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Hand tools vent. Maybe this will save someone some grief and #expense if they find it with a search.

Wiha - great drivers & bits. Love 'em. Well-machined, good tough tool #steel.

But their needlenose pliers? Rubbish. I have a set of full-sized needlenose, plus their "micro" set. With both of them there's too much slop in the joint, so the jaws are never quite aligned. I don't recall if they were bad right out of the packaging, but I certainly noticed it within the first handful of usages. I have the full sized "standard" / linesman-type pliers as well, but you don't tend to notice slop because of the much shorter jaws.

Wiha's micro-needlenose pliers are no better than - or even noticeably worse than - #cheap #Chinesium ones I have.

Save your money.

#vent #venting #HandTools #review #drivers #DriverBits #pliers #needlenose #Wiha #junk #ExpensiveJunk #JointPlay #joint #play

@ewolff No offense intended: #ALDI's "#Choceur" line is produced by #WIHA GmbH, which is part of the #Storck group, which still delivers to #Russia, hence still pays taxes there, and is still boastful of it: "Storck products are convincing consumer across Russia from Kaliningrad to Vladivostok!"

https://www.storck.ru/en/company/storck-russia

Storck brands: #Toffifee #merci #nimm2 #Knoppers #WerthersOriginal #MoserRoth

A database of companies still delivering to #RussiaIsATerroristState: https://www.yalerussianbusinessretreat.com/