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Originally Posted by lippy
I bought a set of Craftsman racheting box-end wrenches from Sears yesterday and realized at home they are made in China.
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That's been disappointing to see. Like many people here, I'v been buying Craftsman tools for decades. I still use some of the sockets and wrenches I purchased decades ago. But, now that Sears is owned by K-Mart, you can find Craftsman tools everywhere, and they're just not as well designed and made as they used to be.
Now I look in Lowes and Home Depot for better made tools. If I could get them, I'd be looking at SK and Snap-On.
I look for products made in America. I pay extra for them. I know I could get a cheaper knock off of an Edelbrock manifold or heads, or cheap copies of all kinds of speed parts. The catalogs and magazines are filled with those parts. But I won't put any of them on my car.
Those cheap knock off parts are there because people will buy them. If there's a market, some body will fill it. But if everyone buys them, Edelbrock goes under. Then who will do the research to develop new and innovative parts?