| Author | Message | ||
     Just_ziptab |
The bottom of my screwdriver drawer is oily and the paint has lifted. Appears that some of the less used Snap-On black handled screwdrivers are leaching some sort of oily chemical. Some are disfigured.The ones in the drawer with a cardboard liner are OK. Craftsman drivers are also OK. I usually keep and store my tools clean.WTF? Two months ago,I had a black Snap-on bit driver and a red dead blow hammer split to pieces. Snap-On replaced them. They were over 20 years old and damned expensive now. So far,I don't glow in the dark. ??? | ||
| Hootowl |
At least they will replace them. Ask your snap-on guy what could have happened? | ||
| Sifo |
None of mine have done that. I was purchasing Snap-on about 30 years ago. | ||
| Fast1075 |
Some sort of solvent type thing going on there I suspect. I have some Snap-on screwdrivers going on 40 years old that haven't done that. | ||
| 99cyclone |
I've had the same thing happen. The handles degraded on several of mine. Email Snap On. They're aware of it and will replace them. | ||
| Just_ziptab |
Ditto....I bought my first Snap-On screwdriver 40 years ago for $1.90 (an hours wage back then) .......probably have the receipt enshrined in a folder some place.For the last 20 years I have been using company hand tools to earn my wages... so some of my specialty drivers hardly ever get touched. I don't ever see the Snap-On man as I'm off the "tool route grid" anymore...so I just drop broken tools off at a buddy that sees him every week...not a problem. I do have some of the newer screwdrivers with the "stylistic changes" in the handle shape. None of those have bothered. I'm thinking it's the older material that is gassing or something like that. The bit driver that went bad was like it was made of dry clay.......just crumbled.So anyways,I made cardboard liners for the two drawers that had them removed years ago because they got pretty ratty. I just never made replacements at the time.We'll see if that stops the problem. | ||
| Sifo |
I did melt the handle of my Snap-on ratchet when I set on the top of a kerosene heater. I wonder if Snap-on would replace that? | ||
| Mnrider |
Yup both of my old dead blow hammers fell apart. Snap on man gave me new ones.Don't have any old scewdrivers,lost all those. | ||
| Buellish |
I have had two screw drivers from the early 70's leak and a dead blow hammer from the early 80's fall apart.They were replaced without a problem. | ||
| Just_ziptab |
I did melt the handle of my Snap-on ratchet when I set on the top of a kerosene heater. I wonder if Snap-on would replace that? Nah,that just gives it good character. All tools haver a story to tell and a problem to fix if they are still usable...  |
