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Gearwrench® 8 Pc. 12 Point Indexing Combination SAE Wrench Set
After a worldwide search for this now discontinued and seemingly unobtainable wrench set, I discovered the Engineers Collective in Sept 2026.
Given they were literally the only site showing stock anywhere in the world, I was a little skeptical, so I read a few reviews, with a couple stating they "only drop-ship". Considering this set is hard to find now, this didn't give me much hope.
But on closer inspection the website provided a contact form, AND a phone number.
I left a message, and received a prompt call back from Hugh, who explained they don't drop ship, and all stocked items shown on their website, are already in NZ, either with them, or at the local NZ distributors/vendors.
As many of these companies don't sell directly to the public, The Engineers Collective, turned out to be an excellent portal to access these vendors, with dependable stock-on-hand data, providing reliable and fast delivery times.
I was able to purchase the SAE set, and enquired about the metric set. Hugh advised he would call Gearwrench to double check, and would phone be back in 5 minutes. Less than 5 minutes later, Hugh called back, advised this product was never imported to NZ, and is indeed discontinued, but he'd found some leads to suppliers in Australia for me.
In conclusion, being able to quickly speak with an intelligent human, who did what he said he would do, when he said he would do it, is a seemingly rare commodity these days, and a pleasant and welcome surprise when it happens.
My tool set arrived 2 working days later, (delivered to Waiheke Island).
