SMKS
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Home Depot has started carrying Urrea tools (pronounced oo-RAY-uh) and has very good prices. The items I checked are selling for basically half the MSRP listed on the Urrea website. This is my second Urrea wrench set. I paid $63 + tax for these wrenches. Shipping was free.
Link to the Urrea wrench set at Home Depot.
If you don't know Urrea, it is a Mexican tool company. Most of the designs are copies of older Proto designs. Urrea used to be Protomex, but split from Proto and is now an independent company.
http://www.urreaprofessionaltools.com/public/pag1.aspx
This is a long-pattern metric wrench set. It includes sizes 10mm - 21mm. The wrenches come in a fabric roll. The first things I noticed were that they have a nicely polished finish and are very long. I found several small imperfections under the chrome, but nothing major. Overall these wrenches are well finished. They had quite a bit of water spotting from the factory (I've seen this on all my brand-new wrenches). It easily cleaned off with a little solvent.
In this pic you can see one of the negatives of this wrench set. I assume to save costs, they used the same size blanks for more than one size of wrench. For example, the 10mm and 11mm are the same length, because they start with the same raw forging, then punch one to 10mm and one to 11mm. Most of the sizes are this way. 12 and 13 are the same length. 14 and 15 are the same length etc.
Using the same raw forging causes some of the box ends to have thick walls. You can see here that the 10mm has thicker walls than the 11mm.
This pic compares (top to bottom) Craftsman, Proto Anti-Slip and Urrea wrenches. The Urreas are very, very long. I would say they're close to most companies' extra-long wrenches. They seem like they could be too long for some applications and they're actually a little longer than I hoped they'd be. I've always considered the Proto Anti-Slip to be a long wrench, but it is dwarfed by the Urrea.
The open ends all appear to be well formed.
There is also one other issue with a few of these wrenches. The box ends aren't' angled consistently.
Overall
These wrenches have one quality I don't like. I don't care for the fact that some of the wrenches are the same length. It's purely a cosmetic thing, but it just rubs me the wrong way, for some reason. Otherwise, this appears to be a well made set of very long wrenches that sell for an affordable price.
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long term update
I decided to return these. The return was really easy because I bought them at HD. I liked the length, but the corners they cut during production to save cost didn't impress me.
Link to the Urrea wrench set at Home Depot.
If you don't know Urrea, it is a Mexican tool company. Most of the designs are copies of older Proto designs. Urrea used to be Protomex, but split from Proto and is now an independent company.
http://www.urreaprofessionaltools.com/public/pag1.aspx
This is a long-pattern metric wrench set. It includes sizes 10mm - 21mm. The wrenches come in a fabric roll. The first things I noticed were that they have a nicely polished finish and are very long. I found several small imperfections under the chrome, but nothing major. Overall these wrenches are well finished. They had quite a bit of water spotting from the factory (I've seen this on all my brand-new wrenches). It easily cleaned off with a little solvent.
In this pic you can see one of the negatives of this wrench set. I assume to save costs, they used the same size blanks for more than one size of wrench. For example, the 10mm and 11mm are the same length, because they start with the same raw forging, then punch one to 10mm and one to 11mm. Most of the sizes are this way. 12 and 13 are the same length. 14 and 15 are the same length etc.
Using the same raw forging causes some of the box ends to have thick walls. You can see here that the 10mm has thicker walls than the 11mm.
This pic compares (top to bottom) Craftsman, Proto Anti-Slip and Urrea wrenches. The Urreas are very, very long. I would say they're close to most companies' extra-long wrenches. They seem like they could be too long for some applications and they're actually a little longer than I hoped they'd be. I've always considered the Proto Anti-Slip to be a long wrench, but it is dwarfed by the Urrea.
The open ends all appear to be well formed.
There is also one other issue with a few of these wrenches. The box ends aren't' angled consistently.
Overall
These wrenches have one quality I don't like. I don't care for the fact that some of the wrenches are the same length. It's purely a cosmetic thing, but it just rubs me the wrong way, for some reason. Otherwise, this appears to be a well made set of very long wrenches that sell for an affordable price.
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long term update
I decided to return these. The return was really easy because I bought them at HD. I liked the length, but the corners they cut during production to save cost didn't impress me.
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