Show your ratchet adapters

[48548]

Since MoparHound had the show your ratchet, I want to see your ratcheting adapters... I am missing my toptul, as I gave them away to my father(waiting for the replacments to come in), but here is what I have.

 

[J.A.F.E.]

I don't have the the extensive collection you do but here is my modest set. From right to left 1/4, 3/8, 3/8, 1/2.

 

[billymade]

48548, care to share with us the drive sizes you have? The far left hand one; looks insanely huge!

 

[J.A.F.E.]

48548, care to share with us the drive sizes you have? The far left hand one; looks insanely huge!

I believe they are from right to left 1/4, 3/8, 1/2, 1/2, 3/4, 1.

 

[Tool Pants]

Williams, Proto, and Snap-On.

I like to take them apart....

 

[48548]

If you want them taken apart, I might be able to do that also, and yes JAFE, was correct with the sizes. The 3/4 and up, has 4 pawls not sure if all hold at the same time or just 2 in one direction, but I think they all hold at one time.

 

[jerk_chicken]

So what do you use these for? Breaker bars? T-speeder bars?

 

[48548]

That would be correct, makes a breaker bar a ratchet and or a t-handle/speeder. The point is, most breaker bars are bigger and longer that a ratchet, so you can get more leverage when you need it by making a breaker bar a ratchet, and also most ratchet adapters, should be stronger than the ratchets, but that is still under question.

 

[dxdexter]

Here's a few 1/2" drive from Gray (old and new models).

 

[48548]

the Gray 797 looks the same as the toptul I have, hmmm... Who really makes them?

 

[-B-]

hrmm now I need one for the travel box so I can remove 2 more lbs.

 

[dxdexter]

the Gray 797 looks the same as the toptul I have, hmmm... Who really makes them?

I would say it's offshore since it is not stamped CANADA as are all my other Gray sockets. I got the new one as a warranty on another unit the same as the older unit pictured in the first photo.

 

[48548]

Do you think the new one will take more torque than the old one? I think they are 72 teeth.

 

[dxdexter]

Do you think the new one will take more torque than the old one? I think they are 72 teeth.

I have absolutely no idea. I honestly rarely use ratchet adapters.

 

[J.A.F.E.]

When I was a teenager I worked for a mechanic as my introduction to car repair/tools. In those days most torque wrenches did not have ratchet mechanisms and his torque wrenches were all the SO torqometer style which I have never seen with a ratchet.

He used a ratchet adapter sometimes with those especially in areas with tricky clearance.

Image hot linked from Snap on online catalog catalog page link

 

[48548]

Kinda like my needle, I had one of those I bought on ebay for 25 for a snap on, and gave to my dad, is was 50-250 lbs 1/2 drive.

 

[48548]

Here is a new britain 1/4, and 2 p&c 3/8-1/2. New NOS.

 

[Uncle Buck]

I got a real steal of a deal on my 3/4" Snap-on ratchet adapter a bout a year back. I paid $35.00 for it used. Deals like that don't come along everyday, at least not to me they don't.

 

[Uncle Buck]

When I was a teenager I worked for a mechanic as my introduction to car repair/tools. In those days most torque wrenches did not have ratchet mechanisms and his torque wrenches were all the SO torqometer style which I have never seen with a ratchet.

He used a ratchet adapter sometimes with those especially in areas with tricky clearance.

Image hot linked from Snap on online catalog catalog page link

How right you are. My old neighbor gave me a 3/8" like that in the box from the day, it had a 3/8" ratchet adapter in the box with it as you describe.

 

[48548]

Wow that was a smoking deal... I need to find one of those deals....

 

[48548]

Here are pictures of the pawls that people asked to see. The first is out of an 1/2 S77(wonder if the 67 is smaller, but I couldn't get mine apart to check), and then the next is a 3/4 l672 which has 4, but I think two holding at a time, and then you move it and the next two grab(I think), and then the 1" l673(not longer made and can't get kits for them). It also has 4 like the 3/4 what do you think, makes the 1/2 look weak, and imagine the weak plomb and protos, hehehe.

 

[Mr.Nutcase]

Cool. What are the Snap On part numbers?

