TReel98
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Where can I go to buy to S and K tools? I've seen them on amazon and google but what box stores sell them.
Where to buy S and K
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pistolpete1313
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Grainger if you have one close but the favorite here is https://www.harryepstein.com/
drink
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A local hardware store might be a possibility. Years ago I had a hardware store that switched from being a stocking Allen dealer to SK. They also sold the cheaper offshore tools also. Try contacting SK and ask them if they have an SK tool truck dealer in your area.
Some of the online dealers other than Harry Epstein follow.
https://www.eppys.com/
http://www.circlecsupply.com/store/.../sk-tool-sets/sk-socket-ratchet-bit-sets.html
http://www.tooltopia.com/search.aspx?manufacturer=37
http://www.tooldiscounter.com/catalog/SKT.htm
http://www.ntxtools.com/?gclid=CLzbj6f_19ICFZe6wAodTy4J0g
https://www.nationaltoolwarehouse.c...-P37462.aspx?gclid=CKLi0sz_19ICFQmewAodh7AJhQ
https://www.zoro.com/sk-professiona.../i/G9072314/?gclid=CN3wm9j_19ICFUa2wAodY3YD4Q
Some of the online dealers other than Harry Epstein follow.
https://www.eppys.com/
http://www.circlecsupply.com/store/.../sk-tool-sets/sk-socket-ratchet-bit-sets.html
http://www.tooltopia.com/search.aspx?manufacturer=37
http://www.tooldiscounter.com/catalog/SKT.htm
http://www.ntxtools.com/?gclid=CLzbj6f_19ICFZe6wAodTy4J0g
https://www.nationaltoolwarehouse.c...-P37462.aspx?gclid=CKLi0sz_19ICFQmewAodh7AJhQ
https://www.zoro.com/sk-professiona.../i/G9072314/?gclid=CN3wm9j_19ICFUa2wAodY3YD4Q
drink
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drink
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The Tool Store
4529 Harlem Ave
Forest View, IL 60402
708-484-2442
Leo's Tools
1754 W Bryn Mawr
Chicago, IL 60660
773-719-5050
4529 Harlem Ave
Forest View, IL 60402
708-484-2442
Leo's Tools
1754 W Bryn Mawr
Chicago, IL 60660
773-719-5050
drink
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Also try Advance Auto Parts. Try using coupon code TRT30.
gdocktor3
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It's SK. Not S and K. Unfortunately, I have never seen them in big box stores and can't say when I will. It has been discussed here many times. Your best option is to jump on SKs website, find what you like and then order it through Sears and pick up in store. There are a few distributors that carry them and you may have an SK truck in your area. Email SK and ask where the nearest dealer is located.
SK went bankrupt ca 2010 and ripped off or killed much of their local sales channel/s during that time/fiasco. We used to have two local shops stock them. One is out of business and the other still holding a grudge and won't even warranty them.
Seems most people are buying them online.
Decent tools and new management, but YMMV with the overal experience.
toddoky
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Some users still associate the brand with the original name, which was S&K (Sherman and Klove).
false, it was sherman-klove and then s-k or just sk.
I thought the original name of the company was Sherman-Klove as per Alloy Artifacts and Berland Tools. I don't think they ever used S&K.
3baygarage
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I've heard a number of people, mainly old timers say S AND K around here. That's how they read it I guess.
Plenty of people always put S&K on Ebay, for lack of the •. I don't think people search using S•K.
Plenty of people always put S&K on Ebay, for lack of the •. I don't think people search using S•K.
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BDT/NWMN
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SK went bankrupt ca 2010 and ripped off or killed much of their local sales channel/s during that time/fiasco. We used to have two local shops stock them. One is out of business and the other still holding a grudge and won't even warranty them.
Seems most people are buying them online.
Decent tools and new management, but YMMV with the overal experience.
In January, I asked a Salesman of a long established regional tool retailer about getting SK Tools back in stock.. He explanation was similar; The distribution and sales networks were damaged or lacking. He mentioned that He is frequently asked about getting SK back in stock; as they had sold them for years before the bankruptcy.
crewchief888
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both of those are quite a way from griffith..
berlands tools used to sell them, but i havent been in there in years...
from what i recall the tool store's prices were a little high on everything i looked at, berlands was about the same....
i havent seen an SK truck in NWI,
pro tool is an independent dealer, they may have them, he's got a couple trucks running around, ive seem them over in the highland area around the car dealers....
TheGrooveking
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SK went bankrupt ca 2010 and ripped off or killed much of their local sales channel/s during that time/fiasco. We used to have two local shops stock them. One is out of business and the other still holding a grudge and won't even warranty them.
Seems most people are buying them online.
Decent tools and new management, but YMMV with the overal experience.
Explain how they ripped off their local sales channels? If they shipped product and didn't get paid by the sales channels, then SK got ripped off, if the sales channels had to pay up front before SK would ship that typically indicates the sales channels had credit problems.
TheGrooveking
toddoky
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I stand corrected.
