"Duane Bozarth" wrote in message
...
Hadr roughly 20-year old pair linesman's pliers...hired hand chose to
use rhem to try to cut #10 steel fencing wahr, putting nice round hole
in cutting edge..

Took 'em into local catalog store--as expected, didn't have 'em in
stock. Looked up present equivalent in catalog, store placed repair
order and the new ones showed up a few days later prepaid via US
Mail...and the new pair seems as solid, USA-made, as the originals.

Hand tools and power tools are completely different in quality. Even the
hand tools have slipped. I have a set of wrenches that are 40 years old and
they are superior to the ones made in the past ten or so years.