Snap Ring Retention or Ball Retention

[Sunrise]

what type of lock would you guys pick for impact extensions.

 

[garfunkle24]

Ball type. Had a couple of the snap rings fail. Just a minor inconvenience, no big deal, but that's my experience.

 

[Moose-LandTran]

Mine are spring-ball type. I find sometimes the retaining rings of the gun anvil jam on sockets for some reasons. Not often, but sometimes.

 

[garfunkle24]

Mine are spring-ball type. I find sometimes the retaining rings of the gun anvil jam on sockets for some reasons. Not often, but sometimes.

That was the failure, x3. One time I actually had to clamp the extention in a vise and put a 3 jaw puller on the socket...

 

[Merkava_4]

I like the ball retention if I can find them; most of the ones out there are all ring retention. The pin lock type is nice if you have a socket and extension you want connected to each other forever.

 

[Sunrise]

I like the ball retention if I can find them; most of the ones out there are all ring retention. The pin lock type is nice if you have a socket and extension you want connected to each other forever.

matco uses ball type impact extension.

 

[chammyman]

the ring jams a socket on it and the socket comes off killing the ring. then you need to pick the ring off. I remember it happened the second time I used the bosses IR titanium.

teh rings crack too, but the ball types pop the ball out, its a catch 22

 

[olds88]

When they're working as they should, I prefer the snap ring. My boss has some kind of off-brand impact universal adapter, which uses the ball, and I've yet to successfully use it without shooting the socket across the shop.

The Snap-on impact universal adapters use the "square ball" that you gotta poke to get the socket off. Makes much more sense to me.