When was PowerGrip Plus handle style discontinued by SO?

[Bolster]

[EDIT] looks like the conversation has shifted back to the other thread at http://www.garagejournal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=75662 so I'm following up there.]

Snap-on's PowerGrip Plus handle style, the hand-filling square hard-handle with the "curves" in it, that's very popular here at GJ...I've been told it was being introduced in the late 1980s...when was it discontinued? Or should I say, when was it mostly discontinued?

Anybody have a production range on PGP, during which most of their handles were PGP?

(I realize it was never completely disco'd, as you can still buy prybars and rats and whatnot with PGP handles, and that they're once again being made as replacement handles. But my question pertains as to when PGP handles were "the main offering" by SO.)

 

[mrholeshot]

I'm not sure but IMO they shot themselves in the foot for trashing it. I;m not crazy about the soft handles or the Craftsman Pro Instinct copies.

 

[dj spanners]

ok i'm gonna take guess here, cos i have'nt got all the recent catalogs here, but i think you can work it out, catalog 900 (2008) has pgp screwdrivers, soft grip screwdrivers, and it introduces the new instinct soft and hard screwdrivers, so i guess catalog 800 (2007) would have had plenty pgp, sorted.

 

[dj spanners]

I'm not sure but IMO they shot themselves in the foot for trashing it. I;m not crazy about the soft handles or the Craftsman Pro Instinct copies.

yes your right they were and still are a great screwdriver, but i guess these multi million $ corps have to move on and offer something new,

one thing i would liked to have seen on the old handles would have been a striking crown like the new prybars, but with all the warnings and wotnot they put on em it was never going to happen.