Applesauce
Well-known member
I recently picked up a set of Wright sockets (355, deep 6-pt metric 6-19) and 3430 ratchet from Hardware Sales in Washington state.
First, let me say that Hardware Sales is AWESOME. Great service, first through fleaBay and then through their own website, where I actually made the purchase. Ordered Sunday night with standard shipping, arrived yesterday afternoon. For an American living in Canada, this is a breath of postal fresh air... Canada is a postal backwater, and getting anything this fast and for this cheap is truly remarkable.
Second, I'm less than impressed with the Wright sockets. They're nice enough, but I'd have expected a $100 set of sockets to be just a little bit nicer... The broaching on the 7mm is incomplete. This isn't a big deal for me, as I rarely use a 7mm deep socket, let alone in 3/8". (In fact, the 7mm looks like it came from a completely different set; the taper/chamfer is a different depth or diameter than the 6, 8, or 9.)
The larger ones all have clean broaching, but they also have minor rust spots - new, out-of-the-shrink-wrap rust. Again, not a huge deal for me as the humidity here rarely gets above 5%. I just would have expected slightly better, especially with QC-guy 415's "proud" sticker on the bottom of the neat plastic rail.
And coming from an old Tennessee family, I can imagine my forebears making similar tools...and I can imagine them doing a better job. I have some Taiwanese Westward sockets that are perfect. Can't Ohio muster the same?!
First, let me say that Hardware Sales is AWESOME. Great service, first through fleaBay and then through their own website, where I actually made the purchase. Ordered Sunday night with standard shipping, arrived yesterday afternoon. For an American living in Canada, this is a breath of postal fresh air... Canada is a postal backwater, and getting anything this fast and for this cheap is truly remarkable.
Second, I'm less than impressed with the Wright sockets. They're nice enough, but I'd have expected a $100 set of sockets to be just a little bit nicer... The broaching on the 7mm is incomplete. This isn't a big deal for me, as I rarely use a 7mm deep socket, let alone in 3/8". (In fact, the 7mm looks like it came from a completely different set; the taper/chamfer is a different depth or diameter than the 6, 8, or 9.)
The larger ones all have clean broaching, but they also have minor rust spots - new, out-of-the-shrink-wrap rust. Again, not a huge deal for me as the humidity here rarely gets above 5%. I just would have expected slightly better, especially with QC-guy 415's "proud" sticker on the bottom of the neat plastic rail.
And coming from an old Tennessee family, I can imagine my forebears making similar tools...and I can imagine them doing a better job. I have some Taiwanese Westward sockets that are perfect. Can't Ohio muster the same?!