BDT/NWMN
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drink
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SK was founded as the Sherman-Klove Company, specializing in screw-machine products, by Mason H. Sherman and Noah Grover Klove. The company was founded in the early 20th century to supply munitions in World War I, and made mortar housings in a screw machine plant on Harrison Street in Chicago. During the 1920s SK operated primarily as a contract company, making tools for other brands (including Craftsman). Business thrived, they made specialty screw machine products that did well until the depression. William S. Sherman (W.S.), Mason's son, came to SK after graduating college in 1927 and was eventually a major owner of the company. One of the products the company made was socket wrenches for Hinsdale Socket and Wrench Company. The Hinsdale Company went out of business during the great depression leaving Sherman-Klove with a large inventory of this product, they then redesigned the product and changed the company name to S-K Tools.
Theodore Rueb, an engineer for the Sherman-Klove Company, went on to developed a new mechanism for a very successful line of ratchets, scaled from 1/4-drive up to 3/4-drive. The "round-head" ratchet has remained one of the most popular ratchet styles in the seven decades since S-K's first development, and many modern ratchets are little changed from the earliest design. SK invented the round-head ratchet wrench in 1933 and received a patent for it the following year, which remains a mainstay of their, and every major competitor's product line today.
In 1962, SK, along with manufacturing partner Lectrolite Corp., of Defiance, OH was bought out by Symington-Wayne and became SK Wayne.
In 1968 S-K Wayne was purchased by Dresser Industries as part of the merger between Wayne Oil and Tank Company and Dresser Industries. Dresser Industries made many changes to S-K's tools including dropping the cross-hatch pattern from their sockets in order to 'modernize' them.
In 1985, SK became part of Facom Tools.
On June 29, 2010, the company declared bankruptcy. On August 23, 2010, it was announced that two days later, on August 25, 2010, Ideal Industries would acquire SK.
Basically its pretty easy to sell inventory into a channel ("channel stuffig"), and the do things tha force the inventory to be written down, sold at a discount, and taken for losses.
Imagine, for example, you trash the brand and bankrupt the company, stuff the channel full of ****-tier seconds and manufacturing defects...etc...
Or, maybe decide to not honor warranty requests or credit, forcing the channel sales reps to eat warranty replacements out of full-cost inventory stock (that is not the seconds and ****-tier junk being stuffed in the channel). Maybe you do this for a quarter, a year, or two to keep your long-term and loyal customers happy....but after a while the costs add up.Just a thought experiment.
But its not very hard to sympathize or to see how a desparate and poorly managed company could strategically calculate that it was "worth it" to hang out to dry all of its business partners in the name of self-presrvation. The poor, starving, drug addicts...etc also display this type of behaviour when they hit rock bottom....the proverbial junkie son who pawns his parent's valuables for a fix...etc.
Just imaging SK being addicted to debt, not heroin, and you sort of get the idea.
Again, just a thought experiment.
i havent seen an SK truck in NWI,
pro tool is an independent dealer, they may have them, he's got a couple trucks running around, ive seem them over in the highland area around the car dealers....
Ill keep that in mind when I end up getting back to work. It's been 2 months as of Monday and probably at least another 2 months. I broke my left leg arm and wrist. A truck that comes to work would be ideal seeing as I'm 18 still in school and working part time so it's really hard to cough up $300 up front. One of my favorite tool trucks in the area is USA tools he comes to my work on Friday nights and is always a really friendly guy.
pro tool is an independent dealer, they may have them, he's got a couple trucks running around, ive seem them over in the highland area around the car dealers....
Ill keep that in mind when I end up getting back to work. It's been 2 months as of Monday and probably at least another 2 months. I broke my left leg arm and wrist. A truck that comes to work would be ideal seeing as I'm 18 still in school and working part time so it's really hard to cough up $300 up front. One of my favorite tool trucks in the area is USA tools he comes to my work on Friday nights and is always a really friendly guy.
Eppys also has two brick and mortar locations in Brooklyn,NY and Howell, NJ.
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TheGrooveking
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Basically its pretty easy to sell inventory into a channel ("channel stuffig"), and the do things tha force the inventory to be written down, sold at a discount, and taken for losses.
Imagine, for example, you trash the brand and bankrupt the company, stuff the channel full of ****-tier seconds and manufacturing defects...etc...
Just a thought experiment.
But its not very hard to sympathize or to see how a desparate and poorly managed company could strategically calculate that it was "worth it" to hang out to dry all of its business partners in the name of self-presrvation. The poor, starving, drug addicts...etc also display this type of behaviour when they hit rock bottom....the proverbial junkie son who pawns his parent's valuables for a fix...etc.
Just imaging SK being addicted to debt, not heroin, and you sort of get the idea.
Again, just a thought experiment.
Probable, during the later two years of Facom's management they drove S-K into the ground pulling every cent out of it, and your warranty support driven by the dealers inventory would screw over the dealers.
TheGrooveking
That did not sound right so I checked. It was founded as Sherman- Klove There never was an & . Don't take my word for it. Wikipedia and histories of the company all say the same thing
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toddoky
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I already gave a nod to skfarmer for clarifying that detail.