Is The Snap-On Name Worth The Price Over Bahco
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- Опубликовано: 26 авг 2024
- Today we look at a set of Bahco adjustable wrenches and compare them to Snap-On adjustable wrenches.
Final thoughts on these is that the Snap-On version of these is a more refined tool at 5 times the price.
From just looking at the Blue Point version of these on their site I would say they are probably a better comparison but still more expensive.
All that aside these are a good quality set of adjustable wrenches and I’m happy with my purchase.
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Joining the merchant navy at age 16, I was made aware that a 'real' engineer always carried a 'Bahco Shifter'. So, being a good little wanna-be, I bought one. Never really had much chance to use it...until I joined Cunard. The Countess, literally, had zero tools in the engine room. Everybody either carried their own set of tools, or they made them on the fly. That Bahco shifter earned it's price over those two months and I still have it now, 40 years later.
Recommended. 👍
Respect. I joined the Navy when I was 17. Best thing I ever did for myself though I didn't necessarily always think so at the time. 42 years later I retired a month before I turned 60. I had a very adventurous life. Cheers.
This is basically me now. Just at the stage of finishing cadetship at the moment. I can confirm that BAHCO shifters are still commonly carried, handy for those indicator cocks etc
I keep my bahcos at home cause they get nicked , and just use Spanish Iregas at work lol.
OmG, that took me back, I was an engineer for Reardon Smith shipping, I always had a Bacho 8" in my 'shifter pocket'. (the 10" shifter was for ignoramuses..) Nipping up pump and valve glands etc. 45 years later, I have 6", 8" and 10" shifters.
As a Swede, I go for Bahco any day. I have a couple of adjustable wrenches which were my grandfather’s and they work better than the new ones!
Fun fact: The old timers calls the adjustable wrench “Bahco wrench” (Bahco nyckel).
The common name for it is “nut lathe”.
There you go!
"Good old Swedish hand lathe! -AvE"
Funny you call them a bahco wrench. In the US, we call them a cresent wrench because is one of the biggest manufacturers of adjustable wrenches. I thought cresent invented them, but someone else in the comments said bahco invented them, cresent just took the credit for it haha
@@jacksmith2315 Tesla and Edison all over again.
My Dad called 'um fits-all nut-rounders.
As another Swede, working as a mechanic I have never ever heard of Crescent before except for the Swedish Bicycle brand.
Fun fact, Bahco invented that style of adjustable wrench in 1892. The guys at Crescent tool stole the design for their adjustable which was in 1907
And, since 1907 we’ve been calling it a Crescent wrench, because today is the first time I ever heard the name Bahco. :-)))
@@barotraumabruce4245 We actually refer to these as Bahco's, funny.
@@barotraumabruce4245 man was sentient in 1907 but not 1906
@@xanox1That is funny! To think we point fingers at the Chinese for being copycats.
@@NDC1115 Tesla and Edison all over again!
in Sweden we sure love our bahco, it works just fine. and tbh when it comes to adjustable wrenches, bahco has 95% of the pro-market
I would guess they’re as popular there as Craftsman was here in the states.
We sure do, but mostly the older swedish made tools. They last lifetimes. Nowadays they are not as much a premium brand as they were. Still mostly decent quality tools though.
I have seen Bahco tools manufactured in China. They have just become a licence product like the countless other brands.
@@fredrikbergdahl2988 Pretty much all older tools used to last forever. I have a B&D hacksaw from the 80's that's tighter than the new blue Bosch someone gave me. I also have a Skil drill press that is OLD and the play in that thing is non-existent. Shit used to be hand made, today it's just "good enough" and shipped out.
The exception is Hilti which is why I pretty much just only use Hilti these days. It's not a homeowners tool or a semi-pro tool like Milwaukee or DeWalt though and I wouldn't recommend it for that either, the cool part of it is that if it breaks they'll not only replace it, they'll come out to wherever I am and give me a new one.
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You have some good points there. The only thing i can come up with in defence for cheap tools is that they’re, well, cheap. I have a 5 years old ryobi screwdriver/drill which absolutely doesn’t give me the warm and fuzzies when using it. But the damm thing won’t die. Dont get me wrong, it’s a cheap piece of junk. But it’s a usable piece of junk nontheless.
Maybe it refuses to die just because i threatened to replace it with a hikoki.
