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Well, ****! I forgot about the chuck key advice. I was going to mention seeing several embeded in the wall behind lathes in the shop! One shop I saw while in school had special chuck keys with springs on them that would eject from the chuck when not being pushed into the chuck. They were a...

First and foremost safety glasses! I can't count how many times ive had hot chips melt into mine (better than en eye!). I would add some rolls of abrasives for smoothing out finishes and some small files (with handles!!!) for deburing parts. Also, lathe tooling depends very heavily on what...

Had these for a few weeks now but finally made some holders for them. USA made Craftsman Professional deep offset wrenches, the full 12 pc set. Got them from Hiball:beer:

Finally got some pictures of the tray I built for my Craftsman Thin Profiles... It's a bent piece of Aluminum with some magnets underneath the head shelf to keep them locked in place. Then I covered it in liquid latex to keep from marring the rachets.

"Screwdrivers made to A.N.S.I. standards in China." Carefull with Channellock stuff other than pliers, most of it is made outside of the US, however, Channellock seems like a standup company and would provide a good product regardless of where it's made.

I made some trays out of Aluminum sheet I had lying around for my Craftsman TP set, I'll take some pics when I get home.

I bought a large craftsman set not too long ago and I will say that overall they were in good condition, but they shipped in a bag and rattled around alot. I didn't have any rust issues, but check the laser engraving, one of mine was missing it, correct part number, just missed the laser...

2 Craftsman ball bearing roll-aways converted into legs for my workbench, a 9 Drawer Craftsman Machinist roll-away, a Craftsman chest, a Waterloo Traxx Machinist roll-away, and a Gerstner machinist chest. So 4 roll-aways and 2 chests.

Okay guys, the deep offset wrenches are in and to my suprise...Forged in USA!:bounce: A few have some minor surface rust around the boxes, but overall not bad. This set (12 piece - 7 Metric and 5 SAE) seems to be made of single wrenches as they were packaged in plastic bags in plain brown...

I recently got a socket set and one of them came in with no etching, the stamping was fine and the part number was correct. I think they had a production problem because my local Sears have been out of that size (3/8 drive 9/16 socket, fairly common I think?) for a few months now.

Purchased a set of Craftsman Pro Deep Offset Box wrenches. Transaction went smoothly, Hiballl verified payment went through and shipped that day. Wrenches arrived today packaged very well, used a heavy box with packing tape on all seams...took awhile to get all the wrenches out of...

I agree, and especially with the Pro line. Why would people pay many times more for a wrench set of inferior quality to the rasied panels and they arent even made in the US?

I ordered the SAE and Metric combinations wrenches off of Sears.com around a month ago and recieved USA forged wrenches, however all my local stores are almost exclusively "Fully Polished". I looked at some of them in the store and it was appaling to see how bad the broaching on the box ends...

I voted no, but only becasue I tend to be picky. I.e. I want THIS wrench set, and THOSE ratchets...and they never seem to be in the same kits. However (and it's a BIG however) outfitting a new garage or starting your kids tool collection these can't be beat. The savings is huge and you have...

Still looking

Not a whole box, but I've been starting to make aluminum holders for my wrench sets. I believe there was a thread called the "organized list of organization posts" wich showed alot of great organization ideas, some homemade in there.

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But they also know a newer technology is only a few years out that most people will want to upgrade to, so why make your product last longer and cost more than competitors, when the average consumer will want to replace it in a few years anyway?