Pro tech for 10 years…. Looks like you have a decent setup there…. Buy them as you need them and you won’t wind up with extra tools…. Tekton and icon are two brands I have in my box at work…. Both have shortcomings but both are brands i will buy more from in the future…. Good job
How are the Milwaukee stuff holding up ?? My sockets after a year are still great Wrenches still good with chrome has scratching lol but still does the job fine. Their vice grips to me could be better ….the teeth wear down some what quick.
everything milwaukee has held up well actually, I dont use the vice grips enough to see too much waear on the teeth yet but nothing has broken or anything like that
@@CarpentryandCars that’s good to know because I’m trying out a lot of stuff because the price is nice and most of it is Taiwan so that’s a good place too. Not that I hate tool trucks not really because I have snap on tools but some stuff just no thank you haha
Everyone love to hate Milwaukee hand tools and I don’t get why??? Yes other brands make a very similar product and typically but not always Taiwan made and yet they’re okay and happy with the other brand from Taiwan but yet miwlaukee is junk?? I don’t get it I don’t think they’re junk I have Milwaukee wrenches sockets a few ratchets hand full of vice grips , drill bits , hex bits etc etc and all my Electric stuff too. People say junk I say what ever because it cost a fraction for a tool truck tool and I sue them ever day on class 8 trucks and trailers and the hold up just fine.
I can tell you why - certain group of people in this industry/hobby intend to have brand loyalty purposely for the reasons they don’t even know. Yes, Snap on and Matco die hard fan boys are the most of them, when a $200 Milwaukee impact beat the snot of their beloved $1k snap on matco, they thought it was the end of the world especially they were still paying that loans. Now in recent times, Milwaukee, Gearwrench and whole bunch of made in Taiwan and China hand tools performing 80-90% of their still-paying-loan snap on or Matco for the price of 1/5-1/3. They finally can’t take it anymore, the hand tools segment is literally their last hope. Not only for the “good old times” but mostly for the money they still owe. That’s why.
@@alexginlu don’t get me wrong as much as I love my Milwaukee hand tools (sockets, wrenches, few ratchets and vice grips) I know they’re not perfect and the brand on the side of the tool isn’t indicative of the brand (icon and Milwaukee wrenches feature the same open end but other than that the design is different so yes they’re brothers from the same factory in Taiwan) but my point is they get my job done just fine every day and I’m not some DIY’er I work on diesel truck and trailers every day (fleet maintenance) do I own snap on tools? I absolutely do because SOMETIMES you just gotta even for the price but I only buy snap on when I need to. If I can find ANY brand specially Taiwan made and it’s gets the job done I’m buying it
@@Tcorellis-j6d Nah man you have got me wrong, I wasn't saying Snap On or Matco was bad, in fact, they were great, if not, the best. They can charge whatever they want and people still buying them, cash or not, they did it willingly. My post was to answer your original post saying "you don't get why people love to hate Milwaukee hand tools". Not gonna repeat myself here but yeah, you got the idea.
@@alexginlu I got you correct man ie as just kinda ranting that’s all, yes I know they (snap on and Mac) make good tools and yes I know a lot of mid level manufactures stepped it up and yea I get it they only have little to cling to but what I’m getting at is the snobby ness to anyone not using super expensive tools as if the tools make the mechanic and yeah we both know it doesn’t but the fanboy ness has run rampant and is really toxic I just rhetorically don’t get it that’s all
