>ha lol !!!.Lets put young mechanics in to debt with our shitty taiwanese tools that are the same quality as harbor freight.Any real mechanic will know that the the tools do not make you its the hands and knowledge that are fundamental to wrenching.Anyone that disagrees with this is a tech school grad or a fagget that likes to larp as a subaru technician.
Who is a good maker of tools?
>>27604628never mind how incredibly retarded and cucked it is for mechanics to buy their own tools. imagine if a surgeon had to buy his own scalpels, or a white collar worker his own laptop. kek.
>>27604634OP is just salty. Snap On makes some of the best mechanic’s hand tools. A lot of their stuff is rebranded and marked up from other brands. All of it is overpriced because it’s an outdated service and sales model and about half the price you pay for Snap On tools is for the services of your Snappy rep. If you have a good rep who is around all the time and cuts deals and gives you lines of credit (assuming you work at a shop), it might be worth getting some sockets and wrenches from them.As a weekend wrencher or a busrider /o/ poster, there’s no reason to buy Snap On. If you want some of the best wrenches and sockets without a retarded premium, Williams and Wright and Proto are available on the internet.
>>27604634Real wrenchers are also qualified smiths and forge their own tools in their home furnace.Only wrenchlets buy off the shelf tools.
>>27604658I only use Japanese tools when I work on Japanese vehicles
>>27604673>>27604658>when a BMW needs work
>>27604680Too little plastic on them for German stuff
>>27604644Some white collar workers DO supply their own stuff, including laptops. My dad is a white collar union contract worker and gets paid a ton extra for using his own gear, depending on the job anywhere between $50 and $100 A DAY for using his own laptop and other equipment.
>>27604651didnt you doxx yourself on /diy/ the other week
>>27604693Nah, that one wasn’t me.
>>27604634OP is trolling. Snap-On is the best, by far, with pre-Chinese-takeover SK Tools being a distant second. Matco is good for certain things.
>>27604628>>>/diy/
>>27604703I would never buy any of that nu-SK. So sad they gutted that company and promoted so much mediocre Chinese shit with American flags all over Amazon. It looks like fine mid-grade stuff, but more expensive than other mid-grade stuff and shady graphics and hidden COOs trying to trick people.Williams is the non-truck version of Snap On and Blue Point. I believe the model #s starting with a letter are the USA stuff from the Snap On factory, and the models that are all numbers are from the Blue Point factory in Taiwan.>>27604707Yesss let’s argue this dumb shit over there too!Tbqhwy Snap On is probably more /o/ related than /diy/ related
my shitty rattle gun I bought for $300 has outlasted 2 snap on rattle guns in our shop. also the snap on dude wanted $70 for a pair of gloves that cost $10 from any tool shop.Snap on is just a brand name people like to flex with. It's not better than anything else
People fail to realize in this current world of outsourcing, its really about where tools are made that determines whats good. If its made in taiwan, it will hold up a while 8/10 times. Made in USA is better, but the real best is germany. Both USA and germany are expensive tho so I'd rather pay the extra for german stuff unless its lifetime warranty USA made
Protip if you live near a military base you can find entire cases of snap-on on Ebay/Marketplace for cheap and the LTs they put in charge of the field loss report are NOT going to find the guy you buy it from.
>>27604719Most imported Williams wrenches have model numbers beginning with '11'. I wish I'd known that before buying a set off Amazon, a few years back. Something seemed off about them, so I asked a Snap-On driver about them, and he told me the deal.
>>27604634Wright ToolsIf your going to spend fat cash on tools get the good shit.
>>27604634Unironically Tekton. I use them as an airplane mechanic because their sets don’t skip fucking sizes and they make loads of 12 point SAE shit.Only snap on truck that comes to the terminal only seems to come on my days off and if I happen to catch him, his truck is always filled with 6 point metric shit since he makes most of his money from car mechanics, which I can’t use.Some stuff is definitely worth the price though. Their dikes (808CF should be in every airplane mechanics box) and speed handles are top notch, and I use snap on ratchets with tekton sockets.
