Bought a cheap knockoff door restrictor tool for a quick fix and it snapped on the second use.

Wasted $45 and an hour of my time on a Friday afternoon. The casting was full of air pockets and the handle just sheared off. Anyone know a solid brand that can actually take the torque?

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jennifercooper2d ago

Tell me about it, I had the exact same thing happen with a cheap hinge tool last month. The metal just crumbled like a dry cookie when I put any real pressure on it. Learned my lesson the hard way that with specialty tools, you really do get what you pay for. I've had good luck with the ProForce brand for stuff like that, their tools are simple but they don't cut corners on the materials.

willow2442d ago

Oh man, that's the worst kind of Friday surprise. My own cheap tool graveyard has a few of those sad, crumbly heroes. Bought a bargain bin ball joint press that decided to become a modern art sculpture halfway through the job. The metal had more pits than a golf ball. Now I just assume anything under fifty bucks is basically a single-use tool, which is its own kind of depressing math.