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1. [Shop-talk] Quality Ratchets (score: 1): Author: "Wayne" <cornerexit@gmail.com>; Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 19:53:04 -0700; For all my life I ve used low quality (craftsman) ratchets for my wrenching. At one time I had one high quality SK but I lost it in a move one year. The craftsman ratchets I have are junk. They take; /html/shop-talk/2008-08/msg00220.html (8,338 bytes)
2. Re: [Shop-talk] Quality Ratchets (score: 1): Author: "old dirtbeard" <dirtbeard@pacbell.net>; Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 20:56:41 -0700; Dear Wayne, SK has this ratchet and I have been using mine for 40 years. It is the single most used tool in my garage -- it is their roto-ratchet: http://www.mytoolstore.com/sk/sk03051.html scroll do; /html/shop-talk/2008-08/msg00226.html (10,150 bytes)
3. Re: [Shop-talk] Quality Ratchets (score: 1): Author: Wayne <wmc_st@xxiii.com>; Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:23:01 -0400; So is SK stuff actually good??? I thought they were a brand that used to be decent, but had gone to crap over the last couple decades. -(the other) Wayne _____________________________________________; /html/shop-talk/2008-08/msg00227.html (7,269 bytes)
4. Re: [Shop-talk] Quality Ratchets (score: 1): Author: nick brearley <nick@landform.co.uk>; Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 07:59:20 +0100; MAC has a ratchet that does what you want - XRS 11 FPA. Although it isn't exactly the pattern you describe it does the job with a continuous neat spinning action of the handle. I've had one for 10+ y; /html/shop-talk/2008-08/msg00228.html (7,793 bytes)
5. Re: [Shop-talk] Quality Ratchets (score: 1): Author: "Larry Spector" <lspector@gmail.com>; Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 07:49:19 -0400; I replaced all of my Craftsman ratchets about 10 years ago. I went with FACOM palm-control ratchets and have been extremely pleased with them. They are 72 tooth, so they actually work in very tight s; /html/shop-talk/2008-08/msg00231.html (9,953 bytes)
6. Re: [Shop-talk] Quality Ratchets (score: 1): Author: Jim Franklin <jamesf@groupwbench.org>; Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 08:04:55 -0400; http://www.griotsgarage.com/product/tools/hand+tools/ratchets+%26+wrenches/1- 4%22+drive+pivoting+ratchet.do It sure looks like that's a tensioner screw on the handle. There's another manufacturer I; /html/shop-talk/2008-08/msg00232.html (8,112 bytes)
7. Re: [Shop-talk] Quality Ratchets (score: 1): Author: "Karl Vacek" <kvacek@ameritech.net>; Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 08:10:51 -0500; SK stuff is still good. It's actually made by SK, (I think it's still made here in Chicago - at least their factory is still there) not some unknown private-label factory like the place Craftsman stu; /html/shop-talk/2008-08/msg00237.html (8,925 bytes)
8. Re: [Shop-talk] Quality Ratchets (score: 1): Author: Chris Kantarjiev <cak@dimebank.com>; Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 06:15:30 -0700 (PDT); Pretty much everything that Griot's sells (tool-wise) is just rebranded. Those ratchet handles have a familiar shape ... Snap-On? Blue Point? Maybe S-K? I've been using a USAG pivot head ratchet for; /html/shop-talk/2008-08/msg00238.html (8,065 bytes)
9. Re: [Shop-talk] Quality Ratchets (score: 1): Author: "David Scheidt" <dmscheidt@gmail.com>; Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 10:19:38 -0400; I've got this ratchet: http://buy1.snapon.com/catalog/item.asp?P65=&tool=&item_ID=81186&group_ID=20864&store=snapon-store&dir=catalog (I've actually got a set of three, one each drive size). It has a; /html/shop-talk/2008-08/msg00240.html (10,432 bytes)
10. Re: [Shop-talk] Quality Ratchets (score: 1): Author: Obaa <obaa996@yahoo.com>; Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 09:22:14 -0700 (PDT); Speaking of quality ratchets, I have an old (circa 60's-70's?) Craftsman ratchet, which was a hand-me from my dad. It's a good solid wrench, but recently gave up the ghost (a small cast metal piece i; /html/shop-talk/2008-08/msg00242.html (7,747 bytes)
