How many socket extensions do you keep in your box, ready to go? The organization of these frustrates me because they are just awkward to store efficiently. I just have them laying in the box side-by-side, separated by drive size. But that takes up too may inches in width.
I then began to consider that I have too many. In each drive size, I have more than 1 of each length, with some gaps. I also have a few wobbles, but need more.
I got to thinking, though...maybe I just have too many extensions. You people out there would know. Do you have three 6" 3/8 extensions, for example, or just one 6"?
Hi, Bull,
It all depends on the work you intend to do. Socket extensions are one of the type of tool you may not need very often, but when you do need one, or several, nothing else will do the job, at least do the job conveniently.
Its been only a very few times when I've needed to use a crow's foot wrench and a long string of extensions to turn a fastener which wasn't very 'wrench-access-friendly', to 'put it mildly'. The extensions, and the crow's foot wrenches, pay for themselves on that job, and having them on hand enables one to 'get the job out' without potentially costly delay.
This is one of the hard truths for those for whom making a living depends on pulling wrenches efficiently.........it can take a rather substantial investment in wrenches to have coverage for the unpredictable jobs which might come in.
As a generality, it makes sense to 'play safe' by having more variety of wrenches that would seem necessary, as losing time on a job when one hasn't the necessary tooling to get the job done efficiently can become a serious problem.
You just have to make your own personal evaluation of the capability you need to have ready to hand, v. the nature of potential work you may be asked to do.
Since you're asking, even tho its been many, many years since I've had to pull wrenches myself, other than for tinkering-up my own and friends' vehicles, but I've kept some thirty-odd socket extensions of various sizes, along with swivel sockets, the universal adaptors, and crow's-foot wrenches, as all of these have been necessary to get this or that job done, one time and another.
Put simply, you really can't have too many varieties of wrenches, within the size range of the work you plan to do. There can be any number of times when one has to modify an existing wrench or make up a special to access one or another fastener in a 'tight spot', so having spares on hand will save time.
cheers
Carla
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