removed from early toys and banned -kewl-


Hi all. I want to get a snatch block(about10ton). I see a few brands and there is quite a price disparity. Warn's is about 100$ and yet there are some on ebay of similar design (in appearance) for about 30$. Common sense tells me you get what you pay for but does anyone have any lowdown on which blocks to avoid and which are the best. I'm eyeing up a lokokeck on ebay for about 30$ but am a little suspicious. Who is lokokeck? Don't want to buy some offshore junk that folds after 1 use.
Also thanks to all those that responded to my exhaust enquiries. It was very helpfull. Went with a flowmaster and increased to 2". Noticeable improvement.

Warn's stuff is nice, but for some of it you are paying extra for the name.
I have the one from rockstomper that's about in between those two prices.

http://rockstomper.com/catalog/recovery/blocks.htm

It's a shame there aren't better pics/details of the $30 eBay cheapies.
The thing is, a snatch block is a very simple machine, really onl ya few ways you could vary teh manufacturing on it.
It's kind of hard to know how one might be "crappy" or not do it's job; it's just a pulley... besides maybe just thin metal that would tend to bend under stress? Or poorley specced bearing on the wheel? I assume there's bearing in there?
I'm just kind of thinking that this may be a case where more $$ may not get you a whole lot more.