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Old 12-15-2017, 06:01 PM   #41
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Even though I was only a daughter, and therefore seen as not entitled to tools (and somehow unseemly even to be interested in them), I somehow managed to snag a set of Dad's drop-forged steel socket wrenches that have proven very useful; they don't snap under pressure the way modern crummy Chinese aluminum ones do.
They have a (unkind) term for those soft "metals" that are in cheap tools: Chinesium

Like the Robertson head screwdriver bits that I round off by the handful
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