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Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2018 8:05 pm
by KAMIKAZEE DIY
Just wondered if anyone's ever been caught out with fake hand tools. I had a look online and it appears there is a massive fake tools industry online selling tools by all the high end manufacturers.
How good do the fakes look?
Would a seasoned pro be able to identify just by feel?
I still don't use eBay.
Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2018 9:42 am
by seanandruby
Bought a long handled estwing 10 years ago for £10. Thought was a snide for that price but still using it. If it is a snide it's a good one.
Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2018 10:43 am
by Tony McC
The ones I come across most are often Chinese in origin, the favourites being tinny "Marshalltown" trowels, flaky, shuddering 'Wacker' plates, and crude "Stihl" saws.
Of course, there are countless fall-apart diamond blades, inaccurate laser levels and distance measures, and some godawful rubber-ish mallets that smear anything they hit with black sludge.
The old adage tends to apply: you get what you pay for,