I knew they were very proud of their tools and priced to show it, but that is out of hand!
Nor should they. I'd say mechanics are buying at least 5 complete sets (including a reasonable profit on each of the 5 sets) when they pay for the first set.
I love a clean hole.
… guess you haven’t turned 50 yet.
I was a mechanic for a while, a big part of why you use professional tools is professional service. You buy the tools for your whole career of work. you break one or have issues they come to you and rebuild or replace on the spot. No charge. when you use tools 10+ hours a day this quickly becomes dollars and cents. Snap on owns Stanley tools black & decker, that is their regular joe line. Matco outsources most of their line. Mac is also Stanley Black and decker.
This ^^^^^^^^^
And they all said! "AMEN"
I totally understand the importance of having the highest quality, most reliable tool possible for a professional mechanic vs a hack like me in my garage. It's their lively hood/career and many tools get used day in/day out...or for a manufacturing company, it might be their production and revenue stream. A single tool might see several thousands of cycles per day, every day. I worked designing tools for aerospace which is on whole different cost level and that Snap-on mark-up shocked me! At $100 for that set, I would have thought, "Wow, Snap-on is really bending the mechanics of the world over!" In fact, I was getting angry about it yesterday while walking my dogs. For the service aspect, it BETTER come with a "happy ending" everytime something gets warrantied.
That's interesting, a lot of the hand tools and battery tools I use are Kobalt, mainly cause I have a lowes literally 500ft from my shop....
HF has upped their game. Even the super cheap stuff seems better than 20 years ago, but the Icon tools can be pretty damn nice.
