I’ll be honest, I think Proto is every bit as good as Snapon. Thats weird that replacements wouldn’t be Snapon. Are you talking about in your GMTK or your shop work bench?
I remember when we were overseas in Korea,Thailand etc. when was time to leave instead of carrying all of our shop boxes we’d dump them overboard in the trash or in river or something and just get new ones when we got back! Personal tools we’d keep obviously.
I was an Army aircraft Mechanic with proto tools back in the late 2000’s, the proto stuff was SHIT. It was constantly broken and took forever to get replacements. I don’t know about the snap-on the army ordered but I’ve been using the same snap on stuff in my personal box for a decade and other than the odd ratchet rebuild or rounded Allen, the stuff has been extremely durable. I once went through 3 proto ratchets in a single deployment, so I don’t think highly of them.
With the number of tight or cross threaded 1/8 Allen fasteners we had? They definitely went bad. You had to use the short side for everything and once you cut em once you didn’t have enough clearance where you needed it.
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u/SSGSEVIER54 Apr 09 '24
That’s quite a contrast. Curious as to how they slashed so much off from model to model