Question regarding tools...

[apolo607]

Hello everybody in this great, great forum:

I would like to know if you can recomend me some good page for buying some tools (wrenches, pliers, hand drills, etc) through the internet. I like the Harbord freigth page, but I do not know why they say in the page that they does not ship to PO boxes. (My po box is a suite, so it is big enough to recieve any kind of merchandise, but it still being a po box).

Thanks.

 

[97ExplorerXLTAWD]

Hello everybody in this great, great forum:

I would like to know if you can recomend me some good page for buying some tools (wrenches, pliers, hand drills, etc) through the internet. I like the Harbord freigth page, but I do not know why they say in the page that they does not ship to PO boxes. (My po box is a suite, so it is big enough to recieve any kind of merchandise, but it still being a po box).

Thanks.

Tools are like cars.. What kind you want really depends on where you buy them.
Like craftsman tools are good for the guy who uses them occasionaly, but something like...matco/snapon would be the way to go if you planned on using them everyday. (however, for a money saving tip, SEARS and some other places have liftetime warranty on there craftsman tools)

http://www.sears.com/shc/s/v_10153_12605_Tools?adCell=WH (this link goes to TOOLs at Sears) if you want to check it out.

I havent personally ever broke a craftsman wrench and there pliers arent half bad. (they have 4 to 6 piece plier sets in the range of 16 bucks up to 62 bucks) the 16 dollar set would probably be fine for the average use

hope this helps!

 

[97ExplorerXLTAWD]

Also.. Online orders can sometimes be a pain in the you know what.

I ordered a set of mufflers once. A day or 2 later they notify us that our adress was like a PO box or something so they couldnt ship them. We had to convince them our adress is physical (small towns in oklahoma havent switched to the new addresses.. so ours is still good ole RR 1 etc lol)

 

[Joe Dirt]

One note on Sears- I love their tools, for the average shadetree guy. Only problem is, and it was confirmed last time I went into the store to exchange another socket driver- they are indeed using plastic parts inside the socket drivers now. That does suck. I can definitely tell the difference, and have replaced 2 lately. I may invest in a good socket driver set now, with internals made of some form of METAL.

 

[97ExplorerXLTAWD]

One note on Sears- I love their tools, for the average shadetree guy. Only problem is, and it was confirmed last time I went into the store to exchange another socket driver- they are indeed using plastic parts inside the socket drivers now. That does suck. I can definitely tell the difference, and have replaced 2 lately. I may invest in a good socket driver set now, with internals made of some form of METAL.

Yes

SNAP-ON makes the best socket drivers (ratchets) in the world if you ask me.
It would definetly be worth getting the 3 standard sizes of them. you will spend a pretty penny, but you will love them. There comfortable to hold, and they have a high tooth count for any situation. (when you can only move the ratchet an inch)

but as far as wrenches, pliers, etc, common stuff, craftsman is good.

HOWEVER if you need tiny wrenches and Tiny sockets, and i mean tiny.. you will need a higher quality tool for a good fit. cheaper brands just dont have the stuff to make the tools really small and really good

 

[shoalcreek5]

Blackhawk, Snap-On, Mac, Craftsman, Napa, John Deere, and even Ace will do the job without much problem. Look for features you like. Also, lifetime warranties are useful. When I was a kid on the farm, we had a set of TruValue tools with a lifetime warranty. We broke the breaker bar at least 4 times and each time it was replaced, no questions asked. The 5th time we broke it, my dad bought a Napa breaker bar to replace it. He still uses that same breaker bar, 23 years after buying it, despite it being used on the same kind of bolts and with the same kind of cheater pipes that broke the TruValue bar.

If it comes with a lifetime warranty, has the features you like/need, and isn't constantly being replaced under lifetime warranty, it's a good tool. That's all you need.