TonyJ
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Can anyone put a round and about date on any of these ? 
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Snap on $25 roadside flea market find
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DieselSaves
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The two ratchets should have a date code stamped under the direction selecting lever. Post a picture of that area. Also search images of the Snap On date code chart.
CGarage
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I believe I have the same ratchet with 24 teeth. I think late 1970s to early 1980s but I could be wrong. The teeth count is key because later models got “upgraded” from 24 to 32 teeth if I remember correctly.
I found a chart like you said to look for and found the symbol that is between the on and off on the 3/8 ratchet as being 1982. Now I’m searching for the info on the 1/2 lol. It has no markings in that same spot
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kythri
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What's a "$25 roadside flea market find" ??
Like, you found a flea market that happened to be near a roadside, and paid $25 for these?
Roadside finds are found tools, not purchased tools, hence my confusion.
Like, you found a flea market that happened to be near a roadside, and paid $25 for these?
Roadside finds are found tools, not purchased tools, hence my confusion.
Lol I can tell your trolling a little bit but I’ll play along beings it’s pretty cold outside today hahaha. Roadside finds are Free and roadside flea market finds not so free but still yet along the roadside so I can see where your confusion is coming from
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RedneckWelder
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The 1/2 ratchet, I have one from my grandfather who was a millwright and his was a 1940 date code. Snap on man still had a rebuild kit on his truck and fixed it up for me.
That’s awesome. I found the codes for the two breaker bars and one was from 56 and the other 63 but the 1/2 ratchet doesn’t have a code and from searching the threads here there seems to be several people that has one without the date code and says that the model numbers that has a V in them were mostly for the military and they didn’t have a warranty therefore didn’t get a date code. Just going from what I read anyways lol.
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kythri
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619DioFan
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Just curious- when you say " roadside flea market " is this a flea market someone set up out of the blue on the side of some local road or is it a weekly market in a designated place ?
Ton ton
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West Virginia has some cool flea markets. In Virginia one flea market is some old chicken houses.
20 or 30 tooth on those models. 710 and 720 were 20 tooth and the 730 was 30 tooth I believe. The 30 tooth kit would swap in to the older 20 tooth ratchets
This one was just set up out of the blue and where I work for a water company and was out reading meters I just had to check out what they had
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That’s true. Their now turning old buildings into year round flea markets. Like for instance 84 Lumber shut down so someone bought the building and field right beside it and made the field for parking and now it’s open every weekend. But at least it’s not just another empty falling down building tho
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The 720 I have had a date code of 1982 and I took it apart to clean it and it looked very good on all teeth with min wear and also had 32 teeth so if what your saying is correct about the lower teeth count then maybe this one has gotten replacement parts at some point and upgraded to 32. The 1/2 ratchet I posted also has 32 teeth and it even has a 32 stamped into the end of the head where the socket goes on
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Mine has two bolts and came right apart after taking them out. Also as I replied to someone else the internals all look great with very little wear
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