Does it Exist? Double Box Wrench Ratcheting with Reverse

[havinnoj]

Hey guys I've been looking for a USA made metric set of ratcheting reversible (toggle) wrenches with NO OPEN END. All I can find are combination. Anybody know of a set?

To recap:
- USA made
- 1 standard box end
- 1 ratcheting end
- toggle reverse (no flip drive for reverse)
- 0-15* offset

Thanks to anyone who knows!

 

[mp23]

Im pretty good at searching the internet and I didn't find any, at least that were new. I think you may be looking for the unicorn of wrenches.

 

[ishiboo]

Time to cut and weld some frankenwrenches!

I love when people get these VERY specific ideas of what they need in their head

 

[havinnoj]

Im pretty good at searching the internet and I didn't find any, at least that were new. I think you may be looking for the unicorn of wrenches.

My thoughts exactly.. But I figured someone would make them!

Time to cut and weld some frankenwrenches!

I love when people get these VERY specific ideas of what they need in their head

Lol. Need versus want (still a need though )

Seems like it would be a good product - the standard box end for breaking and snugging up and the ratcheting for everything in between. If I have to settle for a combination, I will.

 

[bcradio]

Take away the USA made requirement and it still doesn't exist.

 

[havinnoj]

Take away the USA made requirement and it still doesn't exist.

Well looks like the combination will have to do.

 

[DieselSaves]

I think I saw something like that in a SO flyer last fall. I'm checking now.


Edit: the Snappy wrenches fit everything but the reverser.

 

[n240sxfnatic]

http://www.tooldiscounter.com/ItemDisplay.cfm?lookup=ARM54-609&source=froogle&kw=ARM54-609

This says reversible in the description

 

[havinnoj]

I think I saw something like that in a SO flyer last fall. I'm checking now.

Thanks.

http://www.tooldiscounter.com/ItemDisplay.cfm?lookup=ARM54-609&source=froogle&kw=ARM54-609

This says reversible in the description

I was excited when I read that; however, when I looked at pics it appears there isn't a "reversing lever" as specified in the description.

 

[uart]

I was excited when I read that; however, when I looked at pics it appears there isn't a "reversing lever" as specified in the description.

What picture are you looking at? I can't see any detail on that tiny half inch picture on that page. (Or is this a browser fail on my part, and there's really a decent picture there somewhere?)

 

[Rico.]

I, for the life of me, don't understand why manufacturers put open ends on the other side
of ratcheting spanners.

My thoughts are... if you have the room to use a ratcheting box end, then you have the room
to fit a normal box end on the fastener to break it loose first, flip it over and then ratchet it all
the way out.

Am I mad... or is it just common sense to make ratcheting spanners with a box end on the
other side the norm, rather than an open end.

 

[Strouty]

I have kobalt ones that are multi size. I wonder if the Klein ones come in metric.

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[Strouty]

Proto has them.

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[mp23]

Proto has them.

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Those are ratcheting at both ends, if I understand OP correctly he want the standard box end at one end and a ratcheting mechanism at the other end with a reverse lever. I don't understand the open end either. Does anybody use the open end of a wrench that much?

 

[havinnoj]

What picture are you looking at? I can't see any detail on that tiny half inch picture on that page. (Or is this a browser fail on my part, and there's really a decent picture there somewhere?)

I googled "Armstrong 54-609" and looked at actual set pictures and individual wrench part numbers from the set. They're double box with a ratcheting end but no toggle lever.

I, for the life of me, don't understand why manufacturers put open ends on the other side
of ratcheting spanners.

My thoughts are... if you have the room to use a ratcheting box end, then you have the room
to fit a normal box end on the fastener to break it loose first, flip it over and then ratchet it all
the way out.

Am I mad... or is it just common sense to make ratcheting spanners with a box end on the
other side the norm, rather than an open end.

You sir are experiencing my exact same reaction

I have kobalt ones that are multi size. I wonder if the Klein ones come in metric.

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I haven't looked at Klein - I will do that.

Proto has them.

Have a p/n on hand? I see they have double box double ratcheting with toggle reverse.. like the JSCVF-8S which doesn't completely get me where I want to go.

 

[cheechi]

This may be equally rare (nonexistent) but I never understood why nobody ever made this;

a ratcheting/reversible box end on one side and a (locking?) flex head ratcheting/reversible box end on the other side.

You already have a fixed box end and open end in every set of wrenches ever. This would fill all the functional requirements anyone should need in a ratcheting wrench, short of a stubby/offset/S handle of course.