IN GENERAL I agree with you. However, budget tools have come a long, long way in just the past couple years. There were a lot of changes in companies and suppliers; oftentimes the higher priced stuff is really just branded budget tools from the same lines now.
I think you'd be surprised at how much more quality the NT/HF tools are these days. I'd take a set of their sockets and wrenches. I still buy precision tools from a higher end brand with (hopefully) more rigorous QC and perhaps a better warranty. For instance, my torque wrenches are both Wright Tools, six years and two calibrations apiece on those without issue. -Kurt On Mon, May 13, 2013 at 8:09 AM, zgotts <[email protected]> wrote: > I'll probably get some flames for this, but I would advise against cheap > sockets/tools.... for one they don't fit tight, which is how bolt rounding > begins, and also the cheap metals they're made from bend and deform rather > easily. Just yesterday I threw away a socket adapter that almost twisted > itself apart. > > I've gotten some really great deals at harbor freight/northern tool, but I > pretty much expect wal-mart quality from those places. Just my $.02 > > I would agree with the six point sockets though. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers?hl=en-US. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Nighthawk Motorcycle Lovers!" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nighthawk_lovers?hl=en-US. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
