Ratchet Repair

[brandonstclair20]

I purchased a Stanley Challenger 1660 ratchet and I found out that the ball doesn’t spring in and out. There is a hole in the end of the square drive where something is missing? How can I fix this ratchet?


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[Mr_B]

quick release rod missing !

 

[brandonstclair20]

quick release rod missing !

Where can I get one? Any chance Stanley tools would send me one? Or a repair kit


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[kythri]

Looks like this MIGHT be the repair kit:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Proto-Chal...830463?hash=item2cd6e40bbf:g:tQcAAOSwLXpa1lEB

http://store.gsfasteners.com/stanleyproto-1660crkbrrepair-1660c-ratch-p-26120.html

Those are a 1660CRK, which might only be for the 1660C?

Here's a 1660RK:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/1660RK-Ing...TUAAOSwmRFachdX:sc:USPSFirstClass!97355!US!-1

Yours, being a 1660A, might require a 1660ARK, which I found a Google reference to (in Spanish), but I don't see anyone selling one.

Stanley/Proto customer service might be able to tell you if the 1660CRK would fit in your 1660A, but it doesn't appear that they make them anymore.

 

[kythri]

Here's the reference I found to the 1660ARK kit - price is in Venezuelan Bolivars, if I'm reading correctly, so that price shown is around $423 USD, which is ridiculous, if that's even a still valid listing...

The 1660RK kit looks to be missing the thumbwheel your ratchet has, while the 1660CRK kit appears to have it.

 

[mikebaker1129]

You need a Proto ratchet repair kit.
J5452ARK,which is discontinued.

 

[vssjim]

Those have been gone a long time and going to be hard to find if you send the whole ratchet to Stanley they will replace it with something new. The end of Challenger was sad as they took a good US made product line and just drove it in to the ground and sold off old stock that was rough and poorly made.

 

[Specs]

Piece of magnet at the base of the ratchet where the socket sits. If you want to restore it for the sake of collection, There is no easy fix, you just ebay challenger ratchets and include 1660 in search criteria. A bigger challenge is going to swap meets and flea markets to find cheap ratchets to swap out the detent spring... mostly because you might get distracted and buy what you dont need

I got 1060, 1260, 1660 models minus the thumbwheel and they are awsome.

 

[davethorik]

I had one in 1/2 drive and branded as Proto. I ended up giving it to a friend in need. The mechanism rough, lotta backdrag, and perhaps it is my sensitive lady hands speaking here, but it holds the distinction of being the only QR rat I've ever used that hurt my finger to hit button, in addition to being hard to hit bc of small button size. I picked it up cheap, thinking it would be good cuz it's a Proto, I think it's the only Proto tool I've ever given away.

Give me a Wright round head any day of the week. Buying used is good bc $ savings, not to mention Wrights need broken in, so someone else did that for you already. No QR or thumbwheel, two things mostly unimportant to me. However you could add one of the thumbwheel extensions, but it moves wheel to front like the Craftsman/Easco/Apex RHFT. IIRC those Stanley/Proto/Challengers are somewhat unique in thumbwheel placement. I forgot I also have a Challenger 1/4 version, action much nicer than the half, but excessive slop in head which the 1/2 didn't have, it actually felt brick *********-esque.

 

[Al Borland]

Those were also made in Taiwan (the "Good" China).
The Taiwan ones are actually smoother operating than the USA ones I have.