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The Daring Dufas[_7_]

On 12/28/2011 7:36 PM, J. Clarke wrote:
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On 12/28/2011 3:05 AM, Existential Angst wrote:
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On 12/27/2011 10:58 PM, oldyork90 wrote:
I'm reading bad news about Sears/KMart. If Sears goes tits up, I
hope
they hand off the Craftsman line. I always had good luck with their
hand tools.

Don't worry, some Chinese holding company will buy them out. The new
stores will be Shears and Claymart. ^_^

Or, equivalently, HF will expand.....

From what I read lately, HF tools are probably just as good.

Honestly, I haven't broken any Craftsman or HF hand tool that I wasn't
*seriously* abusing. I have seen Snap-On tools break under comparable
abuse, so I'm not sure there is any real advantage there.

Craftsman sockets and especially especially the deep ones are quite easily
broken given even rather light usage these days...

These days? I broke two of them removing the oil drain plug on my 1980
Honda, before I finally got an impact socket for it (note--I wasn't
using an impact driver, just a breaker bar).

I have a coffee can about 1/2 full of them because it really doesn't make
much sense to get a replacement that in all likelyhood is just going to
crack and break like it's predecessor, and this has been a problem ever
since Danaher took over and then promptly offshored much the line....

Every Craftsman hand tool I have is stamped "Made in USA", so if Danaher
has "offshored much of the line" they've done it in the past year.
Sears has other lins that are not Craftsman that are made offshore, but
Craftsman hand tools aren't.

The hand tools marked Sears are the overseas manufactured tools, I
noticed that years ago when I saw them in the stores and they looked
identical to the discount store imported tools.

TDD