I invested in this $90 toolkit more than 10 years ago - here's how it's paid off for me

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Reviews are always a matter of degrees. In a few days you can discover the basics, in a few weeks you get a feel for the item, and after a few months you learn what its real flaws are. Rarely will you can use an item for over a decade, and still be using it a few times every week.

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This is where I am with the Wera Tool-Check Plus portable toolkit. I bought this kit back in March of 2015, and after a lot of use, it's still going strong. Note that my kit is the metric version, but there's also an imperial version for those still working with fasteners sized in inches.

The Tool-Check Plus holds everything together ...