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Originally Posted by zakthor

I was working down the front of a marine engine. Out in the sun and my hands didn’t fit so getting scraped up with grease and salt water. Owner had loaded up on the cheapest harbor freight tools, gone long on their awful totally useless channel locks. I had my own tools.

Whenever I needed a break I’d sit back and drink water and pick out his worst rusted garbage tool (Phillips with manked tips, rusted pliers, miscast channel locks) and give it the old float test. Felt like I was doing the world a favor and it put me in a better mood.

LOL! thanks for saving the world!

I’ve handled the icon stuff it seems really nice but price is pretty serious.

I haven't bought any, but in the various tests that I've seen (like test to failure stuff) the ICON stuff is usually not far behind Snap-On in quality for 25% of the price.