Recent content by AEAdam

One question about the title of this thread: is ”Ratchetsi” Italian for ratchets? Are stubby ratchets “ratchetsini” in Italian? Or is it the Italian reflexive, to ratchet oneself?

Good to know. As we all know, HF has gone to a good, better, best marketing model with Pittsburgh in the good category. If you went to HF and handled screwdrivers for example, I really doubt many of us would choose the Pittsburgh models. Again, the value of that 301pc set is the set itself...

Because the housing and the bolt are different materials, they expand at different rates. In this case the aluminum housing will grow more (2X more) than the bolt due to the difference in their coefficients of thermal expansion. The reason why this doesn't insta work is we typically heat the...

Thanks. Thats interesting they have the knurling at the end and also the shank. I thought Koken only had knurling at the end. Sorry to talk so much about knurling. Other thing to think about is lengths. Snap on extensions are very clever about lengths. In the old days, extensions were...

Picture? When I’m using extensions, pretty frequently, the head of the ratchet is in my palm. I reach around the head to twist the extension. My fingers can’t comfortably reach the female end of the extension. They land further down the shank, precisely where Snap on (and almost every other...

I like mine. I don’t have problems with them, but agree fixed or wobbles are just easier to work with. I have snap on sets I bought on eBay missing members. I found wobbles for the missing pieces which gives me options without committing to one or the other style. TBH, I think that might be the...

don't own the Koken, but I think they put the knurling in the wrong place. If you have small hands, maybe the Koken knurling could work. Otherwise, I'd stick with snap on. That said, is Koken WAY cheaper? I'm not sure I'd decide based on knurling alone. IF I'm not mistaken, Snap on...

I wonder if you used a relatively open ratchet like a craftsman raised panel POS, then after having been submerged, you put it in a can of motor oil. if that would be okay. Are we talking about salt water or fresh water?

PURE RAW SPECULATION: Alloy steel and aluminum are close together galvanically. The corrosion you mention would need help, like a salt spray. And while the head could see that, I doubt there’s significant corrosion in the aluminum threads. Rather, looking at the picture, I’m seeing the screw...

Hopefully someone reported that post. Odds are high people here have disabled family members, kids and they don’t deserve to read stuff like that on tool forum talking about toolkits. And it’s all so disrespectful.

That’s really rude. Maybe his set didn’t include T27. I could be dead wrong, but I always thought T27 was the torx head for an SAE 10-24 thread, while 25 and 30 were metric M5 and M6 mostly. I could see some non us manufacturers skipping it. HF imports tools/kits from different manufacturers...

Thats right. I wasn’t thinking about energy in terms of 1/2mv^2 but just exhaustion type energy. For me, if I can get my hands and back into an advantageous position, I can generate tremendous force. I’m still very very strong. Bent over an engine bay, back twisted, contorted, can be the end of...

If you apply 100lbs, 1ft away from the center of a bolt you generate 100ftlbs of torque. For a wrench that’s pretty much it. If you apply your 100lbs 1’ away with a 3” offset (deep socket, extension, etc) that produces an additional moment of 100lbs x 3/12” = 25ftlbs that needs to be reacted...

It’s HF’s lowest line, and has used Chinese manufacturers where the better lines are Taiwanese. My opinion, it has value as a starter set and a self contained toolset. For folks more serious, who may eventually abandon the set, I think they can do better piecemeal. I’d want better wrenches...

A little bit more info that I hope will help: When you apply torque to a bolt head with a 0 degree wrench, the load you apply largely becomes the tightening or loosening torque the fastener sees. This is one reason why GOOD wrenches are awesome. They are among the most efficient tools we have...