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Road Side Pub
“Starter” Tool Set Question
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<blockquote data-quote="CV355" data-source="post: 16092721" data-attributes="member: 181885"><p>They are cutting way back on Kobalt in place of Craftsman.</p><p></p><p>I have never had a Craftsman tool break in the ~22 years I've owned them. I also own Husky, Kobalt, GearWrench, HF, and Snap On. If you're not abusing the tool, they last. Lowes is honoring Craftsman warranties, not that I've had to use it personally since you know, never had one break, but I did inquire the last time I was there.</p><p></p><p>Let's be honest though. How many people don't think twice about using a 3/8 ratchet to break a 1" nut loose, use the back of a ratchet to hammer out a stuck bolt, or wonder why they snapped their 1/4 to 3/8 to 1/2 drive adapters when they use them on an impact gun? Or get a 1,000,000 tooth quintuple-pawl ratchet and wonder why it couldn't handle the torque of the crusty old 18T ratchet...</p><p></p><p>You have to take tool failure with a grain of salt and really question if the tool was used properly and within its limits. Where quality really comes in is in materials and long-term fatigue/wear. That's the typical failure mode. Believe me, I deal with this BS almost daily in my line of work. No joke, I have gotten in arguments with customers over my designs that supposedly failed, only to find out they slammed it at 2m/s into a steel frame with a 210kg robot. Yep, that's my design failure alright, you literally crashed the ever-loving piss out of it, and it's my fault I didn't design it out of unobtanium with an anti-inertia coating.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="CV355, post: 16092721, member: 181885"] They are cutting way back on Kobalt in place of Craftsman. I have never had a Craftsman tool break in the ~22 years I've owned them. I also own Husky, Kobalt, GearWrench, HF, and Snap On. If you're not abusing the tool, they last. Lowes is honoring Craftsman warranties, not that I've had to use it personally since you know, never had one break, but I did inquire the last time I was there. Let's be honest though. How many people don't think twice about using a 3/8 ratchet to break a 1" nut loose, use the back of a ratchet to hammer out a stuck bolt, or wonder why they snapped their 1/4 to 3/8 to 1/2 drive adapters when they use them on an impact gun? Or get a 1,000,000 tooth quintuple-pawl ratchet and wonder why it couldn't handle the torque of the crusty old 18T ratchet... You have to take tool failure with a grain of salt and really question if the tool was used properly and within its limits. Where quality really comes in is in materials and long-term fatigue/wear. That's the typical failure mode. Believe me, I deal with this BS almost daily in my line of work. No joke, I have gotten in arguments with customers over my designs that supposedly failed, only to find out they slammed it at 2m/s into a steel frame with a 210kg robot. Yep, that's my design failure alright, you literally crashed the ever-loving piss out of it, and it's my fault I didn't design it out of unobtanium with an anti-inertia coating. [/QUOTE]
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