i was bringing up price because part of building a item is dedicating budgets to certain features or parts by not having bit storage more of there budget and rnd time can go towards the ratchet.

I care about the ratcheting mechanism, bit/screw retention while working, and the price to consumer. I only care about how much money the manufacturer spent on molds to the extent that it increases the price to consumer. Bit storage is the least exciting and least interesting part of a ratcheting screw driver, imo. i'm not sure if you saw what that bit holder looked like but it compromises the walls of the driver so it has alot less strength. and my point about money was about rnd rnd costs money and splitting your rnd across more features means less focus on one. also they had to remove a significant portion of the handle to fit the bit storage pretty sure it would've snapped during one of project farms test or broken during the bowling ball test jeff did It means they have a lot more room and don't have to spend the money on more complicated molds and less mechanism to worry about. plus its a entire product category wera has also has non internal bitstorage ratchets and they weren't tested. not to mention pb swiss does have one with internal bits that no one has tested at least that ive seen

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Yeah, I understand why you brought up the cost of molds, and I explained why I don't care about that. I don't think anyone should care about how much money was spent on R&D, they should care about the actual performance and features of the tool. If one of the features you care about is internal bit storage, don't buy a tool without internal bit storage. About your claim that the handle "would've snapped during one of project farm's tests" or "broken during the bowling ball test jeff did"... No. That's actually an absurd claim. The only one that broke in Jeff's bowling ball test was the cheapest tool. All of the others survived. In Project Farm's destruction test the PB Swiss ratchet mechanism started spinning out inside the handle. That means the press fit of the ratchet into the handle failed. That's not going to change if it has a different part of the handle hollowed out for bit storage. https://products.wera.de/en/kraftform_kompakt_kraftform_kompakt_with_ratchet_function_fine_tooth_system_for_precision_work_816_ra.html Euro für einen Halter sind schon eine Ansage und da fällt es mir schwer, für Otto Normalverbraucher