anand@utastro.UUCP (Anand Sivaramakrishnan) (06/12/85)
< Too bad that you have a bad taste for SEARS as I really like my shop < full of CRAFTSMAN tools. I freely admit my inexperience, but I have generally found that tools and accessories made by 'specialist' companies (Stanley wrenches, Hansen drill bits to name two examples) seem to satisfy my needs better than Craftsman or Black and Decker. I am disappointed in the quality of the steel used in Craftsman screwdrivers, an old Stanley I found in a used car that I bought ($500 down the drain) stills has a good clean profile, cf. Sears' best, which has become rounded, and is now only good for burring brass screws. Mind you, for $500 it had better be a damned good screwdriver. I am curious about the Japanese saws. Haven't seen one yet.
ralphd@teklds.UUCP (Ralph Durtschi) (06/18/85)
> > < Too bad that you have a bad taste for SEARS as I really like my shop > < full of CRAFTSMAN tools. > > I am disappointed in the quality of the steel > used in Craftsman screwdrivers, an old Stanley I > found in a used car that I bought ($500 down the drain) > stills has a good clean profile, cf. Sears' best, > which has become rounded, and is now only good for > burring brass screws. Mind you, for $500 it had I'm sure you are aware of the LIFETIME GUARANTEE Sears hand tools carry. When your Sears hand tools get skrewed up (even from normal wear) just take 'em back and trade 'em in for a new ones, I do and Sears has never given me any trouble. You probably payed two or three times more than the screw driver was really worth in the first place so they are still making money on you. If Sears was going broke because of trade-ins they would drop the guarantee. When they say graranteed they mean it. Regards, Ralph (I still have all of my fingers) Durtschi
josh@topaz.ARPA (J Storrs Hall) (06/19/85)
> I am disappointed in the quality of the steel > used in Craftsman screwdrivers, ... I'm not. I recently had occasion to pry up what I thought was a nail which turned out to be a sort of screw with a flat head, intended to be hammered in (and never come out). I was using a Craftsman screwdriver as a prybar--a very small one since I had to get the tip under the nailhead. Jam a fulcrum under the screwdriver and lean on it. It sliced right through nailhead, a clean cut as if I'd been using a chisel, cutting through steel three times as thick as the screwdriver blade itself. There was absolutely no deformation of the screwdriver-- I was amazed. --JoSH