WHERE TO BUY USED SNAP ON TOOLS PRO

Of all the things for my first post to be about, the mechanic chimes in on tools. Would cost me $7000 to get one this big in a name brand. $750 and easily as nice as all the big dogs. Then I moved to the pacific northwest and discovered Costco and the deal of the century on the chinese made stainless steel one they sell. Now I did have a big $4500 Snap-On box a few years ago, but lost it in hurricane Katrina. I have a $25 model from H-Freight, but I can set a transmission on it and not wince, they all have a fit if they drop a brake rotor into theirs. The little service carts that we all have to roll around with us as we work? the snap-on model is $500 and up, I think the cheapest 'real' one is Matco and it is $450. And they go much higher if you want the REALLY big ones. Most of the guys in my shop have spent around $4-6000 on the box and we have a couple who have $10-14k models. Having said all that, it is VERY expensive to get a decent set of tools if it is all brand name. If you hold one up to the other, you can see it. Snap on sockets are machined to a tighter tolerance and fit the nuts better, but you have to use tham allot before you can really tell.

And yes when you use tham all day long, there is a difference in quality, and fit. I had a decent set of mostly craftsman tools when I started 6 years ago and little by little it has all moved back home and been replaced by snap-on/Matco/Mac depending on who had what on sale.

WHERE TO BUY USED SNAP ON TOOLS PRO

I am a pro wrench and 'most' of my tools are now snap-on. It really comes down to how much you are going to be using it.

Where to buy used snap on tools