
128 makezine.com
Alex Bluhm
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THE
TOP
I
remember receiving a deluxe Craftsman tool
set as a gift when I was in high school, giving
me everything I needed to work on my Dodge
Daytona Shelby Turbo Z, along with that famous
lifetime warranty (that I’m not sure is valid since
Stanley Black & Decker aquired the brand from
Sears). Tools today are often more inexpensive,
but also much cheaper — feeble screwdrivers
just splinter on first contact with a screw, and
flimsy toolboxes flex and groan as they open and
close, if they’re not so misshapen as to barely be
capable of shutting at all. It was this latter class
of equipment that Michigan-based industrial ...