11. Re: [Shop-talk] Quality Ratchets (score: 1): Author: Todd Walke <racertod@racertodd.com>; Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2008 21:22:08 -0700; I've kept this post since it appeared on the list in 2003. It was a repost of a message from 1999 off some other list from a guy that worked at Stanley: I'm not the final word on tools by any means,; /html/shop-talk/2008-08/msg00244.html (11,670 bytes)
12. Re: [Shop-talk] Quality Ratchets (score: 1): Author: scott.hall@comcast.net; Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2008 04:43:29 +0000; I remember that thread! kobalt is made by williams, which also owns snap-on. kobalt is not made by snap-on. and the mac/craftsman/husky tools do not all use the same forgings. I have some mac ratchet; /html/shop-talk/2008-08/msg00245.html (8,841 bytes)
13. Re: [Shop-talk] Quality Ratchets (score: 1): Author: "David Scheidt" <dmscheidt@gmail.com>; Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2008 20:28:44 -0400; Kobalt is Lowes's brand. They shop it around, like Sears does with craftsman. It's my understanding that it's mostly no longer made by Williams, who are owned *by* Snap-On[1], not the other way aroun; /html/shop-talk/2008-08/msg00246.html (8,937 bytes)
14. Re: [Shop-talk] Quality Ratchets (score: 1): Author: "old dirtbeard" <dirtbeard@pacbell.net>; Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2008 18:17:35 -0700; Hi Shop Talkers, This is one of those biased "I have been smoking unfiltered Camels for 30 years and they have not hurt me yet" type bromides, but I started off buying SK tools as a kid as they were; /html/shop-talk/2008-08/msg00247.html (10,993 bytes)
15. Re: [Shop-talk] Quality Ratchets (score: 1): Author: scott.hall@comcast.net; Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2008 01:38:37 +0000; and s-k ratchets have (or used to a few years back) the facom meachanism. very nice. and the s-k version doesn't have the rubber handle. mine has become my track ratchet. ____________________________; /html/shop-talk/2008-08/msg00248.html (9,520 bytes)
16. Re: [Shop-talk] Quality Ratchets (score: 1): Author: scott.hall@comcast.net; Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2008 01:51:26 +0000; I'm just reading this thread from the beginning...wayne, you can get the s-k roto-head with the facom 72-tooth mechanism. or at least you could. I think mytoolstore is where I got all my facom/s-k st; /html/shop-talk/2008-08/msg00249.html (8,212 bytes)
17. Re: [Shop-talk] Quality Ratchets (score: 1): Author: "Elton E. (Tony) Clark" <eltonclark@gmail.com>; Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2008 21:56:11 -0500; *I have a couple of those li'l 3/8 drive Snapon rachets built in a 1/4 drive *Model FM 70 . . handiest thing in the box but they get misused and both have been broken for 15 years. The Snapon site do; /html/shop-talk/2008-08/msg00250.html (8,018 bytes)
18. Re: [Shop-talk] Quality Ratchets (score: 1): Author: Rush <jdrush@enter.net>; Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2008 11:57:04 -0400; I've been shopping new ratchets and sockets to replace my inadequate Craftsman set too. I purchased these ratchets for tight spaces. Proto Blackhawk Rotators in 3/8" and 1/2" <http://www.stanleyproto; /html/shop-talk/2008-08/msg00252.html (11,838 bytes)
19. Re: [Shop-talk] Quality Ratchets (score: 1): Author: Chris Kantarjiev <cak@dimebank.com>; Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2008 09:02:36 -0700 (PDT); I've got a FACOM flex head ratchet and really like it - but I'm intrigued by the idea of the SK Roto design with the FACOM ratchet mechanism. All the SK Roto handles that I can find on the web are 36; /html/shop-talk/2008-08/msg00253.html (8,076 bytes)
20. Re: [Shop-talk] Quality Ratchets (score: 1): Author: Rush <jdrush@enter.net>; Date: Mon, 01 Sep 2008 12:11:48 -0400; They've got it. If this link doesn't work search the site for Tuff1 <http://www.skhandtool.com/Default.aspx?fusemode=10&pid=4501> Not cheap, $119 list price for the pair. Jon ________________________; /html/shop-talk/2008-09/msg00005.html (7,334 bytes)

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