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> Craftsman used to be tools that would last you for decades, but you paid. Now it’s the same crap everyone else is selling with a different logo thrown on. On
by jstarfish 9y ago
> Craftsman used to be tools that would last you for decades, but you paid. Now it’s the same crap everyone else is selling with a different logo thrown on.
Only certain items. They certainly have fallen victim to slapping the Craftsman label on cheap plastic "things" out of desperation which has definitely impacted their reputation as of late, but for those of us who can't pay Snap-on prices for everything what remains of Sears' actual tools are still light years better than the malleable/rusty junk Lowe's, Home Depot, Amazon and Walmart sell.
- dugditches 9y agoDewalt, Makita, Milwauke, etc are 'malleable/rusty junk'? The only Craftsmen tools I see on job sites now are wrenches and screwdrivers.
- Aloha 9y agoThose are the durable ones that craftsman makes.
- jstarfish 9y agoNo, I didn't have power tools in mind when I said that. Anything with a motor or more than a few moving parts is worth shopping around. The basic hand tools and precision instruments are the Craftsman products I find are still worth using. The wrenches, torque wrenches, calipers, hammers, screwdrivers and the like. Nothing electronic or mostly plastic.
- lotsofpulp 9y agohttp://pressurewashr.com/tool-industry-behemoths/ http://pressurewashr.com/tool-industry-behemoths/ Here's a list of which companies own which brands. A lot of them probably come out of the same assembly lines with different names slapped on.
- kps 9y agoSears sold the Craftsman brand this year to Stanley Black & Decker (who also own DeWalt, Porter Cable, Bostich, and Mac among others).