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smalltruckbigcid

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Me and the Mac guy are going to have a little chat about his ratchtets. I bought a Mac branded one in 1/2 drive about 8 months ago. Today it broke for the 5th time. Turns out its not a Mac made ratchet but rather one made by Ez Red and branded for them.

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Oh yeah to add insult on this one I paid $100 on sale normally $169. Or the everyday price from northern tool is $49.95 for the same ratchet with a slightly different rubber handle:mad:
 
The Cornwell guy was trying to sale that same ratchet at my shop. I passed. Snap On is the only expensive ratchet I'll buy.

Martin
 
Snap On Dual 80 is all I will buy. (I have 4 different dual 80 ratchets) I have abused it on many occasions and it refuses to break. I have had a pipe on the end of mine hanging on it and still no breakage.
 
rdn2blazer said:
The new snap on ratchets are bad ass.
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concur........




actually yesterday. I had a 3 foot snipe on my 3/8" swivel head. pulling the 6 damper bolts on a series 60 in a old kenworth with front PTO drive.... but no breakage. I was kind of surprised about that actually.
 
If our snap on guy wasn't such a dirt bag and the local reps weren't such big azzhats he'd sell a lot more in our shop.
 
I can't believe how hard it is to find a GOOD reliable snap on dealer. My guy is a totally cool guy, but I HATE having to hunt him down to make a payment. He loves me as I pay off tools as I buy them most of the time. I ALWAYS make payments waaaay over the required payment for my tool box, always. But instead of him coming to my house on a regular schedule like originally agreed upon, I have to call him all the time or he won't stop by.

Sometimes he goes three and four weeks with out coming buy. I call him and we play phone tag for weeks, actually three straight at one point, he finally came by the following week. I hate that cause when I have the money and he does'nt come by I spend it and have to take more money out of the bank to pay him the following week or when ever he shows up. I drive and meet him even to make payments. If it was not for wanting to keep my good credit standings I would just stop paying him and let him hunt me down for a change.
 
I have had three out of four good Snap On dealers, one out of two Cornwell dealers was good, one decent MAC dealer, and one **** awful one, and one good Matco dealer.

Martin
 
ours our the exact opposite. our snapon guy and the whole network in calgary as a whole is top notch for snapon. but Mac is garrbage. customer service is non exsistant. we've had 3 mac dealers in the 2 1/2 years i've been at this shop.
 
I am always a tiny bit insulted when a customer buys one of those 1/2" Mac ratchets. I know where it comes from, so it is insulting when I sell a great quality 88 tooth ratchet for the same price, WITH a locking Flex-Head.
 
Well I pulled the trigger on a new Matco locking flex head ratchet. HAd it for a week and it hasn't broke yet.

I swear doing alignments must be about the hardest thing on tools in the shop. In a year I've worn out an inch and 5/16th socket plus an impact wrench. The other guy doing alignments bought a new 1/2 impact this week. Not to mention breaking a ratchet 5 times. 4 other guys in the shop have that same ratchet and none of them have a single problem together.
 
Funny guy:haha:

Its really a case of what I'm doing. They might do a starter once a week and need it for that. I'm doing 2 or 3 alignments a day sometimes and use it there. My 15/16ths, inch and an eighth, and inch and 5/16ths sockets take a beating. I am destroying those 3 in about a year.

Suspension work is hard on stuff. Especially when its on rusted salt belt trucks...:wink1:
 
I have to give some credit here to sleddog. He told me that I would like the matco ratchets I have in the fine tooth version. The 3/8ths one is ok and has its place but its not my use it everyday ratchet. Don't know why but it just hasn't caught on with me.

The 1/2 on the other hand is a YEAH BABY thats what I'm talking about. That one kicks butt. Thing is 26 inches long with a locking flex head.:D
 
Do you have the long handled flex head Snap On fine tooth ratchet?

Martin
 
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