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Subject:Tools: ya gets what ya pays for
From:Jim Felder
Date:Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:50:01 -0600

Last weekend I was changing a timing belt on one of my diesel so the crank
pulley had to come off. I was using my Harbor Freight "road" set of 3/8
allen wrenches for the job when the 6mm wrench I was using snapped off. The
first thing that went through my head was "I'm sure glad I wasn't depending
on that to get me back on the road 300 miles from home." I have not had a
tool just snap like that since I broke a 13mm Globemaster wrench on a VW
carburetor nut. It made revisit the wisdom of "grabbing some cheap tools as
spares to carry with you."

Jim