Don't you just hate it when...

[tytower]

Om the first thumb it looks like an old fault (black quarter moon shape) down into the join has been there for a long time !

 

[Hero999]

Good steel has a sort of fatigue lower limit. Up to a specific point it acts like spring. Past that point is just starting to bend and hold that bent position. Sort of the point of no return in a way.

That's right, metal fatigue only happens when the metal is deformed past it's elastic limit, in other words it's stretched beyond the point from where it springs back to its original shape.

A spring can stretch millions of times without being damaged providing it's not being push beyond its limits.

 

[HiTech]

Feel free to import USA made tools from Snap-On or MAC. They'll outlast you and your grandchildren may very well end up using them!

 

[tcmtech]

Feel free to import USA made tools from Snap-On or MAC. They'll outlast you and your grandchildren may very well end up using them!

It will never happen. Every one knows when you have a high quality tool set. Its the one they always borrow and rarely bring back without having been asked first. And it always seems to comes back with one commonly used piece missing.

Your grand kids will inherit the remaining 68 odd pieces of a 100 piece tool set. All common size sockets will be gone and have been replace with broken cheapo stand ins.
All screwdrivers will have been replaced with cheap ones and will have the ends broken or stripped off.
The remaining wrenches will all be the odd sized ones that were rough cut to the next approximate size during an emergency fix that occurred after the correct wrench disappeared.
The socket extensions will all have the ends bashed in to the point of no longer fitting the sockets from countless dummies using them as driving punches.
Every pliers and gripping tool will have so much weld splatter on them they are like grabbing a metal porcupine.
Most of the remaining items will also be irreversible corroded because some cat kept peeing in your tool box every time you left it open. Or having been eaten by the retarded dog and then found in the yard a year later after the dog dropped it off.

Thanks Grandpa!

 

[Mikebits]

Feel free to import USA made tools from Snap-On or MAC. They'll outlast you and your grandchildren may very well end up using them!

Most of my automotive tool are MAC. My ex father in law worked at the MAC plant in Ohio. They are great tools.

I included a pic of the pride of my MAC tool collection. Gold plated Socket driver.

 

[HiTech]

It will never happen. Every one knows when you have a high quality tool set. Its the one they always borrow and rarely bring back without having been asked first. And it always seems to comes back with one commonly used piece missing.

Your grand kids will inherit the remaining 68 odd pieces of a 100 piece tool set. All common size sockets will be gone and have been replace with broken cheapo stand ins.
All screwdrivers will have been replaced with cheap ones and will have the ends broken or stripped off.
The remaining wrenches will all be the odd sized ones that were rough cut to the next approximate size during an emergency fix that occurred after the correct wrench disappeared.
The socket extensions will all have the ends bashed in to the point of no longer fitting the sockets from countless dummies using them as driving punches.
Every pliers and gripping tool will have so much weld splatter on them they are like grabbing a metal porcupine.
Most of the remaining items will also be irreversible corroded because some cat kept peeing in your tool box every time you left it open. Or having been eaten by the retarded dog and then found in the yard a year later after the dog dropped it off.

Thanks Grandpa!

What the heck were you drinking when you wrote all that? The solution is very simple when one owns top-shelf, very expensive tools:
1. Lock the tool chest and secure the key.
2. Don't loan out the tools!