Sk socket broaching

[Macduf]

Just picked up a 1/4 set of sockets used and the broaching didn't go through. Seemed odd, great set other than that. Anybody else have this happen?

 

[Fedwrench]

Pictures?

Do you mean it's a deep set and the broaching doesn't run most of the socket's length? SK's aren't made that way.

It's hard to say without seeing what you're talking about.

 

[Macduf]

Will send pictures when I get home.

 

[mrjaw14]

SK's are like Snap On, the broaching doesn't extend all the way down like on a craftsman.

I was using a deep craftsman 10mm 1/4 to try to start a nut on a weedeater i was working on earlier, and the nut wouldn't start because it just went deeper and deeper in the socket. The partial broaching SK and SO do are so the nut can't go all the way down. Had I not been able to put the nut on the tip of my finger and start it that way, the SK's would have been coming out.

 

[JDon99]

SK's are like Snap On, the broaching doesn't extend all the way down like on a craftsman.

I was using a deep craftsman 10mm 1/4 to try to start a nut on a weedeater i was working on earlier, and the nut wouldn't start because it just went deeper and deeper in the socket. The partial broaching SK and SO do are so the nut can't go all the way down. Had I not been able to put the nut on the tip of my finger and start it that way, the SK's would have been coming out.

I have had that problem with my old Cmans, I just stuffed a piece if paper towel in the socket.

 

[bonneyman]

SK's are like Snap On, the broaching doesn't extend all the way down like on a craftsman.

I was using a deep craftsman 10mm 1/4 to try to start a nut on a weedeater i was working on earlier, and the nut wouldn't start because it just went deeper and deeper in the socket. The partial broaching SK and SO do are so the nut can't go all the way down. Had I not been able to put the nut on the tip of my finger and start it that way, the SK's would have been coming out.

Old Bonney's are like that, too. Sometimes a help, sometimes not.

 

[Rarified27]

I was so used to Craftsman that when I got my first set of real sockets (SK's I've since sold and regret), I thought something was wrong because they didn't broach in that far.

The guys above are right about it preventing them from losing their nuts

 

[dutchgray]

You need both types sometimes, but I prefer the short broach generally.

 

[stage20]

You need both types sometimes, but I prefer the short broach generally.

Yep. Buy another hansen tray or rail and start looking for sockets haha.

 

[Macduf]

Probably me not knowing the right term . the sockets have a layer of metal left , like they weren't finished completely.

 

[NoahG]

I generally prefer a short broad, but every once in a while the deep broach is needed, like when I'm trying to remove a nut off a long stud in a tight space and aren't using a Gearwrench for whatever reason.

 

[Fedwrench]

You're talking about that thin metal disk with the hole in it? That's just how some SK sockets are finished. There have been numerous threads about the interior finish of SK sockets. You're used to looking through the socket from top to bottom expecting to see through the square drive on the other side but, sometimes it doesn't work that way with SK sockets. It doesn't affect the socket's performance but, can irk the purchaser.

 

[Loscaldazar]

You're talking about that thin metal disk with the hole in it? That's just how some SK sockets are finished. There have been numerous threads about the interior finish of SK sockets. You're used to looking through the socket from top to bottom expecting to see through the square drive on the other side but, sometimes it doesn't work that way with SK sockets. It doesn't affect the socket's performance but, can irk the purchaser.

Where have others complained about this? I've seen complaints about the interior finish being painted silver or being dull chrome, but the issue with these is that the metal disk in the middle hasn't been punched out. All of my SK (ideal) sockets have that part removed.

As far as I know, SK (or any company) has never intentionally produced sockets like that. That metal disk should have been removed in the forging process for sockets this small. The larger SK sockets (24MM+) have that metal disc split into 6 pieces and have them pressed down and out of the way so that a rod could pass into the socket a bit if needed. They never should have been left solid so that objects can't pass through them.

Furthermore, by looking at the plastic socket holder rail, you got old stock sockets (from before Ideal bought). Call up the new SK and talk to them, or use them as they are.

Here is a picture showing the two styles of SK broaching. These are normal. What the OP has is not, and was certainly produced during the SK bankruptcy era (going by the socket rail in the pictures).

 

[Skin]

The plastic rail didn't come with those sockets. Judging from the matte chrome those are fairly old. Take a screwdriver and punch though them if it bothers you. Basically all the repair you can do.

 

[AmishFury]

i picked up some singles off a guy who used to sell SK out of an independant truck... a few of them are like OP's clearly an example of the QC failings as SK was going under before Ideal came along...

poke through them like someone else said or see if SK will warranty them

 

[1950mercury]

I guess you can't use a Hanson tray with them......I've had to drill out some half inch drive craftsman sockets to fit a Hanson tray and it was a *****. The metal was hard as hell and took forever to drill

 

[Macduf]

They came in a bag witha bunch of tat sockets for cheap. I think they are great, they just sit funny on the rail

 

[APEowner]

Take a screwdriver and punch though them if it bothers you.

Yikes! Use a punch not a screwdriver!