worst tool brand

[Kev442]

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Those Oxwall and other stamped wrenches were something to behold. They essentially were the same as furniture assembly tools, one use.
The made in India wrenches are light years ahead of those wrenches. I'm not sure what people expect out of a $8.99 set of wrenches, but I certainly got more than one use out of mine. They are the opposite of lobster claws, they will fit in tight areas my best wrenches can't go without wasting time grinding to fit. They are a polished combo, not the crude looking **** pictured in this thread, I've mentioned them before when on sale at Menard's. I haven't had to cut one short or bend it to fit yet, but when the time comes, whatever gets the job done.

 

[Wakefield]

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How about the "Scrwinch" that comes with a chainsaw for removing the bar and a couple other things? It fits 19mm. lug nuts--but I don't think it would turn out 100 ft-lb.to take a wheel off

 

[BDT/NWMN]

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Tools purchased new, one brand with multiple failures without abuse..... The winner is the folks who advertise their ridiculously low prices for quality chools.. That 3/4 drive rat-chet was a total hoot... I couldn't get it to turn, so I pulled it apart to see what was wrong... the teeth in the housing were non-existent on one side, and razor sharp on the other size.... I thought about making a shadow box to display that fine work of art on the shop wall, but decided to return it along with a 24" 1/2" drive breaker bar that broke on a moderate pull, a long pattern combination wrench that split down the handle, and a few other gems... I bought this cheap **** to fill in a few missing gaps and serve as backup tools... The 3/4 drive socket set was purchased for the metric 12point sockets, which only get occasional hand use.
The large impact sockets from that Harbor have been holding up, and select little air powered cutoff wheels and die grinders are some of my favorites... But the worse accumulation of **** chools to give me a Red face are the chrome chools I found in the bottom of the Harbor for a ridiculous price... I did not have a ridiculous expectation of getting top quality stuff for this price,, so I can have a chuckle over it... I HAVE done dumber things...

 

[wafrederick]

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A 1/2 drive socket set I bought from a Homier tool sale.My brother used the 3/4 socket and it broke.

 

[jim faston]

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How about the old Gedore wrenches made in India?

Yep--always buy two in case you leave one out in the sun.

 

[CWP1616L]

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Back during the 1990s there was an Asian brand called "Pit Bull." Terrible junk ****.

 

[rednotch]

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the no name china flea market socket kit I picked up as a kid in the 80's, sockets where softer then pot metal. still have a few of them in a junk yard tool box.

 

[Eric Commarato]

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Any tool from Lowes, because they don't sell anything but Chineese junk. Got the last Knipex side cutters today for $9.00 at my local Lowes, it's all useless junk now because they just want to move junk to weekend tinker'ers that don't care about taking care of good tools and handing them down to later generations. It's all about the $

 

[Chuck122]

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I found a wrench branded "top quality". I cannot imagine how someone would pay for such a pitted, poorly cast *************

 

[jmm]

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The worst tools don't have brand names, they're the 1 dollar socket sets in the bins at the parts store. They are complete ****.

The worst brand I've ever dealt with was Indian Gedore. Complete garbage.

 

[Frosthy]

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Any tool from Lowes, because they don't sell anything but Chineese junk. Got the last Knipex side cutters today for $9.00 at my local Lowes, it's all useless junk now because they just want to move junk to weekend tinker'ers that don't care about taking care of good tools and handing them down to later generations. It's all about the $

Lowes/Kobalt tools (especially the sockets) are much, much better than HD/Husky tools. Husky socket is rough/unfinished and has ugly chrome.

My dad has some old 12pt sockets from "Biltema", basically Swedish AutoZone. Those sockets will round off any nut real quick, don't know how he hasn't spent the cash on atleast Craftsman in the last twenty years..

 

[SpiderGearsMan]

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worse than what ?

 

[nationalminer84]

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Toss up for me between the older Tool Shop (newer stuff seems better) (Menards Brand) and the "Cummins Induetrial Tools" from the truck sale....

 

[atwageman]

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Toss up for me between the older Tool Shop (newer stuff seems better) (Menards Brand) and the "Cummins Induetrial Tools" from the truck sale....

Cummins Industrial Tools---- Wow I remember back in the 90's those trucks coming into town for a couple of days a few times a year. They still around?

 

[Elvenhome21]

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craftsman laminated vicegrips

 

[brokeguy]

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Anything made in india for sure! Coworker uses a set of HF combo wrenches daily.. they don't match the fasteners and are very uncomfortable. But for some reason have not broken yet O.O

 

[monster1]

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How about anything bob villa endorses.

 

[TwoInch]

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How about the "Scrwinch" that comes with a chainsaw for removing the bar and a couple other things? It fits 19mm. lug nuts--but I don't think it would turn out 100 ft-lb.to take a wheel off

you mean these? http://www.benmeadows.com/images/regular/Scrench-Chain-Saw-Tool-BEN-_i_1WVE7_AS01.jpg

they are standard chainsaw tool, and work as intended. all pro tree guys have and use them. very useful, when used for intended purpose.

 

[Chadwilliam1]

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the hdx brand tools sold at home depot look pretty bad...

 

[Fordman7795]

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I cant believe that some people praise gedore on here. My only experience with them is the indian wrenches. But that is enough for me to never buy their tools

 

[cburnscrx]

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The worst tools don't have brand names, they're the 1 dollar socket sets in the bins at the parts store. They are complete ****.

Or as I like to call them...They're the "You didn't really think we'd waste time putting a name on this **** so you could identify it, and avoid it at all costs" wrench.

Sometimes I wonder who uses those tools, although I did buy a $3 ratchet from Pep Boys to use in my tailgate toolbox, and it didn't even work once.

