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- From: finnegan@invader.navo.navy.mil (Kenneth Finnegan)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos.tech
- Subject: Tools (Was: Oil Drain Plug Is Stuck)
- Message-ID: <1992Jul31.194859.8093@cs.tulane.edu>
- Date: 31 Jul 92 19:48:59 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul31.081003.13654@btcase.bt.co.uk>, gss@btcase.bt.co.uk (Graham Sewell) writes:
- |> dave.williams@chaos.lrk.ar.us (Dave Williams) writes:
- |>
- |> > They're better than 12-points, but the best are the Snap-On Flank Drive
- |> >sockets I mentioned earlier. Other tool companies may make something
- |> >similar - and chances are, if they do, they'll be cheaper than Snap-On.
- |> >Snap-On makes fine tools, but they're just too darned expensive.
- |> >
- |> In the UK, a company called Richmond sell a set of spanners and a set of
- |> sockets which work on the flats of the nut or bolt. They were
- |> reasonably priced and have got me out of problems in the past.
-
- A co-worker told me that Wal-Mart has now started selling a line of
- "Wal-Mart" brand tools that carry the same lifetime guarantee that
- Craftsman tools do, but they cost about half as much. Has anyone
- had experience with this new line of tools?
-
- Thanks,
-
- Kenneth
- finnegan@navo.navy.mil
-