TOOLS I Have A Question
Germany is more expensive than the United States. Wages, taxes, basic standard of living. Right? Then please tell me why WILLI HAHN can manufacture screwdrivers and pliers far superior in quality t...
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I have a family 1,445 miles south of the border. To live on a gringo comparative standard of living, Mexico is far more expensive than the USA. I go months, sometimes longer than a year without speaking English. Contributing to this forum keeps my writing vocabulary tuned up. What I didn't realize that the ability to write has little to do with the ability to speak correctly.
I have said this before and I will say it again -- When people go to Atlantic City, Vegas, or Reno, dump hundreds if not thousands of dollars on the slots and tables, then spend hours waiting in line to save eight dollars on a buffet it does not reflect favorably as far as intelligence is concerned.
When a near-new pair of Snap-Off flush cutting diagonal cutting pliers went bad on me last January it stopped dead-in-it's-tracks an important job until they can be replaced. Larger Snap-Off dykes are OK but a pair of 1/3rd the price Crescent compound pliers just beats the snot out of the red handled dykes. And there is nothing from japan, taiwan or korea that can vie with Wiha performance or durability.
Snap-Off combination wrenches are excellent. Wish I could say the same for their ratchets. I have used their screwdrivers but the flutes on their phillips screwdrivers warp and their square and triangular handles are utter failures for lessening the chance of getting blisters on the palms. I had Snap-Off do a one-off 3/8" swivel ratchet with a square plastic handle like their screwdrivers. It did fine until the gears stripped. They are too slow on the uptake to produce helical cut ratchet gears.
Properly alloyed and heat-treated needle nose pliers do not lose the aggressiveness of the knurl of the tips. My Snap-Off needle nose pliers lost their sharpness while doing electrical work -- not impressive.
After trying everything on planet earth I came across Milwaukee Vise Grips. Their jaw teeth have not gotten dull like the others. Now I need to find out if Milwaukee makes needle nose Vise Grips.
My father had an impressive set of PLUMB brand tools. They were stolen from his parking space storage locker in the 80's. They were fine tools.
Worm drive Skil saws are wonderful as are Stihl chainsaws. I had a belt-driven Honda 1,200 watt generator that never failed to start on the 2nd yank. I have had Tecumseh and Striggs and Bratton engines that always failed to start on less than 10 yanks. The Tecumseh was so bad, I got angry and set up an impact wrench socket and on cool wet days I would spin the motor until it cried uncle and fired off. Absolute junk.
But it was the last, never used commercially hundred and forty dollar Snap -Off ratchet that broke that waxed my A$S. Five trips to the USA and five failures to locate a mobile dealer. Snap-Off wants ME to pay shipping both ways $24.00
I have said this before and I will say it again -- When people go to Atlantic City, Vegas, or Reno, dump hundreds if not thousands of dollars on the slots and tables, then spend hours waiting in line to save eight dollars on a buffet it does not reflect favorably as far as intelligence is concerned.
When a near-new pair of Snap-Off flush cutting diagonal cutting pliers went bad on me last January it stopped dead-in-it's-tracks an important job until they can be replaced. Larger Snap-Off dykes are OK but a pair of 1/3rd the price Crescent compound pliers just beats the snot out of the red handled dykes. And there is nothing from japan, taiwan or korea that can vie with Wiha performance or durability.
Snap-Off combination wrenches are excellent. Wish I could say the same for their ratchets. I have used their screwdrivers but the flutes on their phillips screwdrivers warp and their square and triangular handles are utter failures for lessening the chance of getting blisters on the palms. I had Snap-Off do a one-off 3/8" swivel ratchet with a square plastic handle like their screwdrivers. It did fine until the gears stripped. They are too slow on the uptake to produce helical cut ratchet gears.
Properly alloyed and heat-treated needle nose pliers do not lose the aggressiveness of the knurl of the tips. My Snap-Off needle nose pliers lost their sharpness while doing electrical work -- not impressive.
After trying everything on planet earth I came across Milwaukee Vise Grips. Their jaw teeth have not gotten dull like the others. Now I need to find out if Milwaukee makes needle nose Vise Grips.
My father had an impressive set of PLUMB brand tools. They were stolen from his parking space storage locker in the 80's. They were fine tools.
Worm drive Skil saws are wonderful as are Stihl chainsaws. I had a belt-driven Honda 1,200 watt generator that never failed to start on the 2nd yank. I have had Tecumseh and Striggs and Bratton engines that always failed to start on less than 10 yanks. The Tecumseh was so bad, I got angry and set up an impact wrench socket and on cool wet days I would spin the motor until it cried uncle and fired off. Absolute junk.
But it was the last, never used commercially hundred and forty dollar Snap -Off ratchet that broke that waxed my A$S. Five trips to the USA and five failures to locate a mobile dealer. Snap-Off wants ME to pay shipping both ways $24.00
