Vise Grip's!!

yes china freight for the most part sucks. however i do have some of their tools, mostly stuff i use at the junkyards, and their impact sockets arent bad tho they are a little thick. their tool storage cabinets like the wide double drawer (taco wagon) tool cabinet, is pretty nice for home use. as is their black mobile tool cart.

yes they have their share of junk, i stay away from a lot of their stuff, but you cant beat their air operated angle die grinders AKA (screamers) for cheap. i buy em by the pair when they are on sale for $12.99 and run em till the gears blow in the head, usually it takes about 2 to 3 years. i never oil them, and i use em at work daily. by the time they go boom, i already have a second pair in my tool box just waiting to be used. i remove the air fitting, and whatever is chucked in the mandrel, and pitch em in the metal recycle bin.

sometimes if one is still operating good when one goes boom, i will still swap the pair, and take the used and still working one home for home shop use till it blows. my permanent setup on a pair of these at home or work consists of one with a cut off wheel permanently chucked into it, one with a scotchbrite roloc disc mandrel chucked into it. this way you can switch from cutting to grinding just by swapping the die grinder out easier than messing with the keys and changing out the mandrels.

as far as the vise grips go i still thought vise grip brand was still made in USA. i have a coworker that used to live in nebraska, and the deal with visegrip used to be if they got rusty, broken, or just plain worn out, you could return them to visegrip in nebraska, and they would send you a brand new pair no questions asked. i dunno if this was a bunch of folklore or fact. but now that they are made in chinna i will keep my old USA ones around in my toolbox as long as i can.

most of my stuff is matco, mac, snap on, and craftsman with a little china freight mixed in. beware of craftsman too. their old wrenches are made in USA, but their new stuff is made in china. so i now call their new stuff crapsman.