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I just bought with some gift cards, a 11 piece set of standard and metric from Lowes. How good are they, as good as any I guess.
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Craftsman made in China? Ummm, not unless things have changed recently..
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A little more than a year after a judge threw out a class-action lawsuit asserting that troubled retailer Sears knowingly led customers to believe their iconic Private Brand Craftsman Tools are still Made in the USA, the retailer continues to face public outcry.
Part of the mystique of the Craftsman brand was that the hand tools were proudly Made in the USA. But in recent years, Craftsman, like many tool brands, started manufacturing many of their products in China while continuing to run advertising that would lead customers to believe all the tools were still domestically produced.
Since 1927, Craftsman has built its brand on a credibility and reliability that was brought to life in its now legendary lifetime guarantee: if a hand tool breaks, just bring it back to the store for an immediate replacement. The problem? Made in the USA Craftsman brand loyalists are disappointed with what they feel is a violation of the brand promise. They simply do not want to replace their broken USA manufactured tool with one from China because they suffer from the not unfounded fear that the quality will be substandard to what they expect with the Craftsman name. They also resent the fact that the prices havent dropped to reflect international sourcing.
Part of the mystique of the Craftsman brand was that the hand tools were proudly Made in the USA. But in recent years, Craftsman, like many tool brands, started manufacturing many of their products in China while continuing to run advertising that would lead customers to believe all the tools were still domestically produced.
Since 1927, Craftsman has built its brand on a credibility and reliability that was brought to life in its now legendary lifetime guarantee: if a hand tool breaks, just bring it back to the store for an immediate replacement. The problem? Made in the USA Craftsman brand loyalists are disappointed with what they feel is a violation of the brand promise. They simply do not want to replace their broken USA manufactured tool with one from China because they suffer from the not unfounded fear that the quality will be substandard to what they expect with the Craftsman name. They also resent the fact that the prices havent dropped to reflect international sourcing.
I still have a set of Snap-On metric wrenches from my days as a Toyota mechanic around 1970. They look like new. I just want a good set of combination SAE wrenches to work on old stuff.
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oldognewtrick
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Start hitting some garage sales, Chris scored some old craftsman stuff doing that a while back.
Walked through Sears today. All of the wrench packages are now marked "Made in China". They had no 6 point wrenches but they are clearing out some of the tools. According to the clerk, they will still sell Craftsman, they just no longer own the company. I did buy an eight piece set of Craftsman combination wrenches that were half price. Most of the tools in there were not Craftsman brand anymore, they were off brands, drop forged crap.