My old dog found a set of Bahco cutters during the spring when snow was melting. She's been gone for five years, but those cutters are still going strong. Then again, I've never even seen snap-on sold in Finland, so never had anything from them and more than likely never will.
I have a whole bunch of hand tools made by Bahco, and not a single one made by Snap-On.
Greetings from Finland!
We Europeans typically have Bahco stuff in our toolboxes. If we want something better and slicker then we go for Facom, Wera, Stahlwille, Knipex, Pferd, Gedore and Vallorbe. And then we like very much Japanese tools.
The US air Force that offers protection to Finland does use Snap-on.
@@Art-is-craft"Protection" Finland had peace for over 70 years and Sweden for 200 years. Let's see how long that'll last now that our Politicians scared us into joining NATO.
@@hnorrstrom
That type of fantasy thinking is now gone.
@@Art-is-craft Fantasy? NATO protects us from aggression we only see because of NATO. US - Intelligence helps us to prevent ISIS - Terrorism what only exists because of actions which origin in us - intelligence. There is a pattern, and everyone outside the US sees it.
There are snapon trucks in europe but price diffrences astronomical between lets say Gedore or snapon 12 piece ring /openjaw spannerset 220 euro Gedore 590 Snapon. Gedore las also your whole career.
Been using Bahco adjustable spanners for years , I use 'em at work from light to very heavy duty use .
I have a few different sizes and I'm always amazed how even the small ones are so flippin strong it's mad !
Especially the 9029 small handle but opens very wide and super sturdy jaws , they don't slip nor do they hurt the brass fasteners / flat surfaces .
Absolutely fantastic quality tools 👍
I bought 6 Bahco wrenches about 20 for years ago with the reversible jaw for pipes. Best investment ever. Still good to this day and you can abuse them until hell comes and they keep on ticking.
My dad bought a 1/4 bahco socket set for light work on cars. It's been pushed far past what I'd expect of it and it just keeps going. Because it's small we've used it to remove torqued down bolts in awkward places and it's gone into my dad's track day emergency kit.
I was so impressed I bought one for myself.
I worked in a factory making Craftsman robogrip. We also made the same pliers for at least 6 other companies. The only difference was the color of the grip
I had tennis elbow pain for a year and used a theraband flexbar to strengthen my arm and made it finally go away. highly recommended.
I’m going to look into that 👍🏻
@@FunkFPV Or you could just try batin' with your other hand.
@FunkFPV Theraband twist tubes completely cured me. Its 20 bucks. Do the reverse throttle twist move for tennis elbow. Also cured my wrist injury from being a desk jockey for decades. Cannot possibly recommend enough.
@@FunkFPV This subject reminds me, many years ago, when I graduated to a dumb desk job, I realized I was doing mouse, numeric keypad, half the letters, and return with my right hand, then going home and doing even more of that, and my right wrist was starting to get a little cranky. I moved the mouse to the left hand and reduced the load some and have been left hand mousing ever since. Now my right hand mouses like a 13 y/o drives a car.
If you want to keep the smooth and shiny fittings unmarred, please consider getting the Knipex pliers wrench. It does most everything a crescent wrench does and with zero play.
I’ve got a small one and it’s great. I actually have a video coming up on a new take on that style wrench.
Bahco is a new tool name to me…I had no idea, and seeing them on Amazon, I thought …’more Chinesium bust-off tool rubbish’….So had to accept much humility when I found they were a premium quality Swedish brand. I purchased a Bahco 10” bastard file which seemed expensive at 26 GBP, but when it arrived I was impressed by the quality machining, crisp edges and teeth and comfortable handle. I am happy to buy more Bahco tools…
Bahco is owned by Snap-on/SNA. Some bacho tools are actually rebranded snap-on and vice versa. Generally Quality went downhill after Snap-on bought bahco, I guess they were too competitive..
Bahco have tools made in China.
Spain. They outsource to spain.@@Art-is-craft
I have a Bacho 8" that a mechanic at a Chrysler plant gave me over 20 years ago when I commented on what a supurb adjustable it is. Been in my arsenal since that day, still proving it's worth.💯
A set of adjustable wrenches with a perfectly sized adjustable wrench for each size nut would be a hilarious product. I bet they'd even sell a few sets. Think about it, a set of twelve adjustable wrenches for say the sizes 10mm to 21mm, or something like that.
