So, how often do you use your ¾ drive socket set?

[Kev442]

As someone else stated, sometimes the lugnut is not coming off a northern vehicle when it's been on there for 20 or 30 years. So you have to break the lug. Which makes my 1/2 HF bar do funny things. If it wasn't for impact sockets, it would be worse. I broke my cman chromes multiple times in my youth , when I was both poor and unaware of better quality. It's hard to count how many lugs I've had to replace over the years, I did at least 7 on my most recent purchase, a 61 off the road for at least 30 years.

So, I don't own a 3/4 drive and probably never will. Carry on, I'm out.

 

[gte718p]

I buy tools at auctions and estate sales and sell them on Craigslist, EBAY, and occasionally here. For me 3/4 stuff never sells. It is one of those things, if you need it, you need it, you know you need it, and you are willing to pay a premium to get it. I have had some success selling it to farmers and semi mechanics, but for the most part it sits in my garage. I can see where it would have value, but I have yet to run into anything that my good quality 1/2 impact and good quality impact sockets will not take care of.

 

[ttpete]

Have you heard the saying that marital bliss has a price? Yes sometimes this means baling the dead beat out. Nice guy but zero money skills. Stopped their foreclosure in 2004, I'll never do that again!

Should have put a lien on the property. My brother once asked me to co-sign on a new car loan. I said sure, as long as my name was on the title as second secured party. He asked why, and I told him that if he defaulted on the loan and I had to pay it off, I would take the car. He decided to find someone else to co-sign.

 

[KinzeMech]

Should have put a lien on the property. My brother once asked me to co-sign on a new car loan. I said sure, as long as my name was on the title as second secured party. He asked why, and I told him that if he defaulted on the loan and I had to pay it off, I would take the car. He decided to find someone else to co-sign.

Cosigning is, with remarkably few exceptions, a universally bad idea. If you can't qualify for a car loan, you should drive only as much car as you can afford to buy with cash.

I like your solution to the idea. It seems very fair and reasonable, and the fact it effectively deterred him may be indicative that he was looking for someone to take advantage of. There's just no legitimate reason to object to someone taking ownership of an object if they bail one out on the payments. It just seems fair all the way around.

 

[nelstomlinson]

I figure that you should use a square drive about the size of the bolt you're twisting. By that theory 1/2" drive is good for up to a half inch bolt - anything much bigger than that and I reach for the 3/4" drive. I figure half inch drive is good up to about a 1" head, more or less, and 3/4" drive is good up to about a 1-1/2" head. I don't need it often, but it's good to have when I need it.

I have a 24" ratchet for my half inch set, and I have an 18" ratchet with cheaters up to 6 feet long for my 3/4" set. I recently got a Swench, and so now I'm looking for metric impact sockets, shallow or deep, from about 19mm up to about 32mm. It was cheaper than a good 3/4" impact, and I can carry it in my truck without having to carry an air compressor along.

Since I work mostly on heavy pickups and small tractors, I pretty much don't need anything bigger than 3/4" drive. Having said that, if I get a good deal on any 1" or 1-1/2" drive stuff, I'll pick it up.

 

[TOOL FANATIK]

Why does someone need a 3/4" drive set if not working on sizes over 1 1/2"? My chrome and my impact socket sets in 1/2" drive each go all the way up to 1 1/2"

the larger the drive the less force needed to turn a fastener. i have a 24" breaker bar 1/2" dr and a 18" (i do believe) ratchet 3/4" dr; and its way easier using the ratchet. the longer bar is nice but on your torquier jobs (is that a word? lol) that long bar is going to absorb that force and flex, so some of that energy is just going into your handle and not transfered to the fastener. i have an 1 1/8 socket thats 3/4 dr as well as 1 1/2 and 1 3/4. i hardly touch my 1/2 dr tools anymore, regrettably because i love my 1/2 stuff.

 

[finn]

I use mine maybe once or twice a year, but when you need it, you need it.

Best $30 investment I ever made.

