Have you watched any of the “factory” videos in India and Pakistan? My God, filthy, dangerous places, no eye or hearing protection, bare feet, bare legs, no safety guards, open gears, belts and pulleys, almost white-hot steel and no thermal protection on workers. They do things like take low-grade rebar steel, forge it into billets, and convert it into large hex nuts. Now I know why the quality of nuts sold at at Home Depot is so piss-poor.
Poor guy in the story couldn’t “get his tool out.” No comment.
You can pay more and get higher quality stuff from industrial sellers instead of discount prices at home Depot. You get what you pay for. My outfit manufactured largest mass production machines anywhere, and we never went to home Depot to buy supplies.