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My dad splurged on a bag of total crap tools at harbor freight. Bad screwdrivers, bad vice grips, bad wrenches. They look like tools but will only damage what they touch. Worst of all are the channel locks. He put this pile of crap on his boat for 'emergencies', but thats the last place to use bad tools.
Whenever i work on it and finish a job, whenever i take a break, i celebrate by giving one tool a float test. Super cathartic. He gets so mad when i tell him but the whole set of junk cost less than a bottle of wine, let alone what he saves having me do the simple maintenance.
I deposited a new set of tools in the old location, mostly reasonable stuff from lowes.
I normally use a channel lock for something scrungy, like pulling a stuck socket off a bolt head, but those great neck units are bad beyond words, if they were soft plastic they wouldnt shed chrome colored flakes...
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