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Join Date: Apr 2001
Location: Linn County, Oregon
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Just my opinion, but by the 60's and 70's, although considered cheap at the time, many Japanese tools weren't bad at all. Good fit and metallurgy. By then, the Japanese had learned that quality sold. I have a stubby flex head round head 3/8" drive "Truecraft" #30136 ratchet "Chrome Vanadium-Japan". Holding it now..just counted 40 teeth, smooth as silk, and I like the thumbwheel on top. Still works great after having rattled around in my pickup carry tools box for decades. My fading memory says I bought it sometime in the early 70's.
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