12-04-2017, 11:24 AM
Mostly Harbor Freight ratchets used here. Their composite ratchets are GREAT in cold weather for not freezing your hands to the tool and when dropped don't hurt you/your floor.
I have heard of people breaking them, but the only ratchets I have ever broken was a "china costco" special 1/2 inch (probably from using it as a hammer) and now have broken my Snap-On 3/8 ratchet 3 times! Its quite annoying too because instead of dropping by a shop I have to find a SnapOn Truck. I will fix it and probably sell it and pick up the HF equivalent since I like the long handle and flex head.
Honestly, if you aren't using your tools as hammers, I don't seem to break any aside from my Snap-on of course.
My Ryobi 1/2 Impact is starting to see the end of life I think. It's at about 8 years of life and quite literally thousands of wheel changes and hard shop work. It hammers and then every now and then "loses contact" with the battery, which means disconnecting battery and shoving it back in. I have tried moving the contacts but I think it is internal. For $100 I will be picking up another one and moving this as my back up.
I have heard of people breaking them, but the only ratchets I have ever broken was a "china costco" special 1/2 inch (probably from using it as a hammer) and now have broken my Snap-On 3/8 ratchet 3 times! Its quite annoying too because instead of dropping by a shop I have to find a SnapOn Truck. I will fix it and probably sell it and pick up the HF equivalent since I like the long handle and flex head.
Honestly, if you aren't using your tools as hammers, I don't seem to break any aside from my Snap-on of course.
My Ryobi 1/2 Impact is starting to see the end of life I think. It's at about 8 years of life and quite literally thousands of wheel changes and hard shop work. It hammers and then every now and then "loses contact" with the battery, which means disconnecting battery and shoving it back in. I have tried moving the contacts but I think it is internal. For $100 I will be picking up another one and moving this as my back up.
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