Strap-on is mostly just rebranded crap for at least twice the money that people still buy because they're brand-name whores.People justify it with a warranty, but now even harbor freight chinkshit often has a warranty and you'd have to be absolutely fucking braindead to break shit like a wrench anyways.>>27604934This fellow A&P bro is right about the dikes though. Nothing better for safety wire.
>>27604934>>27605006When it comes to safety wire I'd rather be using my Klein dikes at any given time unless I'm inside a really tight place, then I'll use the 808CF.>>27604634It depends on the tool. My collection is mixed because I pick out my favorite product(s) from each brand. There's no reason to devote everything to one company. You can also balance cost/quality better. For tools you use once every now and then, maybe buy a cheaper set instead of a top-of-the-line set. I have products from Snap-On to Amazon Basics, and many in between.
>>27604628Snap-on's whole thing was offering lifetime warranty and replacement on their hand tools, something which virtually all tool brands now also offer.And their power tools have always been horribly overpriced for no good reason. >But you can also buy a $50,000 toolbox and finance it for 20 years!Don't be a retard. Just get a Husky/Kobalt/Workpro/Tekton/500-other-brands-that-are-literally-all-exactly-the-same for far less money.
>>27604628I've worked as a mechanic the past three yeara and don't own a single snap on product. I use gear wrench, vim and harbor freight tools. Told the snap on guy to get fucked after he copped an attitude with me about never buying anything.
>>27605232Absolutely
>>27605211What did you buy from Amazon Basics?
Real man uses his bare hands
>>27604644Aircraft mech here, we recently had to stop using our own tools and instead were issued toolkits. Great right?Well my tools were all Wera/Britool/Snap On/Facom etc, all used but VERY good quality. Some of my ratchets are over 70 years old and work perfectly.The issued tools are all Silverline/Sealey. Will they do the job? I mean they kind do, kinda don't, the sizes aren't nearly as precise as I'm used to, I swear the 1/4 is more of a 5/32 cause it slips off nuts all the time while my old Britool one gripped like a retaded kid on a kitten.Mechanics supplying their own tools means you can choose to buy the best of the best, or choose to cheap out. Being issued tools means you get the bean counters cutting as close to the bone as they reasonably can and you end up with garbage tools that lose calibration or straight up break under medium use.4pg8xs
>>27604644Surgeons rent their scalpels and other surgical instruments from the hospital.
>>27604634Pittsburgh
>>27604628mmmmm strap ons...
>>27606019Only shit we get provided at our station is calibrated tools (torque wrenches, tensiometers, etc) and specialty equipment that you can’t reasonably buy for yourself, like a PS3 sense line vacuum for a LEAP engine.Where do you work that gives out tool kits if I may ask? Only ever heard of that in the manufacturing side of things.
>>27604634Masterforce, but for specialized shit I get Snap-on. There's no reason to get raped over a socket set though. I have a nice mix of Klein, Ancor, and Fluke for electrical tools but Ancor is the only one of those I'd say is stupidly overpriced.
>>27604634MAC>>27604644How is it cucked to own your own shit?
>>27604634unironically Harbor Freight
>>27606135NTA but a lot of civilian companies that do work on military planes (such as L3) have contractional requirements for tools and tool boxes set depending on the project. Also, for MROs, airlines, small businesses, it may heavily influenced by a CAR. Somebody fucked something up big time because of cheap/custom tools, and one of the corrective actions was to provide tools. Not that common, but not unheard of.
>>27606010There are unironically some straight AmazonCommercial products I’ve seen. Their multimeters that are now discontinued were the same as the Southwire meters that Lowe’s used to carry. I was tempted to snag another one just because they were like 1/3 the price of the same meter at Lowe’s when they were trying to get rid of them. My Southwire clamp meter is always in my go-bag, it’s fairly compact and does DC amps (not very accurate <1A but that’s not uncommon for DC clamps) and I’ve pulled it out numerous times in parking lots when somebody’s car won’t start so I can tell them their alternator is fucked.
