[Healeys] Good brands for spanners

[Bob Haskell]

To narrow it down a bit - I'm interested in brands that make Whitworth 
sized spanners/wrenches.

Cheers,

Bob Haskell
AHCA 3000 Mk I registrar
http://www.ciahc.org/registry_3000mk1.php

On 02/28/2011 08:08 AM, Tadeusz Malkiewicz wrote:
> 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>
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> 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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