K-drive sockets

[tslabaugh]

I know Bonney and older Kobalt open end wrenches have a K-drive (where it is rectangular instead of the U shape).

Why would williams made kobalts boast that they are K-drive? Aren't most sockets made this way?

 

[Joe B.]

Some dude in marketing thought it would look good on the package.

 

[Art From De Leon]

Their name for their version of Flank Drive? Note that they have a modified hex.

 

[tslabaugh]

I guess I'll see when they get here...

Got them from here:

http://www.cripedistributing.com/-c-1_88.html


I got the 3/8 drive metric shallow impacts, 3/8 drive deep SAE impacts, and a pair of craftsman dikes for around $50 to my door!

 

[tonydanzah]

doesn't look modified to me

 

[a390st]

The K-drive isn't on the open end of their wrenches. It is on the box end. It is nothing that every other socket or combination wrench doesn't have these days. It is the same thing as flank drive, and is just the relief of the corners on the box end. It doesn't engage fasteners on the corners, but over a larger area along the flat. They advertise it on the combination wrenches because of the box end, not the open end. I have and had a number of Williams/Kobalt tools over the years, and they are good tools. It's all about the marketing...