Humongous Snap-On Sockets - Yours For $25K!!

[oscarsnapkin]

This is a pretty insane set of 1” impacts. I’d be interested to know how they got them and why they’re selling them. They seem unused, but I can’t imagine anyone buying sockets this size without a specific purpose. It’s not like buying a few extra 3/8” drives to fill out your set “just because.” The 5 3/4” weighs almost 37lbs.

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[jhelrey]

Sheesh.

 

[tarbellb]

Very good chance you and I paid for these

99% chance these are Gov/Military issued and walked off the base

 

[Mikej1]

I used to build surface mining equipment in the early 90’s, 65 yd buckets, blast hole drills. We had 1” drive 3-1/2” and 4” sockets, Snap on. The big slugger drill bits were way more expensive. As a former armored vehicle mechanic in the MARINES, a can say there were no sockets that large, yet alone the ability to just walk back to the barracks or your car with something like that, you’d have to check it out and they’d be all over your **** at 1800 if you didn’t bring it back.

 

[zendriver]

$49.99 from Vevor.

 

[Stuart in MN]

There's probably a snap on price list on line somewhere, someone with more energy than me could look it up and find out what they sell for. I'm guessing with a price tag of $25k they're not going to have many interested buyers.

 

[OneEyedMan]

1” drive at those sizes seems a bit anemic. Aren’t there hydraulic drives for that size fastener?

 

[oscarsnapkin]

There's probably a snap on price list on line somewhere, someone with more energy than me could look it up and find out what they sell for. I'm guessing with a price tag of $25k they're not going to have many interested buyers.

According to the listing, the retail price is $65,000.

1” drive at those sizes seems a bit anemic. Aren’t there hydraulic drives for that size fastener?

I was thinking the same thing, can’t imagine throwing them on a 1” impact. It seems like a 1.5” or 2.5” drive would be more suited for something that big. I’m guessing there’s even larger, industrial-sized drives for stuff that large as well. Out of curiosity I looked in the Snap-On catalog. Those larger 1.5” and 2.5” drives go up to 8”. It would be interesting to see one in person.

 

[esben57]

Used 1" drive on windy hammers on forging presses in the steelworks days. Below ground water hydraulic pipe flanges, try to hang the tool on a pull lift and grapple with the air hose.
Nice wet oily noisy heavy dark and filthy. Did I also mention dangerous if the huge steel pipes weren't in a good mood.
No snap on tools. Thinking CP and other Brit makes.

 

[Renegade1LI]

We use some big sockets working in treatment plants, but usually over 3" we go to hydraulics.

 

[MOS3522]

Well a little OT but fascinating: It was a dropped socket of this kind of size that caused the 1980 Damascus Titan II missile explosion. We came pretty close to losing a 9 megaton sized chunk of Arkansas in that shebang.

1980 Damascus Titan missile explosion - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[rust in the eye]

I'm pretty sure I've bought from this seller. He denies being a Snap-On dealer and uses several names at Ebay but I believe him to be just that.
If $25k seems absurd consider the seller's claim of a $65k list price, or $1275/socket.
$1275 for a single socket? Blow me

 

[zendriver]

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[rust in the eye]

I wonder how much a deep one is.

 

[oscarsnapkin]

I'm pretty sure I've bought from this seller. He denies being a Snap-On dealer and uses several names at Ebay but I believe him to be just that.
If $25k seems absurd consider the seller's claim of a $65k list price, or $1275/socket.
$1275 for a single socket? Blow me

Damn, it’s backordered.

 

[Rinspeed]

Some of those bigger sockets sell for $1-2K each so $25K for the set isn't really that bad.

 

[mike93lx]

Damn, it’s backordered.

That exists to ensure next year's maintenance budget is enough