John Berryman wrote:
I use mostly Snap-On tools but had a very old Craftsman ratchet.
Long handle, fine tooth.
A friend has one, possibly 40's vintage, 18 or so, 1/2 drive.
The last time he took it to Sears (~1980) they didn't want to
rebuild it, they wanted to exchange it for a 12. He
On Feb 27, 2006, at 7:46 PM, Mitch Haley wrote:
A friend has one, possibly 40's vintage, 18 or so, 1/2 drive.
The last time he took it to Sears (~1980) they didn't want to
rebuild it, they wanted to exchange it for a 12. He declined.
A lot of his tools have walked off in the last couple of
John Berryman wrote:
I have stuff from the 1920s and more from 1930s that I still use. Is
someone stealing your buddy's tools? That's low.
He had this great idea to take an old six horse trailer, close off the windows,
and make a mobile tool crib. Put a 5 hp compressor in it, a couple
On Feb 28, 2006, at 12:46 AM, Mitch Haley wrote:
He knew ten years ago that anything the clowns got their hands on
would be destroyed
or disappeared, but he parked the trailer over there anyway.
Oh well.
Johnny B.
I Mac Therefore I am
John Berryman wrote:
Try taking it apart and cleaning it. You may not like what they
offer for replacement. If you don't and your old one is shot, see if
they can get you a repair kit.
To take it apart would be a pretty obvious thing to do, but doing so
somewhow never occurred to me.
Mitch Haley wrote:
A friend has one, possibly 40's vintage, 18 or so, 1/2 drive.
The last time he took it to Sears (~1980) they didn't want to
rebuild it, they wanted to exchange it for a 12. He declined.
I saw a while ago that Sears had reissued its 1940something ratchets,
gold-plated for
John Berryman wrote:
Anything is better than nothing.
...Most of the time. It seems that once every 30+ years is an
insuffient maintenace regimen for a ratchet, by which time it is so full
of dirt that fresh oil will serve only to migrate that dirt into the
ratcheting mechanism and cause
On Feb 26, 2006, at 11:29 PM, tom savage wrote:
...Most of the time. It seems that once every 30+ years is an
insuffient maintenace regimen for a ratchet, by which time it is so
full
of dirt that fresh oil will serve only to migrate that dirt into the
ratcheting mechanism and cause it to
On Sun, 26 Feb 2006 23:47:56 -0500 John Berryman
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Try taking it apart and cleaning it. You may not like what they
offer for replacement. If you don't and your old one is shot, see if
they can get you a repair kit.
When I broke the guts of my 1968 era
On Feb 27, 2006, at 12:21 AM, Craig McCluskey wrote:
When I broke the guts of my 1968 era Craftsman rachet, they
wouldn't give
me a new one and insisted on a repair kit. Still works just fine
(and I
think I did it twice with the socket retaining mechanism being the
part
that failed).
ATF would be the go.
Hendrik
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Subject: [MBZ] Ratchet lube
John Berryman wrote:
Unusual for one to fail, may just have gummed up inside. I
John Berryman wrote:
Unusual for one to fail, may just have gummed up inside. I regularly
soak all my ratchets in oil, including all my Snap-On ratcheting
torque wrenches.
This brings up a question I've been meaning to ask for a while now.
I've got a 1/2 Craftsman ratchet which is older
This brings up a question I've been meaning to ask for a while now.
I've got a 1/2 Craftsman ratchet which is older than I am and has an
oil port on the end. I'm sure it has never been serviced. Is there
any
particular oil I should use?
I use ATF in a pump dispenser for generic oiling like
Jim Cathey wrote:
I use ATF in a pump dispenser for generic oiling like that.
That was my first thought, as well. Thanks Jim.
Tom
On Feb 25, 2006, at 12:25 PM, tom savage wrote:
This brings up a question I've been meaning to ask for a while now.
I've got a 1/2 Craftsman ratchet which is older than I am and has an
oil port on the end. I'm sure it has never been serviced. Is
there any
particular oil I should use?
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