Hit or Cal cable wire cutters

[derosa]

The bike clinic just added another repair stand and 2 work benches leaving us with one pair of wire cutters for 4 work stations. Park and Pedros are the two usual standbys but I'm personally footing this bill, and at 30-40 each I can't afford them. The style I need are these

The Hit are made in Japan http://www.e-rigging.com/HIT-Impact-Cutters and at 20.00 each push my budget, might have to only buy two of them.

The Cal are made somewhere https://www.amazon.com/Cal-CPLWC8-Steel-Wire-Cutter/dp/B009PD73QC/ref=pd_sim_sbs_469_1?ie=UTF8&dpID=41W4Z4pKfIL&dpSrc=sims&preST=_AC_UL160_SR160%2C160_&refRID=B4FFZPNMTK5NW8SX8ZPP but at 7.00 each make me wonder just how cheap they are and if they're even worth the 7.00.

Any ideas if either one is worth looking at?
The clinic is only open 2 days a week for 8 months so its not like they will see really heavy use. Before anyone suggests side cutters they will not work on the cables that bicycles use, had a volunteer think his channellock side cutters would do the job and finally give up after the third cable he tried to cut.

 

[skruft]

These are cutters for hard wire or wire rope. Look for that. I have some Korean ones like the picture and they work well enough, and one that was made for cutting picture hanging wire.

 

[derosa]

Since the bicycle clinic needed 3 cutters so I ordered one pair of the Hit and 2 of the Cal, handle actually says Cal-Hawk. A photo wouldn't show the real differences, the Hit is slightly thicker at the head, maybe .25mm. the handles are made of a thicker material and the rivits are a larger diameter slightly further apart.
The Cal appears to be the same as the Pedro's cable cutter that I have in every respect except grip color. The Hit is clearly a better product and at 20.00 plus shipping is a real good value, the Cal I suspect will be good enough to last the clinic several years or more of only 2 day a week usage. At 8.00 they're a great value for tossing in the box for those times you need a clean cut on a cable.

 

[rick carpenter]

I know you were debating and then chose the 7.5". Hit has the Economy 6.5" which cuts up to .125" and the Premium 7.5" which cuts up .25". Why would anyone ever choose the 6.5 when pics show the cutting head of the 7.5 is only slightly bigger?