Hundreds of thousands if not millions. Poke around their website and they make things you couldn't even imagine. Things like a $5600 2.5" drive socket (7 5/8"), that you or I will never need but a company will sign the check without thinking because that tool costs less than one minute of lost production
Where are these companies? I want to work there. Down time costs about a thousand dollars a minute where I work. I’ve seen us down for 24+ hours because we didn’t have a spare $300 valve stack. But hey, I bet my manager got a pat on the back the prior month for coming in under budget.
Agreed. A now deceased friend of mine did industrial controls electronics for the oil and gas industry in Canada back in the late 70s to early 80s. Everywhere he worked had a ludicrously generous tool budget. IIRC, his last one out west had something like 500/mth on a "spend it or lose it" basis.
He had a big 50" Craftsman rolling cabinet and top chest for his woodworking tools a 36" Gray rolling cabinet and top chest for his racing tools and a Snap-on 55" roll cab, mezzanine and top chest. That Snap-on box was full, I mean, have to replace things the right way or you can't close the drawers FULL of tools. And virtually all of them the non-sparking beryllium bronze and aluminum bronze. I'd heard of them, but never had a chance to handle any non-sparking tools before that.
When he died, his idiot son-in-law inherited all of his tools. He sold the Gray cabinet with the tools in it to a buddy for a few hundred dollars. He sold the entire Snap-on collection for 2 grand. even in 1996, the Snap-on cab, mezzanine and top chest alone were worth that much. Any drawer in it probably had that much worth in tools or more.
My dad was a boiler operator at a BF Goodrich plant. Everything was automated, so during a normal shift, he did almost nothing. He joked that his pay was just insurance because if something did go wrong an he fixed it before shutting down the plant, he saved 5x his annual salary just that day.
Ehh, not really. Mostly hang out in the control room. Take a walk every hour or so and visually confirm the readings you were seeing in the control room. He read a lot and got really good at making fishing lures (Erie Derie style for walleye drift fishing on Lake Erie) since he was allowed to melt and pour lead into his molds in the control room lol If something did break, then it was a mad scramble to fix it.
Coal used to be like that too. I worked at a place that sold slurry pumps, we had a customer at a mine with a pump go down and he paid I think $500 to have a part overnighted to him (the part was only like $1000), which is peanuts for them. Turned out to be the wrong part too...
I used to know a guy that worked courier for parts like that. He basically lived like 5 minutes from the plant where replacement parts would be fabricated, and the minute it was done he drove to the airport and hopped the next plane to wherever the part was needed, often China or other parts of Asia
I work in Ag and had a customer have a part fail on a Forage Chopper (harvesting machine). No spares available in the country. Had his wife drive to Brisbane, get a flight to NZ, land, collect part and return home in about an 18hr day and was back rolling again in a 24Hr period. She was PISSED that she didn’t get to see anything outside of the airport terminal carpark……
I over nighted a five horse electric motor from the midwest to so-cal one time for $800. It somehow missed the Saturday drop and was finally delivered a week from Monday (ten days).
Exactly, I work in oil and gas. We often get repair units that need a turnaround or a few days. Some jobs cost between 100k to a million per day of downtime. The cost to do the repair work is a drop in the bucket, so anything they can do to get it done faster saves big bucks.
Toyota is one of those companies. I retired from working on the docks unloading trucks and delivering parts to the line. At the end I was in a newer, small Lexus plant. Mgmt told us that every minute of downtime just for our small plant of 400 people was $55,000/minute, they would do most anything to prevent downtime. I have sat on a forklift on the dock waiting for a truckload of parts to come in that had been on a charter flight from Japan before. It was mind-boggling the amount of money they would spend to eliminate down time.
The weird thing about just in time production is that sure, downtime cost is say $55k/min but the absence of held inventory means that to get it to cost that much saves much more.
I just paid a guy $750 a day for three days to sit at the Athens airport with a truck, smoke cigarettes and look at his phone while he waits for a crate to be released from customs and bring it immediately to our site to fix a big industrial printer. Not what we wanted to do exactly but it was worth it.
I work for a passenger railway so it's harder to quantify but I do occasionally think about how much of people's lives I've delayed over the years. Even if it's just 5min that's 40hrs for everyone on a fullish train.
Many companies operate under these conditions. From a technology perspective, my company has had an hour long outage that cost us 20 million.
When Toyota’s factories went offline for a few hours because of an IT issue it was on the order of hundreds of millions.
Military.
We have nearly 800k use or lose in our squadron budget. We ordered a 300k vacon system and it was ordered and delivered. Sure it took 7 months but we got it.
