BUT..... as or more expensive than Snap On. If the prices are that close, I'll buy the Snap On and have the tool truck come to me, instead of me to the Proto store.

Thanks for the link. My dad had a set of SK socketts one of my jobs early on was to make sure they ended up back in their box cleaned and in order. I left home in 1980 I moved back home the first time in the 90s I went out to the barn and all I could find was the box. My brother's beer drinking buddys had lost all of them. So I have been looking to replace them ever since. When I worked as a mech. I had Snap on Mac, and Cornwell mainly because one of them always seemed to pull up about the time I needed something.

i just want to know who voted for being the "rich preppy and taking there car to the shop"

J

Well I would vote snap-on here is why, I have been a mechanic for 6 years now and I am only 24 years old soon to be 25. I can say I know quality when you put it in your hand, plus the theory I have learned about tools over the years.

I have a big set of husky tools and even baught one of those huge boxes, sorry snap-on can't bring myself to paying what you want for a big box just don't make sense to me anyways.

Sockets Chrome, anything will do as long as it has a warranty, but I am slowly upgrading all mine to snap-on a work in progress. Just don't use them on the impact.

Impact Sockets, I will have to say snap-on, cause I own S K metric swivel and they are not as deep inside as the snap-on ones, you get what you pay for I guess.

Wrenches, Snap-on cause of the grips that they have and the different styles they have. And know if I hold a nut and tighten the other end with an impact and snaps the wrench, i know i can get another one

Pliers, Well only one comes to mind, in my mind anyways and that is channel lock, why well its the brand name All thow those Knipex cutters are just wonderful for cutting stuff Love them too.

Locking pliers, Has to be Irwine Vise Grips.

Automotive specialty tools I tend to spread it around between OTC, Snap-on, Mac, Imperial, KD, etc. Been happy so far!!

Pry pars, the new striking ones from MAC they are the best I love the Grip.

Air Tools, I-R Hands down all mine are I-R, except a couple I baught from princes auto, and they are holding up.

That is what my opionion is any ways, but I think it is just preference, if it is garenteed for life then who cares if it breaks then, take it back and get another one.

And the snap-on guy I deal with all the time never comes around much I have to visit him so, but then he also does outside the city on the other end.

what you all think

I agree with your choices and reasons. I have a test for phillips screw drivers " put a Snap-on into the head of a phillips screw and it will fit like a glove, do the same with a craftsman or SK or other brand and there is slop in the fit". When I tried that I switched to Snap-on. My tool box at work is Snap-on, but it is 20 years old.

56, Snap-On screw drivers are the best out there, you 100% right there is a BIG difference. A stripped screw head, especially a Phillips, can be a major PITA and when time is money the extra $$$ spent on the Snap-On is well worth it. Also try that same test with the Torx bits and you will be amazed at how much better the grip and strength of the Snap-On.

I agree with that, the other thing that gets me a little confused about the whole phillips and pozi-drv things is, that on vehicles the screws are pozi-drv, yet the snap-on screw drivers work really good, but when you take a snap-on pozi-drv screw driver it fits even better! Snap-on it the only one that sells pozi-drv screw drivers too.

I had a fairly complete set of Snap-On 3/8's and 1/2 in stuff and flat wrenches and screwdriver and after they got stolen, I replaced them with Craftsman...love the warranty....don't have to track down a salesman and then argue about why the tool broke....and I've never broken a 3/8's Craftsman ratchet..can't say that about Snap-On!!

I voted im a rich preppy & just take it to a shop

thanks for the S-K link steve 392!!

This way I can buy my mechanic a new tool!!!



R

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My Snap-on dealer shows up every week unless I call him for a tool I need then he will bring it ASAP. I have had very few problems with my Snap-on tools. I've been a mechanic since 1975 and I've used all the different brands and like I said most of my tools at work are Snap-on. At home I've got Bonney, SK, Proto, Craftsman, etc...... Air wrenches- IR is the best, have 1/2' and a 3/4' drive at work and a Snap-on at home.

depends really, me i own snap-on,mac,matco,sk,craftsman, and the list goes on starting out you can spend $1000.00 and go on a tool truck and walk off carrying everything you bought in 2 hands or go to sears and spend a $1000.00 and get a good selection of tool and a tool box. there is not really no reason to always start off with every tool ever made cause over half of them you will either never use or not know what they are for,when starting out you really only need a basic wrench & socket set, decent screwdriver set,few pair of pliers & maybe a few air tools. as your skills progress you can start buying the more speciality tools that different tool companies make and also will be able to afford them also ive seen so many people get in to deep making tool payments only to find out they cant afford them and have there tools repoed!

