Gearwrench w/lever = junk

[Ole Slewfoot]

Braced against the tire pushing with both feet will wreck the mechanism on a well used 14MM.

 

[cherrybomb]

Thanks for all your comments and for Gearwrench's phone number. I did buy a set of zero-offset (non-lever type) and use those all the time. They are annoying, but better than my 'auto-reversing' set.

I tend to suffer along with inconvenient tools, rather than buying better ones, but perhaps I should get a quality set with an offset and levers and relegate the lesser ones to a junkyard box.

I believe instead of suffering with inconvenient tools,reward yourself, buy a quality brand of your choice.Especially the ones you use and depend on the most.Im following Wamsutta's advice.

 

[bryant 24]

What is "Chinese made Taiwan"?

FWIW all Gearwrench ratcheting wrenches are made in China now. All of my GW ratcheting wrenches, pictured below right after they were bought a few years ago, were made in China. Used daily by me, family and/or employees. We've had zero problems with any of them.

Made in china are becoming great Again

 

[qqzj]

I have a set of Gearwrench combination metric wrenches I bought years ago. They have the knuckle offset and the small lever to change direction, unlike the current gearwrench wrenches that are flat and must be flipped over.

These miserable 'lever style' wrenches annoy me to no end. The 'lever' flips to the opposite direction about every second swing of the wrench. Almost every wrench in the set does this and I avoid using them. Most of the wrenches in the set lasted maybe a year before suffering this fate.

Should I mail them in for warranty? Throw them away? Arc-weld them into 'regular' wrenches? They aren't broken, per se, so I'm not sure what Gearwrench will say. Is there a 'field fix' like packing them full of grease?

Steve

This is a very uninformative post, let me put it in the most unoffensive way. Different styles have nothing to do with build quality