I was raised in a Snap-On house LOL. I'm still using a set of Snap-On sockets and a ton of wrenches, drivers, other stuff purchased in the late '70s and early '80s. Sometimes it's about who you were with & where you were when got em ... tools are friends. And the quality still shows.
@@skidcaesar What you just said is so true! I’m closer to 80 than I’ll ever again be to 70 and have been collecting tools since I was a kid. If a Snap-On truck came to a site I was working, I bought some tools. If a Mac truck showed up I did the same thing. I can pretty much tell you the history of every tool I own, just like you. I still have my original Knipex “pump” pliers that were made in West Germany. “And the quality still shows.”
Americans should be buying quality tools made in America. Buying cheap mass produced licence products only ends up in one place.
Bacho make great hand saws, love em.
The only tool Bahco still makes in Sweden (saws of various kinds and saw blades).
@@AlexKalllast time i checked they made hand files in Sweden too, not sure if that's still the case.
@@acajutla I can't say for 100% certainty but as far as I can find the only production facility is located in Lidköping. The other one was in Bollnäs up until 2021 but they made saws and it was moved to Lidköping as well. The rest as far as I can find were moved out of Sweden in 2006, but it's only based on what I can find, perhaps there is manufacturing elsewhere in Sweden, or saws are not the only product in Lidköping.
Love the added joke at the end.
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11:48 What more can you say about it? Well, pretty much anything dude. Most of us enjoy this channel because we like listening to you talk about tools, and the trades. Whether it be when you're joking around or being serious, you have a gift. The gift of gab. So, keep it coming!
The answer too the thumbnail is NO. Snap-on is not worth it now, nor was it 30 years ago when I was in the repair business. 30 years ago I shopped at Sears for my tools. My employees used to clamor around the Snap-on and Mac trucks whenever they pulled up. I don't know about Craftsman today. But Husky at HD and Cobalt at Lowes are completely adequate. You brake em, they give you a new one. one firth the price.
Sure, Snap On's prices are shocking, but you have to consider the financing costs, too! AIEEE!
I should dig out my old SnapOn payment book from 20+ years ago and compare prices to today.
My guess is they are outpacing inflation 😜
@@FunkFPV Maybe crypto, too.
@@FunkFPV that sounds like a video I'd watch
They do have some things that are nice and unique-ish. I have the two pairs of meme needle nose pliers they made and are fantastic. Most my tools are different brands though, Knipex, PB Swiss, Bahco, Wera, Wiha, Vessel, Klein, and even a couple Icon tools. With most things that Snap-on makes I’d rather have a different variation from one of these brands. Hard to justify some snapon sockets for example when I do commercial/industrial HVAC service and in different places every day. Lots of what you listed is fine though. It’s whatever suits your needs. If they work then enjoy em.
Being a Millwright/Electrician, I've bought Bahcos with the reversible jaw. That's very handy.
When I started as an apprentice, after years of working on my parents' cars and my own bikes, I spent my wages on 2 Bahco adjustable spanners. Took me several wages to get the cash for them...
And then some fecker on the worksite (a fully qualified tradie) helped themselves to my decent shifters, and replaced them with 1 crappy self adjusting shifter made of cheese 😡😡😡😡
30+ years later, and yes it still pisses me off.
That’s why your box should have a lock and you should also have a carry tool box.
@@Art-is-craft unfortunately, I was still young and naive at the time, having only worked with a squad of guys that hadn't been thieving sods.
I use the Snap On 12" and 8" extra wide wrenches daily. Usually for hydraulic related issues. In hindsight, I probably should have gotten the Bahco, but either way, they are the best adjustables I've ever had. My test for an adjustable wrench is whether the jaw stays in place in between turns or you have to constantly readjust it.
I have only a few Bahco tools in my life so far -- paint scrapers, bow saw, and garden clippers -- and they're all outstanding.
Their pipe wrenches are the best I’ve ever used.
Never used an adjustable wrench for fasteners, but it is very useful for straightening sheet metal parts especially those International step brackets.
My Bahco adjustable has standard and metric, I think they are great!
