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    JM>> Cost about 800 bucks just to replace those. Good tools are not cheep.   
      
    KW> My co-sysop a few years back bought an old beat-up   
    KW> Craftsman tool set at a garage sale. He then proceeded to   
    KW> the local Sears and replaced all the broken tools with new   
    KW> replacements.   
      
    KW> While more expensive on the replacement end, I wonder if   
    KW> companies with simple, comprehensive warranties save money   
    KW> in the long run.   
      
    Years ago Sears came out with a line of cheap tools. The screw   
    drivers had bright orange handles. They were well made and   
    guaranteed. When I first saw them I bought the screwdrivers,   
    mostly we would lose them far more often than break them. There   
    were pits we weren't willing to dredge for lost tools, and if   
    they rolled under a machine, unless you saw where it went, you   
    might not find it.   
      
    Or if you left it in a panel ... which sometimes happened.   
      
    When I forst saw them I thought, who would buy them? Those   
    orange handles screamed cheap tools, and who want's to be known   
    for buying cheap tools? Then I saw a couple in the plant, and   
    realized, those orange handles screamed advertising. Everyone   
    sees them and gets the idea to look for them.   
      
    I believe Sears dropped them long ago, probably because they   
    cost them too many sales of their better tools.   
      
      
      
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