Replacing Snap-On handles

[dogbucket]

Is it possible to replace the soft grip handle on a later SHL936A ratchet with the eariler orange one?

If so are they just a press fit on, so just bash them off?

Would be nice to have these both matching.

 

[Moose-LandTran]

You can't get the handle alone anymore, however you can do the transplant with a screwdriver and a little elbow grease.

Put a cloth around the shank of the ratchet in a vice, lever off the handle.

The for the screwdriver, find a socket that's end matches the size of the round "cut" around where the shank goes in. (This prevents damage to the handle during removal) then put a cloth around the shank and clamp it in a vice. Use a prybar between the vice jaws an a socket and lever off the handle. (make sure the bolster will pass through the socket).

the ratchet handle part that goes into the hard handle has a step in it. Drill out the new hard handle out to the diameter of the end of the shank for the length of the ratchet handle that goes into the hard handle. Then drill out the wider part.

The ratchet handle has "wings" on it, to stop the hard handle coming loose or spinning. Fold up a cloth and put it on a hard surface, put the ratchet head on it, line up the hard handle and hit it with a soft-faced dead-blow hammer.

Job done.

And an example of the first one i did.

If you don't care about the part numbers on the handle you can do a transplant. I did this with a friend for a ratchet i gave him with a knackered handle:

 

[Merkava_4]

It seems like someone on here, might've been nissan_crawler, said that the shanks between the ratchets like the ones shown in dogbucket's picture are different; meaning, the handles are not interchangeable.

 

[wrenchr]

The shafts are different lengths.

 

[Merkava_4]

Now I'm trying to figure out how Moose was able to put an SDD4 screwdriver handle onto a ratchet shank.

 

[Moose-LandTran]

So cut some of it off..

 

[Moose-LandTran]

Now I'm trying to figure out how Moose was able to put an SDD4 screwdriver handle onto a ratchet shank.

Read the description, i drilled it out and used a soft-faced dead-blow to put it on.

 

[Merkava_4]

That flex head ratchet with the white screwdriver handle looks *****'n.

 

[dogbucket]

Thanks all,

Guess I will look out for a donor screwdriver (SDD6 seems about right) and give it a go

 

[Speed-Racer]

I like, very cool custom ratchet. Wish Snap-On would bring the hard handles back.

Moose-LandTran, did you use a standard size drill bit or was it a little undersized for a press fit?

 

[Moose-LandTran]

I matched the drill bit to the shank, the "wings" provide a tight enough fit to prevent the handle coming off.

 

[Merkava_4]

Are the wings of the ratchet's shank similar to the wings of the screwdriver shank? Same width?

 

[Moose-LandTran]

They're the same kind of thing, as for width I'm not sure to be honest. I didn't cut grooves for them, i just whacked the handle on, so that made the grooves in the handle.

 

[48548]

Did someone say they "whacked the handle"? I couldn't help myself....

 

[Merkava_4]

That's what I thought; you probably ripped the slots in the screwdriver handle to match the wings of the ratchet shank.

 

[Moose-LandTran]

That's what I thought; you probably ripped the slots in the screwdriver handle to match the wings of the ratchet shank.

It worked, didn't it?

My latest "creation". I've wanted a sparkplug keyring for a while, and now i have one. I want to make another one from a Harley Davidson Champion Knucklehead spark plug.

 

[wilbilt]

Geez Moose, you need to find a job. Next we know, you will be peddling homemade jewelry on the street corner.








Seriously, nice job on the handles (the spark plug, too!)

 

[Moose-LandTran]

I made my chain..