Bahco, best make that you can get. As someone else pointed out, they also invented the adjustable spanner (sorry, can't force myself to use the word 'wrench'). Here in the UK we just refer to them as 'adjustables' or even 'shifter'. Some Germans I worked with refered to them as 'Englanders' as we use them a lot in England and they were frowned upon in Germany. They would rather use a spanner. I can tell you this is a wrong name. I live in Wales and we use them too :-)
For my company when the moment to invest in adjustable wrenches came, without a doubt I bought Irega SWO 92 XS version. As service engineer and travelling all around the world I take minimum tools. Two adjustable spanner one 8" and on 6" that can open respectively 39 mm and 34 mm very usefull. I Recommend those wrenches for the craftmen and technicians that are at the moment looking to afford new adjustable wrenches.
Wasn't ready for the joke at the end at all 😂
The joke is an oldie but still a goodie. Thank you.
I purchased a 6" (150mm) shifter from my local cheapie tool store. The shifting was fairly smooth and the slop was almost non existent and all it cost me was AUD$6.50 or USD$4.25. Just a little bit cheaper than the tool truck. Not used like a forklift mechanic but it's good enough for round the hous and if it breaks I'll get a new one. The 8", 10" and 12" ones I got from the same place are still functioning 29 years after buying them. There yah go. 👍
*Thank you* for the video. I really needed that video after the last one I watch so much appreciated. 🙂
You can get the Bahco in chrome too. Just different part numbers if you are so inclined.
Got my first broken tool replaced at the ol canadian tire. Master craft has lifetime warranty. Brought in my busted channel locks no receipt, and got a brand new pair off the shelf.
You have a dynamic jaw. Always enjoy your word play. Thanks Funkman
Great comment!
I have the Bahco 8075 / 18" adjustable spanner nearly 20 years now, it's decent quality & never let me down. Also have the SL25 1/4" drive socket set, extremely handy for small jobs & fasteners.
There is rarely a job that I've done where I have not finally needed an adjustable wrench, and it cracks me up everytime someone says you shouldn't use them. Fasteners that have been damaged by them most likely needed to be replaced anyway, and people that have bloodied themselves using adjudstable wrenches should take that as a learning experience on following the wrong career path. They also make a pretty good hammer.
I've had a few different brands of adjustable spanners over my life time. I had some Cresent brand spanners, the two adjsutable ones had the heaviest handles but the jaws were weak and they used to open up and slip and the worm drives would bind up. I bought an old Kingchrome adjustable from cash converters and it was good until it got, as you put it, borrowed permanently. I do own Bahco pliers and a socket set, they all work fine and have had a lot of use and abuse but are still going. I had to get a towball off my wifes car as she wanted to put on the bike rack, I didn't have a 34mm spanner or socket. She went and bought a cheap adjustable, do not buy Supatool, it was loose and it got worse after undoing the towball, it still works but for how long is anyones guess. My dad always had a Bahco adjustable in his pocket or in his tool belt and he only ever broke one, it was the small six inch. He was undoing a small nut on the sprayer unit when it got a clog in the line. When he did the nut back up the adjustable piece cracked and stayed put but you couldn't wind the adjustment in or out. When he got back home he took it into the shop where he bought it and they replaced it no questions asked. Personally I have a Kingchrome set of adjustables and they are standing the test of time, if only I could find the large 12 inch, I think my kids borrowed some of my tools and they put it back in the wrong place as all the other tools came back.
I own a couple snap on adjustable wrenches and they are phenomenal! The difference between a good and crappy adjustable wrench is incredible. It’s one of my favorite snap on tools. However, the flank drive can be a bit annoying at times as it likes to stick to fasteners and doesn’t come off super easy. And since the Bahco is almost identical minus the flank drive I would 100% recommend them.
Bahco also sell the only two spare parts you need for their adjustable wrenches if you want to fix a broken one:
1: Spare jaw.
2: Spare knurl, pin and spring.
Im personally Knipex, Wiha and Wera guy for handtools. 90% is made in Germany, Poland or Czech Republic.
I have a lot of Bacho tools, but the bulk of mine are Snap On some of which are fifty years old and still as good as the day that I bought them. The Bacho tools that I do have are equally long lived so there’s much to recommend both. All that deterred me buying Snap On latterly before I retired was the sometimes idiotic cost. Good video, thank you
My Snap-On 6" adjustable is my favorite adjustable wrench. It came in clutch when i was replacing aflue temp sensor on a pool heater. The plating made it just a little too big for the open end Matco wrench. Either that, or it was metric with every other part standard. Wouldn't surprise me.
