I need a new tool box

[Agrismith]

Look at it this way. Everything year on year goes up in price. Including snap on tool boxes. If you buy a decent one and look after it then it will hold its value very well as the new equivalent box prices will be going up every year and that is ultimately what they are compared against.

Buy a £150 halfrauds or Sealey set and it'll be worth FA let's face it. But a quality Snap On box should hold value very well and be a good investment.

Your missing the point completely. It's only worth anything if you intend to sell it.
I Look at depreciation when buying a car as from the moment I buy it I intend to sell it. Its literally the only thing I intend to sell.
Maybe for a few professionals that intend to sell up when they are done then resale value might matter. But the vast majority on here will keep their tool box until they are in a box them selves.
likewise whilst the snapon is worth more if you where to sell it, does it really matter if the depreciation on it is greater than the purchase price of the Halfords.
I fully understand if you want a snapon box and it makes you happy then fair enough, that is perfectly ok. But you can't pretend for a second that it's a financial decision.

 

[Keithmac]

It's amazing how many people get wound up every time Snap-on is mentioned, bizarre really.

 

[JOEPRO]

It's amazing how many people get wound up every time Snap-on is mentioned, bizarre really.

Yes seems to have riled a good few on here eh!

Gaz, what's your lead time on them there boxes instead of this Scrap On stuff

 

[MattF]

It's amazing how many people get wound up every time Snap-on is mentioned, bizarre really.

Nowt to do with the marque of box. Just trying to put across the point that resale value is moot if you never intend to sell it.

 

[Beanwood]

Nowt to do with the marque of box. Just trying to put across the point that resale value is moot if you never intend to sell it.

But he might - as said above - choose to sell it and buy something else.
It baffles me why you feel the need to try and 'put him straight' ?
For the record, I have a crappy old Halfords set, and TBH I'd like something much better - but I don't earn my living with it, and could never justify spending the money, even though I expect it's a lovely thing to roll out drawers smoothly on nice runners.

 

[plewlandsbob]

@JOEPRO , just use the same explanation/ answer, I use.
I goto work, earn my money and will spend it, how I want to spend it!

 

[premmington]

It's amazing how many people get wound up every time Snap-on is mentioned, bizarre really.

I not anti "snap on" - I got a lot of snap on stuff - I would - I been a car mechanic for 42yrs.

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My thoughts are: In the early days cheap spanners were poop - and it was worth buying branded stuff...


But now - flagship branded stuff in the workplace is no better than other cheaper/lessor makes - Snap On is expensive - standard 1/2" ratchet in chrome is now £ https://shop.snapon.com/product/Dua...al-80-Technology-Standard-Handle-Ratchet/S80A

BIG money...

 

[Agrismith]

But he might - as said above - choose to sell it and buy something else.
It baffles me why you feel the need to try and 'put him straight' ?
For the record, I have a crappy old Halfords set, and TBH I'd like something much better - but I don't earn my living with it, and could never justify spending the money, even though I expect it's a lovely thing to roll out drawers smoothly on nice runners.

My point seems to have been slightly lost.
What I am trying to get across is that the value of anything at all only matters if ever intend to sell it. Therefore a snapon and a Halfords are worth exactly the same whilst they are in someone's ownership. It is the same with everything, we live in a society who pride themselves in how much their possessions are worth. But if you consider that everything you own is worth nothing unless you intend to sell it, then it becomes very freeing and if everyone could withdraw themselves and look upon life like this then I think a great deal of societal problems would disappear.

 

[Agrismith]

Also looking at this eBay post makes snapon not such a great deal.

£2500 depreciation in a year.

You could scrap a Costco one and still be better off.

https://ebay.us/m/Uv226K

As said if it makes you happy fair play but you can't pretend it's a financial decision at this point.

 

[gaz1]

You don't arf come out with some old b*ll*cks Gaz

Yeah, they're pricey I agree, but to say they're scrap or badly made is just wrong

first off im not a mechanic and to be clear here i still have the first set of sockets and spanners that i first bought a cheap set at that

to be very clear here i didnt say snapon was scrap

the security on them is crap though

as goes for the drawer sliders you can buy much better enough to slide a person stood on the drawer itself and being pulled out

ive worked at garages bought an odd tool from them as well but lost receit means snapon wont replace the tool under there guarantee

so buy used you also have no guarantee as well

unless you still buy from the snapon van and then yes maybe they might exchange it but for the everyday man not a chance

 

[keithski122]

Look at it this way. Everything year on year goes up in price. Including snap on tool boxes. If you buy a decent one and look after it then it will hold its value very well as the new equivalent box prices will be going up every year and that is ultimately what they are compared against.

