RCStocker
Well-known member
I have received and bought so many bad sockets in the past months that I am shocked.
I had 2 sets of new Kobalt 1/4" sockets. They were in their original rack and unopened. I wanted to give them to one of my young grandsons. I went and bought all the ones on both ends of the sets both deep and shallow.
I had 7 sockets that would not fit on the Hansen socket racks. There was too much metal in the middle. Some had no hole, some had a whole but it would not go over a bolt because the metal was half way down the socket on the inside. These were all long ones. I got the replacements and still had to exchange 2 of them. Ok, someone is not drilling the holes or using the wrong size bits. They are made in different methods.
Yes those are real Ivory figure in the photo.
If this was not bad enough I ordered a Gearwrench of 1/4" drive in the blow mold cases. They were $100 for 40 some pieces. I figured that as good as their ratchet wrenches have been the sockets would be ok. Hell No. The first set had 3 shallow sockets with no wholes in them and one with a very small hole. The deep sockets were a mess. I could not get many of the sockets to go more tan 3/16" of an inch over the Hansen shaft. I shipped them back to Amazon and ordered another set. This set was just as bad.
The real kicker is that the ones that were bad were not the same ones.
Then I pull an old Craftsman and 2 little SK sockets out of a spare bucket of tools I was sorting . The ones I pulled were all bad. I could not get a bold though the hole and there was metal in one of the sockets that was only partly attached. Then I pick up an old Fleet 11/16" socket and it would not go over the wrack. It was 1/2" drive. I got the nut and bolt out and sure enough the socket would not go down far enough to pick up the bold.
This is the first time in all my years I have seen bad sockets. I was a tool and die maker in the late 50's, I worked for the US Navy and Boeing aircraft.
I have rebuilt and repaired tractors, heavy machinery, cars, shop machinery and I have owned thousands of used tools. I have been buying and selling them for over 50 years.
Funny I find them all at once. Even some oldies.
I am done with Kobalt and GearWrench. There is no excuse for almost 30 bad sockets.
He is the Gears on the racks
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I had 2 sets of new Kobalt 1/4" sockets. They were in their original rack and unopened. I wanted to give them to one of my young grandsons. I went and bought all the ones on both ends of the sets both deep and shallow.
I had 7 sockets that would not fit on the Hansen socket racks. There was too much metal in the middle. Some had no hole, some had a whole but it would not go over a bolt because the metal was half way down the socket on the inside. These were all long ones. I got the replacements and still had to exchange 2 of them. Ok, someone is not drilling the holes or using the wrong size bits. They are made in different methods.
Yes those are real Ivory figure in the photo.
If this was not bad enough I ordered a Gearwrench of 1/4" drive in the blow mold cases. They were $100 for 40 some pieces. I figured that as good as their ratchet wrenches have been the sockets would be ok. Hell No. The first set had 3 shallow sockets with no wholes in them and one with a very small hole. The deep sockets were a mess. I could not get many of the sockets to go more tan 3/16" of an inch over the Hansen shaft. I shipped them back to Amazon and ordered another set. This set was just as bad.
The real kicker is that the ones that were bad were not the same ones.
Then I pull an old Craftsman and 2 little SK sockets out of a spare bucket of tools I was sorting . The ones I pulled were all bad. I could not get a bold though the hole and there was metal in one of the sockets that was only partly attached. Then I pick up an old Fleet 11/16" socket and it would not go over the wrack. It was 1/2" drive. I got the nut and bolt out and sure enough the socket would not go down far enough to pick up the bold.
This is the first time in all my years I have seen bad sockets. I was a tool and die maker in the late 50's, I worked for the US Navy and Boeing aircraft.
I have rebuilt and repaired tractors, heavy machinery, cars, shop machinery and I have owned thousands of used tools. I have been buying and selling them for over 50 years.
Funny I find them all at once. Even some oldies.
I am done with Kobalt and GearWrench. There is no excuse for almost 30 bad sockets.
He is the Gears on the racks
.
