Tools from Walmart?

[rick carpenter]

OK, first question. Reading the...

Can anything beat these pry bar set for this price range?

Looks to be 5pc set for around $130 cnd Some of the review love them vs others say they flex. your thoughts? Mayhew 5pc set 5 PC Curved Screwdriver Pry Bar Set (8C, 12C, 17C, 25C, 31C)

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thread, what other quality mfrs' tools might be hiding under the Hyper Tough brand at Walmart? The thread talked about Hyper Tough prybars made by Wilde.

Second, looking through the search results for "tools" at the Walmart site returns tools made by several quality mfrs/rebranders. Has anyone bought any of these tools from Walmart and how did their prices compare?

 

[Bubba Fett]

At one point my local store had Channellock pliers, and a few other reputable brands for a decent price. Not sure if this is still the case, as I don't go there if I can help it. I'm usually not in the mood to wait in the checkout line for 25 minutes. 34 Registers, and only two are ever open at a time...and the cross eyed lady with one tooth wants to check your receipt as you walk out the door.

I did find a marine box made by Flambeau for about $20. Bright orange, opens like an ammo box, lid has an o-ring, and storage on top. It also has a tray inside. Not totally waterproof, but I keep it in my truck to hold bungie cords, jumper cables, tire pressure gauges, etc. Fits behind the seat or in the footwell of the back seat.

Some of Hart's tool boxes are made by Keter, and are a pretty good value. The technician's tool box was cheaper than even the Harbor Freight version made by the same company.

The Hyper-Tough acetate screwdrivers are made in USA (with global components). They are made by Great Neck. Decent light duty drivers. They are no where near as good as Klein, Wera, Wiha, Vessel, or any of the other favorite brands here, but for light duty, they are not bad for the price.

 

[anndel]

In a bind when I need something right now and they have it why not?

 

[JeepYJ]

They carry metal yardsticks that are made in USA.

 

[Tuc04]

I got a good deal on some Knipex pliers from their website. They were sold by Walmart, not 3rd party.

 

[lardy1]

I bought some Vim products from their site but I'm sure it was a 3d party seller.

 

[M635_Guy]

I'm very interested to see how the HF-Hate crew feels about WalMart...

 

[jmj]

Not a tool (debatable I guess) but I picked up the Hart workbench for 49.99 with a $10 coupon for in store pickup around Christmas time. Takes a few more seconds than the Keter drop style but it’s solid, especially if you catch it on sale.


HART Portable Heavy Duty Plastic Workbench with Parts Organizer
https://www.walmart.com/ip/652468231

 

[Chumly]

I'm interested as well, but for negative reasons.

I look at WalMart now a little worse than Amazon currently. With all the Chinesium Amazon sells I still see the figures of Walmart being the greatest importer of Chinese products, very much unlike when Walt ran the place and lusted for "Made in the USA" tags everywhere in the 80's. It's just been the business model of China to have a manufacturer send the build over, that place makes the product as agreed, but days later a factory down the road is working on making a knock-off using the same plans and make it look identical. I just can't trust that even something like "Knipex" is actually a Knipex product if Walmart or Amazon are selling it. They're both guilty of selling knock-offs.

To be on the original question, I don't see how anyone can know if the prybars are good because some may be good and some may be horrible. Made by Wilde would mean they have in-house manufacturing and no one has all products made in the same place. Snap On states 80% are US made and Tekton made a recent statement of growing fab production here, and it's all PROBABLY because all that work is being stolen. That adds up because all that R&D goes down the tube when they can under-cut your selling prices.

I think you'd have to be an investor in these companies to know who makes what for any specific tool as that's openly released to them, and I mean specific not just the branding label it's sold under which you're leading to. Hyper Tough screams of US Made due to Assembled in the US which COULD be just pressing random bars manufactured lord know where into handles, thus my earlier random results opinions.

A crowbar with no handle, just a crowbar, is the most basic tool I can think of and Ford is selling un-finished vehicles because they're "missing handles" if you will. Seems weird, but it shows where parts come from really.

Sorry for the rant, I will do that, but I want it designed and manufactured here in North America; Unless I know it's Japanese or whatever I expect. The computer you're on right now has a US company CPU and it's not made here, that's for sure.