Ratchets pushed to failure (destructive fun)

[toolaholic]

If your bored being stuck at home these videos are fun. Follow up video link first .

. Here’s the first vid.

Winners are snap on and tekton at 292 lb fr. The kobalt broke at 280 plus.

 

[toolaholic]

I would never take a 3/8 drive ratchet to 200 lb ft . However I do own a 18 inch long tekton. With 18 inches of leverage good to know tekton can take torque. Most I put on a 3/8 is using my Armstrong 11-994 11 inch locking flex head for lug nut removal. I usually use my 15 inch proto or 12-994 18 inch Armstrong for lug nuts. Both are 1/2 drive.

 

[toolaholic]

I thought the video was informative and fun. In some ways pointless because unless you are using a 18 inch 3/8 ratchet you will not get close to 200 pound feet. And before I’d pipe a 3/8’ratchet I’d go very long pattern wrench or 1/2 drive ratchet.

 

[KWtech90]

I thought the video was informative and fun. In some ways pointless because unless you are using a 18 inch 3/8 ratchet you will not get close to 200 pound feet. And before I’d pipe a 3/8’ratchet I’d go very long pattern wrench or 1/2 drive ratchet.

It would be strenuous but I feel a young cornfed man such as myself is capable of that type of force. That's only 133 ft lbs of input force.

 

[toolaholic]

Let’s bust up some 1/4 drive too!

 

[victor252]

The thing with these videos is that quality control and consistency are what you are paying for with the more expensive ratchets. I know the reviewer is not a professional with a huge budget but having a sample of five ratchets would give a much more confidence in results.

Without owning any Snap-on, I assume that the average strength of 5 SO ratchets will trump the average strength of 5 Tekton ratchets.

I also suspect that a newer SK roundhead ratchet would outperform the old one he used, given SK's troubled past.

Taking the ratchets to 120 foot pounds until the metal fatigued would be a better, but more time consuming test.

 

[4xdog]

Without any measure of reproducibility it's a study that's really only good for fun.

Best to not-so-good differed by about 20%. The top ratchets were so close it's hard to imagine any difference.

But without testing the same model say, three, five, or even ten times, one has no idea of the measurement's precision.

I'd have thought an assessment of which ratchets were *rebuildable* after desctruction might have been helpful.

In my world, the long term life when used repeated at torque levels much, much lower than ultimate strength is more useful.

 

[VolvoRyan]

These "tests" are such a joke. They tell you nothing about how well a ratchet works in practice.... or how durable they are in the long term.

Might as well ask "What ratchet tastes best?".

-Ryan

 

[davethorik]

These "tests" are such a joke. They tell you nothing about how well a ratchet works in practice.... or how durable they are in the long term.

Might as well ask "What ratchet tastes best?".

-Ryan

This, isn't a test, just some guy breaking stuff. Same with the ******* fireball tools vise video where he did the same thing. Most videos linked here i just won't watch, period. But i know most people here are obsessed with videos, since they are easier to understand than reading "cuz theres pictures!"

 

[toolaholic]

These "tests" are such a joke. They tell you nothing about how well a ratchet works in practice.... or how durable they are in the long term.

Might as well ask "What ratchet tastes best?".

-Ryan

That’s funny! He didn’t test my Armstrong 88s. Which is fine cause they are my go to regardless of how much torque they may or may not pull down.

 

[CobraRed]

Lotta guys getting offended by another guy making a free video with some otherwise not available data points. Yeah not conclusive, and he's not doing some industry wide batch audit with 50 examples of every manufacturer. You're welcome to.
It's not like this type of info if available in a text book somewhere someone should be reading rather than watching these videos.

Ratchets and other tools do have to meet DIN or ASME yield torque tests, this is an example of that. No more, no less. Good enough for ASME, should be good enough for youtube.

 

[Rabid Badger]

These "tests" are such a joke. They tell you nothing about how well a ratchet works in practice.... or how durable they are in the long term.

Might as well ask "What ratchet tastes best?".

-Ryan

This, isn't a test, just some guy breaking stuff. Same with the ******* fireball tools vise video where he did the same thing. Most videos linked here i just won't watch, period. But i know most people here are obsessed with videos, since they are easier to understand than reading "cuz theres pictures!"

Somebody's salty.

As far as repeatability goes, I'm seeing two consecutive tests where a Tekton ratchet matches or exceeds its Snap-On equivalent.

So there's that.