Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1999/09/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]But of course it does! Cheers Wilber InfinityDT@aol.com wrote: > The Leica of tools is Snap-On...expensive, exquisite, precision to the nth > degree and made to work hard and last a lifetime. My father had a set of > Snap-On socket wrenches and after more than 50 years of hard use the sockets > were not gored anywhere and the ratchet worked like new...but the parts were > still available to rebuild it if it had failed. If someone hadn't helped > themselves to the set I'd have it today. My own set dates back to the early > 70's...my friends all thought I was crazy to spend that much, especially > because I wasn't a "professional". "Buy Sears Craftsman" they said. > Craftsman is the Nikon of tools. Tough, gets the job done maybe just as > well, but it just doesn't feel quite the same. The Snap-Ons made me *feel* > like a master, and the attitude boost helped the results. The same is true > of the Leica, for me. So does the tool make a difference? I think it does. > > DT