Category Archives: Sockets & Drive Tools

Ridgid JobMax Right Angle Drill, Impact Driver, Ratchet!

Posted on February 12th, 2010
Ridgid JobMax Right Angle Drill, Impact Driver, Ratchet! Yesterday, we posted a bit about Ridgid’s new 12V JobMax cordless tool system, and the first combo set that includes an auto hammer head and an oscillating multi-tool attachment. Well, it turns out that Ridgid is introducing another JobMax combo set, with this one featuring a right angle drill, impact driver, and ratchet attachment!
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MVT – Hand Impact Tool

Posted on December 21st, 2009
MVT - Hand Impact Tool Our fourth and final featured “Most Valuable Tool of the Week Contest” entry is for a hand impact tool. These tools can be used to manually free frozen, rusted, or other such stubborn or stuck fasteners. This is what 2WYKD had to say about the tool: Maybe I think this is the most valuable because I don’t [...]
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Most Valuable Tool – Wright Flex-Head Ratchet

Posted on November 20th, 2009
Most Valuable Tool - Wright Flex-Head Ratchet For our Most Valuable Tool of the Week Contest, we are featuring four reader-nominated tools, one per week. This week’s featured MVT is GoodFellow’s Wright flex-head ratchet. GoodFellow had the following to say about the tool: Clearly one of the best tools I’ve come across is the Wright 3440 3/8″ flex-head ratchet. It has a 1/4″ drive form factor; [...]
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Black & Decker ReadyWrench

Posted on October 20th, 2009
Black & Decker ReadyWrench Well looky here, it looks like there’s a new DogBone style wrench on the market. The Black & Decker MSW100 ReadyWrench is an all-in-one wrench that offers the 16 most popular standard and metric socket sizes. “No more guesswork. No more lost or missing sockets. Stop wasting time searching for the right socket.” We cannot quite figure [...]
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Wera’s Zyklop Ratchet

Posted on September 8th, 2009
Wera's Zyklop Ratchet Wera’s Zyklop ratchet is claimed to be “faster than a speeding bullet.” While this may not be entirely accurate, the Zyklop is as speedy a ratchet as we’ve ever seen. The Zyklop is based off of a traditional swivel ratchet design and incorporates several new user-friendly features. First, a Zyklop ratchet head can be locked at 0°, 15°, [...]
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Gearwrench Roto Ratchet

Posted on July 28th, 2009
Gearwrench Roto Ratchet Gearwrench’s Roto Ratchet is a flex-head swivel ratchet with a pivot through its drive head. This design enables the Roto Ratchet to be positioned perpendicular to a fastener to apply maximum torque, axially aligned for rapid spinning, or any angle in between. Gearwrench’s Roto Ratchets are available in 1/4″ and 3/8″ drive sizes, and a set of both will [...]
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