A 1 5/16 wrench is good for tractor hydraulics and 7/8 machine bolt I think. Full size Sears sets used to come 1 1/4 I think and the sockets in 1/2 drive were 1 1/4 shallow socket and 1 1/8 deep.
I don’t know if I still have the parts list for the old 540 piece USA set, it probably got tossed long ago. This set would be good for farm and yard equipment as it’s got a lot of large SAE stuff (it’s primarily why I bought it).
Well as dollar value goes the original link sure seemed like a pretty good deal especially if it someone was needing or wanting many of those larger heavy duty tools. The combo wrenches were a pretty full complement of the basic sizes...though not what Craftsman called "jumbo" (up to 1 1/2")
So just as a subject filler here, and I can't really say with any certainty if this set wasn't there prior to starting this thread
but it did catch my eye just now.
https://www.sears.com/craftsman-80p...erId=Sears&prdNo=26&blockNo=26&blockType=G26#
There are MORE 3/4" drive sockets than the other set had 20 vs 17, though only with the ratchet and extensions, including a 3rd longer one and then the wrenches are all ratcheting swivel box end and open jaw combos, along with the crows foots sets, in some way makes it somewhat a more desirable add on than maybe a package with lots of standard sizing sockets and basic combo wrench duplications, but the addition of the little nutdrivers and other 1/4 shank bits and driver is kind a weird thing, just a filler to up the numbers without adding anything of a serious nature to the set.
Caveat...about $100 more than the other set
Well to make matters stranger the internal parts list states March 2018 as the date.
The odd part about that is the USA made pliers were discontinued the previous summer (I don’t remember when they switched the screwdrivers, but I bought some of the pliers on clearance when they were switching). It’s almost like they threw this set together to get rid of some of that stuff or added it to a pre existing set.
The box was just a standard brown box like add a tool stuff if you were building on a set, not a shelf style package. It had stickers indicating it was shipped to a hometown store in Texas, but shipped to me from their closest warehouse. It also had Not on File stickers on it. Keying in the number of the set 24208 just brings up a page through Sears outlet saying it isn’t available.
Now selling this at a hometown store would make sense, most hometown stores are in rural areas with large farm equipment and trucks. Did they just overestimate the demand?
Plus Hometown and Sears were techincially separate from Sears Holdings but still got stuff from Sears warehouses. However if Sears actually never had this set before did they simply agree to take them back after Eddie purchased Sears or it became apparent he would since he also owns like 75% of a Sears Hometown?
This was still a better deal than the new set because it was cheaper, and you got the $150 in points back.
The new set makes even less sense in some ways depending on how you look at it. You could buy the other 3 missing sockets open stock with the points you would have gotten from this set if you needed all 20 pieces. The thing that makes no sense is the combo, flex locking wrenches, crows foot wrenches a bit set and 3/4 inch set. Like you mention filler, I’m pretty sure the set it tells you to couple it with already has the bit set, so it’s just that, filler. The all mostly larger stuff set at least makes logical sense (though for some reason metric doesn’t go as large as the SAE). While the wrenches would be handy as opposed to duplicating the smaller sizes, the crows foot wrenches were more specialized. I think I bought my metric and SAE crows foot sets probably a year apart which was when I actually needed them. If you needed them they’re available separately, the old USA big set used to have them before they started fluffing the set out with ignition wrenches and later bits.
The set I coupled this with was a Black Friday set from a few years ago where all the wrenches included were ratcheting as a bonus, so had I not had non ratcheting wrenches this would have paired well.
I don’t mind some duplication. I keep some tools in my basement and don’t always feel like running out to the garage from my workbench. If I decided to do something unplanned to my tractor I’m not going to want to go to his garage (even thought it’s only like 5 minutes away) if there is a cheap enough solution like this set to not actually have to go there as it saves some time.
On another note I went to Sears on the way home to redeem a few of the points from the set on socket rails to organize it, and they were getting a bunch of tools in off the truck, don’t know if it’s new stuff they’re getting or they’re purging the warehouses or what. They actually just apparently got the 3/4 inch sets back in after having only open stock since Christmas but no longer had the shelf tag. Next time I’m there I’m going to see what the actual in store price currently is on just the 3/4 inch set.
