General Tools Heavy-Duty Automatic Center Punch #78 - Nail Punch Tool to Mark and Scribe - Machinist Tools

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I’ve got Starrett auto centre punchers and these general auto centre punches and obviously these are not as good, infact I purchased the steel option punch above and when it came there was rusty oil coming down the bent shaft, yes that’s right, it came bent. I had to strip it down degrease it and get rid of the rust which was caused by the adjustable spring on top and I also complained and and Amazon have sent me a replacement and the replaceable tip on the first one came half hanging off and after inspecting it the threads were stripped so it just spins in the hole so I’ve used blue thread lock which has sorted it out. My point is how did this pass QC (Quality Control) as it’s a mascot to this companies general workmanship and craftsmanship and pride so shows off there handy work. If this is a image of who these people are and there standards then it give people reason to belive that all of there tools are in this decrepit state or are of poor quality. It’s the Chinese ethic of quantity not quality as with everything they peddle to us westerners ! Crap !

O produto é muito bem construído, qualidade superior aos que comumente vem da China (mesmo que este seja produzido lá, se destaca). Ele é bastante duro para apertar e disparar o puncionamento mas funciona todas as vezes (diferentemente dos comuns que começam a perder o disparo). Para melhorar um pouco a utilização, instalei uma manopla de madeira feita a partir de um puxador de madeira cambará, barato e fácil de achar. Ela encaixa no topo e torna muito mais fácil usar o puncionador.

Its not spring loaded, you have to push down on it with force, which kinda makes it pointless since you can just get a regular pointed pick. it also cause you to loose some accuracy as apposed to a spring loaded one where you can hold it directly in place with one hand while loading it with the other. all in all though, it is well made and does the job.

when i first took it out of the package i was initially impressed by the quality, and that's about all the good things about it.first thing i noticed when using it is that it feels horrible, the action to compress feels and sounds crunchy. that might resolve itself once it wears more, but i dunno if i'm ever going to use it enough for that to happen.first thing i tried it on was mild steel. no bueno. it barely touches it even on the heaviest setting.next, i believe someone mentioned in another review that it's great for setting nails. i tried setting an 1-1/4" finish nail in some fir baseboard, not a chance.next thing i tried was wood, it marks wood well. know what else marks wood? anything with a point. take a nail or screw and just press it into the wood with your hand, it's about the same effort and yields same result. you have 10+ things sitting around you right now that can do what this can.i can't see a situation where this would be my go to. anything it can do, i already have something that does it better.just to try and get some usage out of it, i might try using it as a steel scribe. if it sucks at that too, i'm probably just going to use it with a hammer like a normal punch until it explodes in my hand.update: had it about 2 weeks now and it's the nicest useless thing i own. just for goofs i tried it as a scribe and i tried depressing it and smacking it with a hammer. it's a mediocre scribe at best. after a couple of love taps with a hammer i could tell it's only a matter of time before the back cap breaks and the insides become outsides.

Spring is far too weak to mark metal of any kind, and the point is too small. It leaves a tiny tiny indent which is no use and causes drill bits to wander outside of the marked point, defeating the whole purpose of the tool.Fit and finish is very poor as well with crunchy threads, and just feels like a toy more than a tool. On top of that it stopped firing after using it to mark 6 holes, and will stop working intermittently. Definitely avoid if you plan on using it for metal, or more than once for that matter. Tossed it in the scrap bin at work