Buy a £150 halfrauds or Sealey set and it'll be worth FA let's face it. But a quality Snap On box should hold value very well and be a good investment.

I bought a snap on side locker to match my roll cab about 18 years ago, cost me £400.Due to leaving the motor trade I no longer had any need for it, also had a slightly bent door due to it being forced by scrotes. I sold it easily, could have sold it four or five times for £350.Sealey side locker costs about £400 and after 18years would probably be worth maybe £100, less with a bent door. I'd say the snap on one was far better value.
Sometimes you buy something with no intention of ever selling but if you do its nice that its held it value.

 

[Keithmac]

I'm not understanding the comparisons between Snap-on and Halfords either (my son's first stack was Halfords Advance / Expert).

Got the job done to start him out but not a patch on his new box. Same as comparing a Chinese scooter to a Honda Forza or a Vespa GTS etc.

I treated myself to a new set of Snap-on spanners a few years back, not cheap by any means but a pleasure to use.

I watch some HGV mechanics and for that job it seems you cannot look after you tools regardless of make so that would make sense to by cheaper (belting spanners with a hammer will never end well).

Each to their own.

 

[MattF]

Each to their own.

That's precisely what it all boils down to.

 

[Keithmac]

Well be into multimeters next, worth their weight in gold imho.

Same again, £5 one from Lidl could probably do the same job.

 

[Pete.]

I just bought one of these used but in good nick, for £450. I've been looling for a drawers-only toolbox to go under my workbench. I was holding out for a 72/75" but they just don't come up and if they do they have door sections and I particularly want all drawers.

 

[jack-daniels]

to be very clear here i didnt say snapon was scrap

To be very clear you actually wrote it, TWICE!! Go back and check the quote lol.

Posts #38 & #40

https://www.mig-welding.co.uk/forum/threads/snap-on-tool-guys-video.132496/

 

[Keithmac]

On the subject of warranty, I had a 1/4" 30cm extension bar where the ball bearing retainer had worn and sockets were dropping off. This is a 15+ year old tool.

In all honesty I told then it was either Snap-on or Mac, couldn't remember and could they take a look.

The modle number was practically illegible and we had come to the conclusion it may have been Mac but they carried on and found enough to prove it was Snap-on. Had a new one the next week.

 

[Trevorleach]

I'm not understanding the comparisons between Snap-on and Halfords either (my son's first stack was Halfords Advance / Expert).

Got the job done to start him out but not a patch on his new box. Same as comparing a Chinese scooter to a Honda Forza or a Vespa GTS etc.

I treated myself to a new set of Snap-on spanners a few years back, not cheap by any means but a pleasure to use.

I watch some HGV mechanics and for that job it seems you cannot look after you tools regardless of make so that would make sense to by cheaper (belting spanners with a hammer will never end well).

Each to their own.

As a hgv mech myself, I can say hand on heart the cheap stuff just does not last, and yes you cannot keep your tools all nice and spangly like the car guys can.

Very rare to actually break anything snap on, only thing broken in last 18mths was a 15mm combi spanner being hit with a copper hammer a few hundred times and the ring end split!
Yes screwdrivers and torx drivers wear out, but thats it, and I am the sort of person that will destroy a tool to get the job done!

 

[JOEPRO]

This is my Sealey cab I've had from new about 10 years now



(This pic was at a rare time I had just tidied up!!)

It is a fairly light duty affair. About 40% of the drawers have lost their ball bearings and don't open properly after a year or two. But did OK. The replacement Snap On cab has literally 3x or 4x times the storage space comparatively so im very much looking forward to have sturdy & spacious drawer space to organise my tools which are currently scattered all around my garages as they don't fit in this Sealey one.

I also have a used Bluepoint trolley which is very heavy duty and will takes care of storing some tools too.

(Photo below was just after getting it good used!! It's now buried in tools )

 

[Agrismith]

As a hgv mech myself, I can say hand on heart the cheap stuff just does not last, and yes you cannot keep your tools all nice and spangly like the car guys can.

Very rare to actually break anything snap on, only thing broken in last 18mths was a 15mm combi spanner being hit with a copper hammer a few hundred times and the ring end split!
Yes screwdrivers and torx drivers wear out, but thats it, and I am the sort of person that will destroy a tool to get the job done!

Its not to say that there aren't other brands that are as good.
There are also a few ways to buy snapon at a fair discount.
williams industrial tools and caterpillar tools are both made by snapon. For a limited time some bahco tools where made by snapon.
Also snapon buy in a lot of their tools. Their grinders use to be metabo. And some of the multimeters are jit.
I have one snapon screwdriver but I have various bits of rebranded snapon.