| My "others" include Wright, USAG, and Wiha.
Can't let this go without ranting about how many failures I get with Craftsman stuff!
I broke a 3/8" drive breaker bar at the yoke with just hand torque (no cheater pipe or anything like that). Must've been bad heat-treating. A piece of it took a chip out of the concrete floor! Sure glad I didn't catch that in the eye. Heh heh, I'm NOT returning it for a replacement, I'd rather have it for show-and-tell.
Besides that, I currently have THREE broken Craftsman ratchets, two 3/8" drives and a 1/2" drive, they strip when any real torque is applied in the "tighten" direction. Never used with cheater pipes, etc. Just not durable, in my experience. Yeah, they'll give me new ones, but why should I trust them not to break like the others?
Same thing happened with a Facom 3/8" ratchet, maybe the third time I used it!
In marked contrast, I have *OLD* Snap-On ratchets and breaker bars that still work like new. If I were buying from scratch, I'd skip the Craftsman stuff and just go with Snap-On. Everybody seems to offer lifetime replacement warranties but that doesn't help you much when the tool breaks in the middle of the job. I'd rather have quality I can count on. |