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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
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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