Over at Woot (an Amazon-owned company), this Gearwrench 3pc adjustable wrench set is on sale for just $12. Shipping is a flat $5, even if you buy other sale items at the same time.
The set includes 6″, 8″, and 10″ sizes. Even with shipping, the sale price is a lot lower than the $35+ this set sells for elsewhere.
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I have had good experiences with Gearwrench tools in the past, and have no reason not to expect the same from these adjustable wrenches. If I didn’t already have more adjustables than I can ever use, I’d buy a set without hesitation.
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There’s a limit of 3 wrench sets per customer, and the sale price is valid through May 9th, 2013 at 12am CT or supplies run out, whichever comes sooner. All three wrenches are made in Taiwan.
A couple of other tools are included in this promo: Crescent multi-bit driver, Crescent slip joint pliers, Wiss 2pc aviation snips set, two Swanson box levels with LED lights, Plumb claw hammer, and some work gloves. And remember, shipping is a flat rate of $5 per order.
P.S. This might make for a great Father’s Day gift. Woot’s shipping speed tends to be on the slow side, but 5 weeks is still plenty of time.
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Jordan
Received these adjustables recently and I wasn’t blown away by the quality. There’s more slop in the jaws than I’d usually want. The chrome looks pretty good but the tools are a little rough – I have an Evolv adjustable that’s smoother as has a nicer looking finish. I’ll get to put them through their paces in a couple of days, but I think these will probably be relegated to loaners and travelers.
Stuart
Thanks for the feedback! That does sound a bit disappointing. Do you find that all three sizes have slop, or is one particular size worse? That could indicate a random QC oversight, but if all of them are sloppy, then that’s not good.
Jordan
They appear to be a little looser in comparison with similarly sized Western Forge and Stanley adjustables and significantly looser than Crescent’s adjustable wrenches – especially the older Crescents that I have (although that may just be because they’re packed with grease and grime). They have more movement both side to side and up and down. On closer inspection, the pitch on the Gearwrench’s adjusting mechanism is slightly larger than the other brands of a similar size and the teeth don’t make as good of contact with the adjusting mechanism. So the pitch on Gearwrench’s 10″ is very close to the pitch of the Crescent 12″ I have, the Gearwrench 6″ is almost identical to a Stanley 8″ that I have and so on. It makes adjusting them slightly faster, but negligibly so. The other thing I noticed about these is that they have some rough edges – especially around the jaws. All in all, I’m still happy with them and I’ll use them as beater wrenches, but I don’t think that they up to what I’ve come to expect from Gearwrench.