the broken one. Is it sad that I've started buying more of my hand tools from harbor freight? At least you know what quality to expect from them, which has started to pass Crapsman..
Originally Posted by mgeoffriau
(Post 876719)
Craftsman is about on par with Harbor Freight now...I'm not joking. Those Pittsburgh ratchets work just fine. I like Gearwrench when it's on sale. Actually, Sears.com is blowing out some Gearwrench right now, it's worth checking out.
The ratchet in the pic is a first generation Kobalt, made under contract by Williams which is a division of Snap-On. They were really nice. They switched to Danaher-made tools later which were comparable to Craftsman. Now they are really crap, not even Harbor Freight quality. More like Wal-Mart Stanley or Allen junk. Not so random music. I actually ordered a Harmonica in C so I can play most of the blues standards from the OST for Cowboy Bebop. It arrived today, tomorrow starts the fun. It's a Hohner "Special 20" Yoko Kanno + The Seatbelts = Greatest collection of music on earth |
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Hell, even some of the HF hand tools have a lifetime warranty! One of my favorite ratchets as of recent is their $9 composite, which I feel is better quality than the last craftsman I bought. Damn thing hasn't let me down yet!
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Some old school comedy.
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Originally Posted by viperormiata
(Post 876724)
Yoko Kanno + The Seatbelts = Greatest collection of music on earth
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Harbor Freight? Craftsman?
https://www.miataturbo.net/attachmen...ine=1336827370 Snap on FTW. http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3408/...45fb7924b0.jpg |
Originally Posted by elesjuan
(Post 876727)
Hell, even some of the HF hand tools have a lifetime warranty! One of my favorite ratchets as of recent is their $9 composite, which I feel is better quality than the last craftsman I bought. Damn thing hasn't let me down yet
Originally Posted by Full_Tilt_Boogie
(Post 876758)
Yoko Kanno has done some fantastic soundtrack work, I really love some of the stuff for GITS SAC, in particular this:
Originally Posted by 2ndGearRubber
(Post 876780)
Harbor Freight? Craftsman?
Snap on FTW. edit: goshdarn, the music for this show was astonishing... |
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Jean-Pierre the Chicken is sad. He has always had a positive experience with Craftsman hand-tools, and with Sears' no-questions exchange policy, even after he's done something stupid like splitting a 36mm socket cleanly in half by using a massive impact wrench with a non-impact socket to remove the axle nut from a VW. |
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For Joe Perez
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