Six Point Drive Sockets?

[malykaii]

Yes you read that right. 12 point metric sockets on a six point drive system.

My 92 year old Grandpa just showed them to me today. We were in a hurry so I didn't get more than 8 seconds to assess.

He aquired them in Russia. I will investigate more and he said he will gather the set up and give it to me next time.

Anyone ever see such a set, cause Google isn't being helpful.

 

[BarryWells]

Six point ratchetski.Musta been the same dumb mofoz that made Chernobyl.

 

[3baygarage]

Different indeed if they are Russian. Indestro made such a set in metric as well.

 

[Pontiac787]

I have a very old SAE set with a 6 pt drive. I don’t believe the sockets have a name on them. I’ll try and take a look tomorrow.

 

[mikehaugen]

in all honesty, I believe it would be superior to the current square drive.

 

[straightcut]

You can find more hex drive if you look on eBayUK. Britool made some, but there were others...

 

[tym]

I have a very old SAE set with a 6 pt drive. I don’t believe the sockets have a name on them. I’ll try and take a look tomorrow.

I have an old Indestro set that is 6-pt drive as well. Was pretty common on early socket sets.

 

[mr.lemons]

Six point ratchetski.Musta been the same dumb mofoz that made Chernobyl.

Chernobyl is in Ukraine.

 

[lemmy999]

in all honesty, I believe it would be superior to the current square drive.

What do you find wrong with the square drive?

 

[mikehaugen]

What do you find wrong with the square drive?

Nothing is necessarily wrong with it, but a hex drive would give more material for a given overall diameter (enscribed circle is maybe the term I'm looking for?) therefore would be stronger.

On the otherhand... hex is closer to "round" and I guess would be easier to round off, though unlikely.

Since breaking off square drives (at least on halfway decent tools) is not very common it probably doesn't matter that hex may be slightly stonger... as I said, there's nothing necessarily wrong with square.

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[Mechanical Noise]

Try an image search with "vintage hex drive". They used to be pretty common.

 

[Legion Prime]

Chernobyl is in Ukraine.

You mean the former CCCP?

 

[Zapp Branigan]

The only ones I've seen were the O ratchet sets. I have one of those in a drawer somewhere. I think the hex would be more problematic.

 

[barev]

Nothing is necessarily wrong with it, but a hex drive would give more material for a given overall diameter (enscribed circle is maybe the term I'm looking for?) therefore would be stronger.

On the otherhand... hex is closer to "round" and I guess would be easier to round off, though unlikely.

Since breaking off square drives (at least on halfway decent tools) is not very common it probably doesn't matter that hex may be slightly stonger... as I said, there's nothing necessarily wrong with square.

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[mikehaugen]

I guess circumscribed circle is what I meant

I can't seem to get the image copied

 

[jgromada]

I have an old Indestro socket set that is hex drive. It is SAE though

sort of like this

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Vintage-In...=1838211286482c9373e937a54665bf2578bb5c0065cc

 

[mrspeed]

Elora makes a 16mm hex-drive ratchet for "contraction of beams of roof constructions." Don't really know what that means and can't find any more info.

The Gedore 19mm hex-drive ratchet has some better pictures on KC Tool showing how it's used. Here's a set showing what the sockets look like.

Not sure if any of these are similar to what you saw.

 

[Jazz1]

You can find more hex drive if you look on eBayUK. Britool made some, but there were others...

I’m not familiar with them but there is a bin of those 6 point at local Restore. I recall some stamped Husky