Anyone Know Why These Are So Expensive?

**PFSNewb** · 01-27-2015, 12:49 PM

Ebay prices tend to be high.

Snap-On, MAC, Matco, Cornwell et al are truck brand tools (mostly sold by trucks that travel from business to business), which tend to be expensive. I buy truck brands for cheap money at yard sales, etc. I use my cheaper tools for scrapping.

I don't know anything about those particular screwdrivers, if that is the real question.

If you search Garage Journal, you may find a better answer. garagejournal.com

**AdmiralAluminum** · 01-27-2015, 06:39 PM

Maybe you should have punched someone in the face?!?

**sledge** · 01-27-2015, 06:57 PM

I think for the average dude.. a normal $5 screwdriver is fine.. and in the shop mostly fine as well.
My motto has always been to buy good tools- you have to have them when you need them.

On a jobsite daily I couldn't live without my Channel Lock Brand pliers- I've beaten those things.. and they never fail me.
I have to buy stuff that I know will last. Sometimes I've got to buy "light" as is weight-- I've burned through 2 cheap Skil Belt sanders in a year... only because the $190 Porter Cable would be a blankety Blank to hold up on a wall all day trying to belt sand texture off a wall.. but it is my next purchase sadly.
Things like my Sawzall, Compound Miter, Air Impact tools. I get the good stuff.. just sort of have to.

We live in an age where "You get what you pay for" has never been more true.
When I was a kid you had 3 varieties of products
1. Cheap Crap
2. Mid Grade
3. Good Stuff.

Now you either get Good Stuff or Cheap Crap.. the world has eliminated the Mid-Grade all together!

**NHscrapman** · 01-28-2015, 02:03 PM

Originally Posted by sledge

I think for the average dude.. a normal $5 screwdriver is fine.. and in the shop mostly fine as well.
My motto has always been to buy good tools- you have to have them when you need them.

On a jobsite daily I couldn't live without my Channel Lock Brand pliers- I've beaten those things.. and they never fail me.
I have to buy stuff that I know will last. Sometimes I've got to buy "light" as is weight-- I've burned through 2 cheap Skil Belt sanders in a year... only because the $190 Porter Cable would be a blankety Blank to hold up on a wall all day trying to belt sand texture off a wall.. but it is my next purchase sadly.
Things like my Sawzall, Compound Miter, Air Impact tools. I get the good stuff.. just sort of have to.

We live in an age where "You get what you pay for" has never been more true.
When I was a kid you had 3 varieties of products
1. Cheap Crap
2. Mid Grade
3. Good Stuff.

Now you either get Good Stuff or Cheap Crap.. the world has eliminated the Mid-Grade all together!

Can I get an AMEN!

**sawmilleng** · 01-27-2015, 08:21 PM

Sledge,

I hear you on the weight issues...have you ever considered air tools? I've never seen an air belt sander but maybe a rotary disk or one of them in-line body shop sanders might work. Air is inefficient as all get out (you'll need a big compressor to run an air tool continuously) but the tooling is light.

Just a thought...

Jon.

**sledge** · 01-28-2015, 04:17 AM

Jon-
That is not a bad idea. I have a pancake compressor that I can get 150 psi max out of. It is enough to run my IR impact and bust lug nuts off cars with.. I may actually investigate that further. Thanks for the tip!!