Choosing the right macOS Window Manager for your needs.However, Matco overcame Armstrong's closure developing different suppliers now. In fact, I feel Apex's killing off of Armstrong tools hurt Matco's ability to put tools on their trucks for awhile especially, US Made tools. Matco and Fluke were never part of the Apex tool group. As I recall Fortive was actually a spinoff from Danaher in 2016. However, Matco gets most of its wrenches from Taiwan suppliers now such as Kabo. Gearwrench has supplied Matco with tools in the past. In fact until Armstrong tool's demise, they made most of Matco's hardline tools from sockets to wrenches. As was the case with Armstrong Maxx ratchets. Now back then, the MATCO would be US made and the Gearwrench one would hail from Taiwan but, the internal floating pawl design was the same. However, if you were to compare a Gearwrench 60 or 84 tooth ratchet internals to a MATCO 60 or 88 tooth ratchet, even the o rings were the same color. Those two versions are far apart internally. The Koon video compares a current redesigned Gearwrench 90 tooth ratchet to a MATCO 88 tooth ratchet. All of their tools are made by someone else for them. One must always remember that MATCO only makes toolboxes. However, in the past, that wasn't the case. I will only pay tool truck prices for USA produced tools. I can not justify imported tools from a TOOL truck, at tool truck prices, when I can usually buy those same tools from other sources for much less. Evidently, most of his customers only buy imported tools.
I said "yes, I know, I want USA sockets". He wanted to be sure that I indeed ordered the more expensive set. (maybe more) The last set of USA MAC sockets I purchased from the MAC truck, the driver specifically asked me if I knew the difference in their lines of sockets. The USA sockets are about double the price. (in Texas) I am not 100% sure about wrenches, but for example: I know for sure MAC has an entire line of imported sockets, and an entire line of USA sockets. MAC (owned by Stanley Black and Decker) I believe has only one factory still making tools here in the USA. Snap-on makes pretty much all of their own wrenches in multiple factories here in the US. However, when talking about MAC we need to make sure we're comparing their USA produced line of tools with SO. Both Snap-on and MAC make their own wrenches here in the USA and both are very good.
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