Recent content by bds1984

It has been a while since I visited this thread and sears.com in general. There is a lot of individual sockets and wrenches that are marked down to $1.88 each. It may be worth checking out. Some of the items I have ordered since my last post, nearly a year ago, have been old stock USA items.

No, they were NOS G and G2 for the USA made, the three others were S-AE, Z-AH, and Z-AJ. The new sockets from SBD are terrible considering they come from a "modern" & "high-tech" factory; rust and chrome plating issues on many of the sockets. I had a set and promptly returned it. The current...

I ordered a some sockets by searching "Craftsman Professional" and most of them were USA made. They came from the Jersey City store. All these years later, there is still USA made bits in their stock.

I recently stumbled upon the youtube channel that tests wrenches like that. Very informing. In one segment he also test several combination wrenches which many of us have most likely watched. It would have been nice to see him test a USA made Craftsman in addition to the current lineup. I've...

I've purchased a few used tools over the years and have been lucky they've been great, but as the prices of the C3s keep going up, I began migrating to the Ryobi platform as their brushless HP tools become more mainstream and affordable. My paint sprayer hasn't been used so maybe I'll sell it...

It has been a hot minute since I've looked at this post! I still find it slightly crazy at what some of the 19.2 tools sell for, and will have to admit, I've sold off many of mine as batteries have died or as someone wanted mine a lot more than I did but I have some oddballs still. I have a C3...

I don't think I'd rely on the labeling too much. Over the summer I bought a lot of C3 tools that had both large and small li-ion batteries one can find on Amazon. None of them worked and my curiosity got the best of me so I took them apart. The 5 and 6 amp labeled batteries both had the same...

I have only been to that store once; I scored a great deal on a Kenmore Elite grill in June last year so I drove two hours to pick it up. The tool department was running low on some items but otherwise was decently stocked. You may have saved me a trip there as I was planning on going in the...

I was just there today and walked away with some good deals on clothes. The prices on fixtures there seem to be lower than what the Portage, Battle Creek, Saginaw, and Lansing stores had but is probably because of a different liquidator. It is such a shame of what has become of Sears. The...

Any of the polished chrome USA wrenches are going for crazy. Look at their professional flare nut wrench sets. I needed one wrench for a job and wanted it to be a USA made piece to add to my set. I'm sorry, for as much as I love my USA made set, I am not spending $30 for one wrench. I bought...

There were some crazy deals on points in the summer/fall of 2018. I bought a house and needed some appliances, power tools, and outdoor power equipment, and the points deals were too good to pass up between both stores. Well, long story short, I saved up HUNDREDS of dollars in points to buy a...

The quick-release isn't a deal breaker for me; I have a few older USA made ratchets that lack that feature and I'm used to it. I kind of figured Sears was gearing up for another Christmas season based on the new Christmas bags the cashier used a couple weeks ago. "Elf tested, Santa Approved"...

They're asking Professional Made in USA set prices for something made in China. The only part of those kits that intrigue me are the ratchets. They look nice, and if they're made by Great Star, they're most likely better than the average ratchet out there. A couple weeks ago Sears sent me the...

It must have been around the same time. I remember seeing items like that on the shelves but I couldn't justify purchasing more of what I already had still in the package; the Battle Creek store closed less than a year before and I drove by it daily so I scored a ton of new USA made items. I...

My Sears closed in Kalamazoo last November and I scored a bunch of old USA made wrenches and sockets that must have been the tools they used in the back room to assemble products for the floor. They didn't really bring in much from other stores for this liquidation except for screwdrivers and...