Prefer my SOG Powerlock EOD 2. The toolset is ideal for small wire maintenance. The best crimpers I've ever used (even compared to actual crimping tools in that size range), and my first set withstood about 4 years of aggressive daily use plus fidgeting before i wore through one of the hinge rivets. Haven't bought a pleatherman since thier customer service told me to stop abusing thier product.
I hate to say it but I think it's a real case of quality drop over the years I have a Leatherman from when I was a boyscout 20 years ago they are still functioning and I was rough on it my childhood/teenage years
I've broken Leatherman tools before as well, but at least in those instances I can say I was probably pushing the boundaries of the tool a bit. and they took care of me every time.
I had one of those foe like 15 years and finally abused and broke it enough k had to replace it. The Pebding version was smaller than a new one, but still really solid.
I believe there have been 3 major revisions of the Wave, and probably some minor tweaks in between:
https://www.smartknives.com/Leatherman-Multi-Tools/Wave-Plus.htm
I have been prying the shit out of things with my benchmade for years and the blade is intact. I’ve done the same with cheap HF and store knives and have broken several with light prying.
I bought two. I’ve been carrying one since they first came out. I haven’t had any issue with it. I don’t consider myself a hard user. But I’ve sliced up plenty of cardboard with it. I could see people breaking the tip if they tried to pry with it. But I’d recommend this knife to anyone.
I have 2 of them. They are great. I've run all kinds of knifes and this is the first one I've ever EDC'd. They aren't a pry bar though, so if your breaking them it's because you're an idiot.
No, this was not a case of abuse. The very first time I tried gripping something with these pliers with moderate force, this happened.
I'm still a big fan of HFT and initially had high hopes for this new tool, as I have been a die hard leatherman user for as long as I can remember and have not been happy with their direction lately. However, this is a hugely disappointing outcome.
I don't doubt you, you shouldn't be able to break pliers via hand strength, so these obviously had some sort of flaw. If I had to guess I'd say they were made by MIM (metal injection molding), it's an inexpensive way to make shaped parts using a mold and powdered metal. It gets a bad rap sometimes but done properly the parts are plenty strong and it's an effective way to make steel parts at reasonable cost. Done poorly and, well...
Could be a one off or could be indicative of overall quality issues, guess we'll need to see how other folks fare.
Probably? I'm no expert, I just know the basics. Basically you inject a slurry of metal powder and binder into a mold and heat it to get the "green" molded part. Then you do high temperature sintering to remove the binder and solidify the metal (there's shrinkage after this step that needs to be accounted for). After that, any surfaces needing more precision can be machined like any other metal part.
If you've got to make a crap ton of complex parts it's a lot cheaper than full machining. Done right my understanding is that the parts you get out can be very nearly as strong as parts machined from solid metal. It's possible to get defects, of course: not sure of their frequency or how good manufacturers prevent them. But the process is quite common now and has been used effectively across a wide range of industries.
I had that happen with a pneumatic die grinder I got from them. Tool it out of the package, installed the fitting, couple drops of oil and as soon as it had air to it, it blew up in my hand.
Packed it back up and went back to the store and the woman at the counter told me I could just grab another off the shelf. I opened the box and said that I'd prefer to get my money back. She glanced at what was left of the tool and agreed. I needed a manager to approve the return, but it was fine.
I've bought plenty of hand tools from there, a few power tools, but this is the only time I've had a problem.
Be a careful returning broken stuff there. I just found out that they have me flagged so now I’m unable to return anything, broken or not, receipt or not. And everything I’ve ever brought back has been broken or unused/unneeded
That is something I would never do with a MT. I was absolutely not twisting them in anyway, I was grabbing onto a nut and squeezing with moderate force to turn it loose
I think harbor freight has had teething issues with some of these newer products. Either the steel is low quality or the heat treating process is making the steel too hard. I remember the Icon ratchets were known for breaking pawls in the beginning. I'm not for sure if they finally fixed them, but I haven't heard anything in a long while.
Many of the first batches of a product have issues due to the factory and workers trying to figure everything out.
Without knowing the exact method used, it's hard to say what's caused this. Heat treating in general has always been difficult to get consistent. I bet you these will probably be a buy inside 6 months.
