I saw few years back German "Oltimer Markt" or other magazine do a very
thorough test on the spanners - I remember that the results were surprising,
but cannot remember who score best. Anyone by any chance has a copy?
Tadek
Message: 5
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2011 19:30:09 +0100
From: Oudesluys <coudesluijs at chello.nl>
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Good brands for spanners
To: Bob Haskell Chinese set <rchaskell at earthlink.net>
Cc: "healeys at autox.team.net" <healeys at autox.team.net>
Bob,
The mentioned brands are good but not excellent.
Best EU brands are probably Facom, Hazet, and especially Belzer. Belzer
is very strong, hard wearing and slim, although when misused can
fracture in a nasty way. It explodes or breaks very suddenly without
warning because of its extreme hardness, it barely warns and deforms
first, as it should. It is very slim and well finished though.
Another slim design and high quality brand is the USA Snap-On, very
expensive.
Price/quality wise Hazet is a good choice. Britool, King Dick, Gedore,
Elora, Stanley etc. is not the quality I personally would look for in
the first place.
Less costly but also less slim and good priced/quality is Skandia/Bahco
and the Japanese ETC and others.
There are very cheap Chinese made sets around that are or are not of
very good quality but that is very much a hit and mis affair. You cannot
be certain and there is no way of telling.
Kees Oudesluijs
NL
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