There is also the industrial supply chains, that while they did offer product through, they never made any attempt to promote their products or do anything that would make their tools stand apart from the rest. Did the pandemic do something to space-time where everything just… changed… and was totally hidden from perception?
Lots of fasteners seem to have been standardized — not by some restraint of trade conspiracy — or governmental mandate — but rather because some variant became so popular that others decided to use it. I can use T50 staples in many brands of staple guns. The last batch of 23ga pins that I bought for my Grex gun were made by Porter Cable and so on. Oh, so this happened a very long time ago? Staples and pins seem simple enough that a lot of people would get fed up of having thousands of options available, when they universally only need around 20 or so.
So it does make sense there. At the time the Arrow T was the standard for any sort of heavy-duty staple gun. All the other brands we sold in the store used Arrow T style staples. I imagine it was a thing long before then as well. And back then SBD did not own Arrow.
Another one bites the dust. I collect Mac , Proto , Sk , Bonney , Granco, Craftsman ect but my main using mechanic tools are Snap On, they are dominant and seem to make a lot of their hardline in USA so if it breaks I can have it replaced now or way many years down the road so basically I feel Snap On is not going away anytime soon. For years I have read threads with people whining about the high price of Snap on and they recommend brand A, B or C brand but now a lot of those brands been put out the pasture or made in Taiwan.
When you buy a dead tool brand you can still use them love them enjoy them but never push them too hard them because of warranty reasons. When we buy tools with a lifetime warranty it can be just a big over priced lie.
I think that Klein has been surviving purely on brand recognition for decades now. They make solid tools but I feel the hype and the price far exceeds the quality. And I think that some of the tool truck brands like Matco, MAC, etc, can get away with selling a lot of made-in-Taiwan tools for inflated prices purely because of their service.
For example I recently looked around for some extra-long flex head ratcheting box-end wrenches. All the big tool truck brands have these. Snap-on makes their own in the USA. The others all seem to be buying from the same Taiwanese maker, which also sells the same thing under the names EZred, Mountain, Icon, and probably others too. Better warranty service.
Mountain will warranty the tools but you have to mail them in and wait weeks. Matco will give you a new one right off the truck no wait. I ended up buying both Snap-On and Mountain sets.
These are tools I will use enough to justify Snap-On prices and quality for my main use. That has proven to be money well spent over the years.
As far as I know there are no modern Bonney tools being manufactured. Also — as far as i know Granco once a big supplier to the military and aerospace industry are out of business. We had many Granco wrenches used in tight quarter operations for aircraft assemblies that we worked on in our fabrication business:.
BTW — the tool truck brands have always had a different business model. Their premise is that if they bring the tool store to the end user and offer on-the-spot sales and replacements for high quality tools — then they can charge a big premium. I was never a fan — but also did not run an auto repair shop. In our businesses — my partners and I agreed that we would buy the tools needed thus reducing the financial burden on our workers. If one of our carpenters wanted something like a Martinez hammer — we might balk — and let them him or her buy one themselves.
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Where do you buy your SK tools? Thread starter FordExplorer Start date Jul 9, FordExplorer Well-known member. Joined Jul 4, Messages Well, now that I'm going to transition away from Craftsman I have been looking for places the sell SK hand tools. Where does everybody else find them? Joined Jan 29, Messages 1, Location Colorado. With 3 different orders they didn't get nothing wrong.
Brownsfan Well-known member. FordExplorer said:. Click to expand Joined Dec 14, Messages 5, Advance prices its SK higher from my experience. However, if I order it in-store using my employee discount, it saves me money if I'm not buying tons of tools at one time. Brownsfan said:. Does Advanced sell them in store or online or both? Beats the prices in my area. Mastermind Well-known member.
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One example of this is ratcheting wrenches, Sedlacek said. The old SK company had ratcheting wrenches, but they were made in China or Taiwan. The new product line underscores what IDEAL sees as a strategy for a sustainable competitive advantage, Sedlacek said.
In the next three to five years, the cost advantage of China is going to go away.
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