Does it really make a difference who returns a broken tool? The second owner is just doing what the first owner would be doing if he still had them. Good tools get passed down from generation to generation. That's why we buy them.
Actually, the "lifetime warranty" is not your or my lifetime but the life of the tool. If the tool is worn out or used up, it's life has expired and a new tool should be purchased. The manufacturers can't stay in business if they make a quarter on a 1/2" socket back and 1964 and replace it to the customer a dozen times in 50 years. Many of the manufacturers are discontinuing tools, making changes to them and re introducing them with a different part number and a shorter warranty. Our hard line tools are still lifetime (sockets, ratchets, wrenches, etc) but some of the soft line, especially tools manufactured by another companies, have made changes. tmm
