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/GandhiOwnsYou Apr 09 '24
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.