Announcing the winners of the Top 20 Products and Tools contest - Transmission Digest

Announcing the winners of the Top 20 Products and Tools contest

Transmission Digest readers voted during the past several weeks to select their favorite products and tools from company nominations published in December. This year, rather than separate contests, voting was for a combined tool and equipment contest, with 20 winners rather than 10. (There was a tie for number 20, so 21 products are listed.)

Winning entries appear in the following images, but are not in order of votes received. All descriptions are those provided by the companies.

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