[AT] AT Digest, Vol 68, Issue 30

[The Allen Family]

I bought Buffalo set in about 1985 or '86.  I have used it along with a 
long cheater on brush hog blades, truck axle U-bolts, and a few other 
"big" jobs.  Like yours, the set has worn very well (i.e. hardly at 
all) and continues to provide excellent service.  I paid $24.95 at one 
of those traveling tool sales.  I wish I'd bought two just so I could 
say I got twice the great deal ;-)

The "original" Steve Allen


Quoting at-request at lists.antique-tractor.com:
> Message: 24
> Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:17:32 -0400
> From: CEE VILL <cvee60 at hotmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [AT] now tools
> > In or about the late 1970's or early 1980's we had a Nichols 
> department store in
> Canandaigua N.Y..  This was the era of the first large wave of 
> imported tools to
> our markets (mostly Japan then).  Most stores had a sizable display 
> of the whole
> nine yards of drill presses, hand tools, etc.. 
>
> While wandering Nichols, I added a 3/4 drive socket set in a steel case to my
> cart.  It was the popular "Buffalo" brand.  The price was $ 49.95, less money
> than a U.S. made ratchet.  When I met up with my wife in another isle, she
> looked at the socket set and asked why I needed it.  Her comment was 
> that I did
> not work on heavy equipment.  (My only tractor at that time was the 8N Ford,
> which I still have.)  I replied that I might not use it often, but at those
> times I would need it, there was nothing else that would do. 
>
> Today I still have and use the Buffalo set.  It does not have a worn or
> stretched socket (all six point) or a broken piece.  It has stood up 
> to my full
> body weight  jumping on a three foot pipe cheater on the ratchet in order to
> loosen dual wheel lug nuts on my dump trucks.  Am I sorry I bought 
> it.  NO. Whenever I haul it out of the drawer in the tool cabinet I 
> get a little smile
> while I think of my wife's comment nearly thirty years ago, and my reply. 
>
> Charlie V. in WNY
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