Tool Boxes????
Posting Guru
Joined: Nov 2009
Posts: 2,244
Likes: 1
Well I've had several different ratchets and stripped a few... like Stanley and some others... but those where smaller 1/4 or 3/8 drive ones... sockets bust especially 12pt ones
Lol sometimes u get good and sometimes u get pure **** but that's part of life when the quality control is napping...
Anyways I'm not trying to start an argument... I've had good experiences with craftsman
Lol sometimes u get good and sometimes u get pure **** but that's part of life when the quality control is napping...
Anyways I'm not trying to start an argument... I've had good experiences with craftsman
Posting Guru
Joined: Jun 2010
Posts: 1,008
Likes: 2
From: Freehold
I have stripped out stuff myself, but not like the craftsmens where the ratchet I literally used 3-5x and it stripped the gears, took it back 5x and then demanded a new one the 6th time not rebuilt and it still stripped. I gave up after that with them and thats part of the reason I hate craftsmen.
I stripped out a few others, mostly the stanely ones I used on the road for 5 years-but they were subjected to extreme abuse day in and out for hours on end, not used for 3-4x and failed.
It isnt just me either, a friend of mine just graduated UTI (mechanic school) and he had bought a nicer set of craftsmen, once he had the cash he made a snap on account and bought all snap ons and has use the craftsmen as his cheap set.
I stripped out a few others, mostly the stanely ones I used on the road for 5 years-but they were subjected to extreme abuse day in and out for hours on end, not used for 3-4x and failed.
It isnt just me either, a friend of mine just graduated UTI (mechanic school) and he had bought a nicer set of craftsmen, once he had the cash he made a snap on account and bought all snap ons and has use the craftsmen as his cheap set.
Tuned
Joined: Nov 2010
Posts: 256
Likes: 0
From: amarillo TX
I completely swore off Craftsmen after what they did to Waterloo, where they signed a multi million dollar contract and Waterloo added a wing to their factory to build nothing but Craftsmen toolboxes then SEARS came back and said "well, we're gonna get them made by somebody else because they"ll do it cheaper " (that is the short version of the memo I have a copy of the full version of it from the day they handed it to me at Waterloo) and they didn't order Waterloo to build the wing to cover the contract with SEARS so the ywere SOL and laid off a bunc hof the old timers and fired a bunch of the new guys (myself included) and almost ran the waterloo company bankrupt. Thank god for Lowe's, they pretty much saved Waterloo. BTW, most of your toolboxes are made by either Waterloo, a Chineese manufacturer (aka. Craftsmen, made in U.S.A. --United State of something or the other in China) or Cornwell, with the exception of Snap On, they do buld their own, in Milwaukee.
Thread
Thread Starter
Forum
Replies
Last Post
