terabyte
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Excuse the crappy cell picture it was 2 am when I finally left the shop last night.
So I gave most of my ratchets the red lube of love this morning and here are my results.
My least favorite Craftsman teardrop ratchets were the ones most affected. Whoever said that this works best in ratchets with low tooth counts was right. Between the viscosity of this stuff and the high tooth count of some ratchets the combination doesn't play nice. But in tools with big teeth and not many of them.... BUTTER!!!!
In all the round head ratchets it made a nice improvement but not as drastic since those were all already pretty nice and smooth. The SK, CM round, Facom, and Toptul all fall in here.
In my cheapy Titian dual drive flex head (one of my favorite tools while working on m/c) it made it almost silent. This is a high tooth count but it was bone dry in there stock. BUTTA!
In my Stanley Proto Ratchets (labled Husky) black rachets this didn't play nice at all. I had to spray some of them down with PB Blaster so even get them to work right. The 3/8 dive pear head would just reverse or get stuck and you would have to move the position selector to get it to go back right. While it worked it was butter but I need to tool to do it's job not feel good.
On the thin head Proto\Husky 1/2 it was an even bigger mess. It would just get stuck. I took it apart elleventeen times trying to figure it out. I finally PB blasted it and it went back to normal. This is however a brand new peice with zero use so maybe it just need to be broken in.
finally my 3/8 thin head Husky\Proto (the black one without the handle)...
this is had been my go to ratchet since I got it. it has always been ubber smooth. 72 teeth and fits where even some 1/4 ratchets don't. it had a nice comfy handle but that is another story. this thing now feels like it doesn't have gears\teeth (the teeth are very small on this guy) and yet it worked flawlessly in my little 2am testing. I LOVE IT! I hope the 1/2 version plays as nice once it's broken in.
I'm going to do the rest of the old craftsmen crappy ratchets later and actually start to use them now since they feel so good.
now the bad... I was planning shadowing my toolbox and I wanted blue top and yellow bottom layer. well since these damn thing ooze so much damn lube now I don't think I'll be able to pimp out the ratchet drawer as I planned.
Ohh well I'll think of something.
So I gave most of my ratchets the red lube of love this morning and here are my results.
My least favorite Craftsman teardrop ratchets were the ones most affected. Whoever said that this works best in ratchets with low tooth counts was right. Between the viscosity of this stuff and the high tooth count of some ratchets the combination doesn't play nice. But in tools with big teeth and not many of them.... BUTTER!!!!
In all the round head ratchets it made a nice improvement but not as drastic since those were all already pretty nice and smooth. The SK, CM round, Facom, and Toptul all fall in here.
In my cheapy Titian dual drive flex head (one of my favorite tools while working on m/c) it made it almost silent. This is a high tooth count but it was bone dry in there stock. BUTTA!
In my Stanley Proto Ratchets (labled Husky) black rachets this didn't play nice at all. I had to spray some of them down with PB Blaster so even get them to work right. The 3/8 dive pear head would just reverse or get stuck and you would have to move the position selector to get it to go back right. While it worked it was butter but I need to tool to do it's job not feel good.
On the thin head Proto\Husky 1/2 it was an even bigger mess. It would just get stuck. I took it apart elleventeen times trying to figure it out. I finally PB blasted it and it went back to normal. This is however a brand new peice with zero use so maybe it just need to be broken in.
finally my 3/8 thin head Husky\Proto (the black one without the handle)...
this is had been my go to ratchet since I got it. it has always been ubber smooth. 72 teeth and fits where even some 1/4 ratchets don't. it had a nice comfy handle but that is another story. this thing now feels like it doesn't have gears\teeth (the teeth are very small on this guy) and yet it worked flawlessly in my little 2am testing. I LOVE IT! I hope the 1/2 version plays as nice once it's broken in.
I'm going to do the rest of the old craftsmen crappy ratchets later and actually start to use them now since they feel so good.
now the bad... I was planning shadowing my toolbox and I wanted blue top and yellow bottom layer. well since these damn thing ooze so much damn lube now I don't think I'll be able to pimp out the ratchet drawer as I planned.
Ohh well I'll think of something.
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