CRaftsmen tools

I like most of you have gone to sears to buy tools to work on cars, tractors and trucks. We had bought these tools since we where in our teenager years.
what we had like was the quality and the way the where built to last. I would like to say it was not just the name but how good they did what they where designed to do. With in the past couple of years I have gone back to buy new tools and realize that the quality was not there. When taking back the tools found out no warrantee but the words you have to buy another one.Now I hear Sears is selling there tool line. I hope if some body buys the tool line they bring back Quality tools that all of us remember that Craftsmen should be.
 
Marketing executives in this country confuse the PRODUCTs they sell with their BRANDs. They assume that if the brand is good enough, they can market any kind of crap under that brand and customers will buy it. Anyone remember the <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadillac_Cimarron">Cadillac Cimarron</a>? Harley-Davidson has used this marketing strategy for decades, but it seems they're <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2016/10/18/harley-davidson-third-quarter-2016-earnings/92347498/">running out of aging Baby Boomers willing to buy their crappy bikes</a>.
 
I am glad to here that these tools are still going to made in the U.S.A. I hope that the quality of the tool will get to be a s good as they where at one time. I will spend the extra money for good quality tools. I do know the reason why I buy the better tool.
 
Sears never made anything but catalogs. Their tools like everything else, with their name on it was manufactured by the cheapest bidder.
 
Oh yes....the Caddy that rolled out of the show room with an arss end looking like it got hit with a big shovel. The one good thing was the radio. GM radios of that time were double DIN size. That Caddy radio was a single DIN size. It fit perfectly in the dash of my 1976 Dasher wagon. Also worked great as a Delco should.
 
> the Caddy that rolled out of the show room with an arss end looking like it got hit with a big shovel.

You might be thinking of the early-eighties Seville; they did look horrifying. The Cimarron didn't look all that bad, as long as a Chevy Citation with a Cadillac badge is your idea of a cool car.
 
The Cimarron didn't look all that bad, as long as a Chevy Citation with a Cadillac badge is your idea of a cool car.

The Cadillac Cimarron was a Chevrolet Cavalier, not a Chevrolet Citation!
 
I've been using and buying Craftsman since my dad gave me my first set when I was in high school. Hopefully the Craftsman name and quality will still be there after Stanley buys them. I think of Stanley as Carpenters tools not real mechanic tools.

Jim
 

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