rainy day experiment: one expensive ratchet
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Fedwrench
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Where's the rain and what exactly is the experiment? Do you like and use that ratchet? That style has never really appealed to me.
wreckercologist
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Where's the rain and what exactly is the experiment?
That looks like a FCF72 head mated to a TSLF handle=Compact flexhead speed ratchet.
Fedwrench
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Yep, I think you are correct compact dual 80 3/8 ratchet head on 1/4 drive series speed ratchet handle. 
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I think its Cool you made your own ratchet, although i cant ever remember using a ratcheting speeder. Ive used plenty of standard speeder wrenches but never a ratcheting. I would think the balance would be off on such a tool? Have you ever used it?
DewittMotorsports
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I use my Proto 5750 as a speeder quite often actually, didnt ever think I would until I got it
it's just an experiment, the speeder in the picture works perfectly, but the problem is the FCF72 handle and TSLF head doesn't work together too well, the head needs to be a big wider(.020") otherwise it's crooked.
spending $200 ended up with 1 ratchet isn't a good deal for me. I think I'll just put back together as they used to be.
spending $200 ended up with 1 ratchet isn't a good deal for me. I think I'll just put back together as they used to be.
Merkava_4
Banned
Some extra thin shim washers might be your hot ticket.
You can get them at aircraft dealers and electric motor shops.
Deafautotech
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i did those as my TSLF936 was used a lot and broke inside of ratchet head few times in one month so i had to swap from TF72, after i did, it work great even few diesel technicians had borrow mine few times to work on junk powerstroke 6.0 and 6.4 engines! they was happy that i did it...
I did that as well and they work fine for me.... I put the 3/8 dual 80 (my last made in USA head also) on the FSLF936 and I did the same on the two TSLF936, but I used a TF72 and a rebuild kit from an FCF72 to make one a 3/8 as well. I have one more FSLF936, I would love to put a kit if they made one to make it a 1/2 in a 3/8 head with dual 80 gears, but they don't make one yet. It ***** as I have 3 ratchets with the wrong heads, but that is fine, I like to have spares....
