Why do modern tools, even the supposedly quality ones, look like frail toys?

Why do modern tools, even the supposedly quality ones, look like frail toys? Is it because using of powder metallurgy instead of forging?

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  1. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Meme design by indians

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Huh, this makes a lot of sense actually. I've been getting "Mattel playset" vibes for a while now.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Its unironically the answer. Davinder Singh is up there in management somewhere saying why make tools look beautiful when we can save money and just use plastic everywhere. And while we're at it, we don't need to put a nice color scheme on the plastic, we'll just make it look like duplo with one solid frickugly color.
        Meanwhile Xiaoxong Chin is designing bimmers with huge sniffers because any change is good, even if it means throwing out classic design language

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          >Xiaoxong Chin is designing bimmers with huge sniffers
          what does this mean

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        Also, the moulds wear out, so they have to make new ones anyway. So why not take the opportunity to trick smooth brains into buying “new” (looking) tools? Yeah, we’ll still be using the same pot metal for the non-plastic parts (if you can even find them)
        Who designs the new look? If you guessed indian MBA interns that have never held a tool in their lives—then we have a winner!

  2. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    show an example.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      literally anything by wera

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        never heard of it.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          its german, poorgay.

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            no I don't live in hitlerburg

            • 1 year ago
              Bepis

              There are respectable German tools that don’t look like children’s toys.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                nice buttplug collection.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                look like kids toys.

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                They are kids toys, from a brand who is actively outsourcing to Asian countries while still charging made in germany prices

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                If your drivers are anything but the old Snap-Ons with the square black handles, you're gay.

      • 1 year ago
        Bepis

        That’s because Wera is a social media tool brand designed for Redditors, not tradesman

        #TOOLREBEL

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          ill have you know i have no less than 7 yes 7 toolcheck pluses.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          Ive never seen someone let a random brand of tools (a non chink brand mind you) live so rent free in their head.
          It was kind of funny at first, but its really gotten sad.

          You are literally telling people to tools made in vietnam rather than tools made by white people because you saw an advertisement on twitter.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          I only buy tools made by companies who refuse to hire Black folk and chinks.
          Im proud to be a #TOOLREBEL

          • 1 year ago
            Bepis

            So gay

            Ive never seen someone let a random brand of tools (a non chink brand mind you) live so rent free in their head.
            It was kind of funny at first, but its really gotten sad.

            You are literally telling people to tools made in vietnam rather than tools made by white people because you saw an advertisement on twitter.

            Not sure what you’re talking about.

            Also it seems like Wiha makes more shit in Germany than Wera. Even Wera’s mainstay drivers are all Czech and other Soviet shitholes

            • 1 year ago
              Anonymous

              >Also it seems like Wiha makes more shit in Germany than Wera
              Well sure, seeing how 100% of Wera tools are made in the Czech Republic. Its all from one factory, not from random asian factories.
              By that same token, Wiha makes a ton more shit in Vietnam and Taiwan than Wera does too!
              100% of Wihas pliers are made in Vietnam, 100% of their screwdriver bits are too.
              Half of their screwdrivers are Vietnamese. All their ratchets and wrenches are made in Taiwan.
              The only thing they consistently make in Germany are basic allen wrenches.

              If you are going to hop on the Wiha bandwagon (not sure why youd jump on a sinking ship), you had better buy them now. It wont be too long till they will all be made in Vietnam.

              Klaus would be proud of the diverse globohomosexual chink tools you have.

              • 1 year ago
                Bepis

                Ahh yes and all of the Asian made Wera Joker overpriced meme wrenches too.

                Also who is suggesting to buy Wiha pliers?

              • 1 year ago
                Anonymous

                >Ahh yes and all of the Asian made Wera Joker overpriced meme wrenches too.
                Wera Joker wrenches are made in the Czech Republic by white men.
                But you wouldnt care about that.
                Youve made it clear you have an affinity for cheap globohomosexual tools, made by the chinks.

                >Also who is suggesting to buy Wiha pliers?
                Not a single fricking person, because they are Vietnamese garbage

              • 1 year ago
                Bepis

                Maybe it really is this

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                wera makes thinks in the Czech Republic because they have lax requirements to put that label on shit, you are buying chink and taiwan shit rebadged with a made in the Czech Republic

                I have a handful of things made in Vietnam, some Jappo brands manufacture shit there. I think it’s some Vessel drivers and one of those Jappo pliers brands. It’s a step up from Chinese shit for sure.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          literally anything by wera

          https://i.imgur.com/iT27VPn.jpg

          I only buy tools made by companies who refuse to hire Black folk and chinks.
          Im proud to be a #TOOLREBEL

          wera makes thinks in the Czech Republic because they have lax requirements to put that label on shit, you are buying chink and taiwan shit rebadged with a made in the Czech Republic

          • 1 year ago
            Anonymous

            All you need to claim "made in x" status is 60% of total value; you can easily meet that even by just adding retail packaging, depending on what you're selling to whom.

