Originally Posted by
nitropowered
Just a note, I'm not just buying tools to wrench on bikes, I'm going to use them for other uses as well
Like for what? Working on your car? Will you be working on your car all the time? If not, you still don't need the quality of Snap-On unless your wealthy and don't care about the money you spend and only want the best.
I work on my own cars and I can afford Snap-On, but I never had the need for that kind of quality nor wished I did.
Now there are some instances where a speciality tool is required to fix something on a particular car and Sears won't sell that stuff. Years ago I had a 82 Cadillac that had a hose leak that came out of the back of the engine and was tight against the firewall. I could only just barely touch the hose with my fingers from either the top or bottom but could not reach the clamps with any tool and thought the engine would have to loosened and jacked up to get to it. I found out after much calling around that Snap-On sold a tool that was made specifically for that application at a cost of $145, I found a radiator shop that could repair it for $70. So I had the shop repair it because I wasn't going to keep the car more then 6 months so to buy a tool for that one purpose would have been a waste; and besides even if I kept the car for 5 years the hose would have surely lasted that long and if not tool would still been a waste since I would just have the shop do it again.