Klein Nut Drivers

[BrandonV]

Is this is a sign of things to come? I was looking at the new nut driver offering and the COO is Taiwan?

Color-Coded Hollow-Shaft Heavy-Duty Nut Driver Set, 6-Piece - 65411 | Klein Tools

Klein's 6-Piece Color-Coded Hollow-Shaft Heavy-Duty Nut Driver Set features fully pass-through drivers for driving nuts on threaded rod and prevents bottoming out. Cold forged steel wrench assist provides greater torque, especially helpful for breaking stubborn nuts and bolts free. The handles...

www.kleintools.com

Is Klein moving screwdriver production offshore? I know most of their multi-bit drivers were made outside the USA but are they moving regular screwdriver production as well?

 

[Steve_P]

Those look like Fisher Price made them LOL.

 

[danielbuck]

Those look like Fisher Price made them LOL.

start 'em young.

 

[Wamsutta]

Those look like Fisher Price made them LOL.

I was surprised to see the colored section a matte finish instead of the traditional translucent color.

 

[southalabama]

Probably the same manufacturer who makes their impact rated screwdrivers. This is a new product and doesn’t appear to take the place of their traditional made in USA offering.

But wtf I know. I’m just a peckerwood that lives in the woods with too many guns.

 

[Ultradog MN]

Makes me sad to see.
Glad I bought my set when they were still made here.
Notice how I so nicely arranged these for the picture - you know, like combing your hair before they take the family photo.

 

[Chaznsc]

I thought this thread was about crazy Uber drivers.

 

[BrandonV]

Makes me sad to see.
Glad I bought my set when they were still made here.
Notice how I so nicely arranged these for the picture - you know, like combing your hair before they take the family photo.

Luckily those still seem to be made (along with quite a few others) but it just seems weird to introduce a new offering that doesn't seem to serve much of a purpose.

They are hollow which the traditional Kleins are not... Maybe they didn't want to spend the time with new tooling in the USA. Still better than those Milwaukee with the spline drive...

 

[Hakeem]

Luckily those still seem to be made (along with quite a few others) but it just seems weird to introduce a new offering that doesn't seem to serve much of a purpose.

They are hollow which the traditional Kleins are not... Maybe they didn't want to spend the time with new tooling in the USA. Still better than those Milwaukee with the spline drive...

Given that their tools are targeted at the tradesman, spline drive makes some sense. There’s a fair number of square fasteners in legacy electrical/hvac/plumbing set ups. And a nut driver isn’t going to be delivering that much torque for a 6pt drive to matter

Regarding the nut drivers from Klein, it’s not that surprising. They rebrand all sorts of mediocre tools, especially the electrical devices. So long as they still offer the US versions of their pliers and drivers, I don’t really care.

 

[NoahG]

Klein has been fill of sh*t with their flag waving for years. I suspect that the set OP posted will replace this set: https://www.kleintools.com/catalog/...r-set-magnetic-nut-drivers-heavy-duty-6-piece. Note that these are “assembled in USA”

These could be a “made for Lowes” item, but if you look at Klein overall, fewer and fewer SKUs are made in USA.

 

[Meursault74]

Those look like Fisher Price made them LOL.

I used a radiation detector on loan that looked like it was made by Fisher-Price. It's made by Fluke/Victoreen. Yeah, same Fluke as pro level DMM.

 

[BrandonV]

Regarding the nut drivers from Klein, it’s not that surprising. They rebrand all sorts of mediocre tools, especially the electrical devices. So long as they still offer the US versions of their pliers and drivers, I don’t really care.

It's pretty sad. I'm in the telco field and all of their stuff in this space is awful. It used to be a lot better but every few months they're reinventing the wheel because the tools blow.

 

[scooby074]

Interesting. I have the old style, non-hollow translucent handle versions. Not digging these new ones at all.

 

[sparky 1971]

Those are probably better than the USA made set they replaced, which I own. I warrantied them so many times because the magnets kept disappearing that I gave up a few years ago and decided that I don't need magnetic tips that bad.

 

[oldschoolcraft]

It's interesting that companies put out some tools that are amazing and some that are subpar and if you don't spend several hours a week surfing tool enthusiast discussion forums, you wind up getting sucked into buying all of their stuff, just because you love some of it. That's how people collecting red power tools will wind up with rectangular-shaped sockets.