so buy more 
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Iâm guessing you donât work with a socket set oftenâŚ
The âbuy moreâ thing is a trap. These things seem to have some sort of homing mechanism in them where they attempt to sneak back to the manufacturer.
Iâm telling you. Pitch the â10mm Wrench and Socket Co.â on Shark tank, its a million dollar idea⌠Specialize in JUST 10mm. Quick, do it before that chinese branded one I posted takes off!
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Ooph. Thatâs for people who have given up.
If you lose any tool mid job, you need to stop and find it.
I remember one time I had all the turbo plumbing off a Freightliner, and had taped off the turbo and intercooler so nothing got in there. I had only been working there a couple weeks, and another mechanic walked by and complemented me on good work practices on covering things. I said âyeah, I throw all the hardware for that section in the pipe so I donât get confused putting it back together.â He was speechless lol.
Point being, if you canât find them, they might be somewhere they shouldnât be haha 
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Funny thing about them 10mmâs though. Hard to lose them mid-job⌠Mainly because you canât seem to find them to DO the job! Even the packaging says âproducts will fleeâ⌠Call me a conspiracy theorist, but 10mm sockets have homing mechanisms that take them back to the manufacturer. aka their birthplace. 
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not really. my only complaint is people borrow a set and return them in a completely different order than theyâre labeled to go in.
I have found them in a set I bought. used once. Put back into the in the proper location. Then next time I go to use it, the damned thing is gone! This thread has informed me of the illegal homing device so the manufacturer can maximize profits.
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Itâs good but not as good as if it was actually the guy 
That would be some legend shit if it was him.
And you will find it, unless itâs a 10mm socket in which case youâd be lucky to find it again in your lifetime. I think every truck Iâve owned has at least one 10mm socket that lives in some mysterious hidden pocket of the engine bay.
In my experience mid job is exactly when they make their move. Itâs actually pretty clever of them because you just blame yourself as if you misplaced it but really theyâre settling a homestead in your engine bay or halfway to Mexico while you wonder where the hell you could have put it down for a second.
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Thatâs cause you buy Mexican socket sets⌠câmon dude, its obvious, where they return, is where they are from!!
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In my defense Craftsman was still made in America when I started buying them!
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Craftsman pissed me offâŚ
Original âunconditional warrantyâ was awesome. They coverered sockets, ratchet wrenches and even air tools.
Then they updated the warranty to no longer cover air toolsâŚ
Then they updated it again to no longer cover tools with moving parts (i.e. simple ratchet!) And ya know how many ratchets I have broken the âcubeâ off of? Adding a pipe for leverage usually doesnât end well for the cubeâŚ
Pretty soon it will be goneâŚ
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Even Snap-on, Matco, and Mac have altered their warranties in the past couple of decades. Used to be for the life of the tool regardless of owner. Now they only warrant original owner. Must have been too many people inheriting these high end tools and making claims or something.
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I know thatâs part of it. I really pissed off my local snap on guy when I inherited my grandfatherâs tools. I took in half of them under warranty and let me tell you I cleared out half his hand tool stock getting them replacedâŚ
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