Title: All eye candy but no guts
Product review: I bought one of these a couple years ago now and am STILL disgusted about wasting ten bucks on it. The case is ridiculously rugged and suggests a lifetime of use, but the axle to which the "all metal handle" is attached is plastic. The first time I dropped it nine feet onto the concrete floor of a garage, that fine plastic axle split completely apart, rendering it totally useless. It lasted me all of a couple weeks. Besides that, the hook has a large hole with very little point to its shape, so it has a hard time centering itself on a nail. There's nothing like driving a nail on your mark, stretching out the line, and then having to walk back to the nail to make sure your chalkline hook is centered on that nail. All in all, Irwin dropped the ball on the two most important features of a chalkline. What in the world were those guys thinking??
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