3/4 inch drive extending ratchets

[Willy Nilly]

I have to swap wheels on tractors a few time a year and our impact gun isn't up to the job of cracking and tightening wheel nuts so I use a 3/4 drive T-bar with a healthy length of pipe on the end in the interests of torque multiplications. The T-bar keeps falling out of the pipe, so I need to either make sleeve to hold it snug or I have seen one of these

http://www.lasertools.co.uk/product/4507 for 200 quid which says it will do 1000 nm. Looks good.

But then I saw this https://www.machinemart.co.uk/p/clarke-pro201-ratc... and it looks zackly the same, so 80 quid

This https://www.amazon.co.uk/Neilsen-Ratchet-Extending... is 65 quid

So is there a difference or all they all the same and just branded differently and will the take the kind of abuse use I have in mind?

I got asked to bring the forklift over to a mechanic we had in, so I could put a strap around his ratchet and the other end of the pallet fork so I could then ease the ratchet up with the forklift which didn't seem to cause any issues. That kind of strength would be nice.

[GreenV8S]

Willy Nilly said:

The T-bar keeps falling out of the pipe, so I need to either ...

Doesn't thirty seconds and some gaffa tape solve that problem?

[Willy Nilly]

GreenV8S said:

Willy Nilly said:

The T-bar keeps falling out of the pipe, so I need to either ...

Doesn't thirty seconds and some gaffa tape solve that problem?

Going to push my engineering skills to the max and make something more, err, professional.

[E-bmw]

So cut off a short section of the "torque extender", cut a small section out of it lengthways, squeeze it down so that it is smaller & insert it into the end, then weld it in place so that it fits the bar end snugly.

[robinessex]

I believe that Snap On used to do 1.5" drive sockets. Might be worth doing a google search.

http://snaponindustrialbrands.com/cat-19-1-148/soc...

[chammyman]

Thats all too much effort. Get a swench, they come up on ebay now and again.

I have both the 750 3/4 and the 1000 1inch drive versions. I love them.

Or just get a torque multiplier.