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<blockquote data-quote="inactive" data-source="post: 3223405" data-attributes="member: 7488"><p>This is right on. I worked for Sears for over 5 years in the late 90s - early 2000s. The quality was all over, from bargain bin stuff to high quality (and sometimes equally high prices). I have some decent yet inexpensive hand tools that are mostly fine (the Allen key wrenches suck, and the screwdrivers are not great), and some really nice higher-grade Craftsman hand tools (namely the more expensive ratchets with a thinner profile and significantly higher tooth count, so you can still work it with less handle movement, which put them leagues ahead of the basic ones) that still hold up well today.</p><p></p><p>I have a super cheap impact tool set (air hammer, ratchet, impact) that are unremarkable, and I have a top-of-the-line Craftsman Professional impact wrench that drives nearly 700 ft-lbs of torque (<a href="https://www.sears.com/craftsman-professional-1-2-in-professional-composite-impact-wrench/p-00919865000P" target="_blank">like a 18 year older version of this</a>) and functions immaculately (and is literally triple the price of the basic 1/2" impact wrenches). </p><p></p><p>Point is, their quality was hit or miss and it's hard to know what's good, and what's bad. I think sometime around 2005 it started getting real poor though. Most of the larger power tools like table and mitre saws and drill presses were made by Emerson Tool (who also made Rigid), and Rexon (a Taiwanese firm) if I remember right. Some others and the smaller hand power tools were Ryobi and Black & Decker, with an even more rare Makita in there.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="inactive, post: 3223405, member: 7488"] This is right on. I worked for Sears for over 5 years in the late 90s - early 2000s. The quality was all over, from bargain bin stuff to high quality (and sometimes equally high prices). I have some decent yet inexpensive hand tools that are mostly fine (the Allen key wrenches suck, and the screwdrivers are not great), and some really nice higher-grade Craftsman hand tools (namely the more expensive ratchets with a thinner profile and significantly higher tooth count, so you can still work it with less handle movement, which put them leagues ahead of the basic ones) that still hold up well today. I have a super cheap impact tool set (air hammer, ratchet, impact) that are unremarkable, and I have a top-of-the-line Craftsman Professional impact wrench that drives nearly 700 ft-lbs of torque ([URL='https://www.sears.com/craftsman-professional-1-2-in-professional-composite-impact-wrench/p-00919865000P']like a 18 year older version of this[/URL]) and functions immaculately (and is literally triple the price of the basic 1/2" impact wrenches). Point is, their quality was hit or miss and it's hard to know what's good, and what's bad. I think sometime around 2005 it started getting real poor though. Most of the larger power tools like table and mitre saws and drill presses were made by Emerson Tool (who also made Rigid), and Rexon (a Taiwanese firm) if I remember right. Some others and the smaller hand power tools were Ryobi and Black & Decker, with an even more rare Makita in there. [/QUOTE]
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