Aah Bahco, the famous swedish nut lathe.
Made in Sweden versions of those are actually friggin good if not the best adjustables in the world.
By the way, the founder Berndt August Hjorth was born in Finland.
WOHOO!
You can also buy original Bacho branded adjustable wrenches with chrome plating like the Snap-On's if you want. They also make models with extra wide heads, without making the handles any longer. And basic models without the ERGO soft handle if you prefer this.
Love the banter at the end. Thank you for your knowledge and expertise
I'm in Europe so I don't have access to Snap-On but I do have Bahco and I can say that they are some of the best tools I've ever had. I have mostly Craftsman tools purchased over 40 years ago when I lived in the US but when I need a new tool, I try to stay with Bahco even though they are expensive by EU standards.
The problem with Bahco is that they have mass manufactured Chinese tools in their line up.
It's all Bacho I have didn't know snap-on owned them!
I recently got a thin jaw Bahco crescent wrench and it's super handy for the work I do and really well made. The size indicator is nice and accurate for measuring nuts and bolts if I'm having to work somewhere that I can't have my set nearby like up on a ladder and I can't get it going with a crescent.
Bahco uses the same tool steel they put in Barry Partlows knees 🤣🤣🤣 holds up pretty well. Love from TLNE 👍
Hello FPV! Our crane company in NC really enjoy your videos. If you know anyone looking for a head mechanic job please let me know. Keep up the good work my friend!
The wide mouth short handle Bahco shifters are great, been using them for years in telecoms
I don’t like those Bacho ones with the rubber grip but the 8000 series without the grip are good and I use them a lot. Handy on hydraulics.
Bacho is / was the best. Swedish Iron Ore is the purest in the world apparently
Bacho are the only ones I’ve used that don’t creep open when you use them.
You never can tell. I bought an unbranded set of sockets 40 years ago and still good.
Bahco ones are ace, especially the half-width jaw ones, nice and thin to get in between things. Look like theyve been milled down but sooooo handy….. nice vid👍🏻
+1 for this. Great on pneumatic fittings, cylinder rods etc
It was the Swede Johan Petter Johansson who invented adjustable Wrench in 1891.
He also invented pipe wrench.
I have had the same set of adjustables for years and they still work fine.Yes i would rather use the correct size spanner but you get odd size nuts/bolts (VW Golf 23mm shock bolts) so these save a trip to the shops half way through a job.I can recommend Bahco soft grip screwdrivers/torx ,i use them all day and they last forever plus the torque you can achieve with them is amazing (be careful not to overtighten).
Thanks, very useful...im using Bahco ones, in London. Cheers from England!
I think most of the adjustable wrenches i have, I've found at intersections and they all seem to work for me
You didn’t happen to find a green handle 8” or 10” Snap-On? 😜
I lost my snap on like those. Same problem you have. I miss it . One of my favorite . Opens wider than others and still holds well. No snap on truck around me. I have not replace it. I would.
Hell yeah! I HAVE THAT SHIRT from the Vahalla Project. Hooraaah! Bahco doesn't make Snap-On tools they just have some of their designs incorporated into the Snap-on line.😢
As an auto mechanic of 27 years I personally don't rate Snap-On spanners as they have a loose fit and I have always preffered Mac or Facom as they seem to grip the nut better. The only Snap-On stuff I have is my 54" Rollcab a 1/2" drive breaker bar and some screwdrivers I bought as an apprentice. Good Video!
Great Job on this video. Thanks. I’ve got a friend from the UK that swears by the Bahco wrenches.
By the way, love your shirt!
…awesome ending…
Bwa ha ha ha ha ha!!!
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Bahco/wera are my preferred hand tool brands generally. With many specific expectations. Honestly i usually just buy the cheapest option i can and only upgrade to something "nice" if that doesnt work out well. Usually the cheapest option is good enough.
Bingo. You don't need the best tool, you need one that does the job for you, and stands up to the way you'll be using it. With that said, lately there seem to be a few brands putting in a lot of effort to improve tools, make them a little handier or more durable, package them in more sensible sets and in better containers. Online reviews (like this one) are good, especially when a reviewer can point out good unique features that made him choose a particular brand.
