That's a very good question. SK used to be an American tool company, they were good, but not too well known. Then Facom bought them and they basically rebadged Facom tools (Facom is good, French, tools. I say French because French tools have a certain character to them, but Facoms are good). Just recently (this year) SK has started doing more than rebadging Facom tools and has started making some of their own stuff. So the short answer is I have no clue any more, I guess we'll see. I can't imagine they'd be bad.
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It depends on your needs and perspective. When using professional mechanics tools, you are used to a certain price point and performance level. Just like knives, most folks wouldn't dream of paying a hundred bucks for 8 wrenches, or 30 bucks for one pair of pliers, or even 150 for a plane. But, you buy wuality, you only cry once.
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If you're doing work around the house, use what you've got. If your job depends on the best, pay the money and get the best. Professionals should know better than to cut corners on a lifetime investment.
Being a mechanic myself, i can agree with most of the posts in this thread.
The Snap-On and Mac are some of the Best localy availible tools, even delivered to you at work.
Pricey at that, wrench sets go for around 400 an up for 6 pieces.
About craftsman, they were the real challenge to snap on an mac for along time, statistics shown to me a long time ago showed, that in fact craftsman was the best selling tool onthe market, guess bob vila helped a bit there lol.
Anyways, i was gettin to say that craftsman were damn good tooling for a long time, about 5-6 years ago they went to off-shore manufacturing an lost thier good steel, and now use such cheap steel that when you break a ratchet handle in half, you can se it is mostly pot metals.
I bought a 300 piece set when i was 16 years old, 23 years ago, and i still have every piece an still in good shape, now int he this modern age, well in canada, we havea department store (Canadian tire) and they market thier onw tooling, it has usurped craftsman an are a good tool for thier price, not quite as good as snap on, but close enough in most to rival them.
Oh if ya want the absolutley best hand tools, look into Snap-On's Industrial tooling, only comes in black mat, and about 3-5 times the money of the chrome, i do not mean impact tooling, i mean industrial, example- for pipeline,gas an oil workers where they using torque multpliers that run the loads in the 1000's of pounds, i have one ratchet from this series, i can pound a hole through the shop's cement floor an turn around an resume work with it.
Andit also means always owing about a grand to each tool dealer to stay in the loop of whats needed, for every time a new car comes out, we pay well to work on it.
Peace out guys
WR
The Snap-On and Mac are some of the Best localy availible tools, even delivered to you at work.
Pricey at that, wrench sets go for around 400 an up for 6 pieces.
About craftsman, they were the real challenge to snap on an mac for along time, statistics shown to me a long time ago showed, that in fact craftsman was the best selling tool onthe market, guess bob vila helped a bit there lol.
Anyways, i was gettin to say that craftsman were damn good tooling for a long time, about 5-6 years ago they went to off-shore manufacturing an lost thier good steel, and now use such cheap steel that when you break a ratchet handle in half, you can se it is mostly pot metals.
I bought a 300 piece set when i was 16 years old, 23 years ago, and i still have every piece an still in good shape, now int he this modern age, well in canada, we havea department store (Canadian tire) and they market thier onw tooling, it has usurped craftsman an are a good tool for thier price, not quite as good as snap on, but close enough in most to rival them.
Oh if ya want the absolutley best hand tools, look into Snap-On's Industrial tooling, only comes in black mat, and about 3-5 times the money of the chrome, i do not mean impact tooling, i mean industrial, example- for pipeline,gas an oil workers where they using torque multpliers that run the loads in the 1000's of pounds, i have one ratchet from this series, i can pound a hole through the shop's cement floor an turn around an resume work with it.
Andit also means always owing about a grand to each tool dealer to stay in the loop of whats needed, for every time a new car comes out, we pay well to work on it.
Peace out guys
WR