JerryBowers
Member
I have a number of Pony Brand spring clamps in a couple of sizes. My wife recently wanted some more of the 6" size for various projects. I located them on-line at a number of sources. When I stopped laughing at the price one national industrial supplier wanted ($12 / each, plus $12 shipping!), I found them on Home Depot's website for a very reasonable price. The captions and pix definitely show the Pony Brand, with the orange tips and handle cushions. They also show ~30 in stock at my 'local' (50 mile roundtrip over a mountain road) HD. When I went there, they only have Husky Brand. The SKU HD uses for the Husky Brand is the same as the on-line SKU for the Pony Brand. The nitwits at HD repeatedly told me they are absolutely the same, but it is easy to see that the Husky Brand has a lower spring rate, a different shape to the jaws, and comparatively ragged metal work, thus making them inferior to the Pony Brand units. I believe this is false advertising on the part of HD, and believe that HD should be taken to task over this kind of deliberate misrepresentation. I would appreciate other inputs. Thx, Jerry