 

[Toymeister]

Should have put a lien on the property. My brother once asked me to co-sign on a new car loan. I said sure, as long as my name was on the title as second secured party. He asked why, and I told him that if he defaulted on the loan and I had to pay it off, I would take the car. He decided to find someone else to co-sign.

Placing a lien is the only way I was repaid. The SiL was the evil one. She felt that she needed the money from sale of the property more than we did and was not going to repay us. She was very suprised when she had no choice but satisfy the lien. She didn't talk to me for a year after that.

 

[Matt Irvine]

If you drive a 3/4 ton or larger pick up, you will use some of the sockets for chassis work.

I own a custom harvesting operation with one Deere 7950 and five Kenworth T880s. My 3/4" drive is used fairly often, along with a couple 1" drive impacts.

Conpletely irrelevant, but wouldn't happen to have a picture or two about would you? We own and operate a twin pair of JD S680 combines, a pair of 8235s pulling chasers, and a 9330 pulling the mother bin. Kenworth T904 is the primary rig for pulling out of the paddock.

More related, mine gets used quite regularly, but I work on heavy equipment.
The one at home gets used occasionly, but more in the smaller sizes.

 

[McFarmer]

Mine gets used much more on the hydraulic press than anything. Get just the right size for bearings and such.

That cheap Chineese steel does pretty good under compression.

 

[KinzeMech]

She was very suprised when she had no choice but satisfy the lien. She didn't talk to me for a year after that.

Well played. Definitely a win. If your in laws are like mine, the year of peace and silence only makes the win sweeter.

Unfortunately after a period of time, mine figured out the silent treatment only made me happier. That was the sad end of that...

 

[bulletpruf]

I used it this weekend - rebuilding the front end on my Yukon. Used it on lower control arm bolts, 26 mm on the axle nuts, etc. Also used a 2" socket to beat the rubber cap onto the lower ball joint.

My set is Craftsman, metric and SAE, that I got on eBay for a good price. Have a HF breaker bar. C'man ratchet.

 

[bcradio]

I used it this weekend - rebuilding the front end on my Yukon. Used it on lower control arm bolts, 26 mm on the axle nuts, etc. Also used a 2" socket to beat the rubber cap onto the lower ball joint.

My set is Craftsman, metric and SAE, that I got on eBay for a good price. Have a HF breaker bar. C'man ratchet.

26mm? That's an odd size

 

[pilotman81]

I use mine on a weekly if not daily basis, but I work on refinery and gas compression equipment (pretty large stuff). I also use 1" and 1 1/2" drive stuff pretty regularly as well.

 

[shampoop]

Don't own one. No need. If 1/2" drive is good enough for things as large as axle nuts, makes 3/4" drive seem pretty niche.

 

[supersteve]

26mm? That's an odd size

I thought so too when I ran into it on a steering rack bolt a week or two ago. Thought it really odd when I used it again on a trans cooler fitting on a ****** aftermarket radiator yesterday. Twenty some years and then bam, two in a row. I wonder if this is going to be a thing, maybe related to that ISO fastener standardization thing I saw on here a little while back.

 

[bulletpruf]

I thought so too when I ran into it on a steering rack bolt a week or two ago. Thought it really odd when I used it again on a trans cooler fitting on a ****** aftermarket radiator yesterday. Twenty some years and then bam, two in a row. I wonder if this is going to be a thing, maybe related to that ISO fastener standardization thing I saw on here a little while back.

I bought a single in this size before I bought my 3/4" metric set. Did some research at the time and recall folks saying it was a 25 mm and others saying it was a 26 mm. I bought the 26 mm, but maybe the official size is 25 mm.

Scott

 

[hoston23]

About 2 years ago on Craigslist, I found a listing for $2300 for the Snap-on 3/4 general socket set with an extra 2 long extensions. I let it sit for a month and the price dropped down to 1350, then again to 500. I talked him down to $460 and he took it. They have a little bit of surface rust on the handle and ratchet head, but for the price they are worth it. I use them about once a month on tractor tires and I don't ever plan on selling them