Stanley 92-716 SAE and MM Combination Wrench Set, 22-Piece

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The Stanley 92-716 SAE and MM Combination Wrench Set features 22 high-polish chrome wrenches that meet or exceed the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) for ratchets. The box end of the Stanley Combination wrench employs the Max-Drive system, which allows the box end to contact the fastener away from the corner. This system allows 15 percent more torque to be applied to the fastener and helps reduce fastener rounding. High polish chrome wrenches are easier to clean than matte finish wrenches. These wrenches come with a storage tray/pouch for easy storage and organization. The wrenches are backed by a lifetime warranty.

What's in the Box
22 wrenches in the following sizes: SAE: 1/4-inch, 5/16-inch, 11/32-inch, 3/8-inch, 7/16-inch, 1/2-inch, 9/16-inch, 5/8-inch, 11/16-inch and 3/4-inch; Stubby Metric: 10mm, 11mm, 12mm, 13mm, 14mm, and 15mm; Stubby SAE: 5/16-inch, 3/8-inch, 7/16-inch, 1/2-inch, 9/16-inch, and 5/8-inch.

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STANLEY 92-716 22-PIECE COMBINATION WRENCH SET

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Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 11 x 3 x 8.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.6 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000JPUCT0
• Item model number: 92-716
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #110,786 in Home Improvement (See Top 100 in Home Improvement)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing and Dangerous, January 25, 2009

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amanooensis (Flyover Country) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Stanley 92-716 SAE and MM Combination Wrench Set, 22-Piece (Tools & Home Improvement)

It's official: the Stanley brand is now meaningless. A reviewer five months ago bought these and said they were made in India. The set I bought one month ago was made in China. But that's not my complaint. I don't mind foreign sourcing if it's done right. But there's no way a company can maintain quality control with that much variation in sources and materials, in such a short time. I think my experience proves that point.

This selection would have been great to replace some missing sizes in an old set of classic Craftsman wrenches, many of which I've lost after too many moves over the years. I mostly needed a range of smaller sizes to fill in, in both SAE and metric. I looked at Craftsman of course, but they seemed so expensive (especially since I had not priced them for a long time!) This set would have fit the bill, and I had faith in the brand and in the lifetime warranty. The price seemed unusually low, but I figured it was just some kind of crazy Amazon bargain.

When the set arrived I took it out of the box and looked it over. I had not even gotten as far as detaching the wrenches from the storage tray, when I felt a twinge of pain, and saw blood on my thumb -- along with a speck of shiny metal. Ouch, what the heck was it?

On the outside edge of an open-ended wrench -- which is supposed to be a smooth, rounded curve -- a bit of shiny chrome plating had flaked off. The flake had come from the sharpest end of an underlying crack in the metal, at least an inch long, parallel to the flat sides. I've never seen such a thing in a brand new wrench (or used one, for that matter).

This was not a crack created by the stress of turning a rusted bolt or anything like that. No, this crack came from poor casting of cheap metal.

That wrench was flawed when the metal cooled and it came out of the mold; it was still flawed when it went to another part of the factory, where they machined the edges onto it; it was still flawed when they put it through the plating process; and it was still flawed when they slapped it into that plastic case, boxed it up, and shipped it to the U.S.

Just think about how many steps of quality assurance failed to catch that wrench before it ended up in my home, cutting my thumb. Perhaps most disturbing, think about the fact that the problem was not in the machining or plating, or from bad design, or from misuse.

No, it's a problem with whatever cheap metal they're putting into the furnace and pouring out to make these things. They put the chrome plating on there, and American shoppers like them because they're real shiny. Perhaps people have gotten bad ones before and not noticed, or said nothing. I don't know. But I'm flabbergasted to see a wrench where the metal is so bad that chrome plating won't even stick to it, and where the casting is so bad that they literally made it with a built-in crack.

VISUALLY, the rest of the set looked okay, although the "teeth" inside the box wrench ends were much more rounded than my old Craftsmans. I probably would have put up with that, as much as I really wanted this set to fill the missing gap in my workshop.

But there is no way that I would trust any of them, given my doubts about what lay beneath the shiny surface. In that respect I was glad to have found the flawed wrench right off the bat, rather than getting into the middle of a hard repair job and having one of them snap or slip or whatever. A wrench should be totally dependable from day one, forever. In my experience, the set did not even make it through day one.

I thought about the rating, and I simply can't give it more than one star. I was not about to put any trust the other 21 wrenches, once I saw how bad the quality control was. So I got no use from the product, and found it to be inferior to any reasonable expectation (not to mention the brand name reputation). I had to return the whole set to Amazon, which was a time-consuming pain in the neck, leaving me with a sore thumb and still no wrench set.

I hope this information is useful to other potential shoppers.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great quality, especially for the money, August 29, 2008

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Ian G. Heller (Boulder, CO) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Stanley 92-716 SAE and MM Combination Wrench Set, 22-Piece (Tools & Home Improvement)

I was skeptical abut buying these wrenches because the price was "too good to believe" for a branded product like Stanley. However, the strength and finish of these wrenches is extremely impressive and I'm delighted with the weight, feel and appearance even though I'm a bit of a tool snob.

This product is made in India. This is marked on the box but NOT on the tools themselves. The tools are embossed with the classic, "Stanley" logo, which looks pretty good on almost all of the wrenches; on one of them, the embossing is a little light.

For a homeowner who wants a great set of wrenches at a low cost, this is an excellent choice.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great set of wrenches for the price!, March 21, 2008

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P. A. Kettlewell "handyhen" (Antigo, WI United States) - See all my reviews
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For the price, the quality & the sizes contained in this set, it is a great bargain... and the holder is easy is very user friendly... AAA+++