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    Sears selling craftsman tool division.


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    Time to go get the few remaining pieces of their I need... :(
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    Quote Originally Posted by N8YX View Post
    Time to go get the few remaining pieces of their I need... :(
    Over the past several years , I bought a couple of their socket sets and combination wrench sets for my garage at home. The quality just isn't what it used to be.

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    Quote Originally Posted by w2amr View Post
    Over the past several years , I bought a couple of their socket sets and combination wrench sets for my garage at home. The quality just isn't what it used to be.
    Not at all. Not even close to what it used to be. Craftsman quality is now at a point where generic Chinese tools were in the 80s. The generic Chinese junk is better than Craftsman. The cost of Craftsman tools has also gone up beyond reason. I've switched over to Lowe's Kobalt branded tools and have had very good luck.

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    That is a sad day. When I went to school back in 1975, I decided to get my Airframe & PowerPoint Mechanics License. I got a pretty full set of tools back then, supplemented for 30 years after. I have been using them for everything, but they were always my prized possessions.
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    Dagnabit!

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    End of an era, and another sad chapter in the decline of the once-mighty Sears.

    What I didn't know before I read the link -- I didn't realize that Stanley had absorbed Black & Decker. Explains a few things.
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    Quote Originally Posted by W3WN View Post
    End of an era, and another sad chapter in the decline of the once-mighty Sears.
    I think the wheels started to fall off after they bought K-Mart.

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    Quote Originally Posted by w2amr View Post
    I think the wheels started to fall off after they bought K-Mart.
    If memory serves, it was the other way around. And yes, that was the start down the slippery slope.
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    Quote Originally Posted by w2amr View Post
    I think the wheels started to fall off after they bought K-Mart.
    Actually, K-Mart bought Sears.

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