  3. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    modern designs for the modern world

  4. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    i need a full set of QUALITY micro drivers not some homosexual bit kit, wuts gud?

    • 1 year ago
      Bepis

      Wiha makes some big kits for electronic techs, check those out.

      nice buttplug collection.

      Thank you. I have more in the box

      look like kids toys.

      I’m fricking done with Craftsman acetate handle drivers for anything but pry bars.

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        >acetate handle
        That's literally the best material there is, lasts forever.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Linus has a nice piece of kit for that. Well reviewed by Project Farm too so you know it's legit.

      All the wiha and wera shills just turn your hard earned cash into yuan.

      • 1 year ago
        Bepis

        My Wiha and Felo tools still say “Made In Germany”, including screwdrivers I bought at Lowe’s like 2 months ago.

        https://i.imgur.com/bc84CWI.jpg

        >acetate handle
        That's literally the best material there is, lasts forever.

        Until they crack. And the complaint is more about Craftsman than the handles. Those ubiquitos Craftsman screwdrivers make you think a US made screwdriver is just as good as anything else. Then I got some Kleins and Felos and Vessel and shit and you realize the good drivers hold screws like a damn magnetic Craftsman.

        • 1 year ago
          Anonymous

          yeah that happens with the factory being located in Qingdao

          • 1 year ago
            Bepis

            Except the acetate handle Craftsmans made in bumblefrick Ohio crack just as easily

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Forget ifixit. That's hipster crap designed by stronk wahmen. Their bit holders have extra strong neodymium magnets so it's almost impossible to remove small tipped bits without pliers.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      Moody Tools makes very nice individual precision screwdriver sets, made in the USA.

  5. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    ... are you grumpy because they add comfort grips? that's a silly thing to be grumpy about.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      >comfort grip
      >only comfortable for small handed women and the exact grip position they designed for

      • 1 year ago
        Anonymous

        sounds like a you problem boo.

  6. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >Why do modern tools, even the supposedly quality ones, look like frail toys? Is it because using of powder metallurgy instead of forging?
    don't know what you're on about.

    if anything they look overly chonky, but you know I don't get all butt hurt because someone makes a tool that wrinkles your diaper.

  7. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    This seems like the perfect thread to ask.
    If you are in Vietnam and are looking for employment, Wiha is actively hiring designers and sales officers and technical

    Remember Wiha has 3 Vietnam factories (Song Cong I Industrial Park, Bach Quang Ward, Thai Nguyen Province) that specialize in manufacturing high quality pliers, screwdrivers and screwdrivers for Wiha brand and some famous brands in the world such as Milwaukee, Maximum CTC, Makita, Wurth, Hoffman
    Pic related is from the 2012 opening of the Song Cong plant! (though our Thai Nguyen plant has been operational since 2006!)

    Here is site to read about our 3 glorious factories
    https://wihatools.com.vn/vi/gioi-thieu-nha-may-wiha-viet-nam/nha-may-wiha-viet-nam.html

    Here is site to apply for employment
    https://wihatools.com.vn/vi/tin-tuyen-dung

    Tạm biệt!

  8. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Because they are frail toys,,, Milwaukee recently released a cordless ratchet that was way too weak, and had to recall it and release another one with literally more metal.

    All tools nowadays have to look like nike shoes with overmoulded shit that turns into a sticky mess in a few years after the reviews are done and the warranties are up.

  9. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    its only the chinkshit, really

  10. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Facom is French, and most of the industrial designers also seem to be French, at least based on names on the the patents I’ve seen.
    Facom realized if the redesigned the looks of the tools every ten years or so, they could sell more tools to professionals who already owned the sane tools.
    To be fair though, the tools usually, although not always, gave very good ergonomics and are well made.

    • 1 year ago
      Anonymous

      That rotating handle design is actually based, to bad it isn't extensible.

  11. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    >gayOM
    There's your answer

    • 1 year ago
      Kevin Van Dam

      So there’s a new line of Craftsman V Series tools that look to be rebranded Facom but made in Asia. Tempted to try a ratchet but they’re not sold in any brick & mortar stores.

  12. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Because 99% of then will never be used by the larping "handyman" tough guys who buy them, so most people never even know they bought garbage

  13. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Not really to anyone in particular but we have a literal cubic yard and a half of extra wrenches at work. That way we can ben, beat snap modify. You know whatever.

    Ill post pics tommorow.

  14. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Is there really much of a difference?

  15. 1 year ago
    Anonymous

    Spot the differences

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