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Fair enough - it's not as if compulsive purchasing should be alien to anyone on a niche hobby forum like this, I just hadn't really considered it applying to such practical items as ratchet sets. Sure, people can fetishise Japanese-made hand saws, Victorian planes and fancy pillar drills, but I hadn't imagine that extending to the more mundane items of the tool box. This was clearly just a failure of my imagination.
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Say that a steel something is made in Japan, Germany or Italy and people will pay silly prices. A 20cm polished tool steel rod with 2 Allen key heads protruding at 90deg from the shaft and a leather strip to hang if from? £25 please. But it’s desiiign … Sure, a pretty poor design for a bike tool at that.
Leshaches
Fair question. I like tools and was after another set of hex bits.