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Originally Posted by alanwoodieman
I was in the Navy in the late sixties and was assigned to a relatively new ship, all of the tools on board were made in Spain-you could literally bend a wrench around a bolt with out loosening the bolt and they expected me to rebuild a 12 cylinder diesel with this junk. when one broke I threw the rest in the junk bin, would have been over the side had we been at sea. I used my craftsman wrenches for two years on that ship and repaired a lot of machinery. Look at the quality of the tools you think are made in the US vs old school USA tools
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You were in the wrong outfit. I was in the Navy from Feb 66 to Nov. 69 in VP squadrons and Naha, Okinawa. We used Navy issue Snap On tools all the time.
We always had great tools. Never went aboard ship though in 4 years in the Navy.