Remember the 1970's Sears brand Japanese wrench sets?

[goodfellow]

I thought I'd show a few of these older wrenches from the 1970's. They are "SEARS" brand (not craftsman) wrenches that were sourced in Japan. I bought them new in 1976 for my road box. They still reside in that box. Great wrenches and they were less than $10 for each complete set.

As I recall I bought the complete set (open-end metric and SAE sets and box-end metric and SAE) on sale for under $25.

Nice tools and they show up on e-bay regularly for just a few bucks. I usually buy them and use them in my emergency car toolkits. Way better than HF offerings.

[bonneyman]

I had a small set of combos like that. BF Japan. Decent tools.
Lost one at work. Darn did that empty spot bug me for the longest time.

[mikef2316]

I bought a couple of big adjustables, back when I couldn't afford sets of large wrenches.  I remember getting them home and being disappointed they weren't Craftsman.  But after I used them a few times, I grew to like them.  I still have them 25ish years later.

[bonneyman]

I wasn't aware they made other tools like adjustable's. Guess I should keep an eye out for them.

[slip knot]

The BF japan mark was also on the craftsman tools along with some others. IIRC I have a fuller pipe wrench with the BF mark as well. All are top notch tools.

I bought one of the medium sized tool sets back in HS and was a bit disappointed when the wrenches were BF craftys and not USA ones. But I figured when they broke I would return them for USA made wrenchs. I still have the complete set.