Ratchets.... quick release or non release?

[Schurkey]

I own non-quick-release ratchets; but either I inhereted the ratchet from someone else, or it's a matter of "I wouldn't have bought them if the company had offered them as a QR version".

I have NEVER found that QR gets in the way or becomes a clearance problem. OTOH, I really hate having to pry sockets off the ratchet with a screwdriver.

Things are worst in 1/4" drive; bad in 3/8" drive, not-so-bad in 1/2" drive, and no big deal in 3/4" and larger sizes. Small sockets are just harder to grip than bigger ones.

 

[baxterday]

I use both, Snap-on is not, Craftsman and Icon are.

 

[Frank Enstein]

I like the QR. The sockets and extensions come off too easily in my opinion.

 

[PlayingWithTBI]

A piece of trivia, do you remember where the quick release ratchet wrench came from? FWIU some guy invented it and went to Sears/Craftsman to show it to them and, some how, Sears screwed him out of the patent, or something like that. Anyone else remember how it came about?

 

[454cid]

A piece of trivia, do you remember where the quick release ratchet wrench came from? FWIU some guy invented it and went to Sears/Craftsman to show it to them and, some how, Sears screwed him out of the patent, or something like that. Anyone else remember how it came about?

I've nver heard that, but I do know that Ford got intermittent wipers that way. The man with the design sued, and finally got a pay out in the 80's (or maybe just his family/estate?).

 

[grampadirt]

Little humor....How many times have you guys try to remove a socket from a ratchet and pull and pull and pull and it won't come off,then you realize it's a quick realease....grrrrrr!! LOL

 

[454cid]

Little humor....How many times have you guys try to remove a socket from a ratchet and pull and pull and pull and it won't come off,then you realize it's a quick realease....grrrrrr!! LOL

I've done that.... I think it depends on what socket or extension I'm using too. I think the ones that have the through hole instead of just a detent, won't come off, without pushing the button.

Grr Grr, why. won't. this. come. off??? Oh.... looks around to see if anyone saw me have a mini-melt-down.

 

[Schurkey]

Long, drawn-out history of Sears and the Roberts QR ratchet.

Sears and the Roberts Ratchet Wrench Patent Case

For an insightful post about using IP for your business, read Beem Patent Law's post titled Sears and the Roberts Ratchet Wrench Patent Case

beemlaw.com

 

[grampadirt]

I've done that.... I think it depends on what socket or extension I'm using too. I think the ones that have the through hole instead of just a detent, won't come off, without pushing the button.

Grr Grr, why. won't. this. come. off??? Oh.... looks around to see if anyone saw me have a mini-melt-down.

Yeah,and the problem is I'll do it again and again...I give up HaHa!

 

[PlayingWithTBI]

Long, drawn-out history of Sears and the Roberts QR ratchet.

Yeah, that's what I remember about Roberts, just couldn't remember how it transpired. I did remember that Sears was the 1st to market the QR ratchet. But Sears started in the 1800's, not 1986 as mentioned in "I. Sears".

I. Sears​

In 1986, Richard Warren Sears was a railroad station agent in remote North Redwood, Minnesota, when he received a shipment of unwanted watches from a Chicago jeweler.