[Mickey_D]

I personally have never had anything but trouble with Craftsman. Especially if it has any moving parts (ratchets, vise-grips, etc). My 15 year old Proto 3/8" drive ratchet on the other hand....

I've used and abused that thing WAY beyond what it was ever expected. The "grip knurling" is long gone after using the ratchet as an impact wrench with the assistance of a 16 oz sledge hammer. Quite a bit of the chrome around the shank is gone from various pieces of pipe used as "torque multipliers". Etc, etc, etc.

I also went with Proto when I bought my ratchet wrenches. And I used them for assembling busses when I worked at New Flyer. Again with the pieces of pipe used as cheater bars. And the generous offering of good, hard smacks with various industrial strength (and sized) hammers. Even though we had air-impacts at our disposal.......