My Facom nut splitter set has arrived and I tried it out yesterday. Cuts
nuts open nicely. I removed 6 seriously rusty nuts in about as many
minutes. It takes a lot of torque to crack open a nut, though, so I'd
glad I didn't go for el cheapo - I'd be worried applying that amount of
torque to a cheap tool. The other nice thing about the set is that it
has a sticker on the top giving the name and phone number of the person
to contact if you have and comments or problems. So far I'm very
pleased. Will be using it again soon too...

Thanks for all the advice.

Best wishes,

Chris