Impact sockets (was Re: [AT] Check out Harbor freights sale on 8000lb winches

[Mike Sloane]

I don't want to start a p***ing contest over this, but regardless of 
which make you buy, impact sockets are not designed to be used with 
regular ratchets wrenches and regular sockets are not designed to be 
used with impact wrenches. (That is regardless of the quality of the 
item, and if the tool is junk/defective to begin with, it will still 
fall apart even if used properly.) I have some Chinese impact sockets, 
and they have held up as well as my USA made sockets, although I 
willingly admit that I don't use them all that often. The problem for me 
is the cost difference between USA made and Asian hand tools - if it 
were only a matter of a couple of bucks, I would buy USA, but when a set 
of USA impact sockets costs 3 or 4 times as much as Asian for something 
that I might only use two or three times a year, I cannot justify the 
higher cost. Tinkering with tractors is my hobby; if I was a 
professional mechanic who depends on his tools for his livelihood, I 
would buy the best equipment I could find.

Mike

Rob Wilson wrote:
> Dean,
>  I admit you are right I should say most. I bought a couple things from
> there to save a buck and the only thing it did was cost me money in the
> long run. The worst was a set of impact sockets that I broke one of them
> with a ratchet. Cracked it right down the side. I drove all the way back
> their store and the clerk said to get another one out of the sets they
> had on a cart. Ironically each one of the "new" returned sets had at
> least one or two broken sockets in it. I wasted at least $10 in gas, a
> couple hours of my time and some skin. 
> Rob
> 

-- 
Mike Sloane
Allamuchy NJ
mikesloane at verizon.net
Website: <www.geocities.com/mikesloane>
Images: <www.fotki.com/mikesloane>

When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire 
kind people. -Abraham Joshua Heschel, theology professor (1907-1972)


-- 
No virus found in this outgoing message.
Checked by AVG Free Edition.
Version: 7.1.362 / Virus Database: 267.13.10/189 - Release Date: 11/30/2005