[quote="Bob"](quoted from post at 22:44:22 11/01/18) Quoting Removed, click Modern View to see
Totally agree. I too have wondered what all these Frequent Warranty Flyers are doing wrong that they are buggering up so many tools?
Obviously, nobody HERE does this, but my suspicion is that vast majority of all these Craftsman "failures" a guy hears about are due to using too small of a drive size. I see it all the time on videos on YouTube, guys attaching a 36-inch breaker bar and trying to dislodge a 1-1/4 inch bolt with a half inch drive. And if it doesn't work, they attach a 5-foot pipe! Stick a crowbar in your wallet and buy the RIGHT sized tools ya bunch of generic mechanics.
I bet 95% of socket and socket wrench failures are due to consistently using too small of a drive.
My rule of thumb has always been what I was taught. If the hardware is bound up and won't easily come loose, switch to the biggest drive size that will fit. So if you're using a 1/2 inch and you're flexing the breaker bar 3 inches, you're using the wrong dang tool. Switch to the 3/4 or 1 inch drive and you'll spend a lot less time looking for replacements.
BTW I've got Craftsman drives/sockets, I've got an S-K set from the 1970s that's never had a single piece replaced, and I've got the Taiwan set my dad gave me 40 years ago. They all work still.
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