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I found myself needing an 11mm flare nut wrench today, so I ran to Sears to grab one so I could finish up my project today. Well, I get to Sears, and start looking at their selection, and low and behold, not one flare nut wrench was made in the USA. To top that off, they were wanting $20 a piece for a Chinese wrench. I decided that the project could wait, and went online and found a brand new Armstong set for $8 on fleabay. Is it just me, or do you guys think that $20 for a Chinese casting is ridiculous?
 
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If Chinese was my only option i would buy a complete set a HF for half of what Sears is asking for just one wrench.
 
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Im losing faith in craftsman. after seeing all of the china ratchets on the shelf, as well as china ratcheting wrenches.... i fear for the day i break my USA craftsman tools. Ill definitely be upgrading to Snap-on. I dont want China in my toolbox when it comes to chrome tools.
 
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Hey OP, did you hear Michael Jackson died? That was news two years ago too.
 
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nso123 said:
I found myself needing an 11mm flare nut wrench today, so I ran to Sears to grab one so I could finish up my project today. Well, I get to Sears, and start looking at their selection, and low and behold, not one flare nut wrench was made in the USA. To top that off, they were wanting $20 a piece for a Chinese wrench. I decided that the project could wait, and went online and found a brand new Armstong set for $8 on fleabay. Is it just me, or do you guys think that $20 for a Chinese casting is ridiculous?
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My Sears doesn't even carry flare nut wrenches, and it's supposedly a "full line" store. Those $8 ones look pretty rough for Armstrong.
 
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Are we talking full polish, those ahave been chicom for a while. This would be breaking news if the rb wrenches are chicom now, although who didn't see it coming.
 
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yea, stuff is starting to go downhill real fast. I wanted to get a few stubby wrenches to compleate my set that I just got. They want almost 15 a piece for the big sizes 13/16-1" which is outragious for a china made piece of garbage. I can almost get snapon individuals for that price. Sears needs to do a few things.
1. stop exporting half decent tools.
2. stop asking snap on prices for tools that arent even 1/4 the quality.
3. hire better staff? lol this one is a joke but i had my favorite mr. grouchy yesterday that always talks down at me at sears.

But yes its a shame. Im almost about to give up on them they have a few things but outside of sockets, some wrenches, and little odds and ends (picks, mirrors ect) thats the only craftsman I will buy, everything else has slipped so far in terms of quality and the price keeps going up its not worth it. :(

Thanks
Sean Scott
 
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I don't know whats wrong with me??? i never break my craftsman tools and i use them daily?
 
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dieselmike said:
I don't know whats wrong with me??? i never break my craftsman tools and i use them daily?
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I've broke a few, but there was only one time when a Craftsman tool catastrophically failed under my own power. I snapped a breaker bar while working under a truck I used to own. I've got a nice Indiana Jones scar from it, but fortunately its on the bottom side of my chin.
 
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I went tonight with 3 broken tools.
1/2" Breaker Bar ...ball detent gone

3/8" QR Ratchet 44815 D-AA

3/8" Ratchet KAA 44811

I recieved USA except for 44811.
But I don't like the selector feel as it is sloppy and plactic to boot!
 
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nso123 said:
I found myself needing an 11mm flare nut wrench today, so I ran to Sears to grab one so I could finish up my project today. Well, I get to Sears, and start looking at their selection, and low and behold, not one flare nut wrench was made in the USA. To top that off, they were wanting $20 a piece for a Chinese wrench. I decided that the project could wait, and went online and found a brand new Armstong set for $8 on fleabay. Is it just me, or do you guys think that $20 for a Chinese casting is ridiculous?
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20.00 is too much for a flare nut wrench made in China. But then again I'm the type that'll do without before giving 20.00 even for a whole set of anything from China.

You know what sicken me the other day? I paid my brother a visit and he was upset. I asked him what was up and he walked over to his Snap-On box and pulled out a drawer. He then pulled a Snap-On compression leak down test kit out of the drawer and opened it. He pointed to where it said '' assembled in Mexico ''.
 
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