Tools

[Wayne Cox]

At 10:00 PM 2/16/2003 -0600, you wrote:
>Just want to ask some of y'alls opinion. Lowes has got a sale on a Kobalt
>tool set. It's the 56 pc metric socket set with shallow and deep sockets,

Go For It!  The Kobalt stuff is great, Sears sucks in comparison.

I have a bunch of Sears / Craftsman crap I've accumulated from about 1985
to present.  Back around last June there was a big discussion here about
tools and several guys mentioned the Kobalt was like "Snap On Lite"  (Snap
On supposedly actually makes them.)  At the same time, I was doing a clutch
job in Lisa's NX.  A very stubborn 12mm nut was rounding off with my Sears
box end on it.  I had to go to Lowes for some other stuff, and with all the
list talk of Kobalt, I bought a single 12mm combo-wrench.  It took off the
already rounded nut NO PROBLEM.  FUCK SEARS!  The Kobalt tolerances are
just a bunch tighter.  I just bought a set of Kobalt metric combo wrenches
to replaces my Sears shit, and hope to procure more soon!  I'll have to
check out the sale you mention.

    -Wayne    '91 NX2k - '93 NK2k - '92 SE-R parts car