>>27604700You still sell those Twingo plushies ? I'd like one.
>>27606331Not him (and I'm pretty sure he isn't the plush guy either) but autoplush.com
>>27606339Didn't know about that site, thanks.
>>27606331I never sold em. The original 1st batch before Anon got a letter from Renault’s lawyer, it was expensive for him to get them to the US one by one so he sent them to me and I forwarded them to everybody who ordered them with USPS.
>>27604693Yeah
>>27604634Icon is unironically 95% as good as SnapOn for like less than half the price. If you're a home mechanic you literally don't need better
>>27606610damn so you have my old address somewhere
>>27604628>Lets put young mechanics in to debti didnt realise people were forced to buy snap on
>>27607001Icon is unironically the same as a bunch of other mid-range brands and you can often get the same thing for a better value from many other brands.>tfw they rebranded a Mayhew punch and chisel set and charge way more than buying from Mayhew themselvesAlso Harbor Freight is still gay with returns. Have fun trying to exchange that busted Icon wrench and the manager refusing to swap it unless you bring in the entire set, but you lost the 10mm so you’re fucked unless you feel like driving to multiple HF stores and hope one manager will pull a fresh 17mm from a new set to replace yours.
>>27604703>>27604719>>27605006>>27605225>>27605232Man you guys all sound like a bunch women gossiping over makeup or victoria secrets underwear.The left one is an american SK the other is USA craftsman that i have owned since i was 8 years old , both of them are in functional condition after years of abuse,They don’t make American made tools anymore like they used to.>there was no such thing as battery power tool , pic is all you had to disassemble a car unless you had a big air compressor but nonetheless.
>>27604644i work for a doctor and he is autistic about ordering all his own shit
>>27606010Pic relatedAt the time, the open-end angled wrenches were $90-$130 a set.Amazon had just released this set at $45. I figured "what the hell" and bought it. I planned on using them as a cheap set that I could cut and grind on to fit in weird places, but it turned out that they were actually nicely made. I got medieval on the 3/4 while removing/installing a Hartzell propeller, and it held up. Even today after several years, they're still good.Now these wrenches are everywhere, you have so many options.
I like Snap-on sockets, Harbor Freight ratchets and wrenches, and Knipex pliers. Snap-on has good punches, chisels and dead blows too.
>>27607224>dey don' make 'em like dey use to!>back in my day we didn't have those fancy gizmos with the electricity and the turn on their own, or that other new fangled stuff>we had to use single sets of thick ratchets we had to turn on OUR OWN. You kids wouldn't get it! They had all of 20 teeth!And you sound like a dumb boomer.
>>27604680>tfw no $1,300 sledgehammer
>>27604680>>when a BMW needs workWhen DOESN'T a BMW need work?
I only use the SnapOn man to buy shit like Milwaukee batteriesWhy buy from a store and pay all at once when I can give tooldick $20/week until it's paid off, no interest, and still have it now?
>>27604634I still use Craftsman
>>27604634Made in USA vintage Craftsman
>>27604628Unironically buy an old set of sockets/ratchets from eBay and just get real Craftsmen stuff. I bought a 180pc set from a garage sale 15 years ago, it was some old man's set but he died. Looks to be from the 1980s, so well made it's unbelievable. Paid his widow $25 for it.
>>27609873based Craftsman enjoyer
>>27609879>>27609873>>27609884hivemind
>>27609884>real Craftsmen stuffCraftsman enthusiests rise up
>>27609873And if you break it you just walk into a Lowes, pick up a new one and hand them the old one
>>27606039subaru moment
>>27609890>>27609885>>27609884>>27609879>>27609873REAL CRAFTSMAN HOURS NIGGA
>>27609885Those ratchets are so horrible and the best thing Stanley era Craftsman did was get rid of the raised panel short ass handle ratchets.They made this comfort grip 72T version near the end of Sears’ existence and the 3/8” drive ratchet straight up weighs like 5lbs, and it’s still too short.Those fuckin bit sets were great for weekend wrenchers. I think I paid $20-$30 for the smaller set and $30-$40 for the bigger one with the ratchet included. I miss Sears.
