Who makes the strongest torx bit socket?

[Mastermind]

worked with an old timer once, broke a one piece one, handed me a snap-on, broke it. went over to his extra box in the corner and pulled out an old benchtop set, had put it back in the package everytime, had a $6.99 k-mart price tag on it. said he'd had them for 20 yrs never broke one. i never did either. have a stanley set i use daily, lost the 30, replaced with a snappy. on a fuel door bolt, dodge truck last week, snapped off the last 1/8" in the bolt. fell out. grabbed the boss's snappy, same thing. grabbed a mac (otc) 1/4" drive. took it right out didn't even twist

I like a couple of those deals for a buck or 3, buy a handful of spares. Its weird, some of the best I have seen are common junk, buy the whole set for 15$ My FIL can break stuff, ruined a set of bits we had for years, sometimes its obvious it wont week, but had the wife score a set from Walmart within the hour and they have been fine. Same for some metric hex, needed another set right then, always figured to score up, so far no need,,, 13$ at the time for whole set. I lost a set I bought Taiwan off the shelf from an Ace hwd when on a job, was about 15 dollars and the absolute best. Would trade them for 2 or 3 sets of those Lisle.

i bet if i really looked, with just bits included, i probly have 20 t-30's in my box at work, 8-10 at home, 5-6 in the truck, 15 or so in the boxes in storage

 

[Hawk Thor]

I've had great results from my Stahlwille 3/8" dr Torx bits. Same goes for the Matador 1/2" dr Allen and Torx socket bits. I've only broken one of the Matador bits. A 5mm Allen bit failed while trying to remove a very rusty stop-screw from a motor coupler in a bilge pump.

But like others have said, they all break eventually.

 

[ex-x-fire]

The real trick is to reassemble it using traditional fasteners. I was working on a chevy pick-up a couple of weeks ago, trying to get the ****** pan off, you have to remove the shifter cable bracket to do this. This was bolted on using torx fasteners, they are bolted staight down & full of rust. No way were they coming out using a torx, I welded a short bolt to the head of each one, they came out hard all the way. Regular bolts went in, I think the torx makes it easier for the factory to assemble things.

 

[crazyhorse_2464]

Snap on for sure. I have the gold colored one and the stubby set. T55 Stubby is perfect for GM truck brakes.

 

[theknurl]

Go get yourself a set of APEX brand torx. They are the company that supply assembly manufacturers. There is a guy that sells apex tools on ebay. We use them to drive the torx head screws that hold down semi trailer floors. They were the only ones to stand up to the use. They will be pricy but you will not be disappointed.

+10

i have never broken an Apex bit

same with Echlin and Bondhus

SnapOns, yes

wouldn't bother with Craftsman (again) "no guarantee on impact bits".....1 screw wound it up in '75, never bought another

 

[genevabuck]

Snap On or the older MAC black ones.