Originally Posted by gunzo
I could spend a 100 in gas & never find a deal like that in the shops around here.

Good score !

That's how I feel about it. I catch a used deal here and there, but it can be a time sink. I have my father's old mechanic tool set which is mostly Craftsman with a smattering of JH Williams, Snap-On, etc. Good tools, but the socket and wrench sets had a lot of gaps, so rather than futz around, I bought the Craftsman 540 pc Mechanic's tool set at Sears while they were still made in USA. Several years later I added new SK 1/4, 3/8 and 1/2 socket sets and SK metric and SAE combo wrenches since Craftsman was starting to offshore their tools. There's enough redundancy that it's unlikely I have to run to the store in the middle of a job if something fails.