Aviation mech, my rule is harbor freight for everything you don’t put a lot of force on or trust your life to. (Breaker bars, extensions, sockets, lanyards, jacks, etc) Also Snapon is no longer worth it, it’s all Chinese rebranded shit nowadays, I’ve seen them bend/break as much as any harbor freight tool.
I live about 2 miles from the Snap On factory where they make most of their tools and I’m not in China. I don’t know where the materials come from though.
You don’t just up and buy a higher quality version when you’re stuck on the side of the road, you count your blessings that you have like 5 other extensions, all better brands than HF.
It’s almost a nice convenient road kit, but yeah when you can literally twist-break an extension just using your hands and arms, the metal is shit tempered and can’t handle torsion forces.
Which is exactly what ratchets and extensions are meant to handle, torsion forces, AKA twisty forces.
Oh for emergency in the car tools totally get the good stuff. But when you are trying to outfit your garage cheaply to get stuff done, it’s a good enough starting point.
If you can afford a garage, you can afford good tools. If I had a garage, you think I’d cheap out on my tools?
I had to go back at the bolt in question with a wrench from another kit after breaking the extension. At least I have other better extensions, I just didn’t have them with me at the moment.
Buy harbor freight; if you use it enough (properly) to break it then buy a higher quality version.
Exactly. I’m not going to wait until I can afford Snap-On tools to fix my AC belt.
I broke this while replacing brake pads today.
Fuck Harbor Freight. At least I have 5 other extensions, all other brands that aren’t made of frozen peanut butter.
Harbor Freight also makes torches. Just saying.
Yeah, I broke this while working on brakes today, a torch ain’t got any business anywhere near the ABS sensors.
It broke trying to loosen one of the 17 millimeter main mount bolts. The extension was apparently made of poorly tempered metal, plain and simple.
Aviation mech, my rule is harbor freight for everything you don’t put a lot of force on or trust your life to. (Breaker bars, extensions, sockets, lanyards, jacks, etc) Also Snapon is no longer worth it, it’s all Chinese rebranded shit nowadays, I’ve seen them bend/break as much as any harbor freight tool.
I live about 2 miles from the Snap On factory where they make most of their tools and I’m not in China. I don’t know where the materials come from though.
You don’t just up and buy a higher quality version when you’re stuck on the side of the road, you count your blessings that you have like 5 other extensions, all better brands than HF.
It’s almost a nice convenient road kit, but yeah when you can literally twist-break an extension just using your hands and arms, the metal is shit tempered and can’t handle torsion forces.
Which is exactly what ratchets and extensions are meant to handle, torsion forces, AKA twisty forces.
Oh for emergency in the car tools totally get the good stuff. But when you are trying to outfit your garage cheaply to get stuff done, it’s a good enough starting point.
If you can afford a garage, you can afford good tools. If I had a garage, you think I’d cheap out on my tools?
I had to go back at the bolt in question with a wrench from another kit after breaking the extension. At least I have other better extensions, I just didn’t have them with me at the moment.
Well, boomer, most people can’t afford a garage (let alone a whole house). So Harbor Frieght tools it is!