I bought this tool at a different shop and it came with a small band around the hex key/Philips that made it stick inside the casing. This tool has done everything I needed it to do more effiecently than digging around in my dad's tool chest.

This tool is great except there's no hole in each of the sockets for whatever you're tightening to go into, for example when tightening the kingpin on my Paris 180s, the kingpin hits the back of the socket and allows about a half centimeter contact between the wrench and the nut I'm trying to tighten. Basically, at a certain point, you can no longer tighten things because you run out of room. I'm sure you could drill a hole in the middle to allow kingpins and the like some room but it just seems like a stupid design to me.

Well, it works, but not with oversized board hardware, and getting good torque can be hard, but it is great for the money, and will not break easily. If you are looking for an end all be all get the reflex. Although the pop out screwdriver can help pop bearings if you use the rubber oring as a contact point and minimizes bearing damage in this sense.

This is a great tool. Lightweight, small, strong, and very handy. I've heard a bit about some tools similar to this one (not this brand though) breaking at the part where all 3 parts of it connect. I dont know if this tool has metal running inside of it, or if its just sockets molded into the plastic. (do you know dan?) If its just plastic, i'd be careful with it because it might break due to the pressure cause on it by tightening kingpins. other than that, this is a great tool, it has good leverage for its size, and its very light. The pop out screwdriver and allen is cool too. Dan Loveland Writes - I believe these are plastic that is injected into the metal sockets. I have seen them break under extreme pressure such as when a nut is cross threaded and it will not come off. Other than that the tool holds up great for all around use. We use them every day to assemble longboards and street decks and I have used the same tool for years.

Don't get me wrong, this tool has everything you need to maintain your board. My main qualm with this tool is that the allen wrench will not stay in its nook. It's as if the person who designed it never tried to see if the allen wrench would even fit into the slot provided for it. The result is that you have to keep up with two tools: the socket wrenches and the allen wrench. I also think that the "Y" designed multi-tools are better because this one sometimes gets hung up on the trucks when you try to tighten them down to the board. Unfortunately, I don't have another one that I can say is better, but honestly, I would look elsewhere.