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by eternityforest 1269 days ago
I'm not sure how I would tell just by looking without reviews and specs, any more than I could tell from a picture, the differences are really subtle.

The plastic cover on a bad switch looks an awful lot like the one on a good switch.

Glass filled nylon seems to be somwhat reliable thought, not quite as much utter trash has a chassis made of that, at least for tools.

And sheet metal, I usually assume anyone who uses that is cutting corners or wants to appeal to old fashioned types who hate plastic no matter what.