ShadowsPapa
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- Bill
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Love my Ion flex-head torque wrench. GREAT reviews, and it works well. The flex head means you can even do lug nuts where a standard wrench just doesn't quite make it and you need a 1" extension or a deep socket.One thing to keep in mind. A couple of people have made mention of Taiwan made wrenches.
Taiwan is not China. Taiwan is an ally. So if you are trying to avoid buying from a potential enemy, you are fine with Taiwan.
Taiwan stuff isn't like 50 years ago, either, and neither is Chinese. In some cases, their technology and manufacturing processes rival ours, or surpass ours, and I have solid examples of that. The difference these days is the labor costs, not the lack of technology. The Chinese are doing things we are struggling to catch up with. They saw the changing world coming and rushed to educate people in tool and die and get them to work - in the USA, too and die is a dying trade. Even the colleges around here are shutting down programs for tool and die, and struggle to get people into CNC trades. Educators are complaining - no one wants the dirty, noisy work when they can get rich in tech and an office.
Anyway, I have lost count of the torque wrenches I have - S&K, NAPA, Proto, my smallest click-type is Snap-On I bought years ago for transmission work, a 1/2" drive Craftsman beam type and those never go bad, a couple of the beam type the names are worn off the chart. I put the Icon among the best of those I have, if not the best 1/2" drive click type I have.
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