Yeah you're right on the Van / Credit thing....SnapOn, Mac and Matco at least are terrible for it. YTS trainees with 40k of shiny packed roll cabs on the never never.
No idea where Craftsman are made these days. Poor old Sears (the parent company) is languishing on the ropes; I wouldn't be surprised to see them spin off the Craftsman brand at some point. I've not got any new Craftsman tools but the old US made stuff seems pretty good. At the bottom of the pile, I've got a few things from Harbor Freight. Harbor Freight is the epitome of made in China...you can buy just about anything you can think up there for very little money. Some is actually good, a lot is unusable rubbish. I try and avoid it for the most part..
Yeah you're right on the Van / Credit thing....SnapOn, Mac and Matco at least are terrible for it. YTS trainees with 40k of shiny packed roll cabs on the never never.
No idea where Craftsman are made these days. Poor old Sears (the parent company) is languishing on the ropes; I wouldn't be surprised to see them spin off the Craftsman brand at some point. I've not got any new Craftsman tools but the old US made stuff seems pretty good. At the bottom of the pile, I've got a few things from Harbor Freight. Harbor Freight is the epitome of made in China...you can buy just about anything you can think up there for very little money. Some is actually good, a lot is unusable rubbish. I try and avoid it for the most part..