As you can see the hardened steel "bit" on my breaker bar broke. It's held into the handle by an allen screw and is replaceable, but I can't find a store that sells them. Am I just gonna have to fork out the dough for a new breaker bar?

 

NVM.....thought it was vancouver BC

 

MAC Tool trucks carry the replacement heads...same thing happened to mine.

Call MAC tools

 

is it craftsman...

 

so i bet they make one that will still fit

 

Sears..

 

just get another one. It will take longer for you to locate that piece. Most big stores these days will replace broken tools like that if you break them due to usage..... Craftsman (Sears), Home Depot, Lowes, etc.... they will replace that for free, if it came from their store/company. No receipt needed. No questions asked.

 

No doubt....if you'd have said it was Craftsman in the first place that'd been alot easier. You could melt that thing into a steel pretzel and they'd still give you a new one.

 

Unfortunately it's not a craftsman, it's a cheapo bargain tool with no warranty...

 

if it was cheap then just get a new one...

 

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a new, guaranteed for life one! i just broke a 12" 1/2" husky breaker that my dad baught when he was 17 (he's almost 60 now) the dumbass that owned my car before me torqued the axenut SO tight, impact couldent get it off, this breaker bar with 6' pipe just broke the shank...it twisted 45*!! braught it to home depot, turns out the bar was discontinued, so we got a 18" one to replace it, free the guy asked what i did to it, i told him "i was just loosening my lugnuts! i coulda swore they where at 80 ft-lbs "

 

O_o

Home Depot was established in 1978, how'd he return a tool that was made before the company even existed?


Anyways, buy a good breaker bar. It takes lots of abuse and can be your last sucessful line of defense. Extremely useful tools like that are what I don't mind spending cash on.

 

I'd buy snapon before going to craftsman, their customer service has gone to ****. Everytime I have to return something, they give me **** and I have to argue with them.

snapon on the other hand, say its broken, bam, he walks out to the truck and fixes it(assuming its something fixable)

 

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snapon on the other hand, say its broken, bam, he walks out to the truck and fixes it(assuming its something fixable)</TD></TR></TABLE>

Fixed it for ya

 

haha, yea pretty much.

 

Our local Kmart went from having a couple of endcaps of craftsman tools right before last christmas to having a isle full as of today (first time I've been in there this year) with some various craftsman stuff scattered about, such as flashlights and diehard batteries. I wonder if they'll start swapping out tools?

 

yea, I have to take our stuff to sears(half hour away) to swap it out. I pretty much only buy snapon and matco now since they come by my work weekly

hell, half the time, If I break something craftsman, I just buy the same thing from either of them. then take whatever it was back to sears, swap it out and retire it to the home toolbox.

 

snap-on when that truck comes by, i feel like a kid running up to an ice cream truck. lol breaker bars take alot of abuse. dont settle for "stack-on".

 

Craftsman peice is even thicker than that.

 

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Home Depot was established in 1978, how'd he return a tool that was made before the company even existed?


Anyways, buy a good breaker bar. It takes lots of abuse and can be your last sucessful line of defense. Extremely useful tools like that are what I don't mind spending cash on.</TD></TR></TABLE>

home depot doesnt make husky, they just sellthe tools