Yea really. I now have two waves, all three squirts, a squirt on order to ugrade my wife's micra and was just looking for my little pair of vise grips the other day and remembered they were stolen years ago and I never replaced them and start thinking a crunch would be a good replacement <img src="images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />

I always thought the looseness in the wave was by design, somenone somewhere said there are some spring washers in the joints which will help to keep the tool consistant for many years where others would tend to get loose as the washers wear, can't vouch for the correctness of that since I don't know the source. I also think the wave was not intended to be a heavy duty tool, rather a smaller addition to their line to fit more indoors type of environments. Someone like me it fits great for, loosening the thumb screws on servers, the serrated edge strips cat5 cable with ease, etc.