>>27610152>tfw standard length 3/8” ratchets from any other brand are nearly as long as a 1/2” craftsmanWell I guess it’s less warranties if people are unable to break Craftsman ratchets because it’s not possible to get any torque into the things.
>>27610152>I miss Sears.we all do Bepis, but they're dead now. probably never going to see anything like them ever again.
Let me guess; you (((need))) more?
>>27610194The last couple years too, they had dirt cheap online pricing. I remember the 1/2” impact socket sets were like $90ea in store but caught them around $30ea with the ever-variable online price, snagged SAE and metric and picked up an hour later.Got a heckin good deal on the jigsaw too!
>>27610206idk what this is supposed to even convey, Channel Lock is considered a mid-high level brand as it is. Most people wouldn't need more than this, their products are quite well made. I've got several and they feel incredibly solid.
>>27610213Imaging ripping her hair out lol
>>27610215me on the left
>>27610194>they're dead now. probably never going to see anything like them ever again.it hurts too much
>>27610213>piercings>nose rings>wall to wall tattoosjfc what an absolute piece of diseased trash
>>27610302oh 100% gross she would not be allowed to touch my pristine dick for sure totally gross
>>27604628I buy a lot of Mac/dewalt stuff, but that's mostly cuz I've had an A1 Mac truck man for the last 5 years or so. That being said 99.95% of people will be just fine with some Pittsburgh Pro series or gear wrench hand tools. prob Craftsman too but the people at harbor freight just hand you new tools without a thought for warranty. anytime I've had to warranty a Craftsman tool I had to play 20 questions and show a butthole pic before the douche at sears hands me a rebuilt POS. maybe different now that Lowe's has them.
>>27610206>archaic ratchet design >shitty chinese wrenchesyes, i do sockets, extensions and bits are fine though
>>27610567Those kits are a few years old, Channellock doesn’t really make wrenches, they borrow the name and slap it on some Taiwan tools and sell the kits at Costco. The stuff isn’t shitty though, it’s from one of those Taiwan factories that makes tons of the other mid range serious DIYer tools.Channellock adjustable wrenches are the best adjustable wrenches you can easily get in the US and they’re not even made by Channellock with their pliers and stuff.
>>27610213thanks alot asshole. I got Aids just from looking at this picture.
>>27610302>>27610489>>27610956You guys are just gay, I would blow obese loads inside her.
>>27610213
>>27611837enjoy your aids and cancer and early death from diseaseRIP
>>27612004Doesn't matter had sex.
>>27609884Craftsman is just Sears' housebrand that boomers worship because Sears was Walmart for people born prior to the 1970s. Same sort of people that say Chevrolet make the best cars, yet have never even ridden in anything nicer than a Malibu. Barely a step above Harbor Freight.
>>27612588I think it’s because Craftsman was the only thing you could get in the weekendet category back then. It’s on par with the mid range Taiwan stuff today, but in the 80s and 90s you didn’t have the same choices. It was either bottom barrel dollar store crap, or expensive premium SK and Snap On stuff, and Craftsman was one of the very few in the middle. None of the other stuff sold to consumers could be warrantied like Craftsman.That being said, Craftsman never actually manufactured any tools, sort of like Harbor Freight. It’s all from other suppliers. Most of the USA stuff wasn’t bad, then they sent stuff to Asia and it was mostly OK but any of the Craftsman Pro stuff from that era is really premium made by Armstrong and shit, and then they had Craftsman Evolve for a minute which didn’t even have the warranty and that was straight Chinesium.
