

| Subject: | Re: Tools: ya gets what ya pays for |
| From: | Karl Wolz |
| Date: | Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:27:46 -0700 |
6mm AH same hF wrench I broke Karl Wolz Sent from my electronic umbilicus On Jan 23, 2012, at 3:50 PM, Jim Felder <jim.felder@GMAIL.COM> wrote: > 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
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