[TR] Wrenches

[Jim Muller]

On 3 Apr 2009 at 12:51, fitzgibbon3 at comcast.net wrote:

> They're a little pricey compared to Craftsman, but SK Tools makes
> great stuff... My local Sears also has some SK stuff but I
> don't know about ratchets.

Back when I first started wrenching and knew little about tools I 
purchased an SK socket and ratchet set from a local performance-
oriented "foreign autoparts" store run by a member of the local 
sports car club.  The ratchet doesn't have the push-button release 
like Craftsman, that being a patented feature, but otherwise it has 
served me well for 36 years.  None of the sockets has broken.  (Of 
course, they were metric, since I was driving a Fiat at the time, and 
as everyone knows, metric sockets are entirely different.)  I have 
experienced Craftsman socket failure and known other people who have 
too, even decades ago.

That's only one data point, which is to say one datum.

-- 
Jim Muller
jimmuller at rcn.com
'80 Spitfire, '70 GT6+