On 11/11/2013 4:28 PM, Gunner Asch wrote:
On Mon, 11 Nov 2013 22:20:30 +0000 (UTC), Cydrome Leader
wrote:

Jim Stewart wrote:
mike wrote:
Lowes has a sale on Kobalt tools.
For $6 you can get a screwdriver kit that
has torx bits down to size 4. And they're smaller shank,
so the bit holder has smaller diameter and will fit down
the deep hole in the plastic of some devices to access the
screw head.
No brainer...except.
Are they any good.
The bits are shiny silver. My experience has been that the
shiny silver bits are much softer than the dull black ones.

They're guaranteed for life, but that's no help if you've
just stripped the head of that #4 Torx screw holding together
the $300 gizmo you're trying to repair.

So, is there any correlation between shiny silver surface and
softness for screwdriver bits? In the store, how do you tell
what's tough and what's not?

They don't know how to spell "cobalt".

That should tell you something...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kobalt_(tools)


"Kobalt is a line of tools owned by the American home improvement
chain Lowe's as their house brand for both Lowe's in North America and
their joint venture Masters Home Improvement in Australia.

Lowe's and manufacturing partner J.H. Williams launched Kobalt in
1998,[1] with the intention of competing against rival retailers Sears
and The Home Depot and their respective Craftsman and Husky tool
brands.[2] Since 2003, Kobalt hand tools have largely been made by the
Danaher Corporation.[3][4] Previously made in the USA, initially by
Snap-on's JH Williams brand, Kobalt sockets and wrenches are now made
in Taiwan, while pliers and other tools are made in China."

So the early ones were made by a good company...now they are made in
Taiwan and China.

I wonder if he wanted to learn that?

Why would you wonder? Would the answer have impeded your missive?

Probably not.
Ok,so you answered your question. Failed to impede your missive.

Why would you put words in my mouth anyway?

Of all the bluff and bluster in this thread, there was exactly
ONE person who related ACTUAL EXPERIENCE with the EXACT tool I was
considering. Case closed. Not bought! Thanks.
Did I mention, CASE CLOSED?


Since you're the fount of all knowledge...
Riddle me this...
Is there any reason that Taiwan and China can't make quality stuff?
They get painted with the broad crap brush.
I understand that we get crap because we're only willing to pay for crap.
BUT,
is there any fundamental technical reason that people in one particular
country
can't/won't/don't make any quality stuff? Ever?



Wiha....good tools.
Yeah, but unrelated to the question about Kobalt.

Gunner

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