Anyone have any experience with the USA Made NAPA Professional wrenches? I recently purchased a full polish NOS SAE set on Ebay on an impulse not long ago while I was looking for good deals on Wright Grips (which I purchased as well). I just haven't used them yet. Also, does anyone know who made them? I'm in the process of trying to find the metric set so I have both. Thanks.
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Mhyde52
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Google it and you'll find multiple threads on this very site discussing these wrenches.
Farmall450
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OP, this site can be hard to search. Here's the best way to do it:
site: garagejournal.com napa pro wrenches
Yielding your answers:
https://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=306480
https://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=189163
Fedwrench
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They come from a time long ago when Danaher made NAPA, KD, Allen, and other combination wrenches rolled off of Armstrong factory lines. They are probably my favorite standard length wrenches.
I think they're great wrenches. they're comfortable, have nice chrome, great balance, off corner engagement on the boxed end, and are very durable.
Cripe distributing used to sell KD/ALLEN/NAPA single wrenches at bargain prices.
I think they're great wrenches. they're comfortable, have nice chrome, great balance, off corner engagement on the boxed end, and are very durable.
Cripe distributing used to sell KD/ALLEN/NAPA single wrenches at bargain prices.
stercorarius
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Some Napa stores will warranty them with a Carlyle if they break. Or at least that's what the Napa here told me when I bought a few NOS Napa pro tools from them.
Vantastic
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I have them in metric. They are nice wrenches. They were my only complete set of metric for awhile.
NAPA stamped hand tools are very good. They were made as was already said by Danaher, et al.
The Carlyle brand is the next generation of them and yes, if you break a NAPA branded hand tool, it is lifetime warrantied and will be replaced probably with a Carlyle, unless your NAPA store has old stock of NAPA Pro line.
The Carlyle brand is the next generation of them and yes, if you break a NAPA branded hand tool, it is lifetime warrantied and will be replaced probably with a Carlyle, unless your NAPA store has old stock of NAPA Pro line.
Schurkey
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There was a time when NAPA would warranty Craftsman tools with the NAPA brand equivalent.
NAPA was using the same vendor as Sears at the time. "Sears Best" RHFTQR ratchets could be traded-in at NAPA. The handle was different, the guts were the same.
That didn't last long.
NAPA was using the same vendor as Sears at the time. "Sears Best" RHFTQR ratchets could be traded-in at NAPA. The handle was different, the guts were the same.
That didn't last long.
lincwelder225
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They were my first set of wrenches I got at 18... Actually have the whole set of Napa USA wrenches, pliers, screwdrivers and sockets/ratchets. Tgey were a tool set that you had to buy when I went to Lincoln Technical Institute. Well made and durable. You'll enjoy them.
homebuilt burner
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They are very good wrenches. I wish they still sold them. NAPA used to have a really good line of tools, not so much now.
Just curious which Carlyle tools you think are substandard to the old Napa ones? And why?
Some of the Carlyle stuff is just as good as the USA Napa tools from a decade ago. Other stuff is better. The ratchets are light years better quality than the old USA Made Napa’s.
I’d put my Carlyle Power 90’s up against my buddy’s Snap On ratchets any day of the week.
Schurkey
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They're not better because they're imported. They're better than some of the older tools because NAPA wants them to be better.
They could be better still, if they thought there was a market. They are what they are because the decision-makers at NAPA are satisfied with imported tools at the current quality level.
That's not the product I want, though.
NAPA has had some poor management advice. They used to be trustworthy. Now they sell Chinese parts and Taiwanese tools.
They could be better still, if they thought there was a market. They are what they are because the decision-makers at NAPA are satisfied with imported tools at the current quality level.
That's not the product I want, though.
NAPA has had some poor management advice. They used to be trustworthy. Now they sell Chinese parts and Taiwanese tools.
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