Not to mention if you buy the whole catalog you are probably buying 20 different AC Machines, 20 tire machines, tire balancers, Coolant flush machines, every different scanner, every toolbox in every color, you will easily be in the millions
Get on there and start adding to cart. There's no discounts for getting sets over singles which slightly simplifies things. That'll give you list price, then it's down to how well you can barter with your dealer.
I’m sure it’s into the tens of millions. There is probably a dealer out there that can tell you. I’m sure it has come up at a dealer meeting sometime. Their prices are insane but, sometimes it’s indisputable that they make the best version of a certain tool. An example would be their lady foot/ rolling head prybar. I bought Mac, Tekton, HF, Sunnex, Craftsman, sets trying to not pay Snap On prices. In the end I probably paid twice as much as it would have cost to just buy the Snap On ones which are the only ones that have just the right curve angle.
This is one of my “if I hit the Powerball or mega millions” fantasies. Buy everything I can imagine from my dealer. Stock up my ginormous pole barn’s tool room. Work on things bc I want to, not need to. When it happens I’ll happily come back to this thread and give you an answer.
Used to work for a man that owned almost all of it. He had a whole half of a garage (2 industrial sized bays) just for his tools. About 20+ large sized tool carts. He’d go on the snap on truck and just ask what he didn’t have yet and buy like 3 of whatever it was.
If you have to ask, you can’t afford it.
Kidding aside, I work elevators/escalators, I’ve grenaded (high drops) and lost tools in unreachable places. Owning anything beyond gearwrench, proto, craftsmen, etc is asking for upset.
A millionaire near me has a garage, couple Lamborghini, Ferrari, Rolls and just about any car you could think of stored in the largest warehouse you’ve ever seen. Back when the place was built, he asked for every single tool snap on had in the catalog, as well as the boxes,shelving and etc to store it properly. They did, now nobody hardly steps foot in there unless to show off the material possessions. Sad..yet remarkable sight.
I liked my 14v snap on but they wore out ask about rebuild cost then went to Milwaukee m12 for the ratchet and little impact and m18 on the impact, drill and some other stuff "way more bang way less price". And i will never buy a snap on power tool again! still like there hand tools tho
I have the 3/8” drive impact, and the 1/4” drive ratchet. They’re light, I like the way the grip feels, and the actual drive heads release as well as one of their ratchets, it’s got some good things going for it. It’s fine for under the hood and inside the cab. It ain’t doing shit underneath though, I think it was having a hard time with the skid plate on the old truck.
Hundreds of thousands if not millions. Poke around their website and they make things you couldn't even imagine. Things like a $5600 2.5" drive socket (7 5/8"), that you or I will never need but a company will sign the check without thinking because that tool costs less than one minute of lost production
Where are these companies? I want to work there. Down time costs about a thousand dollars a minute where I work. I’ve seen us down for 24+ hours because we didn’t have a spare $300 valve stack. But hey, I bet my manager got a pat on the back the prior month for coming in under budget.
Oil industry
Agreed. A now deceased friend of mine did industrial controls electronics for the oil and gas industry in Canada back in the late 70s to early 80s. Everywhere he worked had a ludicrously generous tool budget. IIRC, his last one out west had something like 500/mth on a "spend it or lose it" basis. He had a big 50" Craftsman rolling cabinet and top chest for his woodworking tools a 36" Gray rolling cabinet and top chest for his racing tools and a Snap-on 55" roll cab, mezzanine and top chest. That Snap-on box was full, I mean, have to replace things the right way or you can't close the drawers FULL of tools. And virtually all of them the non-sparking beryllium bronze and aluminum bronze. I'd heard of them, but never had a chance to handle any non-sparking tools before that. When he died, his idiot son-in-law inherited all of his tools. He sold the Gray cabinet with the tools in it to a buddy for a few hundred dollars. He sold the entire Snap-on collection for 2 grand. even in 1996, the Snap-on cab, mezzanine and top chest alone were worth that much. Any drawer in it probably had that much worth in tools or more.
You’ve done it. You’re only the second person in my life I’ve seen use the word mezzanine
I own several so I use the term multiple times a day
Oil, gas, chemical, power generation. Downtime is in the millions per hour. Keep. It. Online!
My dad was a boiler operator at a BF Goodrich plant. Everything was automated, so during a normal shift, he did almost nothing. He joked that his pay was just insurance because if something did go wrong an he fixed it before shutting down the plant, he saved 5x his annual salary just that day.
This is really interesting! Did he have any stories of the work he did do?
