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OK, I was wrong. Thanks for that tip. Yes, the actuator rod will travel further, though if looking at the hex end, it looks as if it's run out of travel).

With a modified rod? This one is going back. For the price I paid for it, I expect it to work to spec out-of-the-box. If it was HF ****, I'd cut off a drill bit shank, stuff it behind the rod, and go to town, but not for the OTC/Bosch $$$ I paid for this.

Not this one; the ball cannot travel further without severe force.

The new Actuator Rod is fully inserted in the previous pic (but not in the pic below), as far as it will go, and the ball is within 3/16" of coming out the end! It is doubtful that pushing the ball further toward the end will obtain > 7/16" flanges diameter, which is what would be needed to...

With the OTC 28250 1/8" Actuator Rod fully inserted into the OTC 33857 3/8" Collet, the collet's thin flanges are only .015" larger dia. than 3/8" -- in the pic below, the Actuator Rod is screwed in as far as it will go, and you can just make out the ball bearing fully extended within the...

[Two weeks later] The OTC 3/8" collet has a range to 3/8". As shown, the OTC collet and Actuator Rod are both a bit longer than the SO parts (though with the same 3/8"-24 thread): So, while the SO Actuator rod will thread into the OTC 3/8" collet, it won't push the ball inside and therefore...

My situation is that I own most of a SO CG40CB Blind Hole Bearing Puller set. I say "most", because the 3/8-7/16" collet, CG41-13, is missing, and is made of unobtainium (or close to it). SO's catalog lists the expanding rod's external thread (the part that threads into its matching collets)...

More info: The metal case is KRA-124A (that's probably embossed on the bottom; mine is). You'll see this set listed on eBay every so often using the case number, because it's all the seller can find. The gauge set + adapters is MT-308x-x, where the 'x' varies over the years. Popular is...

I passed on several Torqometers that had no case, plastic case, or worst: broken/missing/brown lenses. It's not clear how a replacement lens can be obtained. One person said he used a "photography lens". I recently acquired a medium-duty Class 6 truck, and the wheel lug nuts are to be torqued...

Thanks for that.

Looks like I first posted my question in the wrong forum. I bought a 100-600 ft/lb. Torqometer last week and I really like it. The manual that came with it lists torque specs for common cars of the era, through 1964; I'm guessing mine is of that era. My question is: I have the case for it...

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I bought a 100-600 ft/lb. Torqometer last week and I really like it. It had the typical Duracell battery rot, which had eaten away at the battery case's spring clip; I repaired that by drilling a tiny hole and installing a 2-56 screw/nut/nut combo to restore the missing case length, then used...