A number of years ago I worked and lived in Rangely, Colorado. It is basically an oil town maintained by Chevron. They started drilling for oil back in the late 40s or early 50s. One day out in the middle of nowhere I was rabbit hunting, and kicked up an old Craftsman rachet. Back then Rangely was so small that it had two liquor stores, and four places to eat. I hesitate to call them restaurants, but they sold cooked food. Oh, one of the restaurants opened only when the owner wanted to!! They didn't have a Sears store, but a place you could take tools to be repaired or buy tools by catalog. Anyway I soaked the rachet in kerosene for a few days and tried to clean it up. No luck there. I took it to the aforementioned place, and without a blink to girl behind the counter said I would have a replacement rachet in a week. It came in the next week, and I am still using it 22 years later. And while I don't have an aversion to buying Craftsman, The quality just isn't there anymore.
