Knurled Sockets

[gdocktor3]

I saw these sweet Snap On sockets for sale, and now I want some with knurling. I saw Husky makes some, but that was all I could find in my 30 seconds of searching.... Other than vintage USA, any good sockets come with knurling like this? I have a few 1/4" Mac and BluePoint sockets with small sections of knurling towards the bottom, but not like this. Anything?


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

 

[gdocktor3]

I see a few truck brand's long spark plug sockets have them, but that's all so far.

 

[Fedwrench]

Probably not what you want but, Gearwrench & Carlyle has excellent, deep knurling on their metric sockets. Gearwrench's is on the base of the socket whereas, Carlyle places the knurling more towards the center of the socket.

 

[Scotland Offshore ABZ]

I have some Geodre (Germany) sockets similar to these. I too wish SO or MAC would make more like them though.

 

[Art From De Leon]

I have one 3/4", 1/2" drive Snap on impact socket like that. A real oddball, as I have no other sockets remotely resembling it.

 

[rickhigginshtbr]

Go vintage, kinda hard to find but I love my old SK Set.

 

[bob15]

1950's Bonney and Herbrand have knurling on SAE sockets.

My Mac metric 3/8 drive set has decent knurling

 

[WhiskeyRanger]

A few years ago I got a set of DeWalt tools that came with a 200 or so mechanics tool set and they had knurling on the sockets.

 

[oldldh]

Probably not what you want but, Gearwrench & Carlyle has excellent, deep knurling on their metric sockets. Gearwrench's is on the base of the socket whereas, Carlyle places the knurling more towards the center of the socket.

GearWrench "Knurls" their Metric sockets...

More to differentiate between SAE and Metric...

Than to increase "gription"...

 

[Derek420]

I have a bunch of SK sockets like that from 1/2 to 1/4 and love them also have the husky ones as well they're good also but break easier than my craftsman but all my craftsman are -v- coded.

 

[firworks]

My really old Indestro Duro sockets have knurling on them. They look like this:
View media item 64585

 

[M6erfan]

Yeah, knurling's on my socket wish list too.

Sadly, for new USA stuff I think we're out of luck. I have a few Hazet sockets that have great knurling and Wera sockets do too. But they're pricey. I've been meaning to check out the carlisle's...

 

[94EG8]

Genius sockets have straight knurling on the drive end.

 

[gdocktor3]

weird those Indestro sockets each have a different knurling.

 

[kblee27]

We want them chromed and smooth.
Then we want them roughened by knurling, so we could hold them.

Couldn't they just be rough to begin with ?

 

[PFSard]

Go vintage, kinda hard to find but I love my old SK Set.

I have a set of 1/2" drive SK's with the knurling. Great stuff.

 

[firworks]

weird those Indestro sockets each have a different knurling.

I'll try to round up a picture of all of mine. Indestro sockets are SUPER weird. They're all over the place on styling and they're really shallow. I keep them handy because they're like low profile sockets but they go up to huge sizes.

 

[wout]

Some of my spare Hazet sockets:

gr
Wout