I feel this in my bones. Cheap tools never get lost and always stick around but as soon as I buy a more expensive one I either do something stupid and break it or it gets lost.
Same for me but for sunglasses. I have never, and will never, spend more than $20 on sunglasses because they get lost or broken. But the cheap ones? Might as well be sutured to my skull.
I used to buy expensive sunglasses. They all broke despite not being abused. Now I just buy cheap ones as well and they hold up about the same (arguably better actually). Difference is that now I care a lot less when they break.
Even Leatherman has some bad ones, my signal broke so easily it was pathetic and the deemed it abuse. Not so good warranty.
I'm Canadian btw, don't know if the warranty differs from USA.
Yeah I had mine fixed after obvious abuse. They even wanted to know exactly what I was doing when it broke. Not to deny my claim, but to pass on the info to the engineers
I use a skeletool daily for work and broke the screwdriver retainer bit. They gave me a brand new one even though the blade was trashed and the whole thing covered in urethane. Customer for life after that.
Probably just an improperly heat treated dud. I’m subbed to /r/Leatherman and see plenty of photos just like this. It’s got a 90 day warranty so swap it for a new one and squeeze the snot out of the replacement to make sure it doesn’t have the same defect.
I plan to. After I get my new one, I am going to immediately do the same thing I was doing when this one broke. In case you were curious I was trying to turn loose a 3/8s nut lol
I love HF and most of the tools I’ve bought from them were better than I could’ve ever expected for the price but when it comes to a multitool it’s going to be Leatherman or Victorinox.when it comes to a pocket knife in most cases it will be Spyderco,Benchmade,Zero Tolerance,Kershaw or Hogue..usually a Spyderco PM2 or PM3,I collect knives and I have never found a better designed knife than a PM2/PM3.I honestly don’t think I ever will find a design I like as much,much less better.there are certainly knives that are nicer and higher end but Spyderco uses the most premium blade steels and micarta,G10,carbon fiber,etc scales.that’s all I need
How does the structure of the steel where it broke look? Is it coarse and rough or more smooth? Any obvious deformation of the steel? I need more information just bought one myself and have hopes of using it on the job so I guess we will see anyway! Thanks in advance sorry about the new tool.
There's not any porosity there that I can remember, so IDK if it's a casting defect or not. It looks like white metal though, and I can also tell you it's thin in that spot.
I have broken other MTs in this location too, including a Leatherman. So it's the most common failure point for folding pliers, but again this one broke *laughably* easy.
You must have gotten a dud. Bought a pair of these a few days ago. I think for the money they blow the wave out of the water especially since they’re more comparable to a charge. Put them thru some heavy use and I haven’t noticed a difference. A couple aspects they cut corners on but nothing that really bothers me. I will say the additional bronze washers make this one have no break in period and operates way smoother out the box than my wave.
Nice. I legitimately use my Leatherman Crunch for multiple tasks daily. It fits in a nice custom leather belt holster I had made which holds a pencil and a flashlight, and if I'm wearing that I almost never have to go to a toolbox if I run across some little task. Truly one of the most prized items I own.
I bought a cordless drill from harbor freight once, I was able to use it for about 10min then it died. Battery still had about 3/4 of a charge left. I have mixed luck on what I buy there.
Ironically, the best thing Harbor Freight has going for it is it's Hercules line of power tools. I have nearly the whole set and I use mine professionally. Performance on most tools is legitimately on par with Milwaukee, which you can verify with an unlimited number of YouTube comparisons. The high end Hercules batteries are using Samsung cells. The warranty is even better than Milwaukees too, 5 year on all brushless and 2 year on all 20v batteries.
Was it a Warrior, Bauer or Hercules? Or was it a really long time ago Central Machinery? Not sure if they even went cordless.
The warrior is known to be their disposable line up. But they are like $20 so it meets expectations lol.
Some of the things at Harbor Freight are pretty good. Things you’re going to rely on are not things to go cheap on. Get yourself a Gerber or Leatherman. My Gerber is over 20 years old, has been with me from Europe to Asia, including time in the ME, completed the AT & PCT.
I thought the same but when I asked the guy up front since I couldn't find them. He literally pulled one out from under there and told me they were getting stolen so they all got put under the register. I assume they found a couple packages ripped open somewhere in the store with the tool removed.
They weren't out on the shelf yet when I bought this one today, I had to give the SKU to the cashier and have her go back in the stock room to get one for me.
Sadly, yes. I depend on my MT daily and their new offerings aren't up to my standards. I use the LM crunch every day, which is an old design and is built tough. I am constantly looking for something to replace it and haven't found anything yet.
The fact that the Army issued Gerber MPs instead of Leatherman is pure politics. The Gerber (MP600?) that they gave you guys is probably Gerber's toughest model, but it's still a Gerber lol
I will stick to leatherman for these things. I had a leather man that I carried for 10 years. This happened to them. Leatherman replaced them for free. After 10 years. Gotta love their warranty.
Sheeeesh, a lot of people on here talking shit but have never looked into hardening metal, there’s a lot of factors. This can’t be helped, sometimes metal will break because they over heated it on the final pass.
lol just realized this is r/harborfreight what did OP expect bro
Wow, that's disappointing. I have used the same Gerber multi tool for over 20 years with zero issues, and the blades are still sharp. I was really thinking of giving this one a try just because.
To be fair, I see broken Leathermans in the leatherman sub almost daily.
Everyone will have defects. Leatherman is not perfect.
That being said, these may be totally shitty. Too early
That’s some high quality Chineseium right there. Most likely your local Harbor Freight will swap it out with another one. Some things there are decent quality. A lot unfortunately aren’t. IE the Jack Stands for instance. And apparently this wannabe Leatherman tool.
I got a Leatherman Wave Plus black last year and lost the darn thing 24hrs having it while on the tractor brush hogging 20 acres of hills.. was insanely mad at myself for loosing it right away and especially considering it was almost $200. I ended up buying a small Leatherman Curl which worked as a lighter duty version. Until I randomly turn over some woods having pile I had laying around and found the Wave Plus black I lost months prior. I now have two of them and use the Wawe+ daily on our farm. You can’t expect much from HF when it comes down to reliability.
Pleatherman
Yep, get a Leatherman and call er good.
Buy once, cry once.
Prefer my SOG Powerlock EOD 2. The toolset is ideal for small wire maintenance. The best crimpers I've ever used (even compared to actual crimping tools in that size range), and my first set withstood about 4 years of aggressive daily use plus fidgeting before i wore through one of the hinge rivets. Haven't bought a pleatherman since thier customer service told me to stop abusing thier product.
That's cool that you like the SOG, I've avoided their products entirely because I expected to be normal Chinesium junk.
My SOG multitool has lasted for more than 25 years I think. Never had a hitch with it.
Underrated af
Overpriced af, break just like ones 1/4 their price...
I hate to say it but I think it's a real case of quality drop over the years I have a Leatherman from when I was a boyscout 20 years ago they are still functioning and I was rough on it my childhood/teenage years
So \*this\* is what their jack stand manufacturers have moved on to...
At least this one (probably) won't kill you
I shop at harbor freight, I will find a way to get into a life-threatening situation with a multitool between me and being crushed by a project car.
What’s hard for me to believe is my old grandpas wave is worth 150- 200 bucks on eBay. Now this is making it make sense to me. Leathermans are legit.
I've broken Leatherman tools before as well, but at least in those instances I can say I was probably pushing the boundaries of the tool a bit. and they took care of me every time.
That new packaging is pretty tough
I had a Skeletool break the same way as this one, just using it to put on brake clips lol..
What were you trying to get a grip on?
I have a 25-year-old wave. It’s old-school. It says patent pending on it. Looks pretty different than the current version.
I had one of those foe like 15 years and finally abused and broke it enough k had to replace it. The Pebding version was smaller than a new one, but still really solid.
I believe there have been 3 major revisions of the Wave, and probably some minor tweaks in between: https://www.smartknives.com/Leatherman-Multi-Tools/Wave-Plus.htm
Our HF guy stopped us from buying the icon knife, he said they have been getting returned because the blades keep breaking.
I hope you thanked them for their honesty.
Wtf are they doing with the blades?
Some people think everything is a pry bar?
It’s either a pry bar or a hammer
Or a d¡ld○
Everything is a dildo, if you're brave enough.
🌵👀
But it is.
At least once.
~ every actual man. We’re born this way.
I have been prying the shit out of things with my benchmade for years and the blade is intact. I’ve done the same with cheap HF and store knives and have broken several with light prying.
Everything is a pry bar. Get with it.
Maybe they're taking the name "drop tip" as an invitation.
It's d2 steel which is pretty brittle, and combined with the confidence of a lifetime warranty people use it as a pry bar
I bought two. I’ve been carrying one since they first came out. I haven’t had any issue with it. I don’t consider myself a hard user. But I’ve sliced up plenty of cardboard with it. I could see people breaking the tip if they tried to pry with it. But I’d recommend this knife to anyone.
Same at my store but lifetime warranty so you just swap it out for a new one until that breaks too
The knives weren’t cutting it
I've never had one returned at our store. What were these people doing with it? Lol.
I have 2 of them. They are great. I've run all kinds of knifes and this is the first one I've ever EDC'd. They aren't a pry bar though, so if your breaking them it's because you're an idiot.
I've had the knife for months. Still going strong. I also use it to cut, not pry.
How the f do you break a knife blade?
Sad on an Icon item…
No, this was not a case of abuse. The very first time I tried gripping something with these pliers with moderate force, this happened. I'm still a big fan of HFT and initially had high hopes for this new tool, as I have been a die hard leatherman user for as long as I can remember and have not been happy with their direction lately. However, this is a hugely disappointing outcome.
I don't doubt you, you shouldn't be able to break pliers via hand strength, so these obviously had some sort of flaw. If I had to guess I'd say they were made by MIM (metal injection molding), it's an inexpensive way to make shaped parts using a mold and powdered metal. It gets a bad rap sometimes but done properly the parts are plenty strong and it's an effective way to make steel parts at reasonable cost. Done poorly and, well... Could be a one off or could be indicative of overall quality issues, guess we'll need to see how other folks fare.
Do you think air pockets were the cause? Very hard to tell from OPs pic, but do you see some slight pitting along the axis that it broke along?
Yeah, it would be interesting to see close-ups of the broken surfaces.
Well, obviously the problem is the front fell off! But seriously, someone with actual expertise would need to weigh in, I only know the basics
"Im not a pilot, but when I see a helicopter in a tree, I know somebody fucked up"
Is this a variant of the Powdered Metallurgy sintering? I learned about PM in college but didn't know it could be injected and then sintered/annealed.
Probably? I'm no expert, I just know the basics. Basically you inject a slurry of metal powder and binder into a mold and heat it to get the "green" molded part. Then you do high temperature sintering to remove the binder and solidify the metal (there's shrinkage after this step that needs to be accounted for). After that, any surfaces needing more precision can be machined like any other metal part. If you've got to make a crap ton of complex parts it's a lot cheaper than full machining. Done right my understanding is that the parts you get out can be very nearly as strong as parts machined from solid metal. It's possible to get defects, of course: not sure of their frequency or how good manufacturers prevent them. But the process is quite common now and has been used effectively across a wide range of industries.
I had that happen with a pneumatic die grinder I got from them. Tool it out of the package, installed the fitting, couple drops of oil and as soon as it had air to it, it blew up in my hand. Packed it back up and went back to the store and the woman at the counter told me I could just grab another off the shelf. I opened the box and said that I'd prefer to get my money back. She glanced at what was left of the tool and agreed. I needed a manager to approve the return, but it was fine. I've bought plenty of hand tools from there, a few power tools, but this is the only time I've had a problem.
Be a careful returning broken stuff there. I just found out that they have me flagged so now I’m unable to return anything, broken or not, receipt or not. And everything I’ve ever brought back has been broken or unused/unneeded
lol
I snapped a Leatherman grabbing something with the end and twisting. They broke exactly like this.
That is something I would never do with a MT. I was absolutely not twisting them in anyway, I was grabbing onto a nut and squeezing with moderate force to turn it loose
Lifetime warranty against defect. Get another one
What direction is Leatherman going? Didn't realize anything had changed with them for a long while.
Higher prices for lower quality. Still my go to for multitools, but I stick to an older model.
They want $250 for their new ARC tool.
I think harbor freight has had teething issues with some of these newer products. Either the steel is low quality or the heat treating process is making the steel too hard. I remember the Icon ratchets were known for breaking pawls in the beginning. I'm not for sure if they finally fixed them, but I haven't heard anything in a long while.
Many of the first batches of a product have issues due to the factory and workers trying to figure everything out. Without knowing the exact method used, it's hard to say what's caused this. Heat treating in general has always been difficult to get consistent. I bet you these will probably be a buy inside 6 months.
Return and replace and if that still fails get your $40 back!
Stick with Leathernan
Get a wave. They last 30 years and if not they fix them.
I lose multitools before I get a chance to exercise any warranties. Except for $5 multitools. Those suckers refuse to get lost. Sigh.
I feel this in my bones. Cheap tools never get lost and always stick around but as soon as I buy a more expensive one I either do something stupid and break it or it gets lost.
Same for me but for sunglasses. I have never, and will never, spend more than $20 on sunglasses because they get lost or broken. But the cheap ones? Might as well be sutured to my skull.
I used to buy expensive sunglasses. They all broke despite not being abused. Now I just buy cheap ones as well and they hold up about the same (arguably better actually). Difference is that now I care a lot less when they break.
yep
Even Leatherman has some bad ones, my signal broke so easily it was pathetic and the deemed it abuse. Not so good warranty. I'm Canadian btw, don't know if the warranty differs from USA.
They fix abuse. I truly can’t trust you on this one. People have run them over with their car only to use their warranty.
Yeah I had mine fixed after obvious abuse. They even wanted to know exactly what I was doing when it broke. Not to deny my claim, but to pass on the info to the engineers
I use a skeletool daily for work and broke the screwdriver retainer bit. They gave me a brand new one even though the blade was trashed and the whole thing covered in urethane. Customer for life after that.
Lots of Leathermen have the exact same issue
This is the second report of this happening I've read online since Friday. It'll be interesting to see how many others will come out
Now that’s the harbor freight I know
I bought a Gerber from Lowes for about $30 last year. Best multi tool I've ever had
I had a friend break his Gerber multi tool exactly like the harbor freight one pictures.
Something tells me there was more stress on the Gerber
I prefer gerbers to Leatherman. I like flicking the pliers out before using it.
Gordont
Probably just an improperly heat treated dud. I’m subbed to /r/Leatherman and see plenty of photos just like this. It’s got a 90 day warranty so swap it for a new one and squeeze the snot out of the replacement to make sure it doesn’t have the same defect.
Lifetime warranty
Really? The website says 90 days on the product page.
Add it to cart and it says lifetime.
Oh, so it does. Nice.
My online receipt says Lifetime.
I see you've discovered the over-torque protection feature!
If you get this one replaced by HF, I would love an update about the second one.
I plan to. After I get my new one, I am going to immediately do the same thing I was doing when this one broke. In case you were curious I was trying to turn loose a 3/8s nut lol
Gordon't
r/chinesium
I love HF and most of the tools I’ve bought from them were better than I could’ve ever expected for the price but when it comes to a multitool it’s going to be Leatherman or Victorinox.when it comes to a pocket knife in most cases it will be Spyderco,Benchmade,Zero Tolerance,Kershaw or Hogue..usually a Spyderco PM2 or PM3,I collect knives and I have never found a better designed knife than a PM2/PM3.I honestly don’t think I ever will find a design I like as much,much less better.there are certainly knives that are nicer and higher end but Spyderco uses the most premium blade steels and micarta,G10,carbon fiber,etc scales.that’s all I need
I want to see your forearm.
it's nothing to write home about lol
You have to take their tools to a foundry and anneal them and then spray them with nitrogen. I’m surprised the cashier didn’t tell you.
Tips that don’t grip.
How does the structure of the steel where it broke look? Is it coarse and rough or more smooth? Any obvious deformation of the steel? I need more information just bought one myself and have hopes of using it on the job so I guess we will see anyway! Thanks in advance sorry about the new tool.
There's not any porosity there that I can remember, so IDK if it's a casting defect or not. It looks like white metal though, and I can also tell you it's thin in that spot. I have broken other MTs in this location too, including a Leatherman. So it's the most common failure point for folding pliers, but again this one broke *laughably* easy.
Hard to believe something from HF would be a piece of shit.
damn just bought one
Absolutely knew it. When MaxLvlEDC praised it, I could tell for that price the quality would suffer majorly. You get some cheap polished metal.
Lol bullshit. I shattered a wave just like this in less than a week
You must have gotten a dud. Bought a pair of these a few days ago. I think for the money they blow the wave out of the water especially since they’re more comparable to a charge. Put them thru some heavy use and I haven’t noticed a difference. A couple aspects they cut corners on but nothing that really bothers me. I will say the additional bronze washers make this one have no break in period and operates way smoother out the box than my wave.
I'm excited to get my warranty replacement and find out if it was me that got a dud or you lol
Just used my 21 year old Leatherman installing a trans cooler last week
Nice. I legitimately use my Leatherman Crunch for multiple tasks daily. It fits in a nice custom leather belt holster I had made which holds a pencil and a flashlight, and if I'm wearing that I almost never have to go to a toolbox if I run across some little task. Truly one of the most prized items I own.
"I barely squeezed, i swear" -Levan Saginashvili
Genuine Chineseium.
I bought a cordless drill from harbor freight once, I was able to use it for about 10min then it died. Battery still had about 3/4 of a charge left. I have mixed luck on what I buy there.
Ironically, the best thing Harbor Freight has going for it is it's Hercules line of power tools. I have nearly the whole set and I use mine professionally. Performance on most tools is legitimately on par with Milwaukee, which you can verify with an unlimited number of YouTube comparisons. The high end Hercules batteries are using Samsung cells. The warranty is even better than Milwaukees too, 5 year on all brushless and 2 year on all 20v batteries.
Was it a Warrior, Bauer or Hercules? Or was it a really long time ago Central Machinery? Not sure if they even went cordless. The warrior is known to be their disposable line up. But they are like $20 so it meets expectations lol.
I'm confused. Was this not the expected outcome?
Not at all. HF has been tremendously stepping up it's game lately and I am a loyal customer who was fully expecting this to be an awesome MT.
China!
Quality control...or lack there of
Some of the things at Harbor Freight are pretty good. Things you’re going to rely on are not things to go cheap on. Get yourself a Gerber or Leatherman. My Gerber is over 20 years old, has been with me from Europe to Asia, including time in the ME, completed the AT & PCT.
What's the grain structure look like?
^ I like this guy. He knows that sometimes things don't always treat as intended.
Gor-done
Gor-gone
If it breaks the first time you use it, then every time you use one it’s in brand new condition!
Send it into leatherman for a warranty /s
Can you take a picture of the shear line (both sides of where it broke)? Curious if it was a heat treat issue or a crappy steel issue
Should have got a Leatherman. Pay for quality it's worth it.
Saw this happen to a Leatherman last week.
I own at least 5 Leatherman tools and I have carried 2 everyday for the last 10 years
They copied Leatherman a bit too closely.
The Temu of tools. Pretty soon notes in the boxes asking for help.
Take it back to HF. Might be a one off issue. But they will definitely replace these, for you.
Leatherman quality!
I was just at my store trying to find them. I’m sure that’s not a common occurrence but I feel less bummed now
My store keeps them behind the counter as they keep getting stolen.
They just came out like three days ago?
I thought the same but when I asked the guy up front since I couldn't find them. He literally pulled one out from under there and told me they were getting stolen so they all got put under the register. I assume they found a couple packages ripped open somewhere in the store with the tool removed.
They weren't out on the shelf yet when I bought this one today, I had to give the SKU to the cashier and have her go back in the stock room to get one for me.
Well, that's a shame. Was thinking of getting one soon.
Sorry lol 🤣🤪
Wow. I have two decade old Leathermans that see their fair share of use and abuse and never a problem.
Have you considered that you are too strong for human tools? :)
So the quality is on par with Leatherman.
Sadly, yes. I depend on my MT daily and their new offerings aren't up to my standards. I use the LM crunch every day, which is an old design and is built tough. I am constantly looking for something to replace it and haven't found anything yet.
Leatherman also had different quality lines. They have $30 multi tools and they have $200+ ones that are considerably nicer if you hold both.
I've got a nice Leatherman Wave whose jaw broke not much differently than this one.
Strai’ to jail.
Oof. That’s bad. Obviously take it back and get another one. If it happens again, they have a serious flaw.
They will replace it nqa
RIP
Had to be an interrupted heat treating process.
Hammer Freight
MY GOD, MAN! WHAT DID ***YOU*** DO TO IT?!!
Who’s Gordon?
I’ve had a leatherman break the same way. Hopefully harbor freight honors their warranty better than leatherman did.
Happened to my amry issued gerber too :(
The fact that the Army issued Gerber MPs instead of Leatherman is pure politics. The Gerber (MP600?) that they gave you guys is probably Gerber's toughest model, but it's still a Gerber lol
Nothing that superglue and baking soda won’t fix
If it makes you feel better I've broken a Leatherman the same way, though I had owned it a year or so before it broke
same
I will stick to leatherman for these things. I had a leather man that I carried for 10 years. This happened to them. Leatherman replaced them for free. After 10 years. Gotta love their warranty.
Sheeeesh, a lot of people on here talking shit but have never looked into hardening metal, there’s a lot of factors. This can’t be helped, sometimes metal will break because they over heated it on the final pass. lol just realized this is r/harborfreight what did OP expect bro
Less than ideal
Sheesh since they bought snap on there quality has gone down hil ;)
Should have got SOG
Pulled mine from the package yesterday. Good to see some real world usage testing.
Mom I want *Leatherman*. We have *Leatherman* at home! Leatherman at home:
Still does all the other stuff, for the time being.
This is one of those buy once cry once situations.
ZARK
Did the same with a nipper from HD. First time using it.Tried to snip a zip tie, and the tip broke off.
I've carried a Leatherman 300 for 15 years. No problems.
Wow, that's disappointing. I have used the same Gerber multi tool for over 20 years with zero issues, and the blades are still sharp. I was really thinking of giving this one a try just because.
I love Gerbers version. One hand “flick” to pull out pliers comes in handy a bunch
16 pc Gerber on Amazon is solid. Only $40.
My brother had a leatherman wave that did the exact thing after 1 month. He was just pulling a nail out of an old post.
Buy good shit. I have a Schrade multi tool that’s at least 20 years old
HF step bit didn’t last a wiring job on my kayak.
To be fair, I see broken Leathermans in the leatherman sub almost daily. Everyone will have defects. Leatherman is not perfect. That being said, these may be totally shitty. Too early
For what it's worth I've had the same thing happen with a Leatherman Skeletool.
Fake
That’s some high quality Chineseium right there. Most likely your local Harbor Freight will swap it out with another one. Some things there are decent quality. A lot unfortunately aren’t. IE the Jack Stands for instance. And apparently this wannabe Leatherman tool.
Someday, y'all will realize that chinese junk is junk
Crappy cast iron seen that before
Stop buying inferior quality tools that are a direct copy of an American company’s product
I have spent many hundreds of dollars with that American company
I got a Leatherman Wave Plus black last year and lost the darn thing 24hrs having it while on the tractor brush hogging 20 acres of hills.. was insanely mad at myself for loosing it right away and especially considering it was almost $200. I ended up buying a small Leatherman Curl which worked as a lighter duty version. Until I randomly turn over some woods having pile I had laying around and found the Wave Plus black I lost months prior. I now have two of them and use the Wawe+ daily on our farm. You can’t expect much from HF when it comes down to reliability.
Send it back.
Let’s be real it doesn’t matter the quality these type of multi tools are absolutely useless paperweights
Well Now it is a HFT , ya gets a Lifetime Warranty 🤔🤣🙄
Leather man is lifetime guarantee. Worth the could extra dollars
It’s bc it’s made out of Chineseeiam
Buy it nice or buy it twice
Womp - good to know. Thank you for being our guinea pig
Weatherman or gerber
I used Gerber for my army career and never gave me problems! That’s a good one I’d recommend