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Titanium sounds exotic, but I don't think its properties are particularly conducive to good hand tools, unless minimum mass is an overriding concern (i.e. for launching into orbit).
 
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This subject comes up pretty regularly. Titanium hand tools are utilized in specialized environments that require their properties.

Our MRI techs use them to service/calibrate the machines due to the fact that they're non-magnetic.

There's many other applications.
 
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In the medical field Titanium is frequently used for it ability to be thoroughly sterilized and non-magnetic. Coincidentally I was discussing industrial finish tools yesterday with my Snap-On rep and he commented that they can only sell chrome tools to hospitals because Snap-On's chrome can be sterilized.

All of that plus the fact that it's for the medical industry so the can charge way more.
 
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flippin said:
Coincidentally I was discussing industrial finish tools yesterday with my Snap-On rep and he commented that they can only sell chrome tools to hospitals because Snap-On's chrome can be sterilized.
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At risk of starting a flame-war, can your Snap-On rep provide documentation to prove this?

If I seem skeptical, it's because I see a whole lotta chrome tools in use across multiple hospitals, very few of which are Snap-On and they're constantly sterilized per regulation/procedure, and their use is approved by the various accreditation agencies.

This very much sounds like salesperson tripe.
 
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kythri said:
At risk of starting a flame-war, can your Snap-On rep provide documentation to prove this?

If I seem skeptical, it's because I see a whole lotta chrome tools in use across multiple hospitals, very few of which are Snap-On and they're constantly sterilized per regulation/procedure, and their use is approved by the various accreditation agencies.

This very much sounds like salesperson tripe.
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Reread the quote, he says that the rep can only sell chrome tools, he is not saying that only snap on tools can be used.
 
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If that's what he meant, then cool.

But the phrase "because Snap-On's chrome can be sterilized" makes it sound like only Snap-On's chrome can be sterilized.

Like I said, I'm not intending to start any kind of flame war, hence my disclaimer in that post.
 
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kythri said:
If that's what he meant, then cool.

But the phrase "because Snap-On's chrome can be sterilized" makes it sound like only Snap-On's chrome can be sterilized.

Like I said, I'm not intending to start any kind of flame war, hence my disclaimer in that post.
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Re-read his post you are making a mountain out of a molehill :)
 
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To keep the environment sterile. The guy in the boiler room or the guy on the ladder changing bulbs need not apply, this is meant for those that work in and around patient areas on the medical equipment.
 
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kythri said:
At risk of starting a flame-war, can your Snap-On rep provide documentation to prove this?

If I seem skeptical, it's because I see a whole lotta chrome tools in use across multiple hospitals, very few of which are Snap-On and they're constantly sterilized per regulation/procedure, and their use is approved by the various accreditation agencies.

This very much sounds like salesperson tripe.
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Industrial finish tools cannot be sterilized,
 
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The titanium is definitely for the non-magnetic properties, I saw a video once of a worker going into a MRI and the magnet is never shut down, and bad things can happen when the tools go flying. They probably get to sell quite a few of these, would be a nice novlety if I could get one for $50.
 
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It does look like a Proto. I wonder if they copied/licensed the design from Proto? Of course, that's just guessing, because we can't see the mechanism.

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silver2000 said:
The titanium is definitely for the non-magnetic properties, I saw a video once of a worker going into a MRI and the magnet is never shut down, and bad things can happen when the tools go flying. They probably get to sell quite a few of these, would be a nice novlety if I could get one for $50.
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Yep. My aunt is an MRI tech and has seen all sorts of interesting stuff. Not the least of which was a cop in full duty load walk into her room in the middle of a test; suffice to say the police department didn't like that bill.

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I hope you were just talking about the medical ratchet because the Proto designs is one of the greatest ever made. How else do you explain it still being made after all of this time.
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Funny, the one I own is a piece of junk. Why they feel the need to keep the forward/reverse level the inverse of every other ratchet out there is a bit of a mystery, too.
 
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You'd think that for a company selling $800 ratchets and $60 sockets they'd have a few better pictures on the website...
 
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Whats the coo on these? I see reference to a distribution center/business in 100,000 sq ft. building but nothing about the construction of them... Then i see "Our extremely high quality titanium tools are manufactured by people who are serious about tools..." You'd think it would state manufactured by american people or something like that...
 
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Anybody want a Titanium hammer to match? :beer: I know of a milk crate, at my uncle's scrap yard, full of Titanium claw hammer heads that he picked up somewhere.

They are almost a gag hammer since you cant even drive in a nail with the hardest of whacks:lol_hitti
 
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Anybody want a Titanium hammer to match? :beer: I know of a milk crate, at my uncle's scrap yard, full of Titanium claw hammer heads that he picked up somewhere.

They are almost a gag hammer since you cant even drive in a nail with the hardest of whacks:lol_hitti
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I'd love to see a pic of those! :beer:
 
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Ko-ken offers a titanium set.
They use a pentadrive system so as to prevent the use of standard square-drive tools.
 

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I saw a titanium hammer at the swap meet last week for $10. I passed on it because the waffle pattern was worn, and I have about a dozen Estwing and other framing hammers. I'm going to go back!
 
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I think the main reason they're made of titanium is because the human body doesn't react to titanium like it does to most other metals. So if a surgeon drops his ratchet into a person under surgery and doesn't find out until it's all closed up, he doesn't have to go through the hazzle of opening him up again.
 
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candikid said:
I think the main reason they're made of titanium is because the human body doesn't react to titanium like it does to most other metals. So if a surgeon drops his ratchet into a person under surgery and doesn't find out until it's all closed up, he doesn't have to go through the hazzle of opening him up again.
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I don't think these are for surgery though? I believe they are made to work on medical equipment?
 
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Yeah, it has nothing at all to do with surgery. Stainless steel implements get used far more often in actual surgeries, and I dare say stainless steel gets implanted more often.
 
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gsmornot said:
To keep the environment sterile. The guy in the boiler room or the guy on the ladder changing bulbs need not apply, this is meant for those that work in and around patient areas on the medical equipment.
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I'm not so sure about that. In an OR, the only things that are sterile are the surgical instruments, the surgical drapes in the operative field only, the surgeon's and nurse's gowns but only above the waist and below the neck anteriorly, the surgeons gloves and anything else that goes into the open wound or blood stream, ie. saline solution, implants, etc.
 
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