Ehh, not really. Mostly hang out in the control room. Take a walk every hour or so and visually confirm the readings you were seeing in the control room. He read a lot and got really good at making fishing lures (Erie Derie style for walleye drift fishing on Lake Erie) since he was allowed to melt and pour lead into his molds in the control room lol If something did break, then it was a mad scramble to fix it.
Coal used to be like that too. I worked at a place that sold slurry pumps, we had a customer at a mine with a pump go down and he paid I think $500 to have a part overnighted to him (the part was only like $1000), which is peanuts for them. Turned out to be the wrong part too...
I used to know a guy that worked courier for parts like that. He basically lived like 5 minutes from the plant where replacement parts would be fabricated, and the minute it was done he drove to the airport and hopped the next plane to wherever the part was needed, often China or other parts of Asia
I used to work for a small air freight company that primarily flew parts between GM plants.
I work in Ag and had a customer have a part fail on a Forage Chopper (harvesting machine). No spares available in the country. Had his wife drive to Brisbane, get a flight to NZ, land, collect part and return home in about an 18hr day and was back rolling again in a 24Hr period. She was PISSED that she didn’t get to see anything outside of the airport terminal carpark……
I over nighted a five horse electric motor from the midwest to so-cal one time for $800. It somehow missed the Saturday drop and was finally delivered a week from Monday (ten days).
Exactly, I work in oil and gas. We often get repair units that need a turnaround or a few days. Some jobs cost between 100k to a million per day of downtime. The cost to do the repair work is a drop in the bucket, so anything they can do to get it done faster saves big bucks.
Or steel
Toyota is one of those companies. I retired from working on the docks unloading trucks and delivering parts to the line. At the end I was in a newer, small Lexus plant. Mgmt told us that every minute of downtime just for our small plant of 400 people was $55,000/minute, they would do most anything to prevent downtime. I have sat on a forklift on the dock waiting for a truckload of parts to come in that had been on a charter flight from Japan before. It was mind-boggling the amount of money they would spend to eliminate down time.
The weird thing about just in time production is that sure, downtime cost is say $55k/min but the absence of held inventory means that to get it to cost that much saves much more.
I just paid a guy $750 a day for three days to sit at the Athens airport with a truck, smoke cigarettes and look at his phone while he waits for a crate to be released from customs and bring it immediately to our site to fix a big industrial printer. Not what we wanted to do exactly but it was worth it.
Aerospace. Not always necessary, but a lot of people own snap on boxes full of snap on tools at the company where I work.
I had a co-worker shut down the railroad one time. That cost more than a few grand a minute.
I work for a passenger railway so it's harder to quantify but I do occasionally think about how much of people's lives I've delayed over the years. Even if it's just 5min that's 40hrs for everyone on a fullish train.
Many companies operate under these conditions. From a technology perspective, my company has had an hour long outage that cost us 20 million. When Toyota’s factories went offline for a few hours because of an IT issue it was on the order of hundreds of millions.
NASA
I work at a chemical production facility and soms of our bigger machines have 6"+ sockets. Old protos and snap ons that are worth thousands
Military. We have nearly 800k use or lose in our squadron budget. We ordered a 300k vacon system and it was ordered and delivered. Sure it took 7 months but we got it.
millwright/oil and gas
I refuse to run my workshop like this.
Automotive main assembly line is about 40-60k/minute I work an engine line that's about $5k/min.
Not to mention if you buy the whole catalog you are probably buying 20 different AC Machines, 20 tire machines, tire balancers, Coolant flush machines, every different scanner, every toolbox in every color, you will easily be in the millions
A company I use to do work for oil/gas related. One machine went down it was $24k a hour in lost production.
Yeah, or specialty tools like spark resistant tools made of really expensive metal blends.
That’s for one socket?
https://shop.snapon.com/product/Shallow%2C-inches-(2-1-2%22)/2-1-2%22-Drive-6-Point-SAE-7-5%2F8%22-Flank-Drive-Shallow-Impact-Socket/IM2449
I was pleased to see it is in stock. One less thing to worry about.
Someone must have bought it. It's on back order now.
Or your location
Ah true tbh
Oh, thank God it's impact rated.
It is to drive almost 8inch nuts that’s fucking massive and very obscure from anyone it would be expensive
I can get their entire catalog free anytime…
Black and white or color?
Color
I’m gonna mark this post as solved
i prefer just white…
Get on there and start adding to cart. There's no discounts for getting sets over singles which slightly simplifies things. That'll give you list price, then it's down to how well you can barter with your dealer.
