My thoughts on these unbranded tools are these, they were sold to a factory at a special discount, no warranty implied or given, to make sure, the name was removed. Also it was less likely they might walk away from the factory since they are sans mfg. name. Seen the same thing on blem tires, name and data buffed off before sale. If it fails, it isn't ours! Funny, every tool I saw in the army had the name intact, usually some manufacturers that I haven't heard of since.