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Wobble extensions
12/08/15 at 09:52:00

Just on an impulse a while back I picked up a set of wobble socket extenders at HF. Greatest thing since sliced bread.

The drawback is that they reduce the contact area inside the socket but that's only an issue if high force is needed. But boy do they free up your access to fasteners and also, maybe best of all, prevent rounding damage to bolt heads from crooked contact with them.

I guess these items are sockets 101 to the trained mechanic, but I have stumbled and cussed through life without them and now... much better thank you.

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Kenny G Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com The Singles Club...LOL Posts: 1754 Robson Ranch, Denton, Texas Gender:	Re: Wobble extensions Reply #1 - 12/08/15 at 10:05:44 Sonny, Another socket that makes life easier is the sockets with a built in universal joint. You can get at fasteners with them that are really difficult to get a socket on. Kenny G
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Sonny Full Member Offline DeSoto, TX Posts: 224 Gender:	Re: Wobble extensions Reply #2 - 12/08/15 at 10:25:50 Yes, I'm sure they do, and they don't have the problem of narrowing the contact area inside the driven end of the socket.
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Re: Wobble extensions
Reply #4 - 12/08/15 at 12:18:22

I just bought a welding cart from Harbor Freight to put my new Eastwood Welder on. It was on sale for $ 39....and will work just fine and was 1/3rd the price that Eastwood wanted for their cart.

You do have to sort through and pick/choose what you buy from them, as some of it works and some is nothing but garbage. Their rubber gloves are great.....their mechanics gloves are crappy.

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justin_o_guy2 Serious Thumper Offline What happened? Posts: 55279 East Texas, 1/2 dallas/la.	Re: Wobble extensions Reply #5 - 12/08/15 at 12:49:27 A painter gave me some blue rubber gloves from the paint store. Much better than the Rip while putting them on alleged gloves.
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Reply #6 - 12/08/15 at 17:06:37

pg wrote on 12/08/15 at 10:54:37:

HF is a great place for us amateur mechanics. I have picked up all kinds of hand tolls during the past two years. Cool

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Wait a minute there bub!

I've been a mechanic fer about 40 years now...and a mech in training for 10 years before that....
And I LOVE harbor freight.... LOL.... break one, go buy another one... for 1/5 the price of a new one....
And some of them Chinese forged ones sometimes work better than US brand ones

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Reply #7 - 12/08/15 at 20:49:32

I recently broke one of the open end ratchet end wrenches and I returned it to Harbor Freight and they replaced it free of charge.

The clerk told me that most of the Harbor Freight hand tools have a lifetime warranty.

I collected a couple of times on Craftsman tools lifetime warranty

At my age supplying a lifetime warranty is not much of a risk for the manufacturer.....LOL

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Reply #8 - 12/08/15 at 21:56:32

I'm much more likely to lose a tool than to break it. Too bad they're not guaranteed against loss.

Those HF ratchet end wrenches are a real pleasure to use. They cut out a lot of annoyances turning fasteners.

I squeeze the ratchet and move the wrench to see which way the ratchet is pushing. But you could also put a spot of green paint on the side for righty tighty and a red spot for lefty loosey.

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Kenny G Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com The Singles Club...LOL Posts: 1754 Robson Ranch, Denton, Texas Gender:	Re: Wobble extensions Reply #9 - 12/08/15 at 22:38:37 Sonny, I manage to get the wrench on backwards 2 out of 3 times. Putting a dab of paint on the ratchets is a great idea. Kenny G
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Reply #10 - 12/09/15 at 07:38:39

I treat HF tools a lot like I treated Craftsman the last 5-10 years or so: good for general use, but when quality matters I still reach for Snap On (I have had, for example, Craftsman line wrenches round off brake line fitting due to lack of stiffness (the jaws spread under torque) on a dismally consistent basis, so only Snap On and Matco line wrenches live in my tool box)
ratcheting wrenches are great and wobble extensions and the sockets with built in u-joints are truly a great thing to have, especially if you're twisting wrenches for a living

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Kenny G Serious Thumper Offline SuzukiSavage.com The Singles Club...LOL Posts: 1754 Robson Ranch, Denton, Texas Gender:	Re: Wobble extensions Reply #12 - 12/09/15 at 16:49:35 Yep
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Reply #13 - 12/10/15 at 02:59:54

Kris01 wrote on 12/09/15 at 15:30:35:

Doesn't Craftsman still offer a lifetime warranty regardless of how it broke?

I sometimes feel a bit guilty when I take a really worn out screwdriver in to be replaced. Initially I treat the screwdriver like it should be treated, and use it for removing screws, and eventually as it wear it becomes my tool for prying things open. The screwdrivers can last a long time if you are only working with new fasteners - but when you remove those old rusty screws and ones with rounded slots that have 5 layers of paint you have to chisel through....it is sometimes hard to keep the screwdriver firmly locked in the slot, and every time it slips out the blade is rounded off a bit. Eventually the tip is too rounded to be of much use, and I take it back to Sears so they can replace it. They always do......but somehow it just doesn't seem right to ask them to replace a tool that you have been using for 10-15 years.....and it probably cost $ 3 at the time and the replacement is now $ 9.

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Re: Wobble extensions
Reply #14 - 12/11/15 at 08:39:16

Kris01 wrote on 12/09/15 at 15:30:35:

Doesn't Craftsman still offer a lifetime warranty regardless of how it broke?

Yes, they do
but their line wrenches don't break when I use them, the jaws just spread enough to round the fitting a better tool would have loosened
I've had the experience, more than once, of having a Craftsman line wrench round a fitting, and then getting the fitting to break free with an el cheapo open end wrench
most Craftsman stuff is good, especially the older stuff, but their line wrenches are complete and utter crap

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