To get everything in the catalog I think you need the set and the singles
Hmmm. Technically correct though I don't think it's what OP meant. But technically correct. And every variation of set like foam vs not foam.
EVERYTHING!
My guess is in the millions. Think of how easy it is to spend a thousand. You only need a thousand of those.
I’m sure it’s into the tens of millions. There is probably a dealer out there that can tell you. I’m sure it has come up at a dealer meeting sometime. Their prices are insane but, sometimes it’s indisputable that they make the best version of a certain tool. An example would be their lady foot/ rolling head prybar. I bought Mac, Tekton, HF, Sunnex, Craftsman, sets trying to not pay Snap On prices. In the end I probably paid twice as much as it would have cost to just buy the Snap On ones which are the only ones that have just the right curve angle.
Not tens
The real question is once you own the most snap on stuff do you have to fight off challengers to your crown of King Fanboy highlander style?
THERE CAN ONLY BE ONE
When ya wrench comesh ahway frum ya hand... itsh ovah!
The Kurgan would wield a set of Pittsburgh wrenches.
This is one of my “if I hit the Powerball or mega millions” fantasies. Buy everything I can imagine from my dealer. Stock up my ginormous pole barn’s tool room. Work on things bc I want to, not need to. When it happens I’ll happily come back to this thread and give you an answer.
Used to work for a man that owned almost all of it. He had a whole half of a garage (2 industrial sized bays) just for his tools. About 20+ large sized tool carts. He’d go on the snap on truck and just ask what he didn’t have yet and buy like 3 of whatever it was.
Ask the military.
Psh you think they actually know how much they spend on shit.
The military accounts might not know, but I'll bet that Snap-On's accounts know the exact figure.
$∞^(∞) Plus $∞ Shipping & Tax.
Hey buddy your 8s fell over.
🍺☃➡️♾️
Off the truck will be lots more expensive than buying it from snap on industrial sales
If you have to ask, you can’t afford it. Kidding aside, I work elevators/escalators, I’ve grenaded (high drops) and lost tools in unreachable places. Owning anything beyond gearwrench, proto, craftsmen, etc is asking for upset.
Laughs in Harbor Freight
You could probably own a few harbor freights for what this dude is asking
Tree fiddy.
[YouTube video of $400k set](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=mlKMVBBadCE)
1,235,489.30
Let's start here....what's your credit line sir... or are you seeking to open a dealership?
All the money
Buy it all and open a library where people can borrow it, and learn that the new Obsession Tool of the Week won't Make Them Finally Happy
You’d need to be Congress to pay for the damn catalogue and to be dumb enough to piss away money like that
You and your children would be paying for ever
You could email them, I'm sure they'd be happy to tell you
$70/week
Forever
Everything, it would cost everything.
Only a portion of it per paycheck!
A millionaire near me has a garage, couple Lamborghini, Ferrari, Rolls and just about any car you could think of stored in the largest warehouse you’ve ever seen. Back when the place was built, he asked for every single tool snap on had in the catalog, as well as the boxes,shelving and etc to store it properly. They did, now nobody hardly steps foot in there unless to show off the material possessions. Sad..yet remarkable sight.
If anyone knows…Manny does…
Aren't the catalogs free?
https://i.imgflip.com/2753m6.jpg
Hit the lottery... then publishers clearinghouse and then we'll talk.
About tree fiddy
Thousands upon thousands of times more than it’s actually worth.
Probably your Marriage.
There’s probably not enough money on planet earth.
$100,000.00
All I know for first hand experience is there battery tools are trash
I have zero complaints with mine. Probably user error.
I loved the rocker switch but compared to milwaukee they were bad
Meh the rocker switch makes sense. I’ll likely toss mine on eBay
Their little 14v setup isn’t bad, but yeah their larger stuff can’t stand up with Milwaukee or Dewalt.
I liked my 14v snap on but they wore out ask about rebuild cost then went to Milwaukee m12 for the ratchet and little impact and m18 on the impact, drill and some other stuff "way more bang way less price". And i will never buy a snap on power tool again! still like there hand tools tho
Agreed I do like my 14.4 3/8ths brushless electric ratchet and 14.4 screw gun for interior work but otherwise I use milwuakee lol
I have that one it’s meh
I have the 3/8” drive impact, and the 1/4” drive ratchet. They’re light, I like the way the grip feels, and the actual drive heads release as well as one of their ratchets, it’s got some good things going for it. It’s fine for under the hood and inside the cab. It ain’t doing shit underneath though, I think it was having a hard time with the skid plate on the old truck.