OneDollarSaab
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Reading 'the comfort of snap ons' really gets me. They don't really bother me but they get more complaints for their beam design than many other professional wrenches do.
New snap on wrenches
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dusterdude
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I love the feel of snap-ons ratchets and wrenches.that's why I use them
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AngryBeaver
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Really?? there ain't no wrench out of Germany, Japan, Europe or Taiwan that even comes close? You have tried them ALL? Really. That's amazing.
there's always one smart *** in the crowd. having worked HD equipment repair since the 90's, yes and worked on every continent, yes I have. Started with Mac Knuckle savers as my first real set over the homeowner craftsmans. Bought SK's because they were cheaper than the rest. Worked at a plant and bought the first Wright Grip. They were ok if you liked holding a brick and like short wrenches, not exactly something that is beneficial where you need leverage. Hazet wrenches are short. They didn't make a "toothed" rust grabber when I was all over europe. Gear wrench, lol. ok. Save some dollars, buy taiwan. I did. let me know how your knuckles feel when the open end spreads. Once you have snap on wrenches, and they don't break, and don't slip and you make a living with them, there isn't really a point in going backwards.
Its just like angle head wrenches. Everyone makes a set. There isn't a set made that has the same angles that snap ons do. There is a reason EVERY single company tries to copy them.
I can explain a lot of features until you're purple. it won't do any good. You've already made up your mind.
The only wrenches more comfortable were the first Gen Kobalt wrenches made by williams. They were a flank drive snap on with the open end head angled the opposite way. The other was the Armstrong/Matco/Napa Pro made by danaher in the late 90's/early 2000's.
Not one of those said wrenches was made in a flank drive plus design, and not one of them is made today.
You'd probably chit your britches if you traveled to japan and china and found out their mechanics use snap on wrenches too. I have not been to vietnam. Not sure what they use and frankly don't care. Russian tools are legit. you won't find them here in the states, or even a way to order them. I suppose if you smuggle a set into the country without getting shot, more power to you. I've seen snap on tools in africa, South america, Alaska, iceland, all over europe, and all over the middle east. I haven't spend alot of time in the big dessert but again, I don't care what they use. Most don't use more than land mines and machine guns.
Snap on isn't the end all be all. Their ratchets can't be beat, there wrenches can't be matched and no one makes a set of angle head wrenches with the angles they do to get into tight Hydraulic fittings/hoses on equipment. The one or two cheap companies that make one "almost" the same are thin, dig into your hands and wait for it.... spread when tightening or loosing hoses. thats' just want you want on expensive equipment in some third world chit hole.
There is a reason every company tries to copy snap ons tools. Many have tried. All have failed. The people that work with tools for a living use what works. Harry homeowner that changes oil and blades on the lawn mower once a year and hangs up a few pictures doesn't get it. He's happy with a set of china made knuckle busters.
Snap-on spanners are pretty special, but one thing that irks me is that too many sets make you buy a size you don’t need, for example 20 mm. At Snap-on prices, I would prefer not to buy anything for which I have no use.
How about a 21 mm or 22 mm instead of the 20 mm? But then the set would “skip” – a bad word to some people.
This no-skip fixation in metric sizes is a bit silly, as if whole-number sizing was all that was possible.
How about a 21 mm or 22 mm instead of the 20 mm? But then the set would “skip” – a bad word to some people.
This no-skip fixation in metric sizes is a bit silly, as if whole-number sizing was all that was possible.
OneDollarSaab
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Psychopathic engineers have been known to use non-standard metric sizes. I don't always know what I'm going to be working on, so I like to have one or two of the oddball sizes around just in case.
toddmorr
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indeed, i find the beams very uncomfortable, probably because they are so thin, especially compared to the Wright.
the thinness makes them feel cheap too
joel63
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Finally used a 23mm socket a couple ago on a PCV valve on a 2013 Santa Fe.
Wrench? Well, I'm still waiting as you are.
lbpd716
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Really?? there ain't no wrench out of Germany, Japan, Europe or Taiwan that even comes close? You have tried them ALL? Really. That's amazing.
German and Japanese tool manufacturers don't sell improved grip open ends. There are a couple Taiwan companies that have, like Infar and Kabo, but they're a crappy imitation. I was intrigued that Harbor Freight found a manufacturer that uses simple little recesses identical to Armstrong/Gearwrench/old Matco because that design, in my experience, works fantastic. Who knows maybe they're made by Lea Way but I thought that company was exclusively for Apex/Gearwrench products.
Snapped-off
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I can't speak on the wrightgrip 2.0s, but the original ones failed me a couple times on rusted/rounded fasteners. Each time the FD+ took it off.
