Why I like the quality of certain vintage hand tools over new ones
2024 ж. 22 Сәу.
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In this video @StuInTheSticks give's the reason why he like's the quality of a certain vintage mechanic tool company's socket's and ratchet's. why? this brand, because it's just plain tough as nail's that's why. New tool's on the market these day's are no longer made like they used to be.
I agree. It seems that most things now days are made to a lower standard than back then.
Some of these short cut's in quality is on purpose ie profit driven big corp riding a once great brand name, but more and more there just isn't the high grade steel available anymore or the steel mill's that make the high grade steel even left in production. That's the scary part there's lot of mill's around the world but they make low grade iron, mostly because their in poor third world country's and don't have the proper ingredient's and blast furnaces they don't have the plant's needed for the process. Most just plain don't have the ability to turn out high test steel, that's what happens when you export all your industry elsewhere.
@@StuInTheSticks Exactly!!
I love old tools too.
Hand tools from 40 year's ago will kick the butt of most tool's on the market right now, sad to say that's were we're at nowadays.
Glade you were able to find an original replacement! I'm still using my Dad's Snap-on tools from the 1930's. He was aircraft engine mechanic. I also have my great grandfathers plyers and pipe wrenches from the 1890's. Sometimes I think they are looking down on me when I am using them and smiling. I look up and say thanks!!
I can totally relate to what your saying when tool's have been in use in one family for that long they are no longer just a tool to get a job done, they are truly family heirloom's. Besides my dad's various tool's I have a handful of my Grampa's tool's from some of his original Jamestown New York made Crescent wrenches to a couple of his axe's he carried with him all his life as a logger. I'm lucky enough to have found my Great Grampa's broadaxe carefully wrapped in an oilcloth in mint shape handle and all when we tore apart an old fallen down logging storage shed on my Grampa's property a number of year's back.
I have a bunch of old German and English open end wrench sets I picked up at a farm auction years ago love them!!
when it comes to different specialty wrenches like open end's for doing hydraulic hoses, I kind of have a mixed bag of em' simply because I like what I like as far as how they feel in the hand and how tough they are. There was some great tool's out there at one time didn't matter the brand, they all seemed to make great stuff back then.
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I have worked on my own cars and trucks for 50+ years. Of all my tools, my vintage S-K sockets sets in 3/8 and 1/2 are some of my favorites. Also, a set of Thorsen combo wrenches in std and S-K in metric. I almost get a stiffy when working with them.
Sorry I can't stop chuckling at the last part of your comment a little more info than I needed to know there, but getting back on topic yes I also have the whole S-K set's from 1/4'' up to 3/4'' drive. Only bad thing is their all SAE no metric in my set's, metric wasn't really much of a concern back when my Dad bought them in the sixty's; still glad I have them though.
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Old jh Williams wrenches are hard to beat!
There was some really great tool's being made at the time, another one is Bonney tool they made some really nice double box end double open end and combination wrenches in the sixty's and seventy's. They had a nice soft radius on the edges feel really good in your hand and tough as hell to boot, I know cause I have a few in the collection.
Yes a great tool co.Have had many for 40 years+
@@jameswhite465 S-k were probably some of the most durable tools around for many year's, some people might disagree but the amount of punishing work they could do and still keep going is hard to argue with.
S&K Tools made a lot of good stuff!
Yes they did in their glory years, when it came to durability few could match 'em tough as nail's was a understatement.
Nothing beats old vintage tools l do many road trips buying them it's unbeatable quality beats today's disposable crap tools Vintage Rules
Maker's of these tool's back in the day just plain got it right, 100% agree with you.
No doubt about it, tools that were manufactured before the rise of globalisation were of much higher quality in general.
Sad part is almost everything was better quality back in the day, don't even get me started on trying to find a decent washing machine or a stupid toaster that last's more than a couple week's. It's been an appliance saga around my house and that of other family member's households around here lately lol!
Old school sockets are better than what we have now. Number one lesson on buying sockets now. If you're looking for durability by black not Chrome
Yes and no have had mixed results on that front if your talking black chrome then not so much depends on who's the maker, if you mean impact socket's stress them on a very hard pull with a long handle breaker bar or use a cheater pipe and they most often peal apart. I'll just stick with my old school vintage stuff it'll outlast me like it out lived my Grandpa and my Dad.
Lol, always somebody else's fault
Yes it is somebody else's fault when company's knowingly produce crap product's then it is 100% their fault and I will call a spade a spade. There's something wrong when a couple of farmer's can weld together a homemade wheel wrench out of a scrap peace of water pipe and have it hold together better than these "big name'' tool maker's can now make. Not only is it wrong they should be ashamed of themselves to even put their name on this junk.