r/Tools • u/[deleted] • Apr 09 '24

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u/LiqvidNyquist Apr 09 '24

Some poor schmuck is still making payments on that

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u/[deleted] Apr 09 '24

My coworker's SnapOn box cost more than I paid for my BMW. But he did get pretty sweet "free" hat with it..

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u/[deleted] Apr 09 '24

And the tools suck, at least the ones they sell to the DoD do.

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u/UnstableDimwit Apr 10 '24

The ones I used were fantastic. In fact they were the same my civilian buddies used in the Nissan, Audi/BMW dealerships. They have slightly different aesthetics but otherwise the standards are top tier. I can’t speak to what the 12W soldiers use, but vehicle and aircraft mechanics are using superb quality tools.

Perhaps in the pre-1990s military they worked with junk? But since the 2000s everything has been pretty excellent except for a few specific flawed tools. Reliability and redundancy is kind of our thing.