 

[48548]

The ratchet adapters were listed, an S77 1/2, an L672 3/4 and an L673 1". I didn't want to put the 1/4 or 3/8 for that but I could have, but wanted to show that the 1/2 difference with them.

 

[vette-kid]

I believe they are from right to left 1/4, 3/8, 1/2, 1/2, 3/4, 1.

Who goes from right to left I had to read that a few times, I was sure one of us was dyslexic...turns out its me

 

[48548]

Sorry I thought you were just asking the pawls model numbers, I will have to get the models of the top picture. But something like this, left to right... l673 1", l672 3/4", s77 1/2", s67 1/2", f67B 3/8", tm67A 1/4".

 

[farmall57]

A couple adapters that I have:

Snap-On 1/2", interesting in that it appears to have both 55 and 56 date code:

Mac 1/2", always wondered who made this one:

 

[Tool Pants]

This is sort of what what I was saying in the prior threads.

All 3 of the Snap-On pictures show a pawl with 2 teeth. One tooth to tighten and the other to loosen, times 2 because there are 2 pawls. This design limits a max of 2 teeth engagement under load in any given direction in the broached body of the adapter.

 

[48548]

That is true and the bigger have 4 but only two grabbing at a time, but look how big they are, doesn't that count for something? Also the teeth are shorter than say the proto which makes me think are stronger than the taller ones as they weaker at the points. Also farmall57, I would say new britain made your ratchet adapter... See below.

 

[farmall57]

Very interesting, I used to work at a NAPA store and thought I knew the New Britain line pretty well..but didn't know my Mac adapter was a New Britain!

 

[Canadian Charlie]

I need to get a set in the near future

 

[Desoto Iron]

This is my humble collection as it now stands. A 3/8 Proto (#5247) and Snap-on (F-67-B) and a 3/4 Snap-on (L672, date marked 1941).

Last night, I opened up the 3/4 drive adapter and cleaned out the peanut butter the previous owner had used for lube. After a toothbrush scrubbing, Q-tip swabbing and a carb cleaner rinse, I went back together with SuperLube. The 3/4 model has many small parts and 4 pawls, 90 degrees apart, pushed outward in 2 pairs by springs. After experiencing the futility of trying to hold in all 4 pawls AND push the internal guts (now slippery as snot on a doorknob...) back into the outer housing, I hit on using a metal hose clamp to hold all four pawls in place. Then dropping the innards into the outer housing was easy, the pawls lined up and started in, and then a tap on the top pushed the internals in the rest of the way. Minimum tiddly-wink drama. Whew!

I can hardly wait to go into the other two.

 

[48548]

Nice I like the 3/4 looks great.

 

[speed bump]

I should take a picture of the 1" Snap-on we have sitting in our tool cabinet at school. If i'm lucky and our lab director plays the I don't know anything about anything hands on card again it might even come home with me at some point.

 

[stevejh82]

Here are a few Williams, 3/8", 1/2", 3/4".

 

[48548]

Nice williams they look like the proto design, and the same as the p&c that I have also.

 

[Desoto Iron]

Thanks! I hope I look that good when I'm 69 years old.

 

[Tool Pants]

Here is a 3/8" New Britain I bought last month at a flea market for $4. The Blackhawk is an ebay picture. Both look the same as the Mac in post #26. On papawswrench.com someone said New Britain marketed tools under the Blackhawk name.

I had seen it the weekends before but I thought it was broken, because I could not get it to change direction all the time. This time I read the directions and played with it for a few minutes, and figured out how it worked. Weird design. Single pawl, but it is a large pawl with a lot of teeth.

 

[M900]

Do you mean ratcheting adapters or ratchet-drive-size adapters?
I have ratchet-drive-size adapters I can post up but no ratcheting adapters.

Who goes from right to left I had to read that a few times, I was sure one of us was dyslexic...turns out its me

I cant tell you how many times I read one of Bulls classified ads and was confused since he lists items from bottom-to-top, not top-to-bottom.

 

[64merc]

Darn it guys, now I regret passing up a NB 3/8 adapter I saw last weekend at the flea market. My justification was that I already have a 3/8 adapter. Boy, what was I thinking!!

 

[48548]

I actually need a 3/8 NB adapter as I have the 1/2 and 1/4, but not a 3/8.... help a fellow out....