Sears Circling the Drain

[busdaddy]

[raygreenwood]

Actually that sounds a bit like Northern Tool.

Northern tool is not dirt cheap....but is quite inexpensive compared to the big box stores. Its quality level....a good amount of China stuff but a couple of notches above HF. They are known for their large power tools.....generators, pressure washers etc. Their Northstar variety are excellent quality. Some made off continent and some on.....but the equivalent of any of them in any other brand is almost 2x the cost. Ray

[TDCTDI]

[busdaddy]

[modok]

[wcfvw69]

It's sad but a sign of the times that as a society, we've been conditioned the last few decades to buy the "cheapest" priced item we can find. Certainly millennials have grown up with this mind set. We're the "Walmart" generation where only the price counts, not the quality, where it was made in the world or what buying it does to a local economy or country.

We only have to look as far as VW parts sold today as an example. While many of us veterans KNOW and have the experience to recognize that it's immensely better to pony up and buy this specific part at whatever price point, EMPI crappy parts survives because the VW masses only see a price.

While I say this is sad, I'll also own that I'm personally all about a "deal" as well. It's not uncommon for me to price check many different vendors for the same part or a part I know is equivalent. Then see who's offering free shipping to entice me to go with them. I think most of us see this as a financially smart thing to do as we have to stay economically viable as a house hold, right?

The internet has been a great tool to facilitate price checking companies to insure you're not getting gouged. Whether you're looking for a TV or a new widget. It's a nice tool to price check others selling the same or a comparable item.

My cell phone recently crapped out. While getting a new one at Sprint, I needed a new cover and screen protector since I bought a different model phone. The cover and screen protector being sold at Sprint were over $80 dollars for both. I came home, got on Amazon and found a 4-5 star rated cover and screen protector for $25 for both. Oh, and they were made in "Merica" damn it!
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[Cusser]

My 1971 JC Penney Penncraft metric combination wrenches are still going strong, lifetime warranty !!!

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[TDCTDI]

[busdaddy]

[TDCTDI]

[EverettB]

[TDCTDI]

I thought it was just to give legitimacy to having/selling full sets.

Up until then the only tools needed were 7,8,10,13,17,19 mm wrenches & sockets unless you worked on Japanese cars & you dropped the 13 for 12 & 14.
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Everybody born before 1975 has a story, good, bad, or indifferent, about a VW.


GOFUNDYOURSELF, quit asking everyone to do it for you!


An air cooled VW will make you a hoarder.


Do something, anything, to your project every day, and you will eventually complete it.

[raygreenwood]

[Zundfolge1432]

[Zundfolge1432]

Those blue points date from the 1930s

[cdennisg]

Funny, as I have never had to use the 16mm wrenches and sockets in my sets. Ever.

I have used the 18mm deep socket a few times. On 70's Honda motorcycle spark plugs.
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[Zundfolge1432]

[TDCTDI]

One of the odder sizes VW liked to use was the 9mm 12 point for the flywheel on Golf/Jetta.
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Everybody born before 1975 has a story, good, bad, or indifferent, about a VW.


GOFUNDYOURSELF, quit asking everyone to do it for you!


An air cooled VW will make you a hoarder.


Do something, anything, to your project every day, and you will eventually complete it.

[mark tucker]

so.... where do you get that jc penny wrench warranteed?
Ive got somany sets of renches and some have this one missing some have that one missing wtf is it that dam hard to put all the dam renches in the dam package and not skip the 9or11or16, or 15, or 18,or20,or 21 or whatever they decide to leave out !!dam how effing stupid. I can see missing a W or something like that but weather renches has a W or not....it's still pronounced wrenches and if your brain cant figure that one out the wrenches may be way beyond your abilitys..... but missing the wrench you need and...crap I just bought this effing set of renches. . My first set of crapsman wrenches I ordered when I was in japan working on motorcycles.we ordered a lot at the same time of a few different sets and sockets too, nothing was duplicated so we could get more variation. When they arrived....everything was duplicated x3.what a smile that will put on a kids face...2 kids faces and...a dad. all for the original low price we had paid. how did they know there was 3 of us?? I still have 95% of them...or more. I now have somany tools my isue is trying to figure out where they go....as in witch tool chest/box did I get it out of.( I seem to have too many of those too if there could be such a thing )

[Zundfolge1432]