I've used their ratcheting box end combination wrenches...
-Moose.
My argument is very simple, and this is my last response on this thread... why buy something foreign made, when there are domestic made products just as good or better. Look what happened to the American electronics industry. It's GONE. Do you want that to happen to the American tool industry?
Also: Buy American (and Canadian) cars!
In some cases, American made tools are cost-prohibitive as the tools come with a huge service premium aimed at professionals.
American cars? You mean the Toyotas made in the US, or the Fords made in Mexico?
As for the electronics industry, you keep up with the program, or you get left behind in the dust.
As I said, many of us are very pro-American tools, but it's hard to be absolute these days. And again, there's a time and a place for these arguments - they really do happen often enough here. But this thread is supposed to be about Wrenchr and his new acquisitions.
Several things
It has been discussed here, about Snap-on licensing the Dahaner owned Gearwrench design and Dahaner licensing Snap-on's screwdriver design. That isn't trying to pass off. Then there is the issue of patents expiring. The quick release on the ratchets is pretty universal now, either the patent is expired or it is licensed, INCLUDING by Snap-on. Then Ergonomics are generally the same (with exceptions for things like Hand size, deformity, etc), so that isn't copying.
Olds, then you came into a thread, ABOUT Gearwrench, ONLY to complain, without stating ANY experiences with them and preaching ONLY Snap. (not contrasting differences) That is a pretty good definition (spelling) of Trolling. Cars, see below
Moose, you say you have never seen Gearwrench complaints, you must have missed the quality control posts here. And YES, all tools can fail.
Business are all in it for profit. Cutting costs, including labor/supplies is one way to do it and common practice. If a company is on the stock market, it is no longer a American company, as it is publically traded, and almost anyone (trading embargo's) can buy its stock, INCLUDING A FOREIGN Govt. Companies, these days, are run like governments, and have butted heads with governments, fought them in court for decades, threatened to move its headquarters to another country, etc.. You talk about an Amercian car, the cars you list as American, have a global presence, both in manufacturing and retail, and if it were cost effective to them, could just as easily, produce the car in Austrailia, and import them here.
To truely buy American, you need to look to the small Mom and Pop type businesses, and support them. But realize a lot of their supplies, come from global companies.
