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    Quote Originally Posted by Rossluck
    Maybe you're right about that. There's been confusion in my head about it because I remember the kingchrome spelling from somewhere. I'm referring to Kincrome, made in Japan. I have a set of their spanners and sockets and I trust them. It's this trust thing that is at issue here. When you tackle a big job with el cheapo spanners they're just a disaster. When my fitter and turner brother helps me with stuff, he just chucks them straight in the bin. This sometimes happens halfway through one of my sentences after I hand him an el cheapo: "They're Chinese but ..." CLANG!
    Think I've seen kingchrome in blue boxes in Bunnings, or Supercheap catalogs or something. Seen them, and thought utter crap, so am grateful to have found out that I have to check the name closely..... but if they are not much better, it saves me bothering to distinguish between them......
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    Quote Originally Posted by Rossluck
    Maybe you're right about that. There's been confusion in my head about it because I remember the kingchrome spelling from somewhere. I'm referring to Kincrome, made in Japan. I have a set of their spanners and sockets and I trust them. It's this trust thing that is at issue here. When you tackle a big job with el cheapo spanners they're just a disaster. When my fitter and turner brother helps me with stuff, he just chucks them straight in the bin. This sometimes happens halfway through one of my sentences after I hand him an el cheapo: "They're Chinese but ..." CLANG!
    G'day,
    Yeah Kinchrome used to be made in Japan and I have an original set of these, along with some of their later stuff which is Chinese (Just like Siddies). I have to say that although the Chinese stuff is not too terrible, it's just not as good as the Japanese version, on which I've hung my hundred kilos at the end of four foot of water pipe on a 25mm socket which didn't even look like failing (I was impressed) !!
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