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Originally Posted by look 171
Crowbob's post had me laughing my ass off from the HF tool thread. I realized many of us here like tools. Why is it so dear to you? Lots of guys I talk to get excited over a cordless drill. Hell, I did too when I started out now, but its just a tool to get the job donw. I still appreciate a fine hand tool as well as power tool, but ...?
A friend had this house for about 8-9 years and its a constant remodeling project. Wife's on his ass about buying stuff. He buys a new tool for the house but tells wife or me if I am around, all about it. She rolls her eyes and get him to tell me instead. I am thinking, oh crap, here it goes.
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Everyone's first tools are trash, we learn to struggle with inadequate tools that make the job harder than it should be.
Great tools are a pleasure to use once you've been exposed to Chinese or "home use" labeled garbage. Case in point, using Cman sockets vs Snap-on. Cman feels loose on the fastener, sloppy, bulky and have that annoying release in the middle of the head that is guaranteed to cause you to drop the socket, not to mention the wrenches are somewhat short.
It's a miserable task doing dirty heavy cramped mechanical work with Cman raised panel socket wrenches. I don't even own any of those socket wrenches, they suck so bad I think they're useless.
Snap-Ons don't fall off the wrench, and are tight enough that they won't slip on the fastener if you aren't perfectly aligned in a cramp spot.- cman will slip.
When I was at Boeing there was one fastener on the Apache that was literally right next to a major support, you normally couldn't fit a socket on it because there was no clearance. We took that damn Snap on socket with a 12" extension, BEAT IT with a hammer to wedge it on there, then took the fastener out- for years.
Buy good tools, save your knuckles and sanity.
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