I really like the top made in Japan ones
I have a ‘lobster’ I think is made from lobtex if I remember right and a Fujiya. I haven’t used snapon or bahco but those are the best I have ever used
Now that joke was an oldie and it's still funny 🤣
Bahco are known for their adjusable spanners, they have perfected them over the years, but even old ones are still going strong.
As a HVAC service tech/steamfitter, I use adjustable wrenches daily on fittings and some bolts. The Bahco 12" wide mouth is the best for fittings. I like it better than a knipex flatjaw.
That old crappy Pittsburgh I showed is a wide mouth. It’s got me out of a few binds in the past. I should probably get a couple nice ones 😜
If you want the serrations, they offer an adjustable with a reversable jaw on it that makes it more pipe wrench-like. 9071RPC
I like the Bahco tools I have. As for wrenches, I got a couple of Lobtex recently, and I really like those, and for the price, I find them very hard to beat. The price went up a lot since you got them.
I’m a service engineer for linde…….. not forklifts. But cryogenic vessels
80percent of my van is bahco. Very recommended.
Bahco has wider opening then most others in the uk for handle length. And with the size of the brass nuts I have to open. If I don’t. Use bahco, I end up having m to use 5 foot long adjustable from somewhere else…..
Bahco also make chrome versions of the adjustables......Bahco are very good for the money i have 4 socket sets and prob 6 of the adjustables most plumbers i know wont use anything else.
20 years of abuse and my 8073 Bahco is still a very capable tool , I have a few sidcrome and crescent but the Bahco probably does the most work .
here in sweden an adjustable wrench is called a nut-lathe... best tool to make a nut round
Bahco have been making adjustable crescent wrenches for so long, the brand has become synonym with the article, in my country. If you need a crescent wrench, you tell your buddy "can you hand me the bahco?".
The one adjustable wrench I found that I really like is a channel lock 12-in, I've chewed up the jaws on it yet it still holds up really good, the handle has good girth to it
I think the reality is you will have a mixture of tools.
Love NWS pliers ,Facom circlip pliers , Snap-On sockets , Wera screw drivers or Facom and so the list would go on.
Channellock makes a great crescent wrench, and Crescent makes a great channellock, but I buy them for the irony. Additionally, I bought a similar Blue Point adjustable wrench 12 years ago for $40 (18" I think), just in case you don't feel bad enough if you bought one.
I have 2 Bahco 9031R's (8") one made in Sweden and the other Spain. Both have both metric and imperial measurement on the jaw opening. The play on the movable jaw has no wobble on the Swede version but the Spanish version has about .5 mm .020" slack. If the Swede version had a vernier scale i coul use it instead of a 0-1"mic.
Those snapon cr3scent wrenches are fantastic.
9:00 Alway though this was the opposite lol. Why? Because when you turn the opposite way the torque applied to the lower jaw is not trying to pull out the jaw's rack out of the screw. When you apply the pressure "the right way" the lower jaw experience a lot more torque and is pulling the rack out of the screw, putting more pressure on less threads.
When you use a plumber's wrench, if it is a square head bolt, the bolt's edge is compressed in the inside of the top jaw, not the outside.
I use mine for hydraulic hose on lift gates and forklifts. I agree some spots a "real" wrench just doesn't fit well and who the fuk wants to buy more wrenches than they need.
The newer irwin set of adjustables is really good. Extremely ergonomic, quite durable for soft grip handles, and the jaws are extremely durable with no play, worm drive doesnt have a ton of play either, downside is the thickness, theyre pretty large. I love using them though.
Honestly crescents black adjustable wrenches are the best ones Iv ever had. I think it’s either 6” and 10” or 8” and 12” but if you ever see the package of em at Home Depot I would strongly advice getting them !
Damn I just bought a 10" Crescent 1-1/2" AW. Project farm's test showed the overall winner being the Klein 10 inch but I couldn't 1. wait for amazon to get work done and 2. drop 50 buckaroos
My knipex stuff hurt as it is lol
Sidenote: didn't know there was a wrong way to use it... I bought it for plumbing mainly and broke free a really stuck ~60 y/o outside spigot for it's first use...hope I didn't damage anything
Great video and comparison. I don't have acces to Snap-on tools, but I'm using great adjustable wrenches with reversible jaws for pipes, from Irega, made in Spain. I think they only manufacturing adjustable wrenches, I also have their slim jaw version. I think they are producing for other brands too. Very good quality, metric and sae markings, chrome plated wider confortable handles.
Almost all of my adjustables are Bahco, have been for years. I also don't like plastic handles on them, they get chopped up and nasty after a while.
The way you get sideways slop is by using a cheater tube out of a perpendicular line,the jaw starts to roll.
Bahco seem to me to be narrower than standard adjustables which is a real benefit in tight spots on geared machinery, there is a similar style here in Australia called Big Dog with a 10 inch that opens over 2 inches amazing for plumbing jobs.
I have quite a few Bahco tools myself (adj. wrenches, pliers, files, side cutters and the like), as they are quite high quality. The steel is quite good, although I don't know how it stacks up to good ol' Sheffield steel.
some of the wrenches are about as old as I am (got them from my father when he sold his house and moved into an appartment). The biggest is an 18" 0675 (produced from 1969-1983).
Only Bacho tool I've been a bit disappointed with, is my 1/2" socket wrench (from the S910 set), it tends to disengage the ratchet. I don't know is this can somehow be fixed.
Btw, the bahco logo is a fish with a fish hook outside it, as Bahco originally started out making fish hooks. :)
I never bought into the SnapOn "mystique" and never once bought a tool from them.
The only SnapOn tools i have I got used or found in vehicles I junked out.
My tools are mostly old U.S. made Craftsman and other brands, I even have a few old Montgomery Ward Power Kraft and Riverside tools.
Ive been collecting them since i started doing automotive repair 52 years ago.
Speaking of "real wrench" vs adjustable, here in Sweden we call the adjustable wrenches "Muttersvarv" basically "Nut-lathe" ;-) . I have a few very old Bahco adjustable wrenches and i hardly ever use them and instead use the non adjustable, Bacho used to be top of the line stuff, but now that its no longer Swedish and made in Sweden, i dont know how good it is, its unfortunately very common that old brands become crap when they are bought up and manufacturing moved .
Spanish made nut lathes are ok. Chinese made bahco socket sets not ok. Taiwanese versions ok. US made ratchets and sockets ok to great.(rebranded snap-on)
When it comes to adjustable spanners I usually want a Bacho. Why? Even the older ones are less "clunky" Has the perfect angle and thin enough to use it in more places. Snap-On used to be good tools. The smaller pipe sets were really good. Of all the common US made tools I would always go for Snap-On. Other IS tools were often too beefy and cumbersome. Perhaps because they use inferior alloys?
It’s about the service. I buy from the Snap-on guy because he’s a small business, and he takes care of me. He warranties tools that are not lifetime warranties. He works hard, 14 hours a day. If I call him, he can help me out at all hours.
Hand tool rescue make some retro adjustable wrenches that look stupid sturdy.
In the Netherlands we call an adjustable wrench a bahco. That says something I think.
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5:48 I made the mistake of buying the Irwin adjustables a few years back when Amazon had them on sale, the slop out the packaging on them... you'd think they'd been in daily use for 20 years already. Just ordered the Bahco to replace them ;)
Irwin is one of tool companies that’s hit or miss for me. I guess it depends on what factory in China they’re coming out of that week 😜
Yea not sure, my set is great.
Nice looking wrench Bahco. Too bad I don't need it anymore.
Those prices are ridiculous. I have a 15 inch adjustable that I got at HF for 15 bucks 20 years ago that's still like new. I've put 2 foot breaker pipes on it, beat it with a 3lb mini sledge hammer probably 200 times and it's still going lol. For most of my smaller tools or used more often, I have craftsman back from when they were good
I have to say before watching the video, last year I bought a 12’’ bahco pipe wrench from Amazon. I had to return it because the teeth’s were not straight. Now I own a Snap-On and it’s straight. I own the whole line up of Bahco adjustable wrench and it’s a real bargain for the price you pay. Maybe i just got unlucky for the pipe wrench.
I got a set of Snap-On branded Bahco pipe wrenches and I love them. Mine are old. Hopefully their quality control isn’t slipping.
@Funk FPV Sooo, no mentioning of Left and right thread pitch difference to open and close the wrenches? The Bacho one has it the right and original way, all the other has it the other way. Does not matter much, but that´s how you know you have a copy or the real deal in your hand.🙂
bahco ftw man,
but the majority of my adjustable wrenches are channelock ive used them for years, and i love them alot, but ive digged my bahcos too.