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Posted by Duane Bozarth on June 18, 2005, 12:29 pm
Edwin Pawlowski wrote:
>
> > Hadr roughly 20-year old pair linesman's pliers...hired hand chose to
> > use rhem to try to cut #10 steel fencing wahr, putting nice round hole
> > in cutting edge.. :(
> >
> > Took 'em into local catalog store--as expected, didn't have 'em in
> > stock. Looked up present equivalent in catalog, store placed repair
> > order and the new ones showed up a few days later <prepaid> via US
> > Mail...and the new pair seems as solid, USA-made, as the originals.
>
> Hand tools and power tools are completely different in quality. Even the
> hand tools have slipped. I have a set of wrenches that are 40 years old and
> they are superior to the ones made in the past ten or so years.
Only time and use will tell for sure w/ these, of course, but initially,
the "fit 'n finish" appears to be nearly up to the old pair. I was
mostly pleased w/ the (unasked for, specifically) mail delivery not
requiring another trip and more than a little surprised there was no
included invoive for shipping or, assuming they knew at the time they
were to be shipped direct, no authorization for shipping requested from
the catalog store.
I agree wholeheartedly w/ power tools, however and have none since 70's
vintage at latest...
Virtually all hand tools are of roughly that time period or earlier, as
well so I can't really judge whether there's any real difference in an
open end wrench set, say...
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