How Hand Tools Are Made

No wonder they are so strong. I’ve used them as an attachment point to pull out 10 Ton tractor and they worked perfectly with 0 slop in the hinge after. I was astonished they weren’t affected.

Am always fascinated about how things are made especially in this type of industry, not to mention the ingenuity and the creativity.

I like my Klein tools even more now that I’ve seen how they are made.

Thanks for sharing your visit! I always like to support local and American, and have more than a few Klein products.

Great info! Klein is always my first choice and have been in my shop for 35+ years😎

I am just glad to see something that is truly made here in the USA I always try to buy American when I can, especially tools. the quality of a good tool in my hand makes me want to do quality work with it. Thx Dustin and Klein

They also have tools made in Germany, one of my favorite pairs of pliers are the groove locking ones with the yellow handles.

Great video, thanks for sharing.

Educational and interesting video …. KLEIN are practically labor intensive. Precision is very high when forging. No wonder KLEIN are longer lasting, durable and of better quality

Fascinating! Human ingenuity, eh. Imagine if we only did good what we could accomplish. Glad to see it’s completely fabricated in the US. I’d definitely buy from Klein.

Next time I look at the price of Klein tool and think that's a little high, I'm going to think of that American worker moving that red-hot tool blanks from one machine to another and purchase the Klein tool.

Love seeing this stuff! After I picked up blacksmithing I was amazed at how much I didn't know about metal and metalworking. Your confusion between foundry work where liquid casting is done to make and forging work done by blacksmiths is normal. Hollywood does this to everyone. Blacksmiths never melt metal and pour it into casts (or at least when some get into that they are no longer doing blacksmithing). Cast iron is brittle and weak. Forged steel is super strong which is why items like pliers and hand tools are forged. Engine blocks are cast. Crankshafts. piston rods and camshafts are forged. In metalworking sold bars of metal are never called "tubes". We use terms like "round bar" or "round stock", and "square bar". Solid stock is called bars, even when round. We have square and rectangular tube stock and these are all hollow. 1" square tube has a nominal outside dimension of 1". the outside dimension is what they are measured size by. A pipe is round hollow metal meant for holding liquid or air INSIDE them so the inside dimension is what is critical. So 1" pipe, has a 1"+ inside dimension, but is distorted by an odd and very long history of size conventions! The convention in Electrical work to call all the conduit "tube" when it is measured and used as pipe (the inside dimension is important), is interesting and oddly backward from other trades. Every industry has its own historic use of terms to learn!

"Hot working improves the material properties of the workpiece because it replaces the microstructure with one that has fine spherical shaped grains. These grains increase the strength, ductility, and toughness of the material."

Klein makes good stuff. great video.

Hey Dustin! Don't know if anyone has suggested it yet, but I think it would be cool if you made a short video about in-wall splice kits. Just curious what your thoughts are on them because some journeymen I've worked with think they're great in a pinch, but my current boss is pretty opposed to using them

Because of Electrician U. I only purchase Klein electrical tools when possible. Bryan Pine. Go Solar Guam, USA, and Polaris Power Philippines.

Damn hot stuff 🥵

It's interesting to watch how Klein tools are actually made. Their tools might be expensive but they are worth every dollar.

Can you please do a video on motor starters/ motor controllers what the difference is and how exactly they work and what functions they have and how they protect the motor etc please

Saludos desde mexico