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Subject: [Healeys] Good brands for spanners
From: Tadeusz.Malkiewicz at plusnet.pl (Tadeusz Malkiewicz)
Date: Mon, 28 Feb 2011 14:08:31 +0100
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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