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I was trying to give the short version, but I guess it will take the longer one.
!st off we broke a total of 6 sockets, I started by saying I was buying craftsman because I lived it the country and never saw a snap-on guy or any-one else that sold tools so that is what I had Good or bad. I also was 12 years old and I don't know of a lot of kids that tools are at the top of their wish list at 12, I was also working in a junk yard that was back in the woods, my job, cutting up what could have been future street rods, the year was 1956.
I was 15 or16 can't remember and don't care, a friend of mine called me up on a Sunday and told me to bring some tools mainly my socket set, he told me he needed the half inch drive, well I didn't have a lot of those sockets, I didn't have a lot of money and I couldn't afford a whole set at once so I got what I needed. He needed the one for the nut on the wishbone, I get over to his house and ask him where his socket was. Now this kid had more money than the 5 or 6 of us that hung around together had combined. He had all snap-on tools, he would get them at a gas station where the salesman stopped by his house, ( and for you younger guys they used to be service stations.) anyhow he told me he had broke it trying to get that nut loose, well we went on to break mine and two others that we got from sears, they ran out or we might have broke more, plus we broke the snap-on breaker bar.
Monday he got a new socket and breaker bar, broke that one and one other.
Now you have to remember 15 years old, yes it was a great misuse of tools but at 15 that does not come into play, it is the last thing you would think of, it between you and that nut now, you could care less about the breaking of sockets, breaker bars or anything else, we are going to get her off. We would of kept it up until one of the older guys stopped by and said have you tried heating it up, what do you know it came loose (with a snap-on socket only because the sears store hadn't got any in yet).
Out where I am now it's a long way to any tool store and over the last 54 years I have gotten tools from about every maker except the real cheap ones. in those years I have turned two ratchets in for replacement just in the last couple of years both snap-on and they are not the ones I use most of the time, and the one they would only give me a rebuilt one not a new one. No I don't think snap-on are the best except in cost. There is a forum running now on what people think of snap-on but don't go there if you have a weak heart.
Later 35terraplane