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Well, if Amazon won’t take it back (and if they don’t, stop buying tools there) then that Stanley sounds like it should be simple to fix with a good hammer. It will still be useless as a square but if you hit it just right it will prevent anyone else from mistaking it for a useful tool.
Sad to say, Stanley is off my new tools list permanently. Some time back I also bought a Stanley tool from Amazon. It was a four in hand file (half round rasp and file) and it was a mess. One surface just had shallow grooves cut in it over the center part. There were no teeth at all!
It’s a strange world. You can buy someone’s grandfather’s toolbox that’s been kicking around the garage for a century or more and wind up with better tools than you can buy new off the shelf that someone is spending millions of dollars to advertise.
Paul has a number of articles on buying good tools cheap and he’s not shy about telling it like he sees it. Worth the searching and reading time in my opinion.
Good luck,
John