I started collecting tools when I was 15 years old working in a garage after school and on week-ends pumping gas and helping in the shop with oil changes etc. In comes a car from out of town for an oil change and when I lifted the hood, there on the intake manifold were a bunch of tools. I asked the owner of the car if they were his and he said "nope they're yours". Man I thought I had died and gone to heaven.

That was 38 years ago and since then the majority of my tools (purchased by me) are Snap-On with a few Craftsman and Mac thrown in for good measure.

Back in the 70's when Canada went metric the Snap-On dealer came around and said the Federal Gov't was issuing a 50% rebate on metric tools.The only catch was the tools HAD TO BE metric. Oh yeah sure, wink wink nod nod. I purchased a roll away, top box, a large assortment of tools, and eventually got my rebate from the Feds. What a deal.

I got a Christmas card from the Snap-On dealer that year!!

since my grandpa died a few years back (its ok he wasnt much of a car guy, good at fixin stuff though) I was into his tool box (still intact in grandmas pole barn) and he has this ratchet and socket set, I knew it was quality... freekin oozed it. It was a lot heavier than modern craftsman (he has alot of older craftsman which is good stuff for residential and light commercial use to my limited knowledge), and it was S&K. If they're made the same way these days, you guys know what I'm buying.

And hell no, I'm not buying a Craftsman tool box. My best buddys gf got him one for christmas and it had the Golden Sticker of Communisim on the back. Yup, made in China. Sadly.

-matt
p.s. save America, buy American. Thank you wal*mart and other big retail stores for selling us the rope that the chinese will hang Uncle Sam, as well as the rest of us, with someday.

I agree that snap-on is expensive, recently I have been buying from the mac guy, and the funny thing was he told me he didn't want to come around if he wasn't going to be able to make money. I told him I didn't want to blow all my money and put a roof over his head if he wasn't going to warrenty my tools. I laughed at him, and yes i know what a pain in the a** it is to get a snap-on guy to warrenty tools, the sad part is, they get the stuff for free for warrenty. I could never understand why they are like that, I guess just a tipical sales man. . I own Husky tools and a Husky tool box 41 inch wide one and I love it. All the husky tools I have had for about 6 years now and never had a problem with warrenty and I think I only warrentied one socket wich would of been my fault I used it on an impact and snapped it. But they took it and gave me a new one. The best part is that princess auto sells lots of automotive tools at cheap prices and full warrenty, I am starting to fall in love with some of there stuff. I baught a ball joint seperator, not the fork type, the press type and the ball fell out of the press part, so I took it back, with no questions asked they handed me a new one and threw the old one in the garbage right in front of me. All this makes you think about things in another way, the husky tools are alot less than snap-on, I believe it is a better warrenty.

The problem I have with snap-on is that they are never around enough at a shop, they come and go quick, they come around for 2 weeks and after that if you don't get anything from them they take off. But I like snap-on, I am finding that the prices on the interent are alot more cheaper than the prices on the truck,(for new stuff i am talking about) you shop and compare, its cheaper on the net to buy snap-on.

But with all that said I would still vote snap-on, the sockets fit tighter and the screw drivers are better quality.

In the shop have Snap-on, Matco,Mac, Cornwell.I-R air tolls mostly. The stuff in my truck toolbox is a mixture of Craftsman and cheapo. I also try to keep a set of cheapo wrenches in the tractors for quick field repairs. I also like to keep a set of "disposable" wrenches in the shop so you can heat and bend or chop and weld and not feel guilty about f-ing up an expensive wrench. As far as my opinion of craftsman ratchets I have thrown them in the junk barrel already the jump strip and you get a kit and the work the same just have shiny new junk.