 

[cosmik binturong]

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I cant believe that some people praise ford on here. My only experience with them is the pinto. But that is enough for me to never buy their cars.

 

[sberry]

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All that stuff is obvio0us as daylight, doesn't seem to be a national secret but I really think the worst is the Sears ratchet. Its something you expect should work and in more than 30 yrs still cant get it right, I quit taking them back, free or not, its pitiful.

 

[Blöckw@rt]

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I cant believe that some people praise gedore on here. My only experience with them is the indian wrenches. But that is enough for me to never buy their tools

You do not really throw the **** 'Made in India' (wrench on the top) with the regular stuff of GEDORE in a pot ?

 

[Vvmvbb]

I watched a cable guy try to cut cable with some Workforce dikes once. After watching him mash the cable for a while I handed him some Kleins. Eye opening for us both- I'll avoid Workforce.

 

[norry]

No idea who made it (I think it was another anonymous tool) but a $4 ratchet-and-tools set, about 15 years ago. All I remember of the ratchet itself, besides its end, was that someone in Asia had put a rubber bicycle handlebar grip on the ratchet handles. I was taking off a bolt, foolishly put some force onto it, and of course the ratchet let go, sending my knuckles flying into the car. Um that hurt. No cheater bar, no jumping on the ratchet handle, no nothing.

 

[rickhigginshtbr]

craftsman laminated vicegrips

Holy **** those things sucked!

the cheap toolsets at autozone... every one we sell, whoever buys it brings it back with a broken ratchet with an hour or two.

 

[toolmaven]

I read some massive bashing of Globemaster. Mostly, it is well deserved. I've found a few items from Germany, Japan, Spain and Italy at flea markets and garage sales that are at least serviceable, some quite good. If they've survived from the 1970s to the 2010s, they are probably the randomly well-made examples. My day-pack hatchet is a Globemaster - Japan - that fell off its original crappy tubular steel handle. The decent steel head is now on a Nupla fiberglass handle and works fine for light tasks.

 

[shoggoth80]

Old Alltrade wrenches. Companion isn't the best, but I haven't broken any. Lol. Pittsburgh wrenches from India...man I hate those.

 

[IRQVET]

I'm trying to count how many times Harbor Freight has already been mentioned, lol.

 

[j2048b]

Ive got a few and i mean a few items from harbor that have lasted but only a few


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[FigureItOut]

I've no idea about the brand as a whole, but for one of my first oil changes I bought a Hopkins oil filter wrench. I think they're called a cup style, goes over the end of the filter and has a 3/8" drive square hole.

The plastic was so soft the ratchet would twist out with light finger pressure. I think it would twist out in reverse even. I haven't had any compelling reason to try a Hopkins tool again, and would avoid that brand barring any good reason not to.

 

[shoggoth80]

For what it is worth, the Pittsburgh Pro Taiwanese wrenches don't look bad at all. Checked them out when I was in there last (needed a pair of cheap beaky vise grip pliers).

The Pittsburgh orange handle mini-picks are chrome plated pot-metal. Broken 3 of them so far, and bent the straight one. I still have the offset one left. It really is a bit of a pick and choose brand.

I've seen some no-name "drop forged" Chinese stuff that was just utter trash.

 

[four.cycle]

I am surprised that I'm not seeing any love here for one of my all-time favorites: Wilmar. Aptly named, because they will mar - your knuckles, the trim panels on your dashboard, inner fender wells, you name it.
Sold a heck of a lot of it. We had all our warranty stuff upstairs in boxes arranged alphabetically by manufacturer's name. The box with the 'Wilmar' label on it was about big enough to hold a dryer, and it was always at least half full when the rep stopped by to write up the warranties - no argument, they always issued full credit. I think I still have one of their 7/8" combination wrenches, but only because it was up at the cabin for the gas system and we knew nobody would bother stealing it.

Oh yeah... shout-outs for Oxwall, Globemaster, and Buffalo... pure trash, but people bought the stuff like it was going out of style, and the reps were easier to dicker with on other lines if we wrote POs for the gravy 6% commission Chinese tool lines they peddled.

I think I noticed a 'Made in India' double-end box wrench in a drawer the other day while I was looking for a 7mm open-end. I'll have to remember to dig it out and toss it in the scrap metal pile so I don't hurt myself with it.

 

[kblee27]

Any chinese tools like this Sheng Da

Either the gear teeth start rounding off nuts or the ratchet broke with just a short usage.

That was before I discover better tools.
Even the cheap tekton has much higher quality.

 

[Olafur]

Seen my share of junk tools but nothing comes close to the no-name socket set I was given just over 30 years ago. It had 1/2" and 1/4" "metric" sockets and hex keys and bits etc..

The 1/2" ratchet stopped working after few bolts the 1/4" never did. The extensions just twisted - that is if you put a real socket on them. None of the sockets in the set could do that because it was very hard to actually find any bolts or nuts they fit. The few times I got lucky enough to find a fastener they did fit they rounded out right away with minimal effort and cracked. I bent the 1/2" T bar between my hands @ age of 13...

It was a wakeup call. Something was seriously wrong with the world since someone somewhere spent great time and effort making this junk.

 

[Kensgarage]

Hard call around these parts. Too many fanboys of many useless brands.

 

[monkeyspanners]

Rolson seems one of the worst brands sold here, keep thinking of getting a set of spanner to see how easy they break!

 

[GettinJunkDone]

I don't know where they were made or by who, but the tool kits that came with my late 70s early 80s Honda motorcycles must be an alloy of tin and rubber. You can almost bend them by hand.

 

[jeffmoss26]

anything marked Pittsburgh