from garylapointe
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I had been torn between this and the 230 piece set (which contains a LOT of little items) which have both been $99 a lot of times (as recently as yesterday).
- This 159 piece has 17 more standard sockets, and 8 more deep sockets. And deep sockets are pretty sparse in my whole tool collection.
- But the 230 piece set has a lot more little/tiny cheaper things like 28 more hex keys and 46 more bits.
- The 230 piece set does have 9 more combination wrenches though. But personally I use sockets more than wrenches, and I’ve got a million bits and hex keys already.
I was already leaning towards this one, but the extra $15 off (from what I’ve normally seen it go on sale for) has pushed me to pull the trigger on this set; checking camelcamelcamel, this is a low by $15.
It’s larger than I imagined. I have a smaller Craftsman set from 30 years ago, but had no idea if it had 40 or 100 items, I’m going to guess 40-50, so this will be nice.
I’ve got tool stuff in the garage/car, and then stuff in my 3rd floor condo. I’m TEMPTED to gather all the loose stuff (throw it in a spare tools box), then put one of these inside and one in the car/garage and have it nice and organized…
This is the third time I’m seen it posted to SlickDeals in the past week for this $84.15 price.