gear wrench

 

I have mostly snap on with some case ih and gearwrench and air cat air tools

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I love my gear wrenches. My favorite impact is the IR Titanium. It's big bucks though.

 

Gear wrenches are awesome. The only thing I don't like about them is they have no offset. Their ratchets aren't bad either.

 

Gearwrenches are so expensive though (welcome to the world of tools I guess.)
Trying to save up and buy the big set of Metric and Standard at once so I can get a better deal.

 

Large Snap-On roller cab top and bottom filled with 95-97% Snap-on Tools.

 

GearWrench has many different flavors of wrenches. They have reversible ones with offset, straight ones that aren't reversible (you flip them over instead of flipping a lever), horizontally flexible ones, vertically flexible ones, stubby ones, half-moon ones, S-wrench ones, et cetera.

I think they're all made in either China or Taiwan. I have probably around $1000 worth of them. I bought them because I got a set for Christmas and wanted to fill it out, and they were cheaper than Snap-Ons. They have a lot of steel in them and are very strong; I had my 5/16's bent more than 45 degrees one time with a big cheater bar and I never broke one. But just because everybody sells them with a lifetime warranty, not everybody will warranty one unless you can prove you bought it from them. I bought mine from my old Snap-On man, he said he'd only replace the ones I bought from him.


Every company makes some crappy tools. My Spanish Snap-On vice grips are the most worthless hunks of crap I have in my tool box. As a general mechanic, the most important thing is customer service through a tool truck that'll be there when you need replacements and not screw you over. As a specialist, you need whatever tools work best no matter who makes them and many of the tools you need just don't exist.

I used to work as a mechanic, now I travel working on buzzing boxes in power plants and have to carry less than 40 pounds worth of tools. Brand loyalty wears out fast when you have to lug the crap for thousands of miles... My current recommendations are Wera screwdrivers, Knipex pliers, ChannelLock crescent wrenches, ViceGrips chain wrenches, Bondhus Allen heads, Snap-On ratcheting screwdriver handles, hex extensions and hex bits, Malco and GearWrench ratcheting handles and (old) Klein electrical multitools.

 

Mostly Craftsman, but they're over 10 years old so I don't have to worry about them being cheap Chinese junk.

I also have some S&K (you'll love their warranties when you need them), Snap-On, and Mac Tools .... all in a Kobalt chest and roller box.




-Kris