The PT is crap. I have confirmed this also. The ends aren’t even flush and the tips are bulky with more rounded edges. I grinded min down and will throw them away and buy a good set to reinstall lock ring.
i am confuse, your title says lock ring(what you have in the video) but you keep calling them snap rings. I was working on my transmission yesterday and I stumbled in a situation like this, where I wished I had this tool, I am going to fack the mac or snap tool truck I always see him by my storage container..
There is no doubt but where do you find a tool guy when you need one...If I had either seen a Mac, Matco or a Snap-on truck I would have went there first. I got the guy's business card and I am going to seek out the other two companies and get their cards so if I have to drive a few miles to catch up to one, I will.
Tools are funny, you try to get the best deal, but it never ends up that way....... I've stopped trying the cheaper stuff, unless its something for brute work.
I needed one of these for that transfer case job and was bummed that none of the stores in town had a quality one so I bought this cheap PT realizing when I used it that is was a total piece of crap. If I had the package and could find the receipt I would take it back. When I saw the Mac truck in town at our local Cenex station I knew what I had to do. I had three pliers that covered pretty much everything since I was in trade school 38 years ago. One of them broke this past year and the Mac guy said they would replace them.
1crazynordlander I’ve never been fast enough to catch our guy, he only stops at one place in town. That shop goes through a lot of temp mechanics, so he’s probably just doing repo work....
@@JimsEquipmentShed When I bought it he asked me how much do I want to pay today. He did not know me from Adam yet he was offering to extend credit. Maybe it pays better...collect some interest...come and repo it after I quit paying...and resell it to the next deadbeat...I paid for it after I told him he was nuts...But maybe that is the only way the business transaction can be hidden from the mechanic's starving wife and children with no shoes to wear at home.
@@1crazynordlander Well, if you hook someone, and make it easy for them, they will probably buy lots more later that they can not afford... Kinda funny that they would take that chance on someone of our..... uh... vintage.... Normally, I'd only extend credit when I knew I would make it back in the long run. ;-)
Good god I can only imagine the torment these things have surely caused trying to do something like transmission work replacing bearings and retaining rings and clips and have some rando piece of metal snap off the pos tool you're using, scratching the fuck out of whatever you're working on, leaving random shards of shit inside some smooth ground objects that are soon to be rotating at 5,000 rpm. The mac tool is elegant in a way that almost makes me bite clean through my clenched fist like a ball of playdoh. It makes me physically ill to imagine paying $20 when the mac version is only 40 something, besides that's way too much for this piece of shit, I wouldn't pay $1 for it unless I was working on a particularly complex mega blocks set, and even still that's a huge stretch. PT makes good cheap tools, good for stupid stuff where they are entirely overmatched for the job like on plastic or something, but for the love of god don't work on anything that might end up flying through the air at 150mph and that also weighs 3500lbs. I still cant get over how beautiful the mac tools one is. I need to stop.
The PT is crap. I have confirmed this also. The ends aren’t even flush and the tips are bulky with more rounded edges. I grinded min down and will throw them away and buy a good set to reinstall lock ring.
i am confuse, your title says lock ring(what you have in the video) but you keep calling them snap rings. I was working on my transmission yesterday and I stumbled in a situation like this, where I wished I had this tool, I am going to fack the mac or snap tool truck I always see him by my storage container..
The MAC is identical to the Proto one. Both are Stanley BD brands. You can buy the Proto online.
I love Proto tools. They have been around a long time. Thanks for the tip!
Hey I actually just ordered snap ring pliers from wilde on amazon 23.99 before taxes and they look identical to the mac ones and they feel SOLID
@@jayg9952 Looks like you found their supplier. Great find!
Mac is the way to go between those two sets of snap-ring pliers shown. Thanks for the comparison, Nordlander. 👍
There is no doubt but where do you find a tool guy when you need one...If I had either seen a Mac, Matco or a Snap-on truck I would have went there first. I got the guy's business card and I am going to seek out the other two companies and get their cards so if I have to drive a few miles to catch up to one, I will.
Good move
Hard to get your work done with crappy tools.. Thanks for sharing.. Full View and Like 3.. Hope you're having a good evening...
I have the same pilers by snap on but my spring broke and I would like to know where I can get a new spring? thanks
I would think Snap on would replace the pliers for you.
Tools are funny, you try to get the best deal, but it never ends up that way....... I've stopped trying the cheaper stuff, unless its something for brute work.
I needed one of these for that transfer case job and was bummed that none of the stores in town had a quality one so I bought this cheap PT realizing when I used it that is was a total piece of crap. If I had the package and could find the receipt I would take it back. When I saw the Mac truck in town at our local Cenex station I knew what I had to do. I had three pliers that covered pretty much everything since I was in trade school 38 years ago. One of them broke this past year and the Mac guy said they would replace them.
1crazynordlander I’ve never been fast enough to catch our guy, he only stops at one place in town. That shop goes through a lot of temp mechanics, so he’s probably just doing repo work....
@@JimsEquipmentShed When I bought it he asked me how much do I want to pay today. He did not know me from Adam yet he was offering to extend credit. Maybe it pays better...collect some interest...come and repo it after I quit paying...and resell it to the next deadbeat...I paid for it after I told him he was nuts...But maybe that is the only way the business transaction can be hidden from the mechanic's starving wife and children with no shoes to wear at home.
@@1crazynordlander Well, if you hook someone, and make it easy for them, they will probably buy lots more later that they can not afford... Kinda funny that they would take that chance on someone of our..... uh... vintage.... Normally, I'd only extend credit when I knew I would make it back in the long run. ;-)
Good god I can only imagine the torment these things have surely caused trying to do something like transmission work replacing bearings and retaining rings and clips and have some rando piece of metal snap off the pos tool you're using, scratching the fuck out of whatever you're working on, leaving random shards of shit inside some smooth ground objects that are soon to be rotating at 5,000 rpm.
The mac tool is elegant in a way that almost makes me bite clean through my clenched fist like a ball of playdoh.
It makes me physically ill to imagine paying $20 when the mac version is only 40 something, besides that's way too much for this piece of shit, I wouldn't pay $1 for it unless I was working on a particularly complex mega blocks set, and even still that's a huge stretch.
PT makes good cheap tools, good for stupid stuff where they are entirely overmatched for the job like on plastic or something, but for the love of god don't work on anything that might end up flying through the air at 150mph and that also weighs 3500lbs.
I still cant get over how beautiful the mac tools one is. I need to stop.