Recent content by Charles P

Well, I've worked out how to take it apart. The trick is to realise that the button controlling the swivel head is screwed in. Hold that in the soft jaws of a vice and it all comes apart. You can then remove the central screw and get to the ratchet. The problem with mine is wear in the end of...

Thanks anyway. I've had it about 25 years and it's not my everyday socket set so isn't in full time use (that's a 3/8 Britool one). A few years ago it started playing up. I put it to one side and left it and I've just got round to addressing the problem. I'll try the diesel soak and percussive...

Thanks.

Resurrecting this thread in the hope of some help. I have a full boxed set in the useful whitworth imperial size (well, useful over here for pre-war cars). The main ratchet has partially seized and only works in the much less useful counter-clockwise direction. Has anybody succeeded in...