t-bar and breaker bar question

[hoopty388]

I am trying to learn the proper use of tools I have used for years but I am the first to admit I don't know what I'm doing sometimes

I have always thought the t-bar and breaker bar have the same use, to break stubborn bolts withouts breaking a ratchet.

Is there a certain time to use each tool?

 

[rsanter]

close to the same job

T bar can be centered so you can 'spin' the thing once the bolt/nut is broken loose

bob

 

[mkirkpatrick]

If you put a long enough cheater bar on them they will both break, I found that out there is a thread around here that was addressing the difference. I think someone said that the Tbar was similar use to a speed wrench and not to break fasteners loose. I didn't listen.

 

[tonydanzah]

Also t-bars are meant for a bolt that needs to be balanced. Such as the nut on the shaft of a turbocharger. You want equal force on both sides when removing it. So you don't flex the shaft and possibly bend it.

 

[caper]

T-bars are easily bent,seems more so than a breaker bar in my experience.

 

[Krokodil]

I still need to get myself a breaker bar. At the moment I still rely on my ratchet's lifetime guarantee to break nuts loose!

 

[Mickey O]

With a T-bar and an extension you can make the letter T, cant' do that with a breaker bar, you can make the letter L.

 

[mooman]

Put some universal joints on that breaker bar and you can also make a "P"

Breaker bar wins!!!!

 

[Packard V8]

The T-bar is the least used tool in my socket set. It is a rare application when it is the one to grab instead of a breaker bar, ratchet or speeder. IMHO, they were an attempt to keep the cost down and provide one T-bar instead of a breaker bar and a speeder. Many early tool sets were equipped this way.

thnx,jack vines

 

[mkirkpatrick]

With a T-bar and an extension you can make the letter T, cant' do that with a breaker bar, you can make the letter L.

that's funny

 

[Art From De Leon]

I have never owned a "T" handle, as I have never saw the need to have one.

To remove a 'balanced' bolt (a term I have never heard before), is done with an impact.

 

[hoopty388]

thanks guys just the answer I was looking for, especially the letter one. I just emptied the tool box and wrote my name