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Spent $150 on a fancy tong blank set that was completely wrong.
I bought a set of tong blanks from a guy at a hammer-in last summer, thinking I'd save time by just bending them to fit. Turns out the steel was way too soft and they deformed when I tried to grab hot stock. Anyone else get burned by impulse buys at demonstrations?
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faith_perez3mo ago
Funny how that happens, isn't it? You think you're getting a shortcut and end up with a doorstop instead. It's like buying those cheap kitchen knives at a flea market that look great but can't cut a tomato. Or those bargain bin power tool batteries that die after two charges. Seems like there's always a guy at a show selling stuff that looks perfect until you actually try to use it for real work.
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the_karen5mo ago
The guy selling them said they were 1080, but they bent like butter in my hand. I had a similar thing happen with a punch blank from a swap meet, thought I was getting a deal but it was just some mystery steel that wouldn't hold an edge. Makes you wonder how much of this stuff is actually tested before people start hawking it.
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juliam405mo ago
Oh man, sounds like you got the "heat treated by wishful thinking" special! At this rate, I'm surprised the guy wasn't selling them as "customizable bendy straws.
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