How to make perfect cheater pipes

[Shop-hound]

I know how you feel about Snap on, but this ratchet is the cats meow. I managed to find a gently used one for 50% of MSRP, put a rebuild kit into it for cheap insurance.

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[JradM]

I haven't used a cheater pipe in a long time. I've got breaker bars, impact guns and 3/4" tools for that. It's a solution in certain scenarios though. Don't forget to whack the end with a big hammer when things are really stuck.

Ya'll got wrench extenders too? I thought I would prefer this to doubling up wrenches, but I've owned it for a year now and haven't found an opportunity to use it. Maybe it's working perfectly as a talisman - keeping bolts I need to use a wrench on from getting stuck.

 

[Shop-hound]

I’ve been eyeing that one up from Lee valley. I got a set of extra long zero offsets that pretty much cover this need now for box end (I realize not everyone wants or needs to buy a new tool for every application though!). I couldn’t bring myself to double up one of my FD+ wrenches so I keep my old master craft set for the abusing. The irony of stepping up to quality tools is I don’t want to take hammers and pipes to them

 

[Zewnten]

Only use a cheater pipe on my sliding T 3/4 breaker bar, still bent the handle. My 12" 1/4 dr, 18" 3/8 dr, and 30" 1/2 dr are already lng enough. But the road kit 1/2 breaker bar is only 18" so it has a ~20" cheater pipe for breaking lug nuts on the wifes truck, basically a 2 piece breaker bar.

 

[Al Borland]

Did you ever make a two piece cheater pipe set?

I would like to make two 18” cheater pipes that positively “lock“ together to make either an 18” or 36” cheater any good ideas?

I've got just that thing in my work truck. A 3' length of (I believe) 3/4" pipe and a 4' length of 1" pipe. 3/4 fits my 1/2" breakers, 1" fits my 3/4". The smaller pipe fits snugly into the larger for those "special occasions". Not sure of the exact dimensions, they are some goofy pseudo-stainless picked up at a Chemical plant demo 30+ years ago. Painted them red when I was learning to spray Delstar/Delthene paints 25-30 years ago.

 

[ThePostman]

Pro environment, those schedule 40 pipes still rule. Get the tightest diameter, and clean out the inside.