| If you have a home improvement tool chest in your | | | | because the US company that is contracting through |
| garage, then you're going to need a ratchet set with | | | | their outsourced Chinese supplier company to build its |
| both metric and standard sockets. Now then, before | | | | tools did not specify the durable requirements that you |
| you go out and shop the latest sales ads at the local | | | | might need. |
| Home Depot or Lowe's store, I want you to think | | | | One way to tell the difference between a good |
| about the quality of the tools that you're buying, | | | | socket and ratchet set from a poor quality one, is to |
| because not all ratchet and socket sets are made | | | | take a ratchet and see if there is any play in it, as you |
| equally and there is a big difference in the durability and | | | | move around the head. If there is any play |
| quality of these tools. | | | | whatsoever, it might break when you're torquing down |
| Of course, if you want a quality set you're going to | | | | a bolt. |
| have to pay for it and it's not going to be cheap. If you | | | | It's very easy to break one of these ratchets and then |
| do see a sales ads for a socket ratchet sets then | | | | it is basically a throw away. Meaning you have to go |
| there is a good chance they are made in China and | | | | buy a new ratchet to go with your set. A decent |
| are imported by a manufacturer who is interested in | | | | ratchet may cost half the price of the whole set or |
| selling low cost, high volume tools. Meaning that the | | | | more. So, you can see you might save money on the |
| chances are it will be of poor quality. | | | | purchase, but it will leave you aggravated in the future. |
| Not necessarily because it